New Boots (M/M)

[WICowboy]

Chapter 1

Chris had moved to Arkansas from Minnesota about a year and a half ago after graduating from college for a job working as a mechanical engineer. He had always been good with his hands, and he liked to build things. When he wasn’t working out at the gym, he was in his garage doing wood working or was hiking in the woods. He had always had a fascination with how things worked. He liked trying to figure out the best and most efficient way to do things. He was endlessly curious and loved to learn about just about anything.

Chris was a likable guy and made friends easily. It didn’t hurt that he was a handsome guy that had a sweet and charming smile, having braces all those years ago had paid off in a smile that could put people at ease. He was a bit of a scrawny pipsqueak until he hit his growth spurt in the 8th grade. Now he was about 6” 2’ and because of his workout regimen he had an imposing look to him while being one of the nicest guys you would ever meet. He was always polite to others and people tended to really like him because he was just a genuinely nice guy. His dark hair, green eyes, and tanned complexion added to his rugged good looks.

He met Stephen at work, and they quickly became good friends. Stephen was originally from Arkansas and was a true country boy. Stephen liked to hunt, ride horses, and tinker with cars. Stephen always came to work in jeans and one of his many pairs of cowboy boots, while Chris was usually in khakis and a pair of hiking boots. They both usually wore a polo shirt at work because they didn’t want long sleeves getting in the way of working machinery. Stephen usually wore one of his giant belt buckles with a leather belt while Chris usually wore a nylon belt with D-rings.

Stephen had invited Chris to come to his wedding a few months ago and he needed to go buy some clothes that would work for the western theme of the wedding. Chris had never had western clothing before, but he had always admired how Stephen looked in his boots and jeans. The western jeans his friend wore, usually Wranglers, seemed to show off his butt and his muscular thighs that he achieved from all the horseback riding he did. So, when he needed to buy his western clothing, he was hopeful that he could get a similar result with his developed physique.
While on his lunch break, Chris decided to Google western wear stores nearby so he could go and get his attire for the wedding that was coming up in a couple of weeks. Stephen had told him that he needed to have time to break in his boots so that they would be comfortable for him to wear for a long night of partying at the wedding. Chris found a store that was about a twenty-minute drive from his house on the outskirts of their small town. Their website said that they had “everything for your western needs”.

Chris was late leaving work because he lost track of time while working on plans for a new machine and went to the gym thinking he would have plenty of time to get to the store before they closed. Chris pulled up in his black Dodge Ram about 45 minutes before the store closed. The store was a lot bigger than he imagined and he kind of felt a bit overwhelmed with the selection. He began wondering around and trying to decide what he wanted. He browsed through the western shirts, then meandered through the demon section, and then he saw rows and rows of boots. There was a whole wall of cowboy hats to choose from that left him quite perplexed about where to even start.

Ready to give up and come back when he had more time, the store clerk came up to him and said “Howdy, what can I help you find?”

The clerk was a tall lean guy. He had a more natural build to him that looked like he did some form of manual labor that kept him in shape. He was wearing a pair of brown elephant cowboy boots, light colored jeans, a brown belt with a large gold buckle, a stiff looking multicolored striped shirt, and a brown felt cowboy hat. His face was tanned, most likely from spending a lot of time outdoors with a five o’clock shadow that covered his strong jawline. His brown eyes seemed to be kind, and his smile was inviting and made Chris feel at ease.

“I have a western themed wedding coming up in a few weeks and I need to get some stuff that will work so I do not stick out like a sore thumb. I didn’t think that there would be so much stuff to go through, so I don’t know where to start,” said Chris.

The clerk stuck out his hand and said “I’m Nick, nice to meet you. I am sure we can find you something spiffy to wear”.

“Thanks Nick, I’m Chris”.

“Well, Chris, I would say that we should start with the boots and then go from there. How does that sound?” asked Nick.

Chris nodded his head and started to follow Nick to the boot section. Chris noted that Nick has a lean muscular look to him, not bulky like Chris was, but that his jeans seemed to be snug in all the right places, including his butt. Chris also admired the brown boots that Nick was wearing. “Those are some sharp looking boots that you got on there, Nick”.

“Thanks man, I have had them for quite a while”, Nick said. “These are elephant, which can be hard to find now, but we will find something that will look good on ya.”

“What do you recommend for my first pair of boots?” Chris asked.

“Well, leather is always a classic choice, but if you want something a bit more eye catching, you can go with something like ostrich, lizard, or python. Do you ever plan on wearing them for anything other than going to this wedding?” asked Nick.

