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  Kerry knew how lucky he was to get this waiter’s job at an exclusive restaurant downtown. He was making a very good wage which was helping him pay his way through his freshman year at college. But he just hated it when the last customer of the night sat dawdling over their after-dinner coffee instead of just going home so that Kerry could close up for the night. All the rest of the staff had gone home and the owner trusted Kerry to lock up, but Kerry still had some studying for tomorrow’s exams to do when he got home and it was already close to eleven o’clock.

“Is there anything else I can get you, Sir?” Kerry asked the beefy guy in the dark suit, hoping that the guy would take the hint and pay his check.

“No, but I have something for you,” the man drawled as he stood up to his full height.

Innocent Kerry began to smile, thinking that the customer was going to give him a nice tip, so he was completely surprised when the man suddenly grabbed Kerry by the back of his neck. The hard hand hurt as strong fingers began to squeeze Kerry’s tender flesh and Kerry opened his mouth to cry out, but that was when the man stuffed a ball of crumbled handkerchief into Kerry’s open mouth.

“Come on kid, you can show me where the bathroom is,” the man growled into Kerry’s ear.

Kerry was scared to XXXX and the man’s big hand really hurt where it was squeezing Kerry’s neck so he didn’t even think of putting up a struggle while the man picked up his briefcase and then started walking Kerry toward the bathroom in the back of the restaurant.

Inside the small bathroom the man pushed Kerry up against the wall and then showed him a brown leather blackjack-thing that looked like it would really hurt. Then the man pressed his beefy body up against Kerry so that Kerry’s chest was being pressed up against the wall.

Then the man’s garlic breath washed over Kerry’s ear. “All right kid, now I want you to stay real quiet and you want to avoid getting any really nasty bumps on your head. Do we understand each other?”

“Gghuhuh…” Kerry’s throat quivered behind the ball of cotton that was swelling to fill up the inside of his mouth.

“Good boy. Now don’t make any sudden moves and you won’t need to go to the doctor’s in the morning.” The man brushed the hard head of the blackjack across Kerry’s cheek so that the captive waiter could smell the tangy leather and feel the hardness of the heavy lead the blackjack was filled with.

Kerry nodded his head and closed his eyes while his heart started pounding in his ears and mental pictures of Kerry’s bruised and bleeding body scared the young freshman all the way down to his shoes.

Then he opened his eyes and dared to peek while the man started taking lengths of rope out of his briefcase and then began wrapping them around Kerry’s shaky body. Nobody had ever tied Kerry up before and he wasn’t prepared for the way the man’s ropes hugged his body tight and pinched through the thin cotton of his shirt to hurt his skin or the way those ropes made Kerry feel more and more helpless.

Then the man turned Kerry around to face him and pressed Kerry’s skinny frame back against the wall with his muscular body. And then in the brighter lights of the bathroom Kerry got his first good look at the man’s face. The face was aged with lots of craggy lines and there were thin scars over the man’s eye and on his chin, but it was the eyes that scared Kerry the most. They were the cruel eyes of a man who had enjoyed hurting people before and would enjoy hurting Kerry now if the young waiter gave him any excuse.

So Kerry didn’t move a muscle while the man plastered black strips of tape over Kerry’s lips and the ball of handkerchief. And he didn’t even think of resisting when the man pushed him down onto the toilet seat and then began tying lots more rope all around Kerry’s thighs and ankles so that his legs were being all squeezed together and pinched.

“Okay kid, now you sit here quietly while I find out how much cash you took in tonight.”

The man picked up his briefcase and opened the bathroom door. “I’ll be back,” the man promised and then he left Kerry all alone with his fear.

For several minutes Kerry was too afraid to do anything. But then the man’s promise to come back and see Kerry again popped into Kerry’s head and made him even more afraid. What would the man do to him when he came back? Kerry didn’t know, but he didn’t want to be here when that happened.

So first Kerry squirmed against the tight ropes; hoping that he could find some way to wiggle his hands free. But the ropes were tied really tight and the knots felt impossible to loosen. Kerry was really trapped!

Then Kerry saw the window. Maybe he could get some help from somebody outside. It wasn’t easy to get to his feet with the way those ropes were hugging his legs so tight, but Kerry finally managed to stand up and inch his body toward the window. Then he looked out and saw three people down in the street. Terry mmphed as loud as he dared and tried as hard as he could to attract their attention to his plight, but the happy people were all XXXX and they just waved and laughed at Kerry before they walked on into the night.

Kerry felt really helpless as his body sagged back down to sit on the toilet again. Nobody was going to help Kerry and he felt so alone.

Then the door opened and the man came back in with his briefcase. “You can tell your Boss that he had a really good night. You can also tell him that I’m taking that cash as a down payment on what he owes my Boss. He’d better come up with the rest of it pretty quick. Now hold still and close your eyes.”

Kerry saw the man take another wide strip of that black tape from his briefcase and then he started moving it toward Kerry’s face. Still very scared and wanting to get out of this mess with a whole skin, Kerry closed his eyes tight and tried not to move while he felt the man’s blunt fingers smearing the sticky tape all over his closed eyelids and eyebrows.

“Now I know a young guy like you is going to be tempted to be a hero and try to get out of here to call the police right away so I’m going to have to give you a little something to slow you down.”

What did that mean? What was he going to do? Kerry’s heart started beating faster and his breaths started whistling through his nose quicker and quicker. Then he felt one of the man’s strong hands on the back of his neck and a damp bar towel was being pressed over his nose. The bar towel stank of whiskey and beer and Kerry tried to twist his face away, but the man held him firmly until Kerry began to smell something else on the towel. Something really sweet that smelled like a very strong pina collada. What was that stuff?

Bright colors began dancing in front of Kerry’s blindfolded eyes and a warm hazy feeling began to spread all through Kerry’s body until he could no longer feel the hard ropes hugging against him. And then Kerry felt like his whole body was floating up off of the toilet seat just before he felt nothing at all.

THE END

Kerry played by Patrick

Photography by Caitiff

DATE OF PRODUCTION: 11/12/2005