He really couldn't believe his luck. When steven told him that he needed a place for his cousin to stay, he didn't expect said cousin to be his favorite influencer. He always wondered why steven knew so many famous people. But he never really expected one of them to be the great Garnet DeMayo. Last name aside and maybe ironically because of it, she was a health influencer, with the greatest, thickest body he had ever seen in a fit black woman. He developed a crush on her from the exact moment he first saw her on tiktok, and as much he tried to convince himself that it was an innocent and respectful crush that he developed while looking to take care of his own health. it wasn't. the way her skin contrasted with her crimson or violet skintight clothes. He felt a twinge in his pants at the sight. Even more when she used yoga pants.
And now she was right there in front of him. A tight fitting blue pair of Yoga Pants and a sports bra that barely contained her assets. All in all showing off every curve of her body, and he could clearly see the shape of her nipples. Her large and soft thighs and her juicy ass were clearly outlined.His eyes trailed up and down her body. He couldn't take his eyes away from her, not wanting to lose a single detail.
He didn't notice the smirk on her face, and she really wasn't in a hurry to tell him. She was aware of how hot her body was and the effect it had on people. She had gotten plenty of marketing deals justy by looking this good. So she had learned how to spot the kind of men that desired her, and the kid staring at her, clearly with a hardon that he wasn't aware of and blushing, was the perfect example of one.
"You must be peedee"
"H-how-I-I mean yes! I am peedee. My dad is the owner of the fry shop. My-my brother Ronaldo is the one you must have met before in your way here, we agreed he'd help you settle here but he said he had to go out on a quest with his girlfriend and ran off a few minutes ago"
"Quest?"
"His wording not mine"
She giggled at the silliness of Peedee's brother, he sounded like an funny guy. She looked down at the blond and said "so are you going to let me in?"
"OH-oh yeah! Come in, come in" he said and she passed him, their bodies touched for a moment, her big, fat, soft ass grazing his crotch, the touch was brief but it was enough for him to feel her warmth and smell her perfume, her sheer being was fascinating to him. He felt like she wa all ethereal, like she was like a fairy straight out of a fantasy book, or at least thats how he fantasized about her.
"Nice place" she said looking around. "It's nice of you to let me stay here."
"N-no problem! It's no trouble" He responded a bit awkwardly but very honestly, "when Steven told me he had a cousin that needed a place to stay i couldn't just sit around without helping, its not right. I just didn't expect said cousin to be my favorite fitness influencer"
"I'm just a regular person just like you and them" She said, referring to Steven and his girlfriend Connie. "That is why I thought no one would help, most would just have thought that i was a vapid internet celebrity just trying to get a place to stay for free, but I really just couldn't intrude on Steven's house like that. Ever since his girlfriend moved in they dont have that much open space and i just didn't want to cram myself there and disrupt their privacy, they just moved in together, and couple's like that need their privacy, don't you think?"
He wasn't really paying attention after "regular", truth to be told he was only hearing bits and pieces of what she was saying. He was too busy daydreaming about the kind of things he would do to someone so beautiful. Even though consciously he was too used to her internet persona -a stoic woman of few words, who was concise and to the point who despised being unclear or wasteful of her statements-, he didn't mind her being a blabbermouth in real life. He could listen to every word that came out of those big, beautiful, fat lips of her. He could listen forever.
"Don't you agree, Peedee?"
"W-what? Sorry?"
"I asked you if you don't think that Steven and Connie are a beautiful couple who deserve privacy... you know, because of intimacy"
"oh, of course!" he said, snapping out of his stupor "yeah, they don't actually get a lot of time alone together, people come and go out of their area. Comes with the territory, literally. Their house was built around a temple"
"Yeah, i know. thought it only recently became popular. In any case, thank you for agreeing again."
"Its no issue really. We have nothing but space. My dad is in keystone city negotiating so our business can become a franchise, my brother is away with his girlfriend, and even if nothing of that was the case, half the house is empty. Its basically almost nothing BUT guess rooms. At least ever since mom… eh… departed."
"Sorry to hear that last bit"
"Don't worry, it has been a long time"
There was a long and awkward silence that only stopped when Garnet broke it by saying "Are you going to show me around? Imma be here for a few weeks so i may as well know the place".
"YES! Of course, yeah! follow me" he said and started walking towards the stairs.
