Ellen’s Yoga Tickle Party, Part 5
Debra demurred. After Ellen's announcement, Brett had faded away from the bar and into the woodwork, nose to phone, leaving us with an odd number. Palpably relieved, Debra decided to sit out the hogtie round and even things up.
"I wasn't too keen on being trussed on the floor like an animal anyway," she said, settling back on a couch to watch.
"You're just a big coward," Ellen grumped, to which Debra nodded agreeably. But Ellen wasn't too upset. Her backup partner was Laura.
Mindi paired with Jess, and Darlene with Rita, leaving Zoe to partner with Romi. The latter seemed like a good combination: physical intensity meets professional focus. They quickly fell into a tense little discussion, Romi's hand on Zoe's shoulder, when they realized they were grouped. Probably figuring out a scoring system to see who hogtied better.
Everyone changed into workout clothes and sorted themselves to a spot on the floor, rolling out their yoga mats next to one of the gift bags, which had become the focus of intense curiosity.
"Ok everyone, good news," I said. "You can finally open your bags."
Amidst the sounds of crumpling paper and soft squeals of delight, coils of soft white rope started to appear around the room. This was followed by laughter and surprised screams as inner packages were opened to reveal feathers, small plastic backscratchers, small tubs of fragrant skin cream, and vibrating wands. The wands were clit stimulators, truth be told, supplied courtesy of Lisa, our friend from M's original party.
"I just met some of you," I announced, "so I want to be clear: the vibrators were Ellen's idea."
"And they're all charged!" Ellen added. This got a round of laughs, and it was off to the races.
"Notice there are loops of colored electrical tape around the end of each rope," I explained. "That's so you know which rope to use for what. So just follow along and listen, watch Ellen and Laura, and I'll walk the room to check and help out as we go."
It was interesting to watch the pairs get ready. Laura had everything loosely stacked, and was reminiscing with Ellen and Debra about M's party. Mindi the math teacher was trying to get organized, but Jess kept grabbing and messing with things. Darlene and Rita's stuff was dumped in a pile, except Rita had pulled out her buzzy wand and was clicking through the settings. And Romi and Zoe's gear was arranged in neat parallel lines, probably alphabetized if I'd bothered to check.
I started by having each partner tie a harness around the other. It's non-restrictive, good practice with the ropes, and would make the coming hogtie a lot easier.
I was helping Ellen tie Laura's harness in the middle of the room, so everyone else could watch and follow along. Then Laura tied Ellen as I walked among the groups, checking and giving a hand where needed.
In no time, everyone was harnessed up. Here's what the harnesses look like:
It was time to choose the starting victims. After some finagling among the pairs and at least one game of rock-paper-scissors, the first four to be hogtied were Laura, Zoe, Darlene, and Mindi. We used the same approach: I helped Ellen tie up Laura, and the other tie-ers followed along with some occasional tips and help. Romi in particular seemed quite the natural, trussing poor complaining and wriggling Zoe with neat military efficiency.
Soon the first rounders were bound and struggling. Here's a good example of the hogtie we used:
Each partner watched their counterpart squirm for a bit, testing the ropes. "Now comes the fun part," teased Ellen as she peeled the ankle socks off Laura's kicking feet. "We never got a chance to tickle you at M's house."
"Nooo you didn't," Laura agreed, a sing-songy warble in her voice. Despite getting tickled a fair amount, she always dreads it a little, and plays a great damsel in distress.
I had checked all the ties and everything looked safe, so I took a deep breath and announced to everyone, "Ok! Now's your chance to—"
"
YOW! YAA! HEY! YARP! EEK!" Behind me someone started barking like a small dog. I spun to find Romi giving me a devious half-smile as she straddled Zoe's shins and leaned forward to methodically pinch up and down her friend's hips and rib cage. The whole room laughed at Zoe's little screams as she twisted and thrashed, hair bobbing furiously.
"
Stop that!" she shrieked, and just about then I heard Laura's familiar screams begin as Ellen started tickling her feet.
Darlene's response to being tickled, it turns out, is to issue increasingly graphic death threats. "Stop that! Hey!
HEY! I'll kill you! I will
fucking kill you! Haha! I'll rip your lungs out! STOP! Hahaha! Goddamn it! I'll twist your head off!" But Rita kept patiently digging at her ribs and sides regardless, an evil smile on her lips.
Mindi, you won't be surprised to hear, laughs
exactly like the Mindi in the old Tickle Abuse video. Jess had peeled off her socks and was skittering her nails over the math teacher's feet, alternating with digs in the ribs.
I was probably the most fascinated, however, by Ellen tickling Laura. I love to watch women tickle my wife, and Ellen was great at it. Laura just loses herself in hysterical laughter when tickled, and Ellen was doing all the right things to keep her off balance. Laura's face was bright red as she thrashed under Ellen's fingers.
