Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 19:56:39, -0500 From: MR NICHOLAS ROMANOV Subject: Go West Young Man 5 Part 5 Chapter 15 David pulled Tom and I aside and said "Oh well, I tried. I just hope you can deal with this." I told him that I did not have any choice now. He explained that since we had eaten the deer nuts that had cooked in the aphrodisiac that it was going to affect us first, but we needed to hold off until the cleansing was finished. He said that this should not be hard because we had not had a full dose. Then he led us to the fire. Gray Fox chanted "Now let the cleansing continue." David walked over to me and told me that I had asked for this. He turned around and bent over and grabbed his ankles. The youths began to dance around the fire. I was shocked that even Tom had joined in to the dancing. I looked at David's hairy ass hole and knew what I was expected to do. I looked down at my hard cock and noticed that it was bigger than it had ever been before. I pointed it at the pucker and drove in to the hilt in one plunge. David gave out a warhoop and said "Shit I was not ready for this, get it over with quick." The youths began dancing around us. I noticed that Tom's cock was bigger than I had ever seen it also. It must have something to do with the potion. I began to piss. I had never felt so full in my life. I knew this was going to be a long piss and it was not going to be over as quick as David wanted. David began to moan and said he did not think he could take any more. I grabbed his hips to keep him from pulling off and continued to piss. The Indian began to rub his stomach and he groaned more. Soon I felt the last of my bladder empty into the depths of his ass. When David stood up I could see that his stomach was extended. He told me it was now my turn to bend over. I did and surprising it was one of the twins that walked up behind me. Without any foreplay or lubricant he worked his hard erection into my bowels. Then I felt the rush of the hot searing liquid begin to fill my ass. Gray Fox also rubbed my stomach as it began to extend. I did not think I could take anymore when the flow cut off. When I stood up, Tom said I looked like I was pregnant. I spat at him. The twin bent over and his identical brother entered him and started to fill him with his hot piss. It was the hottest thing I had ever seen. When the next twin bent over I saw Gray Fox move behind him. Soon he was also full of piss. By this time I told David that I needed to piss again. He said hold it for the next cleansing. He said that he could not take any more right then. Next Tom moved behind the Indian and shoved his blood engorged projectile deep in the Indians hot looking ass. When he was finished the Indian was groaning. Then it was Tom's turn. David looked at me and said that he guessed it was up to him. He slowly worked his huge meat up Tom's rectum and filled him with hot piss. I figured that now we would each go into the bushes and relieve ourselves, but soon found out that was not the way it worked. We all had to dance around the fire five times and then we danced down to the brook being led by Gray Fox and through the cold water to the other side. We stood in a circle with our arms draped over the person's shoulders on each side of us. We squatted there and began to unload. This was the most awesome thing I had ever experienced in my life. We all had very erect cocks and as the piss and shit began to gush from our ass holes the piss started to pour from our erect cocks spraying the person or persons in front of us. I was embarrassed to empty my bowls in front of five other men, but it was so erotic that I wanted to get down and watch the piss and shit pour from their asses. We returned to the fire and David told me that we would now begin again. I was surprised that I still needed to piss. Gray Fox got two large buckets from the wagon and filled them with water and added more of the powder and mixed it in with the ladle. He gave each of us more drinks. David said this was necessary for the whole night or we would loose too much of our body fluids. He said that by now our piss would not be much stronger than the water we took in. He also said that our fluids could be kept flowing by recycling the piss, which I would see a lot of before dawn. This time David told me to bend over and he inserted his huge fuck pole up my ass and filled me again with hot piss. I in turn pissed up the ass of the blond that had I had filled me earlier, he his brother then the brother, Gray Fox and the Indian filled Tom. Then Tom pissed up David's hot bung hole. I was so horny that I thought I would burst. I needed to shit, piss and cum all at the same time. My cock was still swelling larger than it had ever been before. It just seemed to be getting bigger, I noticed that Tom's was also. I commented to David about this and the told me that I had not seen nothing yet, and to wait until we used the potion. After each of us had our gut full of someone else's piss we danced again around the fire. Gray Fox again led us to the other side of the stream. This time we knelt in a circle with our asses toward the center. Our buns almost touched. It was strange to feel the forceful expulsion of every body spraying the others asses. I tried to see between my legs to watch the hot spray come from each ass. David who was beside me saw how hot I was