Chris said “I figure I will just wear them to bars, concerts, and stuff like that. I’m not a real cowboy, if you couldn’t tell” Chris chuckled as he said that last part.

“Well then, you can get pretty much anything you want. Certain skins are not very durable for things like riding horses. I would say that brown is the most versatile color so for something that you will not be wearing every day, that might be a good choice.”

Chris began looking around and picked out a pair of Ariat Heritage Rough Stock boots. “I like the look of these.”
Nick replied, “The square toe will be a bit more comfortable for you especially since you are not used to wearing boots”.

Chris asked, “The top of the heel sticks out further than other pairs, what’s up with that?”

“That is a spur ridge, it keeps spurs from sliding down your boot”, Nick answered.

“Should I get a pair of spurs?” Chris inquired.

Nick got a smirk on his face and said, “If you ain’t riding horses, you don’t need spurs.”

“Let’s go grab you some jeans to go with these boots” Nick said as he directed Chris towards the section of that section of the store. “Any ideas what kind you want?”

“My buddy wears Wrangler jeans, but what do you recommend?” Chris asked.

“Well, Wranglers are more classic, Ariat and Cinch are newer brands. I pretty much only wear Wranglers myself as they are cheaper and I think they look the best, but I tend to stick with a more classic cowboy look.”

“Let’s go with Wranglers then.”

“Dark or lighter wash?” Nick asked.

“Let’s go for a darker wash, I tend to be messy, so they won’t show if I spill something on me.”
Nick smiled and said, “Good call, can’t have you lookin’ a mess.” Nick asked Chris what size he normally wore and grabbed a pair of jeans out of the stack on the shelf. “Now for a shirt. I would say get something that is a plain single color. You could get something with a design on it, but a plain color shirt will look a little dressier for a wedding, in my opinion.”

“How about something in green?”

“We got this dark green shirt that has Wrangler in white down the sleeve, what do you think?” Nick asked as he held up the shirt for Chris to inspect.

Chris nodded in approval, “That looks nice”.

Nick grabbed a brown belt with a simple silver buckle that had a western look and held it up for Chris’s approval. “How’s this?”

Chris nodded and smiled. He appreciated that it had a western look but was not big like the ones that Stephen would wear, he didn’t want to look like he was in a costume.

“Last thing we gotta get in a hat. I would suggest a straw hat since it will go with anything so if you ever get other stuff it will work for ya” Nick said as he led Chris over to the wall of hats.

Chris picked out a classic looking cattleman hat, “This looks pretty good” Chris said as he slipped the hat on his head. He took a quick peek in the mirror and realized that he thought he looked pretty good in the hat with his dark hair sticking out from the back.

Nick showed Chris to the dressing room and opened the door for him. “We’ll have you put on the jeans, shirt, and belt and then we will check your boots for size since sometimes we have to try a few different sizes to get a proper fit.”

Chris got dressed and asked, “Are the jeans supposed to be this long?”

“You want a little extra length in the jeans when you are wearing them with boots so that you don’t have the shafts of your boots hanging out.”

“Ah, ok. Good to know” replied Chris.

Chris stepped out and checked himself in the mirror. He really liked the way these Wranglers hugged his ass and thighs. With all the time he spent in the gym, he was glad that these jeans showed off the hard work he had put in to keep himself fit. Nick directed Chris to have a seat on a bench and gave him the boots he had selected. “Slip these on and we will make sure that they fit right. There should be a little slip in the heel, and they should be able to slide on and off without a ton of effort”

“They should slide off easily?” asked Chris.

“Well, boots were designed to be able to slide out of if you were to fall off a horse and your boot is caught in the stirrup, so you don’t get dragged too far. It is also helpful to be able to slip off your boots if you ever get tied up.”

Chris’s jaw dropped a bit when he heard Nick say that. “Get tied up? Is that really a concern?”

“Well, you never know. But better safe than sorry”, Nick responded.

“I have never been tied up before, so I do not think that is a real problem” Chris replied.

“Well, if you ever do get tied up, you will be glad that you may be able to slip your feet out of your boots to help you get free. That is unless someone really knows what they are doing, then you ain’t sliding out of your boots,” said Nick.

This intrigued Chris from an engineering standpoint. He wondered about the mechanics of tying someone to the
point that they cannot get free. “Do you know how to tie someone in a way that they cannot get free?”

Nick smirked again and said, “Hell yeah, and when I rope someone, they ain’t gettin’ free until I let them loose.”

