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- Chapter 5
-
- The filming of the movie went ahead on schedule. Kim met her fellow actors
- and actresses on the day Andy specified, and they went through a complete
- reading of the script, with Andy and the assistant director, a young fellow
- named Ted, providing explanations of some of the scenes. Most of the people
- seemed excited about the film and it's possibilities, but one girl, a cute
- blonde named Pat, had some reservations about the anal scene Andy laid out for
- her.
-
- "I'm not so sure I want to do any more anal stuff, Andy, my ass is still
- sore from that flick with Ron Jeremy a few weeks ago. He stuffed that damn
- sausage of his so far up my butt that I thought he'd pop his cookies out my
- mouth!"
-
- "Now, Pat, don't worry, your partner for that scene is regular sized, and
- I'm sure well have him well lubed up for it. If it really bothers you during
- the scene, stop us, and we'll get another girl for it, and somehow work that
- into the script." comforted Andy. "Besides, you seemed to come about ten times
- during that scene, and Ron told me that you enjoyed it!"
-
- "Yea, at the time - but who the hell thinks about their ass hurting for
- the next month when they're getting butt-reamed!"
-
- One of Kim's first scenes also turned out to be her first on-screen blow
- job and cum shot. Andy wanted her first splatter shot to be a good one. The
- context of the scene had her character meet a man at a bar in the city who,
- upon hearing her story of sexual converts for her mission, seemed anxious to
- sample her delights. She brought him back to her apartment, and sat him down
- on the couch next to her.
-
- After explaining her ideas for the rebellious group of sexual freedom
- fighters, she began stroking the front of his pants. She felt the shaft under
- the cloth begin to harden with blood. After a few minutes of fondling, she
- unbuckled his pants and slipped the zipper down. Grasping his hard shaft, she
- bent and licked around the head tantalizingly.
-
- The man groaned in appreciation. Kim quickly scooted down and got on her
- knees before him as he leaned back on the couch. She shucked off her blouse,
- and began to worship his prick, dressed in a skirt and panties. Her bra
- gleamed white, starkly evident against her rapidly tanning skin. She opened
- her mouth fully, and slipped it down over the length of his raging hardon.
- Once the entire shaft was buried in her face, she pursed her lips around the
- very base of the cock, snuffling in the warm and crinkly pubic hair.
-
- Meanwhile, the camera slowly moved in for an extreme closeup. On the
- real-time monitor at the other side of the set, some of the actors and crew
- members watched in tense silence. Kim's mouth held the penis prisoner, as her
- tongue swabbed up and down the length of it as best she could. She could feel
- the tip nudge the top of her throat and bend slightly downward. She decided to
- stay down on the entire length of the cock for as long as she possibly could.
- Breathing heavily through her nose, she drew in a huge breath of air. She
- reached up and began rubbing her breasts through the silky material of her
- bra. Then she reached around behind her and unsnapped the clasp at her back.
- The picture on the monitor showed her face grafted onto the man's lap,
- kneeling in homage, as she shook the bra off and tossed it away. She still
- hadn't moved her mouth up from the very base of the dick. But the viewers
- could see the muscles in her mouth, cheeks and neck work their magic on the
- flesh pole she sucked.
-
- After nearly a minute, she slowly backed up off the shaft as her partner
- moaned in pleasure. She came up slowly, slowly, opening her mouth just a bit
- as the cock retreated so she could slip her tongue out and bathe the shaft
- with saliva. At the very tip, she slid her tongue out as far as she could and
- let the cockhead slide backwards along it. Gobs of pre-cum slipped out the
- tiny hole at the head, leaving small white drops on her tongue. As she backed
- off the cock entirely, a strand of cum and saliva joined the tip of her tongue
- and the head of the cock.
-
- She leaned back a few inches as the strand lengthened and began to droop
- of its' own weight. She leaned forward enough to allow some of the cum and
- saliva on her tongue to travel down and thicken the interconnecting line of
- goo. The camera zoomed in for an extreme close up, until just the tip of the
- cock and the tip of her tongue filled the entire frame, with the suspension
- bridge of off-white moisture gapping between the two. Suddenly she pulled back
- and the string snapped at the cockhead, laying down to droop across her lower
- lip, down over her chin and dangling from her face to the top of the valley
- between her breasts. She looked up at her partner, to see a second camera
- shooting the scene from above his head.
