Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:32:04 +0200 From: mushu410@mail.com Subject: Dougie's Visit Chapter 2 (Revised) Dougie's Visit Chapter 2 A Thousand Kisses Having given my new little 10-year-old houseguest a very thorough and erotically intense bath, I had put him to bed and was reading in my own bed when I looked up saw his naked figure in the doorway. We were both so tired that I had put both him and myself to bed naked. "What's the matter, little buddy?" I asked, "can't you sleep?" He just walked into the room and stood by my bed, looking beautiful in the subdued light from my bedside lamp. And not just beautiful, but he looked so vulnerable standing there--so pale, so thin; and not even a teddy bear to sleep with as it was lost by the airline. "You wanna sleep with me?" I asked. He just stood there. So I lifted up the covers and started to move over. Before, I could even make enough room for him, he had jumped in, wrapping his leg over mine and his right arm across my stomach. He rested his head on my chest. I could feel his little uncut cock pressed against my thigh. He was soft but I was already getting hard from all this closeness. With my left hand, I stroked his hair and I ran my right hand up, down, and around--all over his back and butt. He sighed and "Mmmm-ed" and squeezed me, trying to press himself into me even more. After about 5 minutes he started to loosen up. I could feel him relaxing and felt that the tension was leaving his body. After another 5 minutes, he seemed completely relaxed and at ease. I was about to drift off to sleep when he spoke: "Uncle Brick?" "What Buddy?" It was the first time he had called me by name. "I really liked my bath," he said in a quiet, high, little boy voice-he was talking not like himself, but more like a 3-year-old. Somehow, hearing him talk like that made me melt. I was thinking that this kid was going to be putty in my hands. And I was going to be putty in his. Sigh.... "That's good, my young friend," I said, "`cause I really liked giving it to you. And I'll do it any time you want. Or anything else you want," I replied. "You will?" he said. "Anything?" "Yup. Anything you want or need to make you feel better--anything you would like." He was quiet for a moment, then he looked up at me and smiled (first time for that as well). "You know what I'd like?" he said. "I'd like a kiss." I gave him a nice big loud smacking kiss right on top of his head. "No, not like that, a REAL kiss" he said. "I'm not sure I know what you mean, buddy," I replied. And with that, he leaned up and gave me a gentle kiss right on the lips. What's more, he held if for about 5 seconds. "Wow!" I said, my cock now fully erect. "Where did you learn to kiss like that?" I asked. "What do you mean?" he replied. "I thought everybody knew how to kiss." "Yeh, but...have you ever kissed someone on the mouth and held it for that long?" "Nope. Was it good?" "Oh, Dougie, it was VERY good. I don't know when I've had such a nice kiss, it was-" and then I was interrupted as he quickly put his head down to me and planted a kiss on my lips once again, and this time he held it and held it. My cock was raging! I started passionately rubbing him all over--his silky hair, gently stroking his cheeks, rubbing down his back to the top of his things, squeezing and pawing at his butt, pulling his cheeks apart, even rubbing my finger gently over his little hole--nothing phased him--he kept kissing me! Finally he broke off me and put his head up. "How was that?!" he asked enthusiastically (now talking in his normal voice-- The psychologist was right--give him some affection and make him feel secure and he will start to come out of his shell.) "That was awesome, little buddy! San-frantastic!" I replied. He gave a little giggle and looked at me smiling. "Dougie," I continued, "there are two things you can do to make kissing even better." "What's that, Uncle Brick?" "The first is just to wet your lips." His little tongue popped out of his mouth and made a circle around his preteen pink lips. Then he put it back in and moved his mouth around-I could tell he was trying to get his tongue good and wet. Then he ran his tongue over his mouth a few more times. I did the same to mine. "Let's try it now!" he said. Oh man, that definitely made a difference! What's does that old song say? "Kisses sweeter than wine..." "Hey Dougie," I broke away for a second, "try doing different things with your mouth. Move it all around mine, have it open wide, then in between, then almost closed. Suck on one or both of my lips, then let me suck on yours. Pucker your lips up part of the time-stick them out. He tried it all--everything and it was great--what a fast learner! This night was getting better by the minute! "Okay, Dougie," I said, breaking away from the kiss and panting a bit, "there's one more thing that people sometimes do. It may sound a little strange at first but some people really like it," (he was looking at expectantly) "and that is to kiss with your tongues." (His