“I’m a mechanical engineer and I am curious about how that would work. What’s the secret?” Chris asked.

Nick got a devilish grin on his face and said, “I don’t think I can explain it, but I could show ya. It is after closing time so if you don’t have anywhere else to go, I could grab some rope and show ya, if ya want.”

Chris smiled and said, “Sure! I love learning how things work.”

Nick was mostly joking but he figured what the hell. “Let’s get all this rung up, cannot have you getting all sweaty in this stuff and not have it paid for”.

Nick pulled the tags off all the items and walked over to the register. “You’re going to tie me up in my new duds?” Chris asked.

“Well sure, that way you can get the full cowboy experience. Ain’t you ever seen old western where the cowboy ends up tied up?”

“Not really, I grew up in Minneapolis” Chris stated.

“Well, you are in for quite the new experience then, aren’t ya? My buddies and I grew up playing cops and robbers and cowboys and Indians and we tied each other up all the time as part of our games. We sucked at first, but as we got older, we really learned how to get other tied up good and it made the games more realistic”.

“Well, I am glad that I am going to be learning from an expert then”.
Nick smiled, “Well you are in for a treat. Now that everything is all paid for, I’ll grab some rope from my truck and then I will get you all fixed up. I can get all the closing stuff done while you do your best at trying to get out and when I am all done, I will let you loose.”

Chris smiled back and said, “That is if I haven’t already gotten free myself”.

“How about we make it more interesting? I am a betting man myself and I’ll tell you what. How about if you get free, I’ll give you a thirty percent discount on your next purchase.”

“And, if I don’t get out, then what do I owe you?” Chris asked.

“Well then you have to come back and buy another pair of boots at full price.”

“Deal!” Chris said as he stuck his hand out to shake on the bet.

“I’m gonna go grab some rope out of my truck, why don’t you head to the back of the store behind the boot racks by the dressing rooms. Don’t want somebody to drive by thinking that the place is getting robbed if they see someone tied up on the floor”.

“Sounds good, buddy”. Chris walked to the back of the store and was looking around at all the boots that were on display. He found the smell of the leather a bit intoxicating, it was not like anything that he had ever experienced before. He was also enjoying the sound that his new boots made on the hardwood floors of the store. He had noticed that he could always tell when Stephen was approaching because of the thud his boots would make on the floors when he walked around at work.

Chris heard the door to the store open and close and the sound of keys spinning locking the door. “I got the rope, ready to do this?” Nick asked.

“That’s a lot of rope there, do you really need that much to get the job done?”

“Better to have too much than not enough. Nice thing about rope, you can cut it if you have too much”, Nick explained.

“Well then, let’s get to it” Chris said. “You’re going to explain what you are doing so I can learn about all this?”

“Of course, this in a lesson, not some kink fest.”

Chris stuck his hands out in front of himself offering them to Nick.

Nick grinned, “First lesson, you always tie someone’s hands behind their back. It would be stupid to tie someone’s hands in front because they can use their teeth to help them get loose.”

“Makes sense. Plus, then it makes it hard to see what they are doing.”

“Exactly!” Nick said as he took the rope and cut off about 15 feet. He put the two ends together and slid the rope through his hands finding the midpoint of the rope. He held up the small loop this made and said, “This is called the bight of the rope.”

Nick turned Chris sideways in front of the mirror outside the dressing room so he could show him what he was doing. He took the bight of the rope and slipped the rope through making a loop and slipped it over Chris’s right wrist behind his back. Nick grabbed Chris’s other wrist and crossed them behind his back and began wrapping rope around them. “Next lesson, you have to wrap in several directions and in between to get everything cinched down so that as someone struggles, no matter which way the pull their hands they can’t slip out.”

“Makes sense” Chris said as he started to realize that this was going to be tougher than he thought.

“Next lesson, tie the knots where they are not easily reached. See how I am tying this off here at the top of the wrists? That makes it so your fingers cannot get to the knots and work them loose.”

Chris nodded his head as Nick tied several square knots. Chris tried to maneuver his fingers towards the knots but could not get them to even be able to touch the knots. “What kind of knot did you use?”

“You only need simple knots when you are getting someone roped up. Square knots and slip knots are all you really need to be effective” Nick explained.

“Gotcha.”

Nick then cut off about fifty feet of rope and said, “Now to get your upper body tied.” He made another bight in the rope and wrapped it around Chris’s chest and made sure the rope was resting below Chris’s pecs and around his biceps. He made three wraps around his chest and arms, pulling tight between each wrap pressing Chris’s arms against his sides and tied it off through the bight of the rope leaving two long tails hanging down Chris’s back.

