Audrey was my oldest friend, our parents had had us play with each other since we were infants. Being born a month apart from each other and living in adjacent houses kind of has to result in a friendship. We were in the same class all the way through elementary school. Now in high school, we had gone our separate ways, she with her friends from cheerleading and me with friends from cross country. We still smiled or nodded our heads at each other in the hall, but we didn't hang out like we used to.

Once she had reached high school, she was truly a beautiful young woman. Her hair was purely blonde, about armpit length. She usually had it in a ponytail. Her face was void of freckles, acne or any other blemishes of any kind. Her cheeks were usually rosy, and she always had a playful glint in her eyes. She was the kind of girl who wasn’t afraid to get dirty, and we would often dig forts in the woods behind our houses together when we were little.

She was dating this guy named Daren from the football team and had been for some time. I would occasionally see them in the halls together. I wasn’t jealous of him, I knew that if I tried to get with Audrey it wouldn’t work. We had been friends for so long, it would be weird for both of us to move on from the ‘friends’ relationship we had and bump it up to ‘couple’. Plus, I didn’t want to ruin our years of friendship in a failed romance. She probably wouldn’t be interested either, she probably friend-zoned me years ago.

It all started one night when I was sitting at my desk in my room doing English homework. My desk was right in front of my window, looking out at Audrey’s house next to mine. The fence between our houses was below, obscured in darkness. It was a Friday night and I should have been downstairs watching ‘Frozen’ with my family (my sister chose the movie), but I had escaped thanks to Mrs. Ridley’s assignment. Bored, listening to music, I looked out my window at Audrey’s house where she had left her light on in her room. I could see her bed through the partially drawn curtains. Suddenly, I saw the door open and Audrey entered, followed by Daren. I sat up in my desk, less bored now and watched what was happening. Audrey laid down on her bed with her cheer uniform on. That’s weird, I thought. She didn't have cheer practice today. Daren disappeared behind the window towards where I knew Audrey’s closet was, then returned a few minutes later holding something. I thought to myself, is that… rope?

Daren arranged the bundles of rope on the bed to the side of Audrey, who was smiling and talking with Daren playfully. Audrey sat up and put her bare legs together, offering them to Daren. He roughly pulled her legs towards him and began coiling rope around her ankles tightly, continuing to laugh and joke with Audrey.

I was fully alert now, staring at the scene unfolding before me. I had been into this kind of thing for a long time, and had only ever watched videos of what was unfolding before me. I briefly considered recording Audrey and Daren with my phone sitting on my desk, but decided against it. I chose to watch instead, getting hard almost immediately.

Once Daren was satisfied with Audrey’s ankles, he began doing the same with her calves just below the knees and just above the knees. He looped the rope in between her legs around the rope binding them together to cinch her legs together tight. In her short, red and blue uniform and her white, calf-length socks, Audrey looked indescribably hot. I had never fantasized about what she would look like tied up before, but it was truly remarkable how attractive she looked. Daren finished tying her legs, then moved Audrey so she was sitting on the edge of the bed upright. He sat on the bed behind her and began tying her arms. He started with a loop around her upper arms, above her breasts. Cinching these down with loops between the arm and body in a similar manner to her legs, he did a second loop below her breasts. He then completed the chest harness by bringing rope over her bare shoulders and in-between her breasts, accentuating the shape of her bosom. It seemed he knew that I was watching since he was presenting the entire show to me through the gap in the curtains: I could see everything.

He finished her arms off by completing a simple box tie, pinning her arms firmly to her body. Audrey squirmed around a little bit, clearly impressed with his work. Daren picked her up and gently set her down in the middle of the bed, then took another rope and looped it around her feet. He pulled them up into a clean hogtie, securing her feet to the upper part of the chest harness. Audrey squirmed more, tipping onto her side with a smile on her face, completely enjoying herself. As she was testing out her bonds, Daren picked up a roll of duct-tape that was hidden under the bed and snuck up behind Audrey. He quickly pulled both of her socks off and, when she opened her mouth to protest, shoved one into her mouth and began wrapping the tape around her head and long, blonde hair. She gave him a dirty look as he wrapped, but didn’t fight him in any way. She must have been as turned on as I was at that moment.

Daren then reached under the bed again and pulled out a cloth, drawstring bag. He pulled it over Audrey’s head and cinched it down, tying the strings to secure the bag over her head. She squirmed some more, but couldn’t do anything as her sense of sight was robbed from her. I had never thought of a drawstring bag being used as a blindfold, it was truly genius. Daren patted her on the back, saying something, then got up and opened the door. He closed it again, making it seem like he left the room. Audrey didn’t mind him ‘leaving’: she lay on her bed, struggling and squirming around, enjoying her secure bondage. I watched, hard as a rock, as Daren pulled out Audrey’s other sock from where he had pocketed it, dropped his pants and got busy himself watching Audrey struggle. I decided then that I was done staring through her window and left the room, leaving the lights on to not make a disturbance that might cause Daren to look over.

I was conflicted with what I had seen. I felt weird, not knowing what to think. She was my oldest friend, and knowing she was into bondage and stuff like that felt amazing, but there was no way I could ever tell her I was into it too. One, I found this out when I was creepily watching her through her window, and two, we had known each other for years. As I sat in the bathroom contemplating this, I knew that this was just the first chapter in a long story between me and Audrey.