-
- "I'm gonna suck your cock so hard and so good that you're going to be
- spoiled forever. You are going to cum in my mouth, my friend, and then I'm
- going to swallow your seed. I may spread some around on my face, but I am
- going to eat most of it. And then you are going to tell your friends that the
- pleasure you had has been outlawed by the government, but you think the people
- should fight back for their rights. Are you ready?"
-
- "Oh god, Misty, yes, yes, I'll do anything, just keep on what you're
- doing, it feels marvelous!" he responded on cue, but Kim could tell he wasn't
- acting that much. His eyes kind of glazed over, and he thrust his hips at her
- face, nudging the tip of her nose with his cock. It leaked a tiny drop of cum
- on it.
-
- "Now, now, don't you cum just yet - I have barely begun your
- conversion..." Kim whispered slyly, winking at him/the camera in a sexy voice.
-
- The side camera moved back to bring her entire face into focus and viewers
- at the monitor could now see the drop of sperm on her nose. Kim knew it was
- there of course, and made no move to wipe it off. She jerked on the cock in
- her hand a few times to force a few more drops of cum out the tip, and then
- smoothed them around the head with her tongue. Finally, she opened her mouth
- wide and dropped her head onto the cock once again.
-
- She sucked and sucked on the cock in her mouth, revelling in the feel of
- the hard flesh. She knew she was a compulsive cock sucker. She loved the
- taste and feel of hard cocks in her mouth, and loved the taste of hot cum.
- Every few strokes, she would empty her mouth of dick and gulp in air, feeling
- her breasts heave with the effort. She tweaked the nipples with one hand and
- felt them stiffen and push out proudly. The crew watched in rapt attention.
-
- Finally, the actor muttered "Oh baby, I'm gonna cum, I'm gonna cum any
- second now...." Kim knew that was her cue to remove the cock from her mouth
- and jerk it into her face. Ted had told her that what he wanted was a good
- shot or two of cum into her mouth, then a few onto her face and cheeks, and to
- let the rest pump back into her mouth. She was then to slide the cock head out
- of her mouth and turn slightly.
-
- Unlike most directors, he didn't shoot the male actors face's while they
- were coming - "Hell, if people wanted to watch the man, there'd be no need for
- cum shots on film - I think it's silly, and besides, who wants to watch a man
- grunt and groan with his eyes closed when it's the women we paid to see?" he
- was quoted as saying.
-
- Kim stroked the cock for a second, then let the man brush her hand away
- and replace it with his. He pumped up and down and aimed the head at her face.
- She opened her mouth, revealing a slightly whitened tongue. The first jet of
- sperm shot out, striking her front teeth and dropping onto her tongue. The
- actor slid his fist up his cock shaft again, keeping the head pointed directly
- at the young woman at his knees. The second sperm shot flew out, stronger
- than the first, with complete accuracy, into her open mouth. One more quick
- jet followed it, then the man aimed at her forehead. A jet of sperm cannoned
- from the cock and landed perfectly straight up her face from the bridge of her
- nose to her forehead. The next struck squarely on her left eye, Kim having
- closed it just in time. She snapped her head back slightly to heighten the
- effect.
-
- Within seconds her face was crossed with three more lines of cum, striking
- her high cheekbones and nose, then her chin and closed lips. At each squirt,
- the man grunted his pleasure out. Finally he finished, and Kim, looking at
- the cock with her one good eye, grasped it and fed it into her mouth as the
- last of the cum leaked out onto her slimy tongue. She slurped it in and
- pursed the last few drops out into her mouth.
-
- The man straightened up, and Kim sat back to allow for a better camera
- angle, then leaned to her left just a bit. The camera came in for a long,
- loving view of her cum-soaked face, lingering over the lines on her cheeks and
- the heavy drop covering her eyelid. Some eyeshadow started to merge with the
- white drop, turning it a milky blue.
-
- "So how'd you like that, lover?" she purred at the camera. A small drop
- of semen started to slide down off her forehead, rolling over her eyebrow and
- falling onto the top of her cheek. She opened her mouth and displayed the cum
- splashed over her teeth and tongue. Kim lolled her tongue around her open
- mouth, collecting the sperm from the inside of her cheeks and pooling it.