“Now, I’m going to use these tails to slip under your arms and cinch up the chest rope so that it cannot slip up and over your head.” Nick slipped one of the tails between Chris’s arm and side to the front above the chest rope and then back through under the chest rope a couple of times on his right side. He then did the same on his left side. Nick took the two tails and pulled them taut causing the chest rope to become even tighter. Nick tied a square knot in the rope in the center of Chris’s back.

“Wow, that really tightened up the rope a lot when you did that” Chris said as he slightly strained against the ropes binding his hands and chest.

“Right! Gotta make sure that you ain’t going nowhere. Now, you gotta get on your belly”, Nick said.

“That is gonna be hard to do without my hands. How’s that gonna work?” Chris asked.

“Go down to your knees and I will help lower you down onto your stomach, so you don’t hurt yourself.”

“Ok.” Chris did as instructed and Nick used the rope around his chest to help lower him down gently. Chris was beginning to realize that he was going to have to work hard to get out of these ropes, Nick really knew what he was doing when it came to getting him roped up effectively.

“Now, time to get your feet tied.” Nick cut about thirty feet of rope and found the middle of the rope and made a bight at the center. Nick lifted Chris’s right foot and slid the leg of Chris’s jeans to cover the shaft of his boot and wrapped the rope around his leather clad ankle. “See how I am tying the rope over your pants leg? That makes it so that you cannot just slip out of your boots.”

“Couldn’t I just work my foot out of the boots even with the rope over my jeans?” Chris asked.

“Maybe, but it is going to be harder to do this way, plus I have another trick up my sleeve to show you in a bit.” Nick explained.

Nick took Chris’s left foot and crossed it over his roped right foot and began wrapping the rope around both. “See how I am wrapping the rope several ways, like I did with your hands? That makes it harder to get free as well. Also, having your ankles crossed makes it so you can’t work your way up to your feet and hop around to get something to help you get free.”

Chris noticed that Nick wrapped the rope more aggressively around his feet. “You seem to be wrapping really tight down there.”

“Yeah, I can tie harder around your boots.”

“Now, I am going to make sure and tie this off on the front of your boots so that you cannot reach the knots.”

“I get it, keeping the knots out of reach is a big key to making it harder to get out. It makes sense but not something you may think about if you were not accustomed to tying up someone,” said Chris. “Time for me to start my Houdini act?”

“Almost. Just a couple other things.”

“I am all tied up, what else is there to tie?” asked Chris.

“Well, now I gotta tie your feet to your hands.”

“Does it make that big of a difference?” asked Chris.

“Well, being hogtied makes it harder to get free because it keeps a guy from moving around as much.”

“Well, I want to learn the best way to do this, and I am in no position to do much about it anyways”, said Chris.

“One thing to think about is that if you want them to be helpless is that you need to use separate ropes for this. If you use one single length of rope, to tie their hands and feet, they could possibly pull with their feet to get their hands undone. Also, if you tie their feet directly to their hands, they can use that a leverage to pull the rope off their hands, so I like to hogtie to the rope on their chest.”

“You make it sound like you do this regularly.”

Nick grinned and said “Well, you get a bunch of country boys and cowboys hanging out and drinking, and there is usually rope around somewhere, someone is going to end up tied up. Just guys being stupid and having a good time.”

“Getting tied up is a ‘good time’ for you guys”, Chris asked.

“In a small town where there is not much else to do, it can be the only entertainment you have to rope up your buddies.”

“Well, glad I am learning from an expert.”

Nick took the last bit of rope he had that was about twenty foot long. He made a bight in the rope and wrapped it around Chris’s bound boots and bent Chris’s legs and slid the rope over and under the rope around Chris’s chest and down to his rope tied hands and back up to the chest rope and back to Chris’s ropes up boots. Nick wrapped the remaining rope several times around Chris’s feet and knotted it off on the front side of his boots. “See how I went up to the chest rope first and then to your hands, this does two things. One, it keeps you from being able to pull the ropes off your hands with your feet and it makes it so you cannot slide your hands under your ass to get them closer to your feet.”

“I have to say, you were right, I didn’t think that this would make me feel more helpless, but being hogtied really does make a difference in how it feels.”

“And having your ankles crossed makes it harder to roll around.”

Chris wiggled around a bit in the ropes and said “Yeah, having my feet pulled up forced my knees out more and
made it harder to be able to get off my stomach.”

“Now, just one thing left to do” Nick said as he pulled a red bandana out of his pocket.