She did as she was told and walked behind him, she was happy to see how excited he was to show him around. something so extremely mundane. She knew how horny she made people, thats why her follower list in instagram and tiktok was so huge, she wasn't under the delusion that 2 million people followed her for her fitness content. She could tell that this boy was horny for her, but it seemed to be teenage hormones doing their thing. This level of excitement wasn't just a young boy being nervous about a hot girl, this was a "i just met my hero" level of excitement. The more he talked, the more obvious it was that he was a genuine fan and that made her happy.
When the tour of the house was done, and they were coming back down to the living room, she got an idea on how to thank her fan. And when she voiced it to him, Garnet couldn't contain a chuckle after seeing his face. Peedee's mouth was so agape she thought it came off its hinges. She told him that she wanted to do a set of videos with him.
"For real?"
"Of course! Exercise is important at all levels! Not just at the high "i have my life together and enough money to waste on working out as a hobby" level"
"is that a roundabout way to say im fat?"
"No. I'm just saying you have the perfect body to inspire younger people to work out because they wont be intimidated by someone who already completed their exercise journey"
"oh"
Her logic was flawless. And he had no reason to say no, save for some minor scenic panic, so after a few more words of encouragement from her he finally said "Okay, i'll do it!"
"Thats great! Go put something comfortable on and get ready. We'll start today"
He immediately rushed up the stairs. Garnet smiled and sat on the couch, she started thinking about her options on what she would have peedee do. Meanwhile, he was in his room putting on his dolphin shorts and a white tshirt, before pinching himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming. This was too good to be true. His biggest hero and crush was going to teach him how to exercise. His friends would never believe him. At least not until they watched her video. He wondered what she had in mind for him, in her content she often would take requests from her fans to give them workouts personalized for their needs. Who knew, maybe she'd make him do something that would finally allow him to grow some muscles in his arms.
He never had a lot of fat (despite his job and diet), but he was far from the definition of a gym rat. He never really stopped thinking that he was somehow underdeveloped in that way, but with Garnet as his trainer maybe he could finally show off his abs and biceps to girls. The more he thought about it, the more he wished for the impossible, so he got out of his room and started looking for Garnet. He walked through the hall, downstairs, and through the kitchen, before coming across her. She had taken a pitcher of water and was looking around for something else.
"If you're looking for the blender, its in the cupboard under the counter." he said.
"eep!" the sound escaped her as she jolted back and and turned around to see him, she surprised that he was already back and a bit ashamed that he had found her going through his kitchen like this "Sorry for going through your kitchen without permission, but since we are going to be active for a while i thought it would be a good idea to make a couple of protein shakes to keep us energized and at our best."
"Oh there is no problem. You'll be living here for three weeks so my house is your house."
"Okay!" she said, matter of factly. before turning around and leaning forward to get down to the cupboard. As she did, Peedee looked at her from behind and his brain chemistry was forever changed. Despite that her yoga pants were so well fitting that they didn't show a single Iota of her skin. He could still see EVERYTHING. Her yoga pants were so tight and form fitting, that he could clearly see every single detail, her clit, every fold in her pussy, all and every single one of the wrinkles in her asshole. The image burned itself into his brain. He couldn't believe his eyes, she had the best body he had ever seen, even in porn, and the biggest, best ass he had ever seen, it was perfect and not even a millimeter of fat was out of place. Her legs and her hips were so well defined that it made him wonder how many hours of working out it must take to have such a perfectly chiseled body.
He felt himself getting hard in his underwear. And this time, he was perfectly aware of it. He could feel that his boner was stretching the loose dolphin shorts he had on. He looked down at the bulge in his pants and blushed at the idea of Garnet seeing him this way.
A few seconds later, when she stood up, he moved to the left, to use the kitchen island between them as a way to cover up. He wanted to seem casual about it, but in reality all he could do was look at the ground and pray for his boner to go down, at least before he had to look at Garnet again.
"here it is!" she said with a calm and warm voice, like always. She then turned back around and started mixing the ingredients to her protein shakes. While she was doing that, Peedee finally let out a sigh of relief, but it only lasted for a second. Because she talked to him.
"So do you have any preference in particular for these? Any flavor? i have a few in my back"
"i wouldn't know how to respond to that"
"i thought you were a cook"
"I am but i dont deal with this every day"
"Well, creating new habits is healthy, so do you wanna give it a try?"
His personal favorite heroine was asking him to do something for her, he wasn't going to say no. "Okay okay, I will... what do i need to add aside from protein powder?
"Whatever you want really" She said, matter of factly "except greasy things or soda. The acidicness would kill the protein powder"
"Oh, gotcha" he said, and started to move even more to the left, worried about her seeing his (now painful) boner.
