Two girls didn't want to go to their exercise class and their teacher allowed them stay in the classroom instead, away from the bright sunshine of the day. The girls' names were Emilia and Queenie.
To stave off boredom, Queenie decided to use hemp twine for some small handcraft. Emilia was in a more playful mood, and she decided to play a prank on Queenie. Picking up a piece of hemp twine, Emilia took Queenie's small hands and wrapped them up with twine: she started with a few times around the girl's wrists, but then had the idea of following up with a few more and tying it all off with a square knot. Queenie was giggling to see Emilia do such an unusual thing, and didn't fight back as the rough twine dug into her wrists.
'Ha! Now let see how you are going to escape from this.' Emilia said, running her fingers along her twine handiwork.
"I am Queenie The Great Escape Artist!” Queenie fired back. “I will get out of this in a split second"
Queenie attempted to free herself, but found it was a lot more difficult than she had thought it would be. Her efforts was fruitless, and as much as she squirmed the twine remained nicely cinched around her wrists. In a flash of inspiration, she brought her hand to her mouth and used her teeth to untie the thing.
"See? That was easy!” Queenie said.
“That's cheating!” Emilia whined, “you are not allowed to use your teeth! I bet you can't even do it without using your teeth!'
"Of course I can. A tiny twine like this could never hold me! Do your worst!"
Queenie was getting into the spirit of the competition, and stretched her wrists out in front of her body proudly. Emilia had other plans, though.
“Not like this,” Emilia said. “Turn around.”
When Queenie had turned her back, Emilia put some of the twine around Queenie's neck and brought some down to wrap around her arms separately. Emilia put three rounds around the upper arms and three rounds at the forearms. Then she had Queenie fold her arms upwards at the back, but had her stop just before it became painful.
Emilia continued creating a criss-cross pattern around the girl's arms, and followed with a square knot at wrists. As a finishing touch, Emilia tightened all the twine, pulling the twine around the arms more securely, and tying it all off at the back neck forming a Chinese Kun Bang tie.
'This time you will never escape, since you can't cheat and use your teeth!' Emilia mocked Queenie.
“And don’t think of using these to escape!” Emilia added, indicating a pair of scissors she had in her hands, “I will make sure you can't cheat this time.”
Queenie moved her arms to test the bond, and found that she had very limited motion in her arms. Both her arms had been pulled up to the limit of her flexibility, and whenever she tried to pull them down the entire getup would tighten. If she pulled down for too long, her arms and her neck began feeling numb!
She tried to reach for the knot but it was just too far for her fingers to reach, and there was no way she could reach the scissor in her current state. Again she tugged her hands with all her might in an attempt to break the twine, but it was too strong for her to escape using just brute force. After many exertions, the only thing she succeeded in doing was creating a painful numbness in her body. She was beaten.
"Okay... enough! You win, I give up" Queenie sighed. "Could you untie me now? I think people are coming…”
Before she could finish the sentence, they both heard footsteps and voices. Their classmates were getting close.
“Oh my god, I can’t let them see me like this! Hurry… let me free!” Queenie started feeling panicked – her breathing was faster and she was blushing at the thought of everyone seeing her all trussed up like this.
Emilia tried to use the scissors to cut Queenie's ties but the girl was fussing about too much and Emilia was afraid of cutting her accidentally. Knowing that she didn't have enough time to untie her anymore, Emilia placed Queenie’s bag on top of her table and picked up Queenie’s jacket. Queenie was frantic at this point, but Emilia cut her off to explain her plan:
“Just lay on the bag and I will cover you up with your jacket. Pretend that you are sick or asleep and I'll set you free once I have more time.’
Queenie wasn't in a position to negotiate, so she just followed Emilia’s instruction and laid on top of her bag. After Emilia cover up Queenie with her jacket, their classmates entered the room. None of them found out what was happening and Queenie felt a wave of relief wash over her. But there was a moment of tension as Emilia saw their class leader approaching!
Emilia’s heart skipped a beat and she desperately prayed that he wouldn't notice any abnormality here. Queenie was pretending to be asleep, so she didn't know exactly what was going on here. Luckily, the class leader didn’t notice what was happening and he was just passing a message from their teacher.
“Emilia, Madam Susan did asked me to pass a message for you. She asked you to meet her at the library to discuss an upcoming ceremony,” the boy told her.
Emilia had to think fast.
“But Queenie is not feeling well, and I need to accompany her,” Emilia replied, but both girls were quite afraid of being discovered at this point.
They both knew that if Emilia was going to meet up with Madam Susan, she could be stuck there until the end of the school day. Queenie could remain bound up for hours!
“Don’t worry about her, we will take care of her,” the class leader said.
“All the teachers are attending the meeting, so we are on our own. I will make sure the class remains silent so that Queenie can have a nice rest. Just hurry up, Madam Susan doesn’t like to wait!”
“But…” Emilia said, trying to convince him but he had already made up his mind.
“No more buts! Just go now.”
Knowing that she couldn’t disobey Madam Susan’s order, Emilia left the classroom and went to the library to have a meeting with Madam Susan.
Being left alone with other classmate, Queenie didn't dare to make any movement that could alert the others to her predicament. The girl knew that she was doomed – she would probably remain trapped in this position until Emilia came back to rescue her.
To worsen her predicament, she feel like she was going to pee…