getting and that I was trying to see. He said for me not to worry that I was going to see plenty the next time. We returned to the fire and again Gary Fox gave each of us drinks. I did not need it though because I was again full of piss. We again proceeded to fill each others gut with a hot liquid piss enema. But this time we did not go to the other side of the brook. Gray fox took six small round clay marbles and showed them to each of us. There were two white ones, two gray, and two black. He put them into a small pouch and mixed them up. Each one of us reached into the pouch and took one marble. I drew a black one, so did David. The white went to one of the twins and Tom. The gray to the other twin and Gray Fox. David told me and Tom that at this stage we could piss any time we needed to let go. He did advise that we keep drinking water though. Gray Fox lay on the ground and the twin with the other gray ball squatted over his face. The Indian began pissing in the air like a fountain and the twin emptied his gut in his face. When the twin was empty Gray Fox began to lick his ass. Then David told me to lay on my back. He squatted over my face and told me to signal when I was ready by pissing. I let fly and received a face full of hot piss from David's shit hole. Then something happened that I was not expected. When my cock stopped pissing, I had one of the most incredible climaxes of my life. My cum shot about six feet in the air and it caught David right in the face. David looked at me and asked me how I had handled that. I said fine that I thought it was fantastic, but I was a little disappointed. He asked in what way. I said I was surprised that there were no solids, just piss. He said if that was going to be one of my fantasies he probably would be able to supply before dawn. I remembered the large meal that he had eaten and realized that it had not entered his intestines yet. I just smiled. He lay on the ground and told me it was now my turn. I was thankful, because I did not know how much longer I was going to be able to hold back the churning load of piss up my ass. He reminded me not to begin the flow until he signaled by pissing. I squatted over his face and he told me to lower myself. I got lower and soon felt his tongue begin to lap at my hole. I thought I could not stand it any more. I said to him. "Piss, you mother fucker." I felt him raise his head and felt his tongue try to penetrate my hot shute. He placed his lips around my hole and began to suck. I did not think I could hold out any longer. He kept sucking my hole and pressing into it with his hot tongue. I could feel his beard scratching the insides of my crack. All of a sudden he let fly with a stream of hot piss into the air. I let go and he continued to suck and swallow. As my rectum opened up to let out the confined load I felt his tongue enter me completely. He tried to swallow all of the hot piss that was rushing out of my ass. I began to piss again and when I stopped I reached my second climax of the evening. I got up and stretched, David slapped me on the ass and told me that maybe he had been completely wrong about me. He did not think I would get this far with out freaking out. He got us both more water. I saw that all the guys were now soaked with piss. I saw that the piss kept flowing. No matter what was going on or what the person was doing, if he had to go he just went. Some of the piss went into the fire and landed with a hissing sound. I saw that the twins and Tom were coming back from around the cabin each with a stack of wood for the fire. Each one was pissing as they walked. I was really turned on. I was afraid to touch my self. I had already came twice and with out anyone or anything stimulating my cock except the erotic happenings around me. I reached down and took my cock in my fist and was amazed that my fingers barely reached around it. I had never had an erection this intense before. Tom's cock had swollen to almost twice it's normal hard size and I could tell that he was not even fully erect. David was standing about three feet from me and all of a sudden he started to piss. I quickly knelt in front of him and started drinking from the fleshy spigot. The twins both began to clap their hands. They knew that now each of us had been used as David private urinal. We sat around the fire on the piss soaked ground. Every now and then one or more would just let fly with a hot stream of piss. David sat on my left and Tom on my right. I looked down at Tom's cock. I reached over and felt it. God, how it had grown. Tom asked me if I had ever seen any thing like it before. I told him only the one between my own legs. David leaned over toward us and said that the potion would now be handed out. Each person would be given a drink and some of the mushrooms to eat, then that person would be allowed to rub some of the potion on any part of anyone else's body. He said that if any person had a fantasy about another person he would rub that person with the potion. The area of the persons body to receive the potion would indicate what the fantasy the first guy had about the other. For an example if David wanted one of the twins to fuck him, he would rub the potion on the twins ass. If he wanted to fuck he would rub it on the twins cock. He asked us if we understood. I nodded yes. He said we had better be thinking about our fantasies about the other