It was early the next morning that Nicole left the house and headed down the road towards Rachel's house. The evening before, she'd discreetly emptied out her schoolbag, which was now filled with her supply of rope, scarves and rolls of tape. She tucked the ball gag Sarah had given her down in the bottom.
Nicole grinned to herself. She doubted Sarah had ever imagined, when she'd picked it out, that she'd be wearing it one day.
Her evil thoughts of what Rachel and she were going to do to Rachel's older sister, carried the teenage girl down the road with a spring in her step.
As Nicole walked up to the front door, she saw Mrs. Morgan's car was gone; doubtless, she was taking her youngest daughter, Laura, to some practice or tournament or whatever. Good. They'd be out of the way all morning.
Nicole rang the doorbell and waited a minute or two. The door opened. It was all Nicole could do not to gasp; her eyes widened with surprise.
"Good morning, Nicole." Sarah said, smiling politely. "Do come in."
Nicole took a moment to regain her composure. "Thanks." She said, somewhat hesitantly. She stepped inside. Something had obviously gone wrong with their plan. That much was painfully obvious. But where was Rachel? Was she Sarah's captive? Was she free, planning something else?
Nicole forced herself to calm down. She just had to play cool. Maybe Sarah didn't know about the plan. This was a setback, but they could still work things out.
"Rachel would have come down herself, but I'm afraid she's a bit tied up at the moment." Sarah chatted. "Would you like to see her?"
"Umm…sure…"  
"Well, forget that idea." Nicole thought. Still, it was possible that she might be able to turn the tables. Sarah was obviously planning something. Nicole could play along, be ready for anything and maybe take Sarah by surprise. If she kept her wits about her, she could still turn the tables on Sarah yet.
Nicole followed Sarah up the stairs to Sarah's room. Sarah opened the door.
"Mmmmppphhh!" Rachel moaned from inside. She was lying on the bed. Multiple strips of duct tape had been plastered over her mouth. Her arms were locked behind her back into a tight box tie. Her knees and ankles had been tightly bound with more rope.
Needless to say, she didn't look very happy. She'd obviously been struggling to escape for some time, without success. She was drenched with sweat and her jeans and t-shirt were in a state of extreme dishevelment.
Rachel glanced over at Nicole and Sarah. She squirmed, struggling into a sitting position on the side of the bed as Sarah stepped into the room. Nicole followed, dropping her backpack.
"Rachel! Are you alright?" Nicole asked. Rachel grunted something urgent into her gag. She was glancing over Nicole's shoulder…
Suddenly, Nicole was grabbed from behind. A hand clamped over her mouth, cutting off her surprised squeal. Another arm wrapped around her chest, pinning her arms to her side.
Nicole squirmed but the girl, whoever she was, was too strong for her. Glancing over her shoulder, Nicole was surprised to recognize her captor. She was the girl they'd met at Sarah's party, serving the food and drinks, chained and gagged to the fridge.
Sarah, meanwhile, walked over and picked up Nicole's backpack. She opened it and glanced inside. "Look at this, Cath', she brought some things for us  to tie her up with. Isn't that considerate"
Sarah pulled out a small bundle of rope and tossed it to Catherine. "Tie her hands with that."
Nicole groaned, but didn't struggle as Catherine quickly roped her hands together behind her back. Catherine wasn't as good with the rope as Sarah or Rachel, but she was more than good enough to ensure Nicole wasn't going anywhere for a while.
Sarah reached into the bag again and pulled out the ball gag. 'open wide…" she said cheerfully…

A couple minutes later, Nicole lay on the bed beside Rachel, tightly bound hand and foot. She groaned into the large rubber ball lodged between her teeth. Sarah hadn't skimped on the straps, pulling them as tight as they could go and then some.
Rachel grunted something into her gag in sympathy. The two girls glanced at each other fearfully. How were they going to get out of this one? Nicole wondered. And if they couldn't, what did Sarah and her friend have planned for them?
"Well, now…" Sarah gloated. "You two are in a fine mess now. I suppose I've got to teach you two a lesson, now, otherwise we'll just have to keep doing this over and over again. You want to know what I've got planned-"
The two didn't get to hear what Sarah was planning, because she was suddenly grabbed from behind by Catherine.
There was a fierce struggle between the two of them, but Sarah had been taken by surprise and was quickly forced to the ground on her stomach, Catherine on top of her pinning her down. She pulled Sarah's arms behind her back and began tying them together.
'What are you doing!?!" Sarah shouted in surprise. "Let me go!"
"Sorry, Sarah, but I've been waiting a long time to get back at you for  what you did back during spring break. Now I've got my chance. Hope you don't mind joining your sister and her friend for some fun and games. I've got so many things planned for you three, I don't know what to start with.
Sarah groaned and redoubled her efforts to shake Catherine off, but despite that, she could go little more than squirm futilely beneath Catherin as she finished tying Sarah's hands and moved down to her ankles.
Rachel grunted softly to Nicole. She wriggled around to press her bound wrists up against Nicole's hands. Nicole got the message and quickly began to work on picking the knots. The two worked quietly while Catherine hogtied Sarah on the floor.
"Catherine! Don't d-MMMPPPHHH!!!" Sarah was cut off as Catherine stuffed another ball gag between Sarah's lips and buckled it on tight.
'That's better." Catherine said, standing up to gloat over her erstwhile partner. Her back was towards the two younger girls. Meanwhile, Rachel shrugged off the last of the rope binding her arms. She pulled the tape off her mouth.
"Now!" Rachel shouted. Nicole kicked Catherine as hard as she could with her bound feet. The young women fell over on the ground. Before she could get up, Rachel sprang on top of her.
Ten minutes later, Catherin lay hogtied beside Sarah. Sarah glared at Catherine, as they realized the tables had been turned on them.
Rachel hopped back to the bed and finished untying her feet. "MMMPPPHHH!" Nicole grunted into her gag, trying to get Rachel's attention.
"Don't worry," Rachel said with a grin. "I'll untie you in a second. Just make yourself comfortable while I got and get a few things."  She ignored Nicole's grunts as she hurried out of the room.
A minute later, she returned with a digital camera. "Right, who wants to go first?..."

"Make yourselves comfortable! We'll let you out…eventually!" Nicole and Rachel called into the closet, laughing. A chorus of angry "mmmppphhh!" came from within. Sarah and Catherin had been stuffed in the bottom of the closet. The two were bound back to back with rope. They'd been gagged and blindfolded as well. Somewhere  between Sarah's room and the closet, the two had "misplaced" their clothes.
"See you later! Bye!" Their captors said as they closed the door. The two giggled. Nicole held up the freshly printed pictures they'd taken of Sarah and Catherine. In the pictures as well, the two were not exactly overburdened with clothes.
"This should keep them off our backs for a while…" Rachel said. "I'll print off another batch before you go. Take it home and hide it somewhere, then if they give us anymore trouble, we can just threaten to put these up on the internet."
From within the closet came a soft, muffled groan. There was a steady "thump…thump…" as one of the captives banged on the door.
"Now," Rachel said, "let's go somewhere else. I think these two need some time together to 'resolve their differences'. I'm sure we can find something to keep us occupied for say…four hours, give or take…"