- Then she closed her mouth and visibly swallowed the load. The camera lingered
- on her face for a few more seconds and then Ted yelled "CUT! Beautiful, Kim,
- that was fantastic, we got every second of it."
-
- The cast and crew nearby gave her a small round of applause, and the man
- she had just sucked off helped her to her feet. Still blinking the cum from
- one eye, a makeup girl came up and handed her a small towel to wipe her face
- with. Kim took it thankfully and cleaned herself up a bit. Dabbing at the cum
- drops spotting her neck and breasts, she said "Well, so that's how they do it
- in the movies, eh?"
-
- The next day, Kim and the others watched the blond Pat have a four-way
- gang bang with three hugely hung studs in a men's room.
-
- Pat started out sneaking into the men's room of a posh club and hiding in
- the last stall. A man came in to piss, and as he stood at the urinal shaking
- himself dry, she moaned "Ohhh, god I need a cock, please, baby, give me your
- cock..."
-
- The man walked over to the stall and brushed the door open. Pat sat on the
- toilet seat, skirt up around her waist, fingers busily pumping in and out of
- her wet slit. His eyes travelled up her curvy body, lingering at the swell of
- her breasts beneath the clingy knit tube top she wore. The nipples hardened
- and pushed out the material at the front.
-
- He hefted the length of his slowly stiffening rod in his right hand and
- pointed it at her. "Is this what you need, little lady". He pumped blood
- into it and it slowly began to rise and aim higher and higher. Pat moaned in
- agreement and reached for it with lust in her eyes.
-
- "Oh no, not yet, I want to make sure you really need it. I can't just go
- around and fuck any slut hanging around the men's room, I need to be sure this
- isn't a trap."
-
- "What do I need to do?"
-
- "First, bring yourself off with your fingers. Then I want you out on the
- floor, flat on your back. I want you so hot you'll need a firehose to put you
- out. I want to see you pump your legs in the air. I want to see your pussy
- snap closed and leak juice all over your ass. Then maybe, just maybe, I'll
- fuck you so hard you won't ever forget it. And if anyone else comes in while
- we're at it, you're going to take them on as well, all at the same time. We'll
- see that you get enough cock to keep you quiet for a few hours, at least."
-
- Pat looked up at the handsome, yet powerful looking "stranger", an actor
- she had appeared with many times on other films. He had slight kink to his
- ways, and loved to watch women masturbate themselves before he would fuck or
- suck them, but other than that she thought he was an OK lover. He continued
- to slowly stroke his engorged cock while he watched. A camera from up above
- the stall showed the sexual participants staring wild-eyed at each other. Pat
- slowly smoothed her fingers up and down over the neatly trimmed pubic hair
- surrounding her cunt, strumming the clitoris peeking out from between the
- small folds of skin. She moaned and plunged a finger inside her slick and
- grasping pussy.
-
- "Is this what you want, is this what you want me to do?" she spoke as she
- felt the familiar tremblings begin to gather around her cunt and ass. "I'm
- fingering myself, I'm sticking my finger up my pussy and swirling it around.
- Is that what you want"
-
- "Yeah, baby, just keep that up. I want to see you jerk and cum all over
- this toilet, just keep that up."
-
- Pat folded two, then three fingers up her spasming cunt and thrust them in
- and out. She loved jerking off, especially in front of other people, enjoyed
- watching the looks on their faces as they saw her get her rocks off. She
- rubbed the head of her clit with her thumb as the fingers of the same hand
- pumped in and out of her now dripping, soggy cunt.
-
- "Oh god I think I'm gonna cum in a minute, this is so good, yes, I'm gonna
- cum off right about......NOW" she shrieked in real pleasure, as the tremors
- hit and carried her over the edge. She trembled and shook as her orgasm hit,
- shrieking in pleasure at the feeling. The man extended his hand, and helped
- her stand. They left the stall and the actor roughly pushed her ahead of him
- to the center of the room. He tore her skirt off her and threw it on the
- floor.
-
- "On your knees, slut. You've got some sucking to do." Pat colored and
- then slowly sank to her knees in front of him. Still stroking his dick, the
- man held one hand on her shoulder as she assumed the classic position -
- haunches on the back of her feet, hands on her thighs, staring up at him in a
- combination of fear, lust, and apprehension.