guys and to make sure we were sure because those fantasies would be fulfilled before dawn. He said that when each guy had had his turn, Gray Fox would rub everyone's cock, balls, ass, tits, and face with the potion. Then each would take turns drinking of the potion until it was all consumed. He said then we would have a half hour to relax and to feel the potion take effect. Chapter 16 Gray Fox went over to one of the twins and gave him a drink, he then scooped out some of the mushrooms and shoved them in to the blondes mouth. The twin then dipped his hand into the pot and rubbed it into the Indian's ass. He then dipped in again and came over to me and rubbed it in my face. Then he went to Tom and rubbed some onto his cock. He then sat down. Gray Fox then went over to David and gave him a drink. He also gave him some of the mushrooms. David then dipped his hand into the liquid he moved to me and rubbed it on my mouth, cock, balls and then my tits. He told me to stand up and then he lubbed up my ass with the stuff. When I sat down he did the same to Tom, Mark, Mike, and Gray Fox. When he returned to me he gave me a wicked smile and told me he had a vivid imagination. When it was my turn, I swallowed a good gulp of the liquid and chewed and ate the mushrooms. I then took some of the liquid and told David to stand up and bend over. I rubbed it all over his ass. He said to me. "Boy are you asking for it." I then went to the twins and rubbed it on ones cock and the others ass. Then I took a large amount and walked over to Tom. I rubbed it all over his body and paid special attention to his pierced tits. He just looked at me with a question on his face. I told him that he would see. I went to Gray Fox and rubbed more into his ass, cock, balls and face as well as his nipples. When I sat back down, David said. "I take it all back, your not only ready you are begging for it. And I see you have a pretty good imagination also. I think I know what you have in mind." When it came to Tom's turn, he covered my body from head to toe. He even rubbed it into my feet and on my hands. The other twin took his turn and massaged it into my ass, Toms crotch, all over David and Gray Fox's cock. Then it was the Indian's turn and he drank, ate and then rubbed it all over one twins right hand and the others left hand. When he was finished he began to chant. When the chanting was finished he then made his rounds and covered each persons body with the potion. He then passed the pot around and we each drank until it was empty. David lay back and stretched. Each one of us did the same. David said we should relax that very soon this would be the only rest we would get to dawn. I could feel a warmth all over my body, both inside and out. I looked at my cock and could not believe the size it had become. I looked around and observed each persons genitals and saw that they had expanded also. David's hard cock had reached over a foot long and was bigger around than my fist. I leaned over him and kissed him on the mouth and reached down to feel that enormous pendage and felt him spray hot cum into the air before I even touched him. As soon as the cum hit my arm and chest I also unloaded for the third time. I looked over at Tom and saw a large puddle of cum laying all over his chest, stomach and face. He said that he could not help it he came automatically when he saw us shoot. David asked me if I was trying to beat his record. I can not explain the feelings that took over my body in the next half hour. I was insatiably horny. I could not believe that I had already cum three times and never had my cock gone limp. I kept pissing and let it fly where ever. When it touched my flesh it was intense. I was soaked in piss. My balls ached and wanted attention. I wanted some one to work them over and make me feel it. My ass became a wanton hole that needed filled, the bigger the better. Then there were my nipples they were hard and protruding from my chest. When I would touch them my cock would twitch and my ass would start to tighten. I was so fucking horny, I would do or let any one do anything to me. I looked over at Tom. Here lay the young man that I was in love with writhing on the ground in sexual ecstasy. His hard enlarged cock pissing and once I saw as he rubbed his tits that he came. David insisted that we all drink more water. I told him I did not want water, I wanted piss. He called all of the others over and they began pissing in my face and I began to drink. Gray Fox led us to the other side of the fire. This area he had prepared before the ceremony began. There were two trees about four feet apart. On the ground in front of them were various items that he had gathered. There were ropes, large club like items that had been carved out of wood. There was soap a pair of shears and a straight razor. There were several horse shoes from Tom's supplies. There also were several pieces of rawhide. David explained that before we begin that what was on the blanket would be the only foreign items besides our body that would be allowed in the fantasies. But, he said that we could add anything that we thought we might want before we began. Tom went to the wagon and brought back the bellows that he had used on me before. One of the twins asked Tom if he could get the bucket of axle grease and brought it back. I knew what I wanted to add and I knew where to find it. I had