BANG! 
 The front door violently slammed shut: Marian muttered some cursewords as she stomped into the living room, even moodier than usual.
 Grumbling, the tech-savvy teenager let herself fall on the sofa. “Thank god mom isn’t back yet. Could definitely not do with her questions right now. Not after this disaster of a day.”
 She wasn’t actually home alone, however.
 From upstairs came a young teenaged girl with black hair, an equally black tail sprouting from her waist, cat-ears and a perky smile: Miriam, a Japanese-built android assistant, close companion to Marian and her best, perhaps only friend.
She still hadn’t quite figured out why, but Marian found everything seemed a bit brighter whenever the cat-droid was in the room.
 “Hey Marian!”, she greeted her friend, “watcha frowning for today?”

 “Oh hey, Mir.”, Marian grumbled back. “Just… a bad day. Some lazy jerks at school letting me do all the work and then they’re probably going to try and hog all the credit as well.”
 The computer prodigy sighed and turned towards her faithful companion. “So, y’know, nothing new there…”
 Miriam hopped onto the couch, her tail wiggling in excitement and a suitably big grin on her face. “I know what’ll cheer you up! Come along!”
 Before Marian had any chance to protest, she was already being dragged off by her feline friend to her bedroom, where an assortment of ropes and bandanas were neatly arranged on the bed.
 Clearly, Miriam had already made plans for the afternoon.

 She cheerfully plopped onto the bed and kept grinning at Marian with that typical cat-smile. “Well? Don’tcha wanna play?”
 Marian sighed deeply. She noticed she’d been doing that an awful lot today. “Miriam, please. I really don’t feel like... doing anything, really. Can’t I tie you up some other day?”
 The cat-droids cheerful disposition instantly dropped to a sad frown, with the most heart-wrenching little whimper to hit the change in attitude home. “Oh… Okay then. I get it, you’ve got work to do. I’ll just go clean up the lab then.”
 The feline stood up and was just about to leave the room when Marian gave in. “Fine. You win. Just a very quick game, okay? “
 She was trying to keep up her gruff appearance, but the hints of a smile may have slipped through.
Miriam immediately perked up and practically skipped back to give her friend a warm, tight hug. “You’re just the best, you know that, Marian?”
 “Don’t mention it.” Marian picked up a long piece of rope from the bed. “Just sit down on the bed and cross your wrists.”
 The catgirl jumped back onto the bed and folded her arms behind her back, smiling in anticipation as she waited for her friend to begin the game.

 Marian started by wrapping the first rope around Miriam’s folded underarms, cinching them in the middle, but leaving to long ends hanging from the knot. 
 She then brought those ends to the front and looped them around the catgirl’s waist a few times.
Miriam gasped as her best friend yanked the ropes painfully tight. “Ouch! Hey, take it easy!”
 Startled by the cat-droids yelp, the young computer genius immediately let go of the ropes, seemingly having been lost in her own thoughts.
 “Oops! You okay, Miriam?” The catgirl nodded. ”Sorry, Mir. I guess I’m still mad at those jerks from school. I’m sorry, I shouldn’t be taking it out on you.”
  She loosened the ropes to make her captive a bit more comfortable.
 “It’s okay.”  Miriam reassured her. 
 “But you should really be enjoying our game. Staying angry at some stupid people who you won’t even see until after the weekend will only ruin your day!”

 Even the moody teenager couldn’t help but smile at her friends boundless optimism as she continued to wrap ropes around Miriam’s chest, going above, below and even between her breasts, as well as cinching the bindings between her arms and torso, securely pinning her arms to her sides.
 “There, how’s that?” Marian actually started to enjoy herself.
 Squirming to test her ropes, Miriam found that her arms were of no use in helping her escape.
 “Much better!” She answered.  “But Marian…” the catgirl swung her legs back and forth with a look of feigned innocence. “Aren’t you afraid I’m gonna run away?”
 Picking more rope from the bed and kneeling before the catgirl’s dangling legs, she couldn’t help but chuckle a bit. ”Maybe I am, but let’s fix that, shall we?”
 A short time later, Miriam’s legs were bound at the ankles, calves, above and below her knees, thighs and there even was rope wrapped around her feet.  “Good job, Marian! I’m sure I won’t go anywhere now! And see, you’re even smiling about it!”
 Marian smirked. “Okay, that’s enough outta you. Time to shut you up.”
 
 Having grabbed one of the bandanas from the bed, Marian folded it into a tight wad and brought the cloth towards Miriams face. “Open wide, Mir!”
 The catgirl neatly complied and patiently waited for her friend to work the cloth into her mouth.  “Aaahhh-Mmmph!!”  Marian repeated the process with a second bandana, before folding a third one into a band and tying it over the android’s stuffed mouth.
 Miriam playfully screamed into her gag to test its effectiveness. “Mmmmff! Mmm-mmhh!” She smiled in satisfaction.
 But Marian was far from done. “That’s indeed a big improvement, Miriam, but I’m going to need  absolute silence to concentrate on my work!“
 The catgirl nodded in agreement and gleefully watched her friend fold another bandana and giggled as she pulled it snugly over her face, covering her mouth and nose, followed by one last cloth tied tightly over her mouth, muffling her quite a bit.
 “Mmmh?” Miriam looked at her friend, who returned her questioning look with a satisfied smirk. “Oh yeah, much better. Now, let’s make absolutely sure you don’t get in my way while I work.”

 The android let out a yelp of surprise as her best friend hoisted her legs up on the bed and gently rolled her over, so she was laying on her stomach. “Mmm-mph-mmmhmm?”
 Marian chuckled as she grabbed another length of rope. “Oh, nothing much, just dealing with those bothersome squirming legs of yours.” 
 She teasingly ran her fingers over the bare feet of her captive and was met with muffled giggles and shrieks as the catdroid squirmed in her bonds. “Mmmmn! Mmph!”
 “See?” The tech-savvy teenager had definitely gotten into her role as captor. “I can’t have you kicking about like that.”
 Marian continued her exposition as she anchored one end of the rope to the bindings around Miriam’s ankles. “So that’s why…” She lifted the catgirl’s legs and brought the loose end of rope towards her bound arms. “…I need to tie them down, so you won’t…” she knotted ropes together, securing the android in a tight hogtie. “…distract me.”
 Marian wiped the sweat of her forehead and sat down next to her bound pal, admiring her handiwork. “There, that should do it!”

 The youthful computer-genius smiled as she watched her trussed-up friend get comfortable on the bed. “Y’know, perhaps I should take a small break from all this hard work.”
 She lay down next to the catgirl and wrapped her arms around her. “I’ll guess homework can wait until after dinner.”
 Miriam purred with delight as she snuggled up with her companion. Marian chuckled. “Perhaps I’ll let you stay like this for the entire night, if you promise to be a good girl while I’m working.”
 The catdroid mumbled some grateful words into the bandanas tied snugly over her face. 
 “You’re welcome, Miriam.”  Marian replied as she embraced her friend a bit tighter. 
 “You’re always welcome.”


Credits:

Story by Rutgerman95/The Awesome Autist (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/rutgerman95/)

Special thanks to Oz-Suka(http://oz-suka.deviantart.com/) for letting me write a story with his amazing characters. You rock, dude.

The characters of Marian and Miriam are owned by Oz-Suka and borrowed with his permission