“What is that for?” Chris asked.

“You ain’t finished being tied up until you are gagged.”

“I don’t want to be gagged!” Chris said in a protesting voice. “I’m hogtied, that’s enough.”

“Try and stop me” Nick said with a huge grin on his face.

Nick removed Chris’s cowboy hat and put the bandana in front of his face. Chris tried to keep from having the bandana slid between his teeth, but in his current predicament, it was futile to try and fight too much. Once Nick knotted off the bandana behind his head, he put Chris’s hat back on his head. “It should take me about thirty to forty-five minutes to get the store closed up, so good luck getting free.” Nick patted Chris on his bound cowboy boots and walked away.

Chris began to struggle with all his might against the ropes but realized quickly that this was going to be quite the job to get free. He was trying to find the knots in the rope that lashed his wrists together. But Nick had done a good job with the placement of them as he could not find them at all. He began to realize that he was stuck but his stubborn streak would not let him just give up and lay there. He was able to roll up on his side and ended up flopping on his back making his cowboy hat fall off. He was hoping that if he could thrust his hips forward, he could get his hands closer to his boots and try to slip some rope from around his ankles, but he could not reach his feet well enough for that to work. As the feeling of helplessness sunk in, a bulge in his tight wranglers started to grow. This was a new sensation for Chris to be this level of feeling so helpless and for some reason it really caused him to be aroused. As he continued to struggle against the ropes, he got increasingly turned on. He senses heightened and he was really enjoying the feeling of the rope that held his body tightly. Chris rolled back onto his side and enjoyed thrusting his hips forward and the extra pressure it created against his swollen manhood. Chris became aware that he heard Nick’s boots coming toward him and reality set back in from the ecstasy he was feeling from his helplessness, and his hard cock was obvious in his skintight Wranglers. He rolled back onto his belly just in time to hide his sign of pleasure.

“Well, it looks like you didn’t make much progress there.”

Chris tried to say something, but the bandana tied in his mouth reduced his words to incomprehensible mumbling. Nick chuckled at Chris’s attempt to speak. Nick crouched next to Chris and untied the bandana that was saturated with his spit. “Well, you got me good there bud, I think it would have taken me another ten minutes to get free” Chris said.

“Sure, just ten more minutes” Nick said and smiled at Chris.

“Well, I don’t want you having to stay here any longer so we can be done, and you can go ahead and untie me.”

Nick giggled and nodded as he began to loosen the knots on the ropes. When Nick removed the hogtie rope, Chris moaned as he straightened out his legs. It felt good to stretch his legs after having them kept bent for such a long time. Nick was quick to finish removing the ropes freeing Chris. When his hands were free Chris enjoyed stretching his arms out to his side and did a push up to help himself off the ground. As he stood up, he was enjoying the freedom of movement he had and the suddenly realized he was still showing the pleasure he felt earlier in his jeans. He bent down and picked up his hat from the floor and tried to hold it in inconspicuously over his bulge with his left hand while he reached out with his right hand towards Nick, “Thanks for the rope lesson. It was interesting to learn about how to get someone tied up so well.”

“Anytime man, and don’t worry, I won’t hold ya to the bet”.

“I always honor my bets so I will come back and get me my second pair of boots soon” Chris replied.

The two shook hands again as Nick unlocked the door. They both walked to their trucks and gave each other a final nod before driving off into the night. Chris reflected while driving home on the events of the night and how much he enjoyed it. He pondered the implications of what this new form of pleasure he had found. The word “anytime” echoed in his head when he had thanked Nick for the rope lesson. He wondered if he meant it or if Nick was just being polite. The only thing that he knew for sure was that when he got home, he was going to use the memories of this experience for his personal pleasure time in the privacy of his bedroom.

[Chairtiedguy]

Great story! Enjoyed it very much.

[CowboyStud]

More please! Can’t wait for part 2

[stimle]

Wow! This was fantastic. I also can't wait for the next part!

[squirrel]

Great story! I hope Nick and Chris will play more such games!

[Bound Down]

This was great! I hope there's more!

[Bootmark]

Great story. Hoping there will be more.

[KidnappedCowboy]

Loved the story. Hope there is a Part Two. Maybe after Nick ties Chris up and gags him again, some unexpected visitors -- burglars perhaps -- drop by and Nick ends up hogtied alongside Chris!

[TightropesEU]

Love this story, has all the right elements: cowboys, boots, ropes and bandana gags. Hope he will go back to the store for more experiences.

[Igagmyself]

Loved this story, looking forward to read more.