little brow was furrowed.) "It's called a French kiss. Just try sticking out your tongue and touch mine with yours." He readily did as I stuck out my tongue. Man! "Is that it?" he asked. (Oh, this kid!) "No, we can do anything and everything with our tongues. We can put them in each other's mouths, move them around, take turns sucking each other's tongues, then we can take a break and go back to regular kissing a bit. You wanna try it?" Instead of speaking, he just moved in and put his tongue in my mouth. Oh fuck!! So HOT! I gently sucked his tongue a bit while I continued to rub him all over--getting more passionate and rougher, more like pawing him all over, especially his butt. This little boy with his little mouth and his little 10-year-old tongue had me so freakin' turned on! We went on like this for about 5 or 10 minutes and then I pulled away. I needed a break to take all this in. He scooted down and rested his head back on my chest. After a few minutes, he turned his head and pressed into me, like he was trying to bury his head in my chest. And he started to squeeze me with his arm and leg. He said in a far-off, little boy voice, almost sounding like a 2-year-old: "Are we done?" "No, Dougie, no, not at all! I was just taking a little break." (Shoot, he was regressing already.) "I'll do whatever you want, Dougie. Would you like a great big hug?" Silence. "Would you like a backrub?" Still silence. "Would you a thousand kisses?" His head popped up and there was a glimmer in his eye. "YYEESSS!!" he exclaimed. "Where would you like them?" I asked. "Everywhere--all over my body!" he replied with a smile. "ALL over your body?" "Yup." "Every spot?" "Yup." "Every square inch?" "Uh-huh." "Every square centimeter?" I asked. "Every square millimeter!" he cried. Oh boy-this was going to be interesting... I gently rolled him away from me and onto his back, then slid myself, then him toward the center of the bed. I started with the top of his head--his wonderful soft, silky, shampoo-smelling, beautiful light blond hair. I had soon worked my way down to his ears. I tongued them--running the tip of my tongue behind them, then in every nook and cranny. Then, I sucked the earlobe for a while and then--I couldn't help it--I put the entire ear in my mouth and sucked it as well. I did the same thing with both ears. I found I wasn't just kissing him. I was making love to him. While my intention was to simply shower him with affection, I couldn't help but let my passion out as well. As I kissed him with my lips, I rubbed my face all over him. I sometimes dragged myself from one place to another, never lifting my wet lips off of his precious body. I found myself making little humming noises, big sighs, almost moaning out loud at times. And I found he was making just about the same noises. I worked my way across his forehead, the bridge of his nose, kissed both his eyes, all over his cheeks, a peck on the lips... down to the neck--no hickeys, but some sucking of course. He continued to make little cooing noises and sighs. I worked my way across his left shoulder and down the outside of his arm. With my big adult mouth and his skinny little four foot frame, it really didn't take that long to cover a lot of territory. And who cares even if it did? We were both enjoying the journey. When I got to his left hand, I pursed my lips into a tiny "o" and then went down on each finger in turn, going up and down a few times and sucking each one gently a bit. A foreshadowing of things to come? Would I? Should I? He did say "every square millimeter." And the psychologist said to give him whatever he wanted in the way of affection... I worked my way back up the inside of his arm and to his little armpit--another part of the body (male or female) that had never caught my attention until now. But now to me, on 10-year-old Dougie, it was another place of intimacy--a place normally hidden, in the dark. And yet, with his white skin and the fact that armpits don't get a lot of sunlight, it was blinding white, like his ass--so pure, so sweet. I dove in with even more passion: licking, sucking, pressing my face in almost like I was trying to enter him or eat him-I don't know which. Unfortunately, like most little boys, he was ticklish there and pulled away from me, but he wasn't laughing really. "Don't stop, I like it," he said. "I'll try to stay still." Hmmmm--permission! So I dove back, in covering every square inch of the little forbidden zone. I held on to his right shoulder to keep him in place. He wasn't really trying to get away but he was rolling his butt back and forth and his legs were thrashing. Of course, I had just bathed him but I had to wonder what eating out his little pit would be like after a day of playing outside on a hot day. What would it taste like then?... He was now panting and yelping, making fairly loud "Ah" and "Uh" sounds. When I thought he had had enough (I hadn't) I released him. "Did you like that, Dougie?" I asked. "Oh yes," he replied, "that was the best!" ("The