-
- "Stick your tongue out, all the way out." he commanded. Pat opened her
- mouth and extended her tongue as far out as it could go. He placed the tip of
- his cock on it. "Now lick it." She twirled the tip around with her tongue,
- sliding the pearly drops of pre-cum off and sliding them back into her mouth.
- Finally, she simply made a big "O" with her lips, and the man slid his prick
- all the way into her mouth, until the pubic hair on his belly tickled at her
- nose.
-
- "Now suck, and don't stop until I tell you to. If anyone comes in, just
- keep on going - no one will dare to interrupt us." Pat nodded in aggreement
- and began earnestly sucking on the tremendouse cock being stuffed into her
- face. She slid up and down the hard shaft, wetting it with her saliva and
- making the bone glisten in the harsh lights of the studio. Cameras on either
- side and above them captured all the exciting angles. Pat loved to give head
- on camera. The actor placed both hands on the sides of her head and moved her
- back and forth on his cock, fucking her face with more than a little
- roughness. But Pat didn't mind this - she loved being halfway forced to suck
- cock, somehow it made the kinkiness of the scene even more exciting. The
- actor just enjoyed her attentions for as long as he could stand it, then he
- began to shudder and shake.
-
- "Oh baby, here it comes, it's gonna cum in your mouth, baby, just hold it
- in there, don't move..." and before Pat could do anything, she felt the prick
- pulse and jet a long stream of semen into her mouth. She let it pulse once,
- then twice more, then following Ted's direction, gasped and popped the stalk
- from her face. It sprayed a rope of sperm across the top of her head and into
- her hair, then another crossed her nose and right eye. The actor grabbed his
- cock with one hand, and, tilting her head back with the other, shot several
- lines and drops of cum across her countenance. Pat shuddered with an orgasm as
- she came in time with him.
-
- Finally he was finished. Pat's face was covered with several lines of
- white sperm, slowly dripping downwards to her neck and breasts. She drew in a
- breath and looked at him. Her mouth still contained the three spurts from the
- beginning of the man's ejaculation, and her bottom lip hung open and trailed a
- small line of white from inside. Kim watched the cameras come in and focus on
- the sperm-splattered young woman's face. Pat looked up at the man who had
- just ejaculated on her, but didn't say a word. Suddenly, according to the
- script, the door to the men's room opened and three burly young men walked in
- joking and talking. As soon as they saw the scene in the middle of the room,
- they stopped short.
-
- "What the fuck! Jeezus, what's this shit all about?" spoke one
- incredulously.
-
- "This slut needs a good fucking or two, or maybe more. Are you guys game?"
- was the answer from the recently, but only for a few moments, satisfied first
- actor. He turned her to face the newcomers. "As you can see, she enjoys
- having men come in her and on her, and she loves to bring herself off with her
- fingers too. I propose that we see to it that the little lady has her fill of
- cum in the next few minutes, what say?"
-
- "Holy shit, she's got cum all over her face - and look at that, it's all
- in her mouth too. Hot damn, this bitch is hot.." The men all spoke at once in
- excited tones, rapidly approaching the still-kneeling woman. They removed
- their clothes as they came near her. Pairs of hands lifted her up to a
- standing position. She reached out and closed her fists over the two nearest
- cocks, and wiggled her ass towards the remaining one. The actors quickly
- assumed the positions sketched out by Andy and Tom for the scene.
-
- One man lay down on Pat's skirt, holding the shaft of his cock up into the
- air. She turned her back on him and slowly lowered her wet and slushly cunt
- over the cockshaft, sinking down over it with a sigh and a deep drawn out
- moan. The next man straddled her torso with his legs and fitted his cock
- between her heaving breasts. He pumped up and down between them, each time
- striking the bottom of her now cum-wet chin with the tip of it. The triad
- spent some minutes fucking and stroking before the other half of the group
- began to complain about being left out. Again, they changed positions. The
- man who had been fucking her cunt slid his wet and soaking shaft from her
- vagina and pushed slightly forward on her hips, adjusting the lower opening
- being presented to him from the reproductive channel to the elimination
- channel. He probed with his finger until he found the tight, clenched
- opening, which refused him access.