remembered when we had crossed the brook there was a thorn apple tree. I waded through the cold water and broke off a small limb and carried it back and placed it on the blanket. Gray Fox asked if there was any thing else. We all looked at each other. No one moved. David said then that we could start. I had noticed while we were relaxing and I was watching the night sky that storm clouds were moving in and that the wind had picked up. This for some reason made the atmosphere more intense. About the time David made the announcement that we could begin, the rain started. It was a warm early summer rain. I could see lightning off in the distance. The rain felt good on my body and made my desires all the more intense. Gray Fox took two long pieces of rope and bound each twins hands in front of them with one of them. David I saw had picked up two large four foot poles that had rope tied to each end attached through holes that had been drilled into the poles. Each twins feet were spread apart and the poles tied between them. This was so hot I knew that I was ready to cum, so I pissed instead to slow down my climaxes. I saw that Tom had retrieved six of the horse shoes, and tied three of them to a piece of rawhide. Then he repeated this with the other three. He walked over to the twins and tied the rawhide to their nuts and let the horseshoes drop pulling their nuts down. David walked over and started the weighted balls to swing back and forth between the two youths legs. Immediately great torrents of cum shot through the air from this pair of identical cocks. Gray Fox threw the ropes over two tree limbs overhead. He and David each took a rope and began to stretch the arms of each twin over their heads. They continued to pull until each twin swung free of the ground. Their feet were about two foot off the ground with their hard erections at eye level. I walked over to one of them and started to put his cock in my mouth. David stopped me and told me not yet. The Indian got the bucket of grease and took two large hands full and began rubbing his hands together and rubbing it all over his fore arms. He stood between the youths and with each hand began working his fingers in their ass. Each started to squirm and yell then piss and as they did their bodes started to swing. David told Tom to go to one of the twins and take his cock in his mouth and hold him steady. David did the same with the other. Each twin was rolling his head and groaning. I could not see from the front how much of the Indians hand was in each ass. I move over where I could watch closely. I saw that each hand was now buried in the fuck hole of each twin up to the wrists. I watched as he pumped his hand in and out going deeper each time. Gray Fox began to piss and it hit me in the groin as I was rubbing his tits and chest. I fell to my knees and took his large prick down my throat. He immediately filled it with a large load of his fuck juice. I looked up and saw that he had his fists so far up the butt of each twin that they no longer were swinging on the rope but were resting on his strong up thrust arms. He again filled my mouth with another hot load of his cum and slowly pulled his fists out of the twins asses. As he finally pulled out I heard a plop. The rain continued to fall on our naked bodies. We lowered the twins and untied them. The Indian removed the horse shoes. Then David produced the bar of soap and all three went to the brook to wash off the grease. David asked me if I enjoyed that and I just looked at him and smiled. I told him I wondered what it would feel like. He said that I might find out before the night was over. I was so hot that I could barely stand it. I drank some water and began to piss again. David asked Tom how many times his twin had cum. Tom said six loads of sperm and three of hot piss. David said that was remarkable his did the same. This talk made me hotter. I fell to my knees in front of David and swallowed his hard fuck pole. I had problems taking it all in but was determined and soon learned that to open my throat and let it push down into my gullet. Tom knelt behind me and with one thrust drove his cock up my ass. I began to cum immediately, not once, not twice but four times. Tom roughly abused my hole. Then he pulled out as quick as he had shoved it in lay on his back and told me to turn around and clean my shit from his prick. As soon as I swallowed his cock I felt David begin an assault on my hole with his swollen cock. I imagined the scene that had gone on before and wondered if the Indian's fist could be much bigger than David's cock. The other three returned and as I knelt sucking Tom and getting polished up the ass by David. They began to piss on me. I then felt Tom start pissing down my throat and David let go and filled my ass. Then they both pulled out of me and grabbed me and led me between the two trees. David tied me spread eagle between the trees. I saw Tom get all six of the horse shoes and tie them to my balls. He told me that now maybe my nuts would hang as low as David's. David took a piece of rawhide and stretched out my foreskin and tied it tight with the leather. I now could not release either my cum or piss. Then David moved behind me and I felt his cock enter my ass. I came and it filled my foreskin but never went any further. I watched Tom go over to the blanket and retrieve a kerchief. He placed this around