best? You have no idea," I thought to myself.) As I moved onto his sweet pec, I began to rub him up and down with my left hand. I went from the top of his chest down to the top of his thighs, not overlooking his little sex organ. He was still soft in contrast to my hard cock--so hard I felt like it could explode any minute, and I don't mean cum, but literally explode--burst apart with a huge bang, into a million pieces. I wanted to get him hard because I thought he would enjoy the kissing more if he were aroused--especially the armpits, and his little nipples at which I would soon arrive. I decided to go down one side and head for his cock. Maybe I would kiss it and get it hard. I don't know. Or maybe my rubbing would have him hard soon so that when I worked my way up the other side later, he would really swoon when I sucked the tit and pit on his right side. I just sucked his left nipple long enough to make it perk up. He was still cooing but didn't seem to have a huge reaction to that. Oh well. I figured that if his dick got hard and he got into the nipple sucking, I could spend a lot of time on both of them later. I worked my way down his ribs and onto his stomach, giving him some raspberries, of course, which made him giggle--of course. I spent a lot of time eating out his little innie belly button (wouldn't you?). This brought more giggles from him, not so much as it tickled but just little boy giggles at the silliness of what was being done to him. I circled around his groin and kissed his hip bone, working down to his thigh. When I reached his mid-thigh, I heard that soft little-boy voice again: "Uncle Brick?" "Yes?" "Don't forget my peepee." Time seemed to stop for a moment. The most beautiful 10-year-old boy imaginable, with whom I had been extremely intimate in the past hour, for whom I was extremely hard, was now asking me to kiss his "peepee." "You want me to kiss that peepee, little guy?" "Yes, please." "Say it for me. Put it in a sentence." "Kiss my peepee, Uncle Brick, kiss my peepee, pleeeease! Make it feel good like you're doing to the rest of me!" "Okay, you got it, hot stuff," I said. This was a big step, for me anyway. I'm not sure it meant the same to him--I think at this point, it was just part of his skin like his forehead or cheek. And he had said he wanted to be kissed everywhere. But for me, I was now about to put my mouth on a cock for the first time in my life. And not a big old, hairy, nasty, man-cock. But the sweetest, most beautiful little cock I had ever seen--that I could ever imagine. I wished that I could look at it and kiss it at the same time but you can't do both. So I slowly went in. First, I planted a gentle kiss in the middle of the shaft. Then I started making gentle kisses up and down it. I toned down on the passion, because I didn't want to hurt him by being rough on this most sensitive part of the body. I kissed all around his groin-his penis, his tight little ballsack--all the spots I had skipped. While he was clearly enjoying it--he had his eyes closed and just the hint of a smile on his sweet little face--he still was not getting aroused. I kissed all around him another minute, then stopped. Something drove me... "Dougie... would you... would you um, like a French kiss on your peepee?" "Okay." That's all he had to say. But that was enough for me. Permission given. Permission accepted. Once again, I had to pause a moment to take all this in. I mean, my head was spinning. I stared at his beautiful little package--his tiny little balls pulled up under that cute little inch and a half peepee with the foreskin hanging off of it. It was so hot to look at--the way the creases where his stomach turned into his legs came down into a "V" and at the bottom of the "V"...his sex, just hanging off the bottom of his trunk--there right between his spread legs--there for the taking. It looked like I could easily take both cock and balls into my mouth at the same time. So I did. Fireworks. That's what it was like in my brain. Like fireworks going off. FUCK! I've got this beautiful kid's beautiful little cock and balls in my mouth!! Oh FUCK, OH SHIT!! I was gently sucking on his entire groin which still wasn't even filling my mouth. I opened my mouth more and took him in deeper, sucking in the end of his trunk--the center of his body. I started rubbing my hands up and down over his body--his hips, his stomach, chest, armpits, arms. Dougie was getting louder with the humming and cooing noises now--definitely enjoying my ministrations. I felt his cock throb ever so slightly in my mouth and decided to go for the gold. I pulled off his groin and just took the still little cock into my mouth. I sucked harder and pulled back as I did--trying to suck blood into it and get his little pecker rock hard. When I went back down, I would make that "o" with my lips and slobber all over it as I sucked it into my mouth, then back out with sucking. It was working. I know that I keep saying that things I've done with him were the best ever but I'm telling