Thankfully for him, she decided to not be here as he made it. She told him "i'll go prepare the camera and the mic while you make em. don't worry about messing it up, if you've ever made a smoothie, you'll know how to make it, just add the protein powder i left on the counter and it'll be alright", with that said, she left for the living room and left him alone.
With Garnet out of the room, Peedee moved from the kitchen island and leaned against the fridge, he was frustrated by this boner, and the cold of the fridge wasn't helping it go down. He decided to try to distract himself from it by watching the ingredients she left for him to use. There was a blender and a couple of bottles of protein powder. She said that he could use whatever he wanted, so after he put the protein powder base, he decided to start with a purple sweet potato jam. The mix turned out surprisingly well, but as he looked around for more things to add to it, he got an evil idea after thinking of bananas.
He took a banana from the fridge, and cut it into pieces, put it into the mix, all of that as he took furtive glances at the living room, seeing if Garnet was looking in this direction. She wasn't. He took the blender's jar. Held it under his waist, pulled out his painfully hard dick, and started jacking off, while imagining Garnet's pussy.
For what felt like hours he kept going, using what he had seen as inspiration. The image of her asshole flashed into his head and his orgasm was fast approaching. With his other hand he took the jar and put it under his balls and his dick, allowing them to rest on the cold glass. That feeling sent him over the edge, so he jacked it as hard as he humanly could, until he finally passed the point of no return. Load after load of semen starting to pour out of his dick, he quickly moved his hand from the bottom of his shaft up and spread the semen inside the jar. He wasn't thinking, he was on autopilot, eyes closed and his mind still fantasizing about Garnet's asshole. Thinking that Garnet was such a perfect woman, with such a perfect body that if this was her, he wouldn't be able stop cumming until his load came out of her mouth.
When he opened his eyes, he was surprised to see just the sheer amount of cum in the jar, he thought he had come a lot but he didn't think it was THIS much. He never came so much in his life, he didn't know if it was because of his youth or the stress of jacking off to his hero, but this felt and looked like an endless stream of cum. There was so much that he wasn't sure if there was any space to add any water to it, to actually mix the protein... Deciding that his cum was probably watery enough, he took the executive decision to just mix it like that. The end result looked perfect. It had faint purple color. He took a moment to look at his semen-mixed protein shake, before his cock softened enough for him to slip his dick back into his dolphin shorts and start cleaning up this mess. In the end it didn't go down fast enough, so in the most nervous rush he had ever had in his life he got to cleaning and by the time he was done, Garnet was back.
"Oh its looking nice!" She said looking at the boy holding the glass with her shake. "Is it done?"
He nodded.
"Let me taste it then." She said, walking over to him.
He was nervous, but he reigned himself to whatever happened to him. Maybe if he was lucky, she wont notice anything out of the ordinary. Cum is mostly water after all, isn't it?
As she started to drink it, he felt like he had a knot in his throat and his balls clutched tightly. The fear that his cum would be too bitter or too salty for her to swallow it was all over his mind, but none of that seemed to be the case. Garnet just kept drinking it, until she had finished the whole thing in one go.
"Its a bit sweet, but the protein taste is still there. Not bad! not bad at all. Good job peedee!"
"t-thank you" he stammered
"Don't worry, its not the first time i drink someone's cum" she said as she ruffled his hair.
He was shocked, he couldn't believe his ears, she didn't even stutter in front of saying this so casually, so matter of factly. Garnet drank his cum and she knew it.
"Oh please" she continued after seeing him look at her with his mouth agape. "I don't know if you have ever drank your own or someone else's cum, but it has a pretty strong taste. Only a virgin wouldn't have known what it was immediately."
"oh my god" he said, blushing and feeling embarrassed.
"Don't be ashamed of it. Drinking cum is healthy, although i usually prefer knowing and consenting beforehand, but right now what is done is done" She said, giving him one luscious to the bold boy "Besides, cum is a good source of protein, and it has many vitamins"
"it is?"
"It is! but it does have a lot sugar in it" She said, her tone made no effort to hide her arousal "I'm going to have to sweat it off"
"you will?"
"Yeah" she said, as smugly as she was sexy "and you're going to help me"
"i am?"
"Oh yea" She said, with a huge grin in her face "Be honest with me darling, below the counter.... is your cock still out?"
Peedee measured his options, tell her the truth and see what happens. Or lie to her and pray to god she doesn't notice. But as he thought about it, he knew there was no way he could get away with lying to her. Her eyes were fixated on his, she had that look in her eyes, the look that said 'i already know just say it' and so he did, he was truthful to her, and nodded his head quickly to tell her yes without opening his mouth.