-
- "Open up, bitch, or you'll really be sorry." Pat shuddered and willed
- herself to relax a bit. Slowly, inch by inch, her rectum opened up to admit
- the slimy intruder. She felt the man's finger climb into her asshole with
- relentless, yet tender feelings. The man moved his finger in and out of her
- ass several times, then as he ran his finger out the last time, moved so that
- his cock shaft was there to take it's place when it popped out. Hardly had he
- done so when Pat let herself fall completely down on the man's belly,
- forcefully imbedding the steely flesh in her bottom channel.
-
- "OHGODOHGODITSSOBIGSOBIGIMGONNACUMCUMCUM" she yelled in real feeling. By
- now, Pat wasn't acting anymore, as far as she was concerned, this was the real
- thing. Getting hotter and hotter by the moment, she let herself get swallowed
- up and carried away by the moment. She shuddered, then shuddered again as the
- man fucking her tits slid down and shoved his cock full length into her pussy.
- She now had over 16 inches of cockmeat absorbed into her body, and was
- yearning for more.
-
- A third man stepped up and offered his shining penis to her mouth. A face
- still rimmed with white looked up at him, and cum-covered lips opened to
- accept the length of manhood before her. She slowly worked her lips down over
- the shaft, munching away until there was no more to be seen outside her body.
- The outline of the cock made the muscles in her throat and neck bulge in
- tension. Camera men raced to move into more advantageous positions. For
- several minutes, the quartet of sexual performers thrust, groaned and pulsed
- with the raw sounds and motions of sex. Pat accepted the ramming and shoving
- of the hard pricks within her body, loving the tremendous feeling of fullness
- it gave her. She shivered through an orgasm. Over two feet of hard cock was
- imbedded into her body from the three male partners.
-
- One by one the men thrust themselves into the warm receptacles of
- womanhood offered them, one in the pussy, one in the ass, and one in the
- spermy mouth. Pat loved it. She loved the raw sexuality of gang bangs,
- especially in the somewhat controlled confines of the movie set. She would
- never let herself get into this kind of situation in real life, but in the
- relative safety of the movie set, she could let her self go completely, with
- little or no thought of her own ultimate safety.
-
- "Please, ...please.... I need your cum, please cum all over me, all over
- me, I need it right now..." she spoke breathlessly after removing the wet cock
- from her mouth. The camera had come in for a tight closeup of her scrunched
- up face and shining breasts, as she spit the shivering cock from her lips.
- The men quickly pulled out of their respective holes and stood around Pat in a
- tight semicircle. They offered their cocks to her. Leaning forward, still on
- her knees, the actress engulfed the middle cock with her mouth and reached for
- the other two with her hands. Shoving her face forward thru sheer willpower,
- she throated the trembling shaft. She diddled her own clit and pussy wildly,
- deep in the throes of orgasm herself. Jerking and pulling on the other shafts,
- the men were soon at the point of orgasm. Almost as a trio, the three cocks
- exploded in a torrent of cum that flew out and splattered the young girl
- before then.
-
- Great gouts of cum rained down on Pat's already sweaty and stained head
- and face. Arcs of semen draped themselves over her shoulders and neck. Jizz
- landed on her breasts and heaving belly. From the left and right, no matter
- which way she turned and twisted in ecstasy, Pat was greeted by missiles of
- white liquid. She leaned back, reveling in the warm shower of sperm. Opening
- her mouth in a wordless scream of pleasure, she was cut off when several lines
- of white wetness flew into it, nearly choking her with suprise. For several
- seconds the air above her was white with flying jizzum. Finally the orgasms
- ended. Cameras had caught it all, three being used as individual records of
- the three cocks, and one capturing the entire scene from above and around the
- group.
-
- Pat stood up shakily, the cum streaming from her body in lines of white.
- Some extended from her neck nearly to her waist, others crossed her belly,
- pubic area and thighs. She closed her eyes in rapture. A lone camera closed
- in on her face and lingered over the cum-splattered visage. Finally it faded
- out.
-
- The assembled crew burst out in applause. The men waved their arms in
- acknowledgement, and Pat shyly ducked her head, watching the cum drip off it
- onto the skirt beneath her feet. When she looked up again, the makeup girl
- was handing her a towel and a cup of coffee.
-
- "Thanks, honey. Whew, what a shower...My God, those fuckers must've been
- doing without any pussy for weeks they way they unloaded all over me. Hey Ted,
- how was that!!" she crowed in victory. She rubbed the towel over her body,
- wiping the cooling sperm from her skin with obvious relish.