my eyes and blindfolded me. I could no longer see who was doing what to me. With out the sense of sight my other senses began to compensate. I could not tell whose hands were on me or whose piss was striking my body. My nuts began to hurt and this even turned me on. I came again stretching my foreskin. I needed to piss and was trying to hold back but this was hard with David thrusting in and out of my ass. I then felt some one playing with my tits. They were hard. The playing got rougher and rougher. I could feel the pain run down into my ball sack. Some one was chewing now on each of my nipples and biting hard. Then all of a sudden David yanked my blindfold off and said I might want to watch what was next. It was the twins that were working on my tits. I saw Tom standing there with his hands behind his back. He walked over to me and kissed me and told me he loved me. I felt David still in my back door. He had pissed again and I knew he had cum a couple of times, and I could feel the mixed hot fluids running down my legs. Tom told Gray Fox to stretch my right nipple away from my body. Then I saw what he had in his hands. He was about to fulfill my fantasy. He had a long thorn and as the Indian pulled out on my nipple he pierced my chest right behind it. I came again. Then they repeated it with the other tit and this time I started to piss. I looked down at my pierced chest and saw my foreskin balloon out. It was incredible. David pulled out of my ass and I let fly with his piss and cum. He came around in front of me and knelt and began to lick around my swollen foreskin. I came again. By this time the pain was so intense I thought I would faint. He pulled on the knot that was restricting my piss hole and it came loose and all my cum and piss hit him in the face. They untied me and we all sat down on the blanket and we drank more water. I was exhausted but still horny as hell and wanted more. David told me to relax and examined my nipples. He seemed to be satisfied with the job. I told him to shut up and roll over on his stomach. I mounted his back and shoved my cock up his ass. I pissed and then came but still kept up my assault. Tom buried his face in my ass and began to eat me out. I felt his tongue fucking my loose hole. He had my balls in one hand and could tell that he had David's in the other. He was squeezing and the more it hurt the more I fucked David. He spread my legs and began to pump his cock up my ass. We both rolled off of David and he positioned us with out crotches together one leg over the other. Our throbbing cocks were touching and he wrapped his hands around them both and started to jerk us off. He jumped up and told us not to move. He came back with another piece of rawhide and tied our cocks together at the base. Then he squatted over us and sat on both of our stiff pricks at the same time. I could feel Toms cock lined up with mine in David's hot hole. He began to rise and fall on our cocks and soon Tom and I were able to synchronize our selves so that we were thrusting up into his hot ass. I came again and then pissed. I could feel that Tom was doing the same. It ran out around our cocks and soaked our crotches. The storm has intensified. There were lightning flashes and loud claps of thunder. The rain was heavier and beat on our skin. We all felt it because of the increase in our senses due to the potion. This in it's self became a part of the total fantasies. Under normal circumstances we would all have been seeking shelter from this storm. Instead we let the storm become part of our being. The twins kept feeding the fire to keep it going not as much for heat as light. I noticed that the small brook was now a raging stream. But the orgy continued. Chapter 17 The twins and Gray Fox joined us as David continued sitting on both our cocks. I had briefly wondered what they had been up to doing for we had not seen them for a half hour. I looked up and immediately saw that all three had had their nipples pierced by thorns. They grabbed David by his arms and pulled him off of our dicks and led him away. I took both my and Tom's cocks in my fist and started to beat them. Soon we both were cumming again. I had no idea how many times I had shot a load. I was still horny, I just could not seem to get satisfied. As soon as I came, the desire was back. I wanted sex. I wanted it to be as rough and raunchy as it could be. Tom reached down and untied our cocks and we joined the others on the other side of the fire. The rain was heavier than before. As the lightning kept lighting up the night sky and the thunder kept roaring it seemed to reach down into my groin and make me want sex. I saw that the twins and Gray Fox had tied David between the two trees. He looked like a hairy wild animal that had been captured as he strained against the ropes that held him in place. He called me over to him and asked me if I liked his hairy ass. I told that it was fantastic and I desired every thing he had and I began to pull on his hairy ball sack stretching it further than it normally hung. He told me to grease up my hand and fuck him with it. I told him that I did not want the grease on my hand and that I would lube him with a hot load of cum. I went behind and lunged my throbbing cock up his ass and then I filled him with a load of my sex juices. Then I knelt and began probing his hot hairy hole with my fingers. He squirmed