History Project Gone Wrong (m/ffm)
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2024 2:45 am
History Project video gone wrong
This story happened while I was in the 9th grade and all of the participants were 15 at the time. It involves myself, my friend David, Gretchen and Katherine. Gretchen was a bigger girl with curly blonde hair and Katherine was short and petite with dirty blonde hair.
We had been assigned a video for our American history class and our video was to be about some of the events of World War one. I can’t remember the exact battle or topic now but I know we were reenacting a battle in my friend David’s back yard. He had a large house with acres of woods behind it so it was perfect for the video. We had a tripod with an old video camera and we had on old green fatigues and were carrying airsoft guns for the scenes we were acting out. We managed to get the video filmed somehow while fooling around in between takes with the guns. Once we had the video finished Katherine started threatening to shoot us if we didn’t surrender to them and hand over our weapons. David and I decided if they wanted to play that game then we would have a full on battle, boys vs girls. The rules were simple, once you got hit you were out and had to give up your weapon. We agreed to take the pistols and give them the rifles since we felt like we had and advantage. We decided we would go back up to the garage for our home base and they could have the tree house in the woods. When we got back to the garage, we blew a whistle and the games were on.
David and I decided that since we were faster than them we should split up and try to go around either side of them. If we got pinned down or managed to capture one or both we would blow a whistle and meet back up with the others. It didn’t take long of me creeping through the woods to come up behind the treehouse in the woods. I could see a barrel poking out of the treehouse window and could tell they didn’t know I was there yet, but didn’t know if one or both were in there. I decided to make a run for it and sprinted in the side door to find Gretchen by herself inside. I startled her and she yelled, “please don’t shoot me, I surrender!†She clearly didn’t want to be shot that close range and I didn’t blame her. I told her she had to come with me back to our base. I didn’t want to blow my whistle and give away my position to Katherine.
I marched her back through the woods the way I came until we got back to the garage. Gretchen told me she’d wait in the garage until Katherine got us both and the girls won. Yes you will I said, but I have to tie you up so you can’t escape and help her out. She promised she would wait patiently but I told her she shouldn’t have given up if she didn’t want to be prisoner. She reluctantly agreed and asked what I planned on doing. I looked around and saw some folding metal chairs in the corner. I unfolded one, sat it in the middle of the garage and told her to sit down. She sat and held her hands out to me, but I had other plans. I pulled her arms around the back of the chair and bound them behind her back with some rope i found coiled on the wall. I then tied each ankle to the chair leg. She wiggle a bit but it was clear she wasn’t getting out soon. I then told her she had to be gagged as well so she wouldn’t give away our position. I went to argue but just then I heard David’s whistle in the woods. “You’re lucky I said as I ran off towards the sound.â€
I got to the edge of the woodline and could hear the sound of airsoft guns shooting in the woods. I ran around the edge of where the noise was coming from and saw Katherine raining down bullets at David and he was stuck behind some smaller trees. I took aim and managed to hit Katherine from where I was hiding and she knew it was over. David and I grabbed her gun and began leading up to the garage to join her friend. As soon as we got to the doorway of the garage Gretchen said relieved and expressed that she was glad the game was over and she could be let go. Not so fast David replied, we won so you are our prisoners. He grabbed another chair from the corner and set it right next to Gretchen. “Sit,†he ordered Katherine, and to her credit she sat right down and crossed her wrists behind her, I then proceeded to tie her the same way I had tied Gretchen to the chair. Gretchen then asked what we were going to do to them now that we had them tied up. David and I hadn’t really thought that far ahead. We decided we should make a ransom video! So we set up the tripod aimed at them but then decided they needed to be gagged for it to be a true ransom video. I found roll of duct tape among the junk in the garage and put a strip over each of the girls mouths. It wasn’t effective but at least it looked the part. Just as we were about to start filming our part, David remarked that he had a better idea for the video. I realized he had picked my gun up that I set down and was now pointing it at me. He told me I was going to join in as a third prisoner. Secretly I wasn’t too upset about the turn of events so I feigned surrender and gave myself up to him. He had me lay on my stomach and proceeded to tie my arms behind my back and hogtie me in front of where the two girls were sitting. Finally he hanged me with the duct tape the same way they were. He then filmed a video while we all struggled to ham it up for the video. Once he had taken the video he ended up letting us all out and we laughed about the video. We even showed it as part of our bloopers at the end of the project and it was a hit. I wish I still had a copy of it but I do not.