you the truth, feeling that sweet little cock getting hard in my mouth was by far the most erotic experience of my entire life. In no time he was fully erect--his whole, hard, two inches, his foreskin still stretched over the head. He was hard as steel--it was like sucking on a fat little nail. Except it had skin. Dougie's skin. Sweet, little Dougie's skin! I was sucking Dougie's 10-year-old dick!!! By now as you can imagine, he was doing more than just cooing. "Oh...oh...I never... Oh, Uncle Brick!" His little legs were thrashing and at times he was lifting up his little behind to push his hard little peepee into my hot, salivating mouth. Fireworks in my brain--this was stupendous! "To hell with going back up to his nipples again," I thought: "I'm going to get this kid off!" I didn't want it to happen just yet, though. I wanted to prolong it. Actually, how long would it take? Could he even have an orgasm at his age? I didn't know, but I was sure going to find out. I released his cock from my mouth and then sucked just his balls. His head was thrashing from side to side and he was still yelping out "oohs" and "ahhs." I pulled off and just licked his balls. I made a point with the tip of my tongue and gently flicked it on the spot between them. He was loving it! Everything I tried he seemed to like just as much. I went further down, swabbing his perineum with big lapping motions like a dog, then once again, gently tickling the center up and down with the tip of my tongue. He spread his legs and moved his feet up toward his body, bending his knees to give me further access. Access. I could see the cleft of his little ass now, almost to his hole. His hole. I raised up and roughly flipped him over in one swoop, not hurting him, but not wasting any time either. "No!" he cried, "Do my peepee! Do my pee--." And then he stopped as my face landed on his butt. I was an animal now, rubbing, kissing, sucking, licking. I couldn't get enough of that fantastic ass. Nor was he complaining. "Oh, oh, oh!" he cried. No more with the humming and cooing, or even the oohs and ahhs--now it was loud little, horny yelps coming out of those sweet, pink lips. I started to kiss and slurp more toward the center. I had a hand on each cheek, massaging them, spreading them, opening and closing them. Rimming? Something else that had never in my life interested me. Until NOW. It wasn't even a question of if I wanted to do it or not. I knew I wanted to do it--HAD to do it--at this point, couldn't NOT do it even if you gave me a million dollars. "Dougie!" I raised up and growled, "I'm gonna French kiss your HOLE!" I didn't wait for a response. I dove in--lapping and sucking as if my life depended on it. I could hear a scream start to build in him (I kept rimming). It started as a guttural sound then rose up both in volume and pitch until he was screaming like a super high-pitched train whistle. The almost violent intensity of it pulled me out of my frenzy and I raised my head up. Had I gone too far? He was panting and still thrashing. "Don't... don't... don't... DON'T STOP!" he cried out. "Whatever it takes!" I almost screamed to myself inside my head as I dove back down, stabbing my tongue at his hole. "If it takes me all night, I'm going to make this kid cum! If it takes every ounce of my energy until I pass out, I'm going to give this kid the best sensation of his life!" Actually, I think I already was. I was in turn lapping over his entire hole, then sucking on his pucker, then stabbing at it, then sucking on it while I simultaneously pointed my tongue and stabbed at the center, trying to get inside. He continued to make those high-pitched screams--screams that could break glass. I was relieved to know that my condo had good soundproofing. In between screams, he would pant and buck his ass around. I was having to use a great deal of strength just to hold him down. But he told me, "DON'T STOP!" and I wasn't going to stop--not for anything--not until he felt and experienced the fireworks that were already going on in my brain. I got up on my knees to get more leverage and pushed my head on him, using that along with my arms to hold down his ragingly horny little ass. I tried to pry his hole open a little with my thumbs but he was so tight and I didn't want to hurt him. Maybe if I could get him to relax... So, I backed off just a little in my passion and just started a steady, gentle lapping, nothing else. It was working. I felt him relax a little and he stopped making those almost psychotic sounding shrill screams. He just barely stopped though as he continued to make loud, almost constant moaning sounds. Fuck, it sounded so hot. I was so incredibly turned-on! And yet, at the same time, there was another element to it. It's hard to describe in words but it was like, beyond the sex, I was taking care of him as a little boy--almost as if it had never gotten sexual, as if I were just giving him an innocent back massage. Only instead I was giving him a butthole massage...with my tongue. And then, on