"Oh perfect" She said, showing actual glee for the first time. He was used to her stoic internet persona, this was new to him, that expression on her face alone made his cock come back to life and start hardening. Even though she sounded like she may appreciate it, he couldn't escape his shy nature. She continued with "Now that that part is out of the way. Come here, you're helping me get ready"
Already feeling panicked and weird about this whole thing, he awkwardly walked to where she was, coming from behind the counter with his dolphin shorts almost down to his ankles. She immediately saw what she was going to be working with and LOVED IT. It wasn't just big for a boy his age, it was huge, he was bigger than any guy she had ever been with the exception of just one, G.U, that forbidden fruit now married to his sister. It had to be around 10 or 11 inches, and it was half hard already. It was GORGEOUS too, she loved the way it looked, the pink color of the glans and the shape of it, not to mention the fat balls below it, the way that every vein in it seemed like it was placed in the perfect place to appeal to her specifically. She thought that this white boy's cock was a genuine piece of art.
"You're gonna be so much fun" She said, with a huge grin on her face, licking her lips. "Now finish taking those off. And after you do i need you to promise me something"
He rushed to get out of his pants, not just because she asked, but because he left ridiculous going around with pants halfway down his legs. When he finished taking off his shorts and underwear and nothing else, he asked "now, what did you want me to promise?"
"That you won't wear anything below your waist while i'm here"
"What?"
"Fine, I'll be as clear as possible about this as possible. Whenever it isn't hard, I want to see your long, fat, heavy, virile fucking dick swing all over the place any time i see you around, i want to see it slap your knees and move around as you move, i want to notice all your sweat and precum in the ground any time you see me. I want you to beat your meat on a whim and come on ALL my food. And whenever it IS hard, oh god, when its hard, i want you to put it in me with no questions, this moment is the only consent you will EVER need with me, no second thoughts, just you pushing it into any of my holes as hard and far in as it is humanly possible for you. Was I clear enough with what I want you to promise me?"
"Yes, ma'am" he said, with a whole new feeling in his voice, a middle point between extremely aroused and euphoric, AND terrified of how forward she was.
"Good then" she said, giving her back to him, walking to the sofa, leaning forward, sticking her ass as much as she could without falling "Well, what are you waiting for? A formal invitation? Come here and take these off"
He felt nervous about being this close to her, but he moved closer and closer to her. He wasn't used to girls being so forward with him, hell he wasn't used to girls being around him, and now, here he was taking steps to undress his idol. And what an experience it was, his heart was racing, he could hear his pulse on his ears. When he reached her he could feel her heat, and smell her. His mouth started watering at the idea of him getting to have sex with her.
As he got closer, he could see his own breathing. He put his hands on the rim of her yoga pants, and slowly pulled them down. For all he knew, despite her willingness, this may be the last time he does this, so he did it very slowly and admired EVERY detail of her beautiful black skin, all her curves, her ass, her thighs, her back, her hair, and that tattoo on her lower back that she often refused to talk to her fans about. Once they came down past her pussy, he could see it clearly, he was face to face with a realization that could change everything for him. Garnet, his sports and health idol, was wet as all fuck for him. She was dripping like a broken fountain, he could feel the heat coming from her pussy, it was staring him right in the face, and he had to keep himself in check to not just jump in and start eating her out from behind.
Once her pants were in the ground and both of them were bottomless, the first day of the rest of his life truly began. All ceremony to this was lost, he was a short boy, once she turned around, he was face to "face" with her very wet pussy. The smell of her arousal was all over it, and he loved it. She was already soaking wet and it hadn't even been a minute since she last took the drink.
She was wet for him, for him specifically. That knowledge was driving him mad, so he asked "can i eat you out?"
She looked at him with a devious look and savored a short silence before answering with a "no"
"huh?"
"You were a naughty boy today, so for today, you deserve to be punished, so no pussy eating" She quickly turned around and leaned in to pick her underwear, unintentionally (read: very intentionally) giving him a show of all her holes. Once she stood up again, she turned to him and quickly put her damp, wet panties on his face. "There, that's your punishment for today, no eating pussy for today... not that foreplay like that is necessary right now."
He tried his best to pay attention, and to be fair he got most of what she said, but all he could think about was how much these wet panties smelled like her. Like her ass, her pussy and her sweat. It was intoxicating, the smell of it alone made his cock throb with anticipation.