and I slowly inserted each finger then added another. God, was this hot. I now had all four fingers and thumb up his hole and kept pressing. He screamed to add lube that he could not take it dry. I told him to shut up and take it like a man should. I saw Tom kneel infront of him and take his cock in his mouth. The Indian sat between Tom's legs and reached up and took both of David's balls in his mouth as I continued to assault his ass with my fist. I was still having trouble stretching his hole enough to get my whole hand inside of his hot gut. The twins came over and began torturing his nipples. The must have got pretty rough because David started screaming and trying to get loose from his bindings. All of his twisting and pulling just made the scene hotter and all of a sudden I felt his sphincter relax and my hand slipped in above my wrist. I could feel him spasm around my arm and knew that he was delivering another hot load of fuck juice down Tom's throat. David just hung there loosely supported by my fist and hanging from the ropes securing his arms. I slowly pulled out of his ass and he began to shit. Finally I watched as the heavy meal he had eaten the evening before was expelled from his ass. My hand was a mess and I went down to the stream and washed it clean. When I returned I saw that the other youths were taking turn fucking his shitty ass. Actually they were filling his gut with hot piss to clean him out. I went over to David and asked him if he was OK. He said, "I am just fine, and hope you enjoyed my hairy ass, because you won't get a chance for a long time. Get behind me and piss in me to clean me out." When I stuck my fuck pole up his ass I was amazed that he was tight and was holding the piss of the others in. I let loose with a load of piss that mixed with the other four loads and when I pulled out he held that also. I went around to the front of him and smiled. He said to me "You want it don't you?" I nodded. He also asked me if I had any idea what the guys had in mind next. I told him that I didn't. He told me that they were going to shave him. I asked him if he wanted me to stop them and he said, "No. I want it. They do it every Spring, but if you want to taste my hairy ass you better do it now because it ain't going to be hairy much longer. The other four had returned from the brook where they had cleaned David's shit from their groins. I saw them take the bar of soap and begin to lather David's head, face chest and body. I went behind him knowing that he was still full of piss and began to lick his ass cheeks. I spread them and looked at the hairy hole and knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to stick my tongue up his ass and knew that when I did he would let fly with all of the liquids that were entrapped behind that hole. I knelt and looked down and saw the shit pile laying there that had earlier came from his ass. I scooped up some in my hand and as I began my oral assault on his ass I began masturbating with his shit. He let fly with the piss enema and it hit me in the face and ran down my body and I came again. I was covered from head to toe with his shit and all the piss from all five of us. I walked around in front of him and David laughed and told me that I had wanted it now I had it. I went to the raging brook and jumped in and let the rapid swirling waters clean my body. When I climbed out I was tired and for the first time in the evening I was feeling sexually exhausted. I sat down near the fire and let the heat be absorbed by my body. Tom, came over and sat beside me and leaned over and put his head on my shoulder. I watched as Gray Fox took the shears and cut David's hair from his head and also his beard. The twins were continuing to lather his body with the soap. One worked on his front and the other on his back side. We just sat and watched the slow procedure. When his hair was clipped short Gray Fox began shaving his head and face. He continued down his chest, under his arms and stomach. He went behind him and shaved his back and I could tell he was also shaving his ass crack and cheeks. Then he shaved his legs clear to the top of his feet. The rain was washing the soap off as fast as the twins could apply it. Soon David hung there and the only hair left on his body was around his cock and balls. One of the twins stretched out his cock and the other his balls as Gray Fox began to work on his pubes. He checked him all over and made sure that there were no hair left. David did not even look like the same person. He no longer looked like a wild hairy beast. In fact he now reminded me more of a plucked chicken. But the sexual atmosphere that he always had was still there. He looked different but he still looked hot. When the three were satisfied with their work they untied him and we all went to the brook and dove in. Tom had the soap and we lathered each other up and cleansed away the filth of the nights activities. We then all headed for the cabin as I could now see dawn approach. I built a fire and made tea and then we all fell exhausted on to the blankets and were soon asleep. I could still hear the rain beating on the roof. I felt for the first time that I was now a man. My boyhood was gone, but I was a free man. Tom curled up and snuggled close to me and I wrapped my arms around him and knew then that I loved him and wanted him to spend the rest of his life with me.