This story happened while I was in the 9th grade and all of the participants were 15 at the time. It involves myself, my friend David, Gretchen and Katherine. Gretchen was a bigger girl with curly blonde hair and Katherine was short and petite with dirty blonde hair.
We had been assigned a video for our American history class and our video was to be about some of the events of World War one. I can’t remember the exact battle or topic now but I know we were reenacting a battle in my friend David’s back yard. He had a large house with acres of woods behind it so it was perfect for the video. We had a tripod with an old video camera and we had on old green fatigues and were carrying airsoft guns for the scenes we were acting out. We managed to get the video filmed somehow while fooling around in between takes with the guns. Once we had the video finished Katherine started threatening to shoot us if we didn’t surrender to them and hand over our weapons. David and I decided if they wanted to play that game then we would have a full on battle, boys vs girls. The rules were simple, once you got hit you were out and had to give up your weapon. We agreed to take the pistols and give them the rifles since we felt like we had and advantage. We decided we would go back up to the garage for our home base and they could have the tree house in the woods. When we got back to the garage, we blew a whistle and the games were on.
David and I decided that since we were faster than them we should split up and try to go around either side of them. If we got pinned down or managed to capture one or both we would blow a whistle and meet back up with the others. It didn’t take long of me creeping through the woods to come up behind the treehouse in the woods. I could see a barrel poking out of the treehouse window and could tell they didn’t know I was there yet, but didn’t know if one or both were in there. I decided to make a run for it and sprinted in the side door to find Gretchen by herself inside. I startled her and she yelled, “please don’t shoot me, I surrender!†She clearly didn’t want to be shot that close range and I didn’t blame her. I told her she had to come with me back to our base. I didn’t want to blow my whistle and give away my position to Katherine.
I marched her back through the woods the way I came until we got back to the garage. Gretchen told me she’d wait in the garage until Katherine got us both and the girls won. Yes you will I said, but I have to tie you up so you can’t escape and help her out. She promised she would wait patiently but I told her she shouldn’t have given up if she didn’t want to be prisoner. She reluctantly agreed and asked what I planned on doing. I looked around and saw some folding metal chairs in the corner. I unfolded one, sat it in the middle of the garage and told her to sit down. She sat and held her hands out to me, but I had other plans. I pulled her arms around the back of the chair and bound them behind her back with some rope i found coiled on the wall. I then tied each ankle to the chair leg. She wiggle a bit but it was clear she wasn’t getting out soon. I then told her she had to be gagged as well so she wouldn’t give away our position. I went to argue but just then I heard David’s whistle in the woods. “You’re lucky I said as I ran off towards the sound.â€
I got to the edge of the woodline and could hear the sound of airsoft guns shooting in the woods. I ran around the edge of where the noise was coming from and saw Katherine raining down bullets at David and he was stuck behind some smaller trees. I took aim and managed to hit Katherine from where I was hiding and she knew it was over. David and I grabbed her gun and began leading up to the garage to join her friend. As soon as we got to the doorway of the garage Gretchen said relieved and expressed that she was glad the game was over and she could be let go. Not so fast David replied, we won so you are our prisoners. He grabbed another chair from the corner and set it right next to Gretchen. “Sit,†he ordered Katherine, and to her credit she sat right down and crossed her wrists behind her, I then proceeded to tie her the same way I had tied Gretchen to the chair. Gretchen then asked what we were going to do to them now that we had them tied up. David and I hadn’t really thought that far ahead. We decided we should make a ransom video! So we set up the tripod aimed at them but then decided they needed to be gagged for it to be a true ransom video. I found roll of duct tape among the junk in the garage and put a strip over each of the girls mouths. It wasn’t effective but at least it looked the part. Just as we were about to start filming our part, David remarked that he had a better idea for the video. I realized he had picked my gun up that I set down and was now pointing it at me. He told me I was going to join in as a third prisoner. Secretly I wasn’t too upset about the turn of events so I feigned surrender and gave myself up to him. He had me lay on my stomach and proceeded to tie my arms behind my back and hogtie me in front of where the two girls were sitting. Finally he hanged me with the duct tape the same way they were. He then filmed a video while we all struggled to ham it up for the video. Once he had taken the video he ended up letting us all out and we laughed about the video. We even showed it as part of our bloopers at the end of the project and it was a hit. I wish I still had a copy of it but I do not.