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“That’s so easy!” Casper laughed at the television set.
            “What're you talking about?” Jerome’s eyes were still on the TV where they were watching an exciting film sequence in which the hero managed to barely escape from his tightly tied ropes and to defuse the bomb the bad guys had left him with just in time.
            “Anybody could get loose from ropes tied like that,” Casper was trying to put a downer on Jerome’s excitement.  “That stuff is all fake!  Don't you know that?”
            “A lot you know,” Jerome challenged his friend.  “You ever been tied up?”
            “Well no,” Casper started to crayfish like he always did.  “But that was just a movie, you know.”
            “What say I tie you up and see if you can get loose?” Jerome said seriously.
            “You mean me?  Now wait a minute.  I was only saying—“
            “I think you're letting your alligator mouth overload your Tweedy-bird ass again,” Jerome challenged the lanky Casper.
            “It’s not that, it’s only….”  Casper sputtered while he watched Jerome get up and turn off the TV set and then go into the other room.  He had done it again.  It seemed that no matter how hard he tried, he always ended up making his friend Jerome angry with him.  Then he saw Jerome coming back into the room and in his hands Jerome was holding—ropes!
            “Come on, Big Guy,” Jerome challenged.  “I want to see you wiggle those skinny bones of yours.”
            “You mean you're going to tie me up?” Casper’s voice broke.
            “Unless you're afraid?”  Jerome dangled the ropes in front of Casper’s face.
            “Well okay, but not too tight, you know.” Casper gave in even though his body was starting to tremble while it tried to tell him that this wasn't a good idea.
            But Jerome just smiled and then began wrapping some of that rope around Casper’s wrists.  At first the rope didn't feel too bad against his skin and the only thing Casper was feeling was kind of a tingling excitement down in his thighs while he began to surrender his body to Jerome.
            Up to now Jerome and Casper had only rough-housed together playing sports or butting heads and this is the first time that Casper had ever let Jerome be gentle with him.  And while he watched and felt more of the firm ropes being wrapped around his ankles, his thighs and then even his chest, Casper was growing more and more confused.  He had no idea that being tied up would feel like this.
            Then Casper looked up from the couch to see Jerome tying a thick knot into the middle of a folded orange bandanna.  “What're you going to do with that?” he croaked.
            “It’s time I kept you quiet for awhile,” Jerome smiled and showed Casper all of his teeth.
            “But…but I don't want you to put anything in my mouth!” Casper whined.
            “That’s the nice thing about having you tied up,” Jerome’s smile got bigger.  “There ain't a whole lot you can do to stop me.  Now open wide.”
            All of a sudden Casper could feel Jerome’s strong fingers on his cheek and kind of pinching his jaws lightly until Casper’s mouth opened all by itself.  And then Casper kind of gagged a little when Jerome thumbed the bandanna knot in between his teeth and then deep into his mouth.  And all of a sudden that bandanna knot felt enormous as it filled up the inside of Casper’s mouth and pushed down against his tongue.  Casper didn't like this, but before he could move his face away, Jerome was already tying the two ends of the bandanna together kind of tightly behind Casper’s neck.
            “Yea, that looks like enough.” Jerome surveyed his handiwork and kind of nodded his head with satisfaction.  Then a little black cat jumped up on the couch and looked over the bound and gagged Casper before she meowed in agreement with Jerome.
            “Now let’s see you get loose,” Jerome challenged his victim.
            Casper began wiggling and twisting and pulling against the ropes and that was when he discovered something else.  As soon as he tried to move against them, those soft hugging ropes began biting into his flesh in a very hurtful way.  Casper winced and moaned into his gag when he felt how much those ropes were hurting him, but Jerome just smiled.
            “You just keep working on it Casper.  I want you to see just how easy it is to escape.  I'm heading down to the bookstore.  If you're not loose by the time I get back, I'll try to think of some other ways to entertain you.”
            Casper couldn't believe it.  Jerome just turned his back and walked out of the room.  Then Casper heard the back door open and close.  Jerome was gone.  And now Casper was all alone in the house except for that meowing pussycat.  What was he going to do?  What if he had to go to the bathroom?  What if the house caught fire?  He'd be trapped!
            Fear drove Casper to desperation and he began to twist and strain and contort his body in all sorts of painful ways.  But none of the things he tried to do loosened those ropes even one little bit.  Instead all of his struggles just made those ropes bite deeper and deeper into his tender skin.  Then he heard the back door open and close.
            Jerome came in with his nose poked into a new book that he had bought.  Casper craned his head around and huffed and moaned into his soggy gag, but Jerome paid little attention to him.   Then Casper saw the title of the book Jerome was so interested in.  It was called “The Hostage.”  That wasn't funny.  Then Jerome laughed.
            “What’s going on Casper?  You told me this would be easy.  How come you're not loose yet?”
            Casper sighed and whimpered into his gag in surrender.  Jerome had been right.  Casper had been wrong.  “Now turn me loose!” he sluiced his words behind the juicy bandanna cloth.
            “You want me to turn you loose?” Jerome asked.
            Casper bobbed his head up and down and made all kinds of juicy sounds.
            “No, I think that would be a bad idea.  If I turned you loose now, you'd be bouncing all over the place and running your mouth so I couldn't concentrate on this book.”
            “Please….” Jerome gasped.
            “No what we need is more rope,” Jerome decided.
            Casper’s heart fell down into his feet and he almost cried when he saw Jerome coming at him with another piece of rope.  And before long poor Casper was all doubled up and tied like a turkey with his belly on the hard floor.
            Then Jerome turned insult into injury as he turned Casper into a comfy Ottoman so that he could rest his feet while he went back to reading his book.
            Casper hung his head and watched drool drip down from his cloth-filled mouth onto the floor while he begged Jerome to let him go.
            “No,” Jerome decided.  “The longer you wiggle and fuss, the longer I'm going to keep you tied up so just settle down.”
            A tear ran down Casper’s cheek.  He would never tell Jerome that something was easy ever again.

THE END

Casper played by Danny

Jerome played by Sammy

Photography by Caitiff

Date of Production: 01/03/2006