Cassandra watched warily as the twin boys yelled at each other as they played on the Playstation. The Chinese girl definitely had her hands full with this babysitting job tonight, with the 9 year old twins being an absolute bundle of energy and their 11 year old sister insisting on doing things every minute of the evening. Cassandra was currently sitting on the floor with her back against the wrought iron headboard of the bedroom of a family friend, watching over the three kids as the parents were out at a wedding. Sam and Andrew were playing games, while Daniella had pestered Cassandra about braiding her hair until the girl finally relented and the younger girl was currently lying on top of the bed above Cassandra, playing around with her hair.
With all the kids occupied and full of food that she had cooked earlier that evening, Cassandra gave a sigh of relief as she was finally able to continue some of her studying for the physics test that she had for her first college semester on Monday. The babysitter wore a simple jeans, tshirt, school hoodie, and socks with her boots downstairs at the front door. The rest of the kids were in various pajamas and regular clothes but it was going to be their bedtime soon as she checked the clock.
Several more minutes passed and Cassandra had just finished one of her chapters when she heard Daniella behind her. “Hey Sam, Andrew, want to play the game?”
The boys both turned from their game and their eyes lit up. “Sure!” Sam said. “We’ll go get the stuff.”
Both boys tore out of the room super fast and Cassandra could hear them trampling through the rest of the house. “Boys!” She called as she sat up, only to have her head yanked back as her hair was pulled. “Ow!”
Reaching back with a hand, she felt along the back of her hair until it reached the bedframe and suddenly felt the tangle of her hair wrapped through the bars. “Daniella!” She gasped in shock, trying to turn her head only for her hair to wrench her hair back again.
She realized now that Daniella had tied her hair to various parts of the bedframe, keeping her pinned in place at the foot of the bed. Cassandra dropped the textbook and started frantically trying to find the knots that Daniella had tied without her knowledge. The little demon simply giggled behind her as Cassandra tried picking at the knots, her sleek black hair was not super easy to undo and she barely got one knot undone before the boys came back into the room and dumped their toys on the floor. Her heart skipped a beat as she saw a jumble of video game controllers, jump rope, tape rolls, and clothesline. “Boys, what are you doing?” Cassandra tried to keep her voice as steady as possible despite the increasing dread in the pit of her stomach.
“It’s almost bedtime.” Andrew said. “So we tie up the babysitter so you can’t send us to bed yet!”
He said it in a cheery voice like it was the most normal thing in the world. “Absolutely not.” Cassandra said. “There will be no tying up the babysitter. You all have to get ready for bed.”
“Too late!” Sam said as he grabbed a jump rope and with his twin, jumped the helpless babysitter.
She put up a valiant fight, but pinned in place by her hair, Cassandra could do little as the three kids went to work with their tangle of wires and other binding material. Soon the poor college girl found her wrists bound in front of her, pinned against her waist with jump ropes and tape. Her ankles and knees were bound with video game controller cables and then clothesline was wrapped around her chest and the bedframe to keep her pinned in place in addition to her hair. Her shouts and protests were eventually cut off as they slapped a piece of tape across her lips, causing Cassandra to fume and work her jaw to get the piece of tape off. “Cut it out this instant! Let me go!”
“You didn’t do a good job keeping her quiet!” Andrew accused his brother.
“Wasn’t me, blame Daniella!” He shot back.
“Both of you let me go!” Cassandra yelled.
Still struggling, she did not see Daniella sneaking up behind her with a rubber bouncy ball and as she opened her mouth to demand that she be let go, the little demon quickly shoved the ball between her teeth. “MMMMPH!” Cassandra’s eyes popped wide as the hard rubber ball filled her mouth.
The ripping of tape was what she heard next and soon tape was wrapped around and around her head. It was sloppy, but the sheer number of wraps meant that there was no way Cassandra was getting that damned rubber ball out of her mouth anytime soon. “MMPH MMMMRRRMMM!” She shouted at them through the gag, although now her voice was significantly quieter.
Giggling, the three kids scampered out of the room, no doubt they will still be awake when their parents came home in the late hours. Cassandra could only mournfully look at the tangle of wires, ropes, tape, and other binding materials that now held her body and sighed. It was going to be a very long night explaining how this happened.