Even better though, was Zoe's reaction when Romi stopped tickling her ribs and started peeling off her black ankle socks.
"
NO!!!" Zoe shrieked, bucking wildly in the ropes. But Romi had tied her like a pro. "
Nononono stop stop stop!" Her cries were frantic enough that the other pairs stopped to watch.
The little half-smile never left Romi's face, though, as she finally tugged the socks away from Zoe's gripping toes, wiggling her fingers over the businesswoman's kicking feet. Zoe stilled herself and composed her face into a grim line, growling softly, when she accepted the inevitable.
"Oh, gonna resist?" Romi teased, and dug her nails in.
Zoe resisted for about three seconds, and then exploded into wild, panicky laugh-screaming. She thrashed like she was being electrocuted, but Romi had her legs firmly locked. Zoe’s bound hands flailed madly as her laughs dissolved into an “
Oh oh OH! Oh please STOP! PLEASE I CAN'T!” and Romi finally relented. Everyone with free hands clapped as poor Zoe sagged in the ropes. Exhausted, she could only say, “You’re next.”
Everyone was untied, and the pairs switched places. Now Laura was hogtying Ellen, who had already started to giggle, causing even Debra to smile as she watched. I got very popular all of the sudden as everyone who had just been tickled wanted to be extra sure they could firmly restrain their partner to exact revenge. Zoe had a frighteningly determined look on her face, and I had to actually back her off a little to preserve Romi’s circulation. Then Jess called me over for the opposite reason – she wanted me to help Mindi tie her
tighter. That was fun.
Rita had maybe the most interesting reactions. As Darlene looped her wrists to the harness, Rita was squirming and purring like a cat getting a belly rub. Darlene looked bemused and almost flustered by the vibes her partner was throwing, and called me over. “How do you tie up someone who wiggles too much?” she asked.
“Use more rope,” I suggested, and helped throw a double column tie around Rita’s ankles as Darlene lifted her legs. As I looped the rope, Rita rubbed her pretty, narrow feet together sensually, crossing one over the other with a soft susurrant noise as she continued to "
Mmmmm..." very softly.
“I think you’ve created a monster,” Darla observed.
I gave her a small shrug. “Well, at least you can keep her tied up.”
As constant backdrop to this activity, Ellen was growling like an idling motorcycle, giggling and struggling, anticipating the tickling to start. Debra had slipped off the couch to join Laura, and they sat poised on either side of her.
“I think we’re all good!” I said, and immediately Ellen started screaming.
“
Noooooo!!!!” she yelled as Debra grabbed her hips and Laura whipped off her socks to start tickling her feet. She quickly spun up into the crescendo of high-pitched hysterical laughter and thrashing that I remembered so well from M’s.
Beside me, Jess lit up with laughter like tiny church bells as Mindi, laughing herself, had her way with the music teacher’s ribs and clenched underarms. She started to scream along with Ellen as Mindi worked down to her hips.
Zoe was furious. As she dug into Romi’s sides, the yoga instructor just tensed and scrunched her face, keeping herself on the edge of control, muscles like taut cables. Shifting tactics, Zoe peeled off Romi’s socks and tickled her feet. This earned her some muffled growls, but if anyone was keeping score, so far Romi was winning by a mile.
Rita just laughed. There was no resistance, no screaming, and really not even much thrashing around. It was as if she just accepted her fate and let the laughter flow straight from her core. If anything—much to Darlene’s shocked delight—it was mixed with moans of pleasure.
“Use the tool!” I heard Laura shout from behind me. She was talking to Zoe, who was still trying to break her partner down. But Romi hadn’t laughed yet, although her face was flushed dark red. Lighting up, Zoe shook a vibrator out of its box and clicked it on. As it whirred to life, Romi looked back and gasped “
No!”
But then Zoe dug the buzzy wand’s uncovered tip between Romi’s toes, finally getting the scream and burst of laughter she was looking for. Triumphant, she locked Romi’s ankles in the crook of her arm and went to town with the tool, putting Romi into fresh thrashing hysterics.
Finally, it ended with another round of applause. Panting gave way to laughing and joking as everyone was untied. “Go ahead and take the harnesses off, too,” I suggested. "You won’t want them for the tickle therapy, and we won’t need them again tonight.”
“Tickle therapy starts in fifteen minutes!” Ellen announced. I saw Laura whisper in her ear.
As ropes started hitting the floor, the ladies began drifting toward the bar, most everyone needing a stiff drink. But our bartender was nowhere to be seen.
I finally spotted him behind the soft glow of a screen in the far corner of the covered patio. But as the ladies made their own drinks, everyone decided to leave him be for now.
To be continued…