-
- "Great Pat, just great. Good rehearsal, next time we'll put film in the
- cameras!" he yelled jokingly from the side of the set.
-
- "Ted, you fuckhead, don't scare me like that!" she yelled back, throwing
- the soggy towel at him in mock terror. Kim chuckled at the scene.
-
- The next several days found Kim doing most of her non-sexual scenes,
- collecting converts for her sex revolt and expanding on the coverage of her
- revolt. She was stilted and hesitant at first, but Andy and Ted were patient
- with her and never let on that her delays and muffed lines were costing money.
- After a few days, though, she settled down and became more at ease in front
- of the camera when speaking. She thought it funny that she was not nervous or
- apprehensive at all when fucking or sucking in front of the camera, but when
- called upon to speak lines or interact with the others, butterflies flew. The
- cast and crew travelled around to various outside locations carefully
- researched to look like a city of the future, sometimes having strange run-ins
- with security guards, police and regular citizens. But since no sex scenes
- were ever shot in public, very few of the civilians they encountered either
- realized, or let on, that they were filming a pornographic film. One scene
- had to be shot twice, because the dance club they were filming in never really
- got emptied out completely, and the scene soon degenerated into a full blown
- orgy that didn't really fit in with the plot of the picture.
-
- Nevertheless, Andy and Ted collected several hours of fucking and sucking
- that they were sure could be put to good use at some time, even if most of the
- ejaculations did take place normally, out of sight of the everpresent cameras.
- Andy knew that no matter where the cum shot happened, sooner or later most of
- the sperm showed up somewhere, either down a leg, out an asshole, or trickling
- down a chin. Only the swallowed cum lost it's chance for stardom on the video
- screens of history.
-
- The last scenes shot were the major sex scenes. They included Kim's first
- girl-girl scene, which she enjoyed for what they were, but to her mind
- couldn't replace the feeling of a good hard cock. Also included were several
- one on one scenes with the male actors of the film, one where she fucked and
- sucked three guys in a sweaty steam room, and one where she and two other
- women sucked cunt in a daisy chain until they were discovered by several of
- the men, and as "punishment for not including the men" in their fun, asked to
- lay head to head while the men jerked off on their faces and breasts. Whether
- by chance or on purpose, a great majority of the cum decorated KIm's lovely
- face more than the other two girs, and she was more than willing to allow it
- to happen. Kim's favorite scene, and the "climactic" orgy of the film,
- involved all the participants in a massive 45 minute group grope that ended
- with every male in the film pulsing jet after jet of jizz over Kim's nude,
- sweaty form as it lay on a raised platform in the middle of a darkened stage,
- lit only by a single strong floodlight. She accepted the outpourings of their
- sex as one after another of the women lay between her legs and tortured her
- clitoris and pussy into climax after climax. When it was over, she collected
- the small lakes of cum from around her slimy body and rubbed the semen over
- her face and breasts.
-
- As a special footnote to the film, Andy included outtake footage from the
- shootings, including one hilarious scene which occured when Kim was
- deep-throating a massive cock that was so large, and so far down her throat
- that she couldn't whip it out of her face before it pulsed a few strong jets
- of cum straight into her belly. Coughing up sperm , she wrenched the cock
- from her mouth only to have the last jet pulse straight up her nose. She
- hacked up some cum from around her tonsils and looked straight at the camera.
-
- "Oh shit, he came right down my throat! Sorry, guys, I guess I blew that
- one!" Not realizing her play on words, the crew broke into gales of laughter.
- When the reason struck her, Kim convulsed in giggles, then burped loudly.
- This, of course, set off another round of hilarity.
-
- Another scene which didn't make the finished film was the first take of
- Pat's mens room gang bang. After the first man shot his load into , around
- and over Pat's smiling face, the other three actors entered the room and began
- walking towards the couple. One actor slipped on the cum all over the tiled
- floor and went flat on his ass. For a second, no one said a word, then the
- entire party broke into laughter. After making sure that no bones were broken
- (or bent), the actors went out and tried again, this time completing the
- scenes with no further accidents. And so Kim's first adult movie was
- completed, and would now go into post-production. Kim anxiously awaited the
- call from Andy to help out.
-