Yes.

Friday, July 3rd.

The next day.

Celine was already seated, eating breakfast on the couch when Madelynn emerged from her room, she was wearing the same outfit as last night. Madelynn grabbed some breakfast as well and joined Celine on the couch. Celine waited for an opportune moment to spring the question about last night on her friend. But Madelynn was silently eating, avoiding Celine's gaze.

"So Maddy, are you happy with the decoration of the place?" Celine started the conversation.

-"Yea, I'm really happy we got lucky enough to get this room too!" she replied, her demeanor went from 'just woken up' to 'energetic and gleeful' after she had eaten a little.

"Yea we're so lucky. People would commit **** for this place I'm sure!"

-"We better watch out then" Madelynn joked.

"Eating cereal now is such a disappointment compared to the amazing pizza we had last night, don't you think?" Celine started fishing for a moment again.

-"Damn, that is the understatement of the week Celine" she replied, letting out a soft snicker.

-"The milk doesn't match up to the wine we had later, either."

This was it. This was the moment Celine was waiting, and kind of fishing for. "The one we had during the movie?" she asked.

-"Yea, that was a great wine!"

"Speaking of...."

Madelynn became instantly flushed when she realized she brought up the movie, and thought back about the embarrassing moment they shared. She feared what would come next.

"What is your take on bondage?" Celine asked. Catching Madelynn completely by surprise. Celine wasn't planning on asking that question. She was going to ask her something along the lines of "so what happened last night", but before she said it, she realized that such a question would make it sound like it was a big deal. Which it wasn't. So instead of making it a big deal she would just go straight for what she was thinking.

Madelynn stammered a bit in her reply "Uhm... I-i don't know. I haven't r-really tried it or whatever. Why do you ask?"

"Well, last night with the girl from the movie tied up, it got me intrigued. wondered about it in bed and wanted to know your take on it." Celine said.

-"Well, like I said, I haven't tried it so I don't know."

"Alright, but what do you think about it? You can have thoughts about it even when you haven't tried it, right?" Celine pressed on.

-"I mean... sure. It seems interesting I guess? Don't judge till you try and such" Madelynn replied, catching on to what Celine was doing.

-"Why, you want to try getting tied up?" Madelynn asked before Celine could say anything.

This time it was Celine's turn to get flushed.

"Maybe. Some time. What about you?"

-"I don't know."

"Your reaction to the movie last night says something else Maddy. Last night it seemed like it interested you a lot"

Madelynn's heart went nuts. The truth is, Madelynn had been interested in bondage ever since she was small. She used to play cops and robbers with the other kids in the area a lot. Usually she'd volunteer to be on the robber's team, and then proceed to get herself captured. She would then spend most of the remainder of the match handcuffed to a random street light with those cheap, plastic handcuffs kids used to play with. Merely pulling on them would have broken the plastic, but the thought of it had always excited her.

-"Alright. Damn it."

Celine looks questioning at her.

-"Yes. It interests me. A lot. I have been wanting to try it ever since I was young. Remember cops and robbers, years ago? I have been wanting to getting tied up for real ever since then, not the plastic handcuffs that didn't even restrain anyone."

"I see" Celine replied. "Hey, Madelynn..." Celine almost never uses Madelynn's entire name when talking, only when she's being serious. "We've been best friends since like... 10 years ago, right?" Celine asked.

-"Yes, of course we have. What's up?"

"Well... Last night, after... you know... I was thinking" she paused for a moment. As if she just convinced herself to keep going. "Maybe... we could try? You know, have a go tying each other up?" Even though she was confident when she started the conversation Celine had trouble uttering the last words.

-"Y-you... you would do that?"

"Yes I'd do that, if you want to."

-"I-I'm not sure Celine, isn't it weird? I haven't ever told this to anyone because I thought it's weird. For psycho's or-"

"It's not weird" Celine interrupted her.

-"I-It isn't?" Madelynn replied. Her face was bright red.

"Of course not. We're best friends. We can share these things with each other. You can say anything to me, Madelynn." Celine reassured her. "Do you want to give it a go?"

-"Y-yes." was Madelynn's stuttering answer.

"Alright. Do you want to plan for it, or just go at it some time?"

-"Let's plan it. So we both can't just pretend to forget."

"Damn, Maddy, you really want this huh?" Celine joked.

-"Oh screw you." Madelynn replied, but let out a little, albeit nervous, laugh.

"Haha, take it easy Maddy. Let's do it tonight?"

-"Sure sounds good."

"You want to take things easy? Or rather go all in? Either way, I need to do some research."