Growing up with his dad, there was just one rule Jimmy had been warned, repeatedly, never to break: “Don’t go down in the basement.”

When he was younger, Jimmy hadn’t had a problem following that rule. He knew from cartoons and movies that basements were dark, scary places with plenty of lurking monsters...or at least bugs. But as he got older, he started to become more and more curious what was down there, and why he wasn’t allowed to see it.

His dad was certainly down there a lot, usually at night when Jimmy should have been in bed asleep. Often, he’d be gone from the house all day, only to arrive late at night and head straight to the basement, spending hours down there before heading to his own bed to sleep till noon.

It was on one of those mornings, Jimmy couldn’t keep his curiosity in check any longer. He went to the basement door and tried the knob. Jimmy half expected it to be locked, but to his surprise the knob turned easily and he went down.

The basement was just that, a basement. Bare cinderblock walls and a cement floor, lit by a single naked bulb. Most of the space was taken up by the usual mass of cardboard boxes, stacks of junk and whatever else they didn’t have a current use for but didn’t want to throw away just yet. Nothing Jimmy saw struck him as particularly noteworthy, much less worth forbidding the basement over. He was about to shrug and head back up when he heard a soft moan coming from one corner.

He paused, listening, and heard it again. His curiosity renewed, Jimmy walked forward, searching for the source of the noise. His eyes widened as he peered around the old and dusty table, piled high with junk that had blocked his view. There was a space between it and the wall, a couple feet across and deep. Taking up this space was a small cage, like what you’d use to house a medium-to-largish dog, but what was inside the cage was a young woman, completely naked save for a leather hood which covered her entire head.

The young woman lay on her belly, her arms pulled behind her back and lashed together at the wrists and elbows with rope. Her legs were likewise tied, at the ankles and knees and she was hogtied tightly enough her upper chest and knees were actually pulled off the ground. She squirmed a bit as Jimmy watched, but clearly had no chance to struggling free of the tight ropes. Her breathing was quick, coming through a small gap in the hood just below her nose.

“uh...hello?” Jimmy asked, his eyes fixed to the first naked girl he’d seen outside of a computer screen. She made no answer, gave no sign she was even aware he was there with her. After a bit, Jimmy guessed the hood must have blocked out noise as well as light. He grinned, slipping up closer to try and get a good look at her.

Later on, Jimmy would wonder who she was, what she was doing down in the basement and what it had to do with his dad. He’d wonder whether he should have tried to untie her, to let her go, or told anyone else about her. But in the moment, he was more preoccupied noting how her struggles, rocking back and forth, have him a good, if sporadic look at her large, round breasts tipped with perky pink nipples and the patch of light blond hair between her legs…

He might have kept on that way for hours, but a noise from above startled him out of his trance. It might have been his dad getting out of bed. It might have been the air conditioning kicking in. Either way, he realized how bad it would be for his dad to catch him down here and hurriedly retreated back up the stairs.

For the rest of the day, Jimmy went around in a daze, unable to get the image of the hogtied girl out of his mind. He wanted to go back down and check on her again, but unfortunately a little while after he’d     gone back upstairs, his dad had woken up for real and gone down to the basement, not coming back up for several hours. After that, he was always close enough Jimmy didn’t dare try and sneak down.

That night, as Jimmy lay awake in bed, he heard his dad start the car up outside and drive off. Once he was sure his dad was well away, Jimmy leapt up and ran to the basement, hurrying down the stairs. To his disappointment, when he got down, the cage was gone, leaving an empty gap in the corner of the basement.

Crestfallen, Jimmy went back to bed, but he perked up when he considered that, sooner or later, his father would go on another of his trips and the next time, Jimmy would know when there was a new guest down in the basement...