another level along with that, it was as if I was making love to him. Almost worshipping the altar of his ass--the little entrance to the center of his being. I just so wanted to take care of him totally, thoroughly--in any way I possibly could. I lapped and lapped and lapped and lapped, like dog who had smelled gravy. He was still moaning and still moving some. This went on for five, ten minutes, maybe longer. I didn't mind--it was great! I think I felt some of the tightness leave his wound up little winker. Oh FUCK, what I was doing--what I was about to do had me so turned on! I sped up on the lapping and made my tongue more pointed, just concentrating right on his sweet little anus. He definitely was relaxing. But not enough. Meanwhile, my horniness was getting stronger and stronger at the thought of getting into that sweet little hole! I started pressing my face in, almost making noises like a dog as I ground my face into his crack, demanding entrance to his most private of private spots. "C'mon, little guy," I said inside my head. "Let me in. Let me in." I just couldn't help myself as I again upped my level of passion, going back to the sucking, the stabbing the licking. Although now, despite the sexual frenzy we were both in, his hole was feeling softer--the barrier of Mount Dougie was being slowly broken down. It seemed as though the slight pull back of attack and the gentle lapping I had done for a while had re-energized me. "Ahh!" I heard myself crying out loud as I ate out his phenomenal little ass. Lick, slurp, suck, stab. Lick, slurp, tongue, suck, stab! He was getting more worked up as well, not quite at the screaming stage but on the brink. I could tell he was working hard to keep his little butt still and in contact with my horny tongue. He was beating his head against the pillow and smashing his face into it as he squeezed handfuls of the sheet tightly. His moans were coming faster and louder: "OHH!! OHH!! YYESSSSS!!!" I could stand no more. I had to get in. I flipped him over so fast it almost took the breath out of him. I quickly got between his legs. I pulled him down toward me, getting his head off the pillow, then in one swoop, I got my hands under his knees and flipped them up and over so that his knees were now on either side of his head, his cock pointed at his face, his back vertical but upside down, his ass high in the air and spread wide. It all seemed to happen in a split second--in one motion. "Dougie!" I said, almost shouting with desire. "I want you to open up your hole for me. It will feel really good, I promise. Just try to relax it and then push out just like you're trying to push out a piece of poop." Like every sexy thing I had told him to do that night, he immediately and perfectly complied. Oh what a site! His open hole!!! Maybe about one percent of me wanted to just stop and stare at it. But I knew I'd have him all summer and could do that any time. The other 99 percent of me dove in with 150 percent ferocity! My tongue is in his ass; MY TONGUE IS IN HIS AAASSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! OH FUCK! OH FUCK! OH...FUCKKKKK!!!!!! People fantasize about things for years and maybe finally get to do them, maybe never. Tonight it seemed as though I had done 100 unbelievably wonderful things that I had never fantasized about--never even thought about until seconds before they happened. I was in ecstasy. My brain could barely process the lust, the joy, the intensity I was feeling. Dougie was obviously overwhelmed as well. I could hear the scream coming up again. That's okay, I wanted to make him scream. I wanted to hear it--those scary, horny, impossibly high-pitched, blood-curdling, psycho-screams. "AAAHHHHHHH!!!" he cried over and over, just seeming to take a second in between to catch a breath. I know I keep saying this but I was now at an even more erotic moment in my life--beyond anything I had ever imagined. Having Dougie in this position not only made it easier to get deep into his butt, but it made it harder for him to thrash around as much, which meant I could keep more constant contact with his precious little pucker. He couldn't move his head and it was harder to thrash his body around with it being pointed up in the air as it was and with me holding onto his butt. Of course he was still flailing his arms about and beating on the mattress. And he was also flailing his legs all over the place, sometimes whacking me in the side of the face with a foot. And it hurt! Feet are hard! But I didn't care. If I am battle-scarred by bruises afterward, I will wear them like a badge of honor. And frankly, the kicking and the pain just made the whole scene even that much more intense. I was so, sooo getting off on the fact that I was making him go so crazy with intense sexual feelings. And there was even another benefit--a third one--of having him in this position. When I rimmed him when he was flat on his stomach, I could only see his marvelous butt. But now, I could eat his hole and at the same time look down and see his face--the panting, the ecstasy, the joy, the wonder. His scrunched up face, his eyes bugging out. My senses were overwhelmed. It felt like connections in my brain were exploding. He was now bracing himself with his arms and pumping his ass up and down into my face. I think he was too tired to scream, yet I sensed that something was building. "If a little pain is making this more intense for me," I thought, "maybe just a little will make it ever hotter for him." And with that, I put my thumbs right at the side of his little round opening and pried it open even more--not enough to really hurt, but just enough to get it open more. And he had been rimmed so long that his hole was totally relaxed now--not really big, but definitely gaping open. I went in for the kill, voraciously fucking him with my tongue now, smashing my face and trying to peel my lips back, almost biting him in order to get as much of my tongue up his chute as I possibly could. I could hear his guttural sounds--a scream was starting to come again. But no, instead he cried out to me, "Uncle Brick! Something's happening! I feel all strange! Uncle Brick!!!!" I had to talk him through it but it took everything I had to tear myself away from his magnificent ass. "You're going to start shaking in a minute, buddy," (back to more rimming, my tongue stabbing him) "it's going to be really big shakes in your peepee and all over your body," (I was panting, but I shoved my tongue back into his sweet little ass. He was thrashing violently and crying out.) "It's a wonderful thing, buddy, just let it happen!" "O... o... OKAY!" By this time I had scooted up and had my body pressed against him with the tip of my cock being banged by his thrashing back. And I realized there was yet a fourth benefit of having him in this position. I was seconds from cumming and I hadn't even touched my dick. I wanted to cum at the same time he did. So I curled my body and pushed myself up even further. Now my 6 inch hard dick was totally pressed against his hot, sweaty, thrashing back. I could feel his hole starting to pulse and flex around my tongue. While still furiously fucking his hole with my tongue, I took a hand off his butt and started jacking his little uncut cocklett, feeling it heave in powerful spasms as he exploded into the first orgasm of his young life. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!" the high-pitched scream burst forth from his 10-year-old lungs. Knowing he was cumming, actually FEELING him cum with my tongue as well as my hand put me over the edge as well and my raging boner shot stream after stream of cum all over his back as his body, in the throws of orgasm, beat against my cock. I, too, let out a violent explosive yell, then heard myself punctuate each squirt of cum with my voice: "UH!" UH! UH!"... Somehow I did all this without ever removing my face and tongue from his butt. I was not going to do that no matter what, until he stopped cumming. Oh... Ah... Hmmm... and then...collapse. I fell backwards onto the bed, then worked my legs out from under me. A second later, he unraveled, with his legs ending up on my chest, his feet in my face. My spent cock was touching his butt. I lay there with my head spinning. Or was it the room? Or both? We were both panting, both lost somewhere, both recovering from what he had just experienced. I put my hands on his legs, gently rubbing them up and down while I kissed his little feet. As both our breathing returned more to normal, I turned myself around and got up next to him. I wanted to be there to make sure he was okay--that he wasn't freaked out or even frightened by what his body had just experienced. I reached out and stroked his hair. He rolled over onto me in the same position in which we started--his leg wrapped around mine, his right arm across my stomach and his head resting on my chest. But he wasn't squeezing. He wasn't tense. He was totally relaxed. We just laid there like that for a few minutes, saying nothing as again, I petted his naked body up and down, then stopped and just pulled him to me more with my hand on his little behind. I could pretty much hold both cheeks in just my one hand. "Thanks, Uncle Brick," He was back talking in his normal 10-year-old voice now. Although his normal voice was still quite high and soft--so sweet. And he was obviously very sleepy. And then he said, "Can we do that again tomorrow?" "Anything you want, Dougie," I replied, "anything at all." And then he fell asleep with my hand holding his little butt. I was going to grab something to wipe the semen off of him, but instead I decided to massage it into his sweet, soft skin. It was okay. I could give him a bath in the morning. Maybe I'd even get in the tub with him next time. I turned off the light and listened to the peaceful sound of his breathing as I, too, fell asleep. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Check out my other stories. I'm on the author's list as "DJ." And remember to donate to Nifty to keep this great site going!