She started walking around the place, letting him see her curves move. Shamelessly showing her sex at every opportunity she could, not only because it was clearly a turn on for her, but because she wanted to make sure he was always aware of what he was going to get to put inside her, she wanted to make sure he always wanted to fuck her as much as she wanted to be fucked by him.
The boy was chomping at the bits for her, at this point she was teasing someone that was more than willing, she knew it and she loved the feeling of making it worse. It made her feel powerful. She went to the sofa and sat upside down, with her legs on the back rest and her head on the cushion.
"C'mon, don't be shy now. Put em right here" she said opening her mouth and sticking out her tongue "boy do i have to tell you everything, be creative"
It was here that he realized something, she asked him to ask no questions, and gave him blanket consent on everything. So maybe it was time to shred this shyness and actually show some initiative... He moved close to her and gave her exactly what she wanted, he put his balls on her mouth, right on her tongue, she started licking them immediately, moving her tongue around them, savoring the taste of sweat and precum that was on them. She was loving the feeling of them, how heavy and full they felt in her mouth, how hot and firm they felt.
Maybe it was the sheer insanity of this situation, the fact that he had a celebrity with over 4 million followers licking and sucking on his balls, maybe it was all of that that was driving him insane, but he was feeling different, he was feeling like he wanted more. But he was doubting himself, just because she said she consented to everything didn't mean that she actually did you know?
However, all that overthinking went away. It all left his mind the moment that she spat his balls out of her mouth, moved her head back a bit and started licking his asshole, all bets were off, his conscious mind was turned off and he became a creature of instinct. He moved away from her face, just away enough to put his cockhead in her mouth, and after giving her just one second to get some air, he pushed his cock down her throat as hard and fast as he could.
He was big and he was rough, and she loved it. He wasn't afraid to use her, he knew what he wanted and he knew he could get it. This was the feeling she loved the most, to be used, to be used and treated like a mere sex toy. Not only that, but he was being rough with her like no one had been before, others were cowards, but he was being a savage, this was going to hurt tomorrow, but today this was the BDSM heaven that she always aspired to ascend to.
The boy was fucking her face and her throat so strongly, that she didn't have enough brain power left to even pretend to care about her personal safety, or some stupid made up concept like dignity. All the hormones and happy chemicals were spreading through her body in overdrive, the sheer pleasure was unimaginable, she didn't need to masturbate, she didn't need to touch him or herself, she came all by herself three minutes in, spraying both of them with what felt like litters of her own squirt.
Peedee was too focused on what he was doing to even notice this, but she certainly did, it was impossible to miss the feeling of her own warm fluids getting splattered all over her stomach and chest. It felt like being showered in success to her. She loved big dicks and confident men, and Peedee had just proved to have both of those things. The moment that he took his dick out of her mouth to have a breather, she moved around the sofa and seated normally. After a bit she started to stress. "That was the best orgasm I've had in a while", she thought to herself, before repeating it to him.
It brought him down to being a person again, he took the compliment and with a confident smile he said "Do you want some more?"
THIS. This was the perfect boy she wanted. A bold, huge dicked, sexually gifted twelve year old. She was practically salivating after he said that.
She answered with a gleeful "yes, please", as he took a step forward to do her, she raised a hand to stop him. and continued with a "one moment though". She walked off and looked through her bag, she found something in it, and skipped back as quickly as she could. She brought with her a small black box. "You know what this is?"
"Condoms?"
"Yeah" She said, rather proud of herself "Just because we are going to go down to pound town for as long as we can doesn't mean we have to be unsafe while doing it". He smiled back at her, despite now seeing her as a fully sexual being, she still had that "health and safety teacher" vibe to her, especially when she said things like that, he guessed that it was as much of a part of her personality as being bashful was a part of his.
She put the condom on his hard dick with the same kind of carefulness and willingness to teach that a Sex Ed teacher would be putting it on a banana. When she was done she kissed his cockhead and said "there you go, now we are ready!", having done that, she laid back on the couch, spread her legs, and let him figure out what to do.
He got on top of her, with his knees on the couch on each side of her thighs, and his hands on either side of her body. With one last look to see if she was actually ready, he pushed himself inside her. The feeling of him pushing into her, forcing her open, pushing her apart, it felt divine, the heat alone was driving her mad, and then there was the feeling of her walls being stretched and molded by him, it was almost overwhelming. It was only his first few pushes and she was already coming again, it felt like her whole body was spasming, her pussy was flooding their crotches with her squirt, it was impossible to keep it all inside.
"Fuuuuck" she said with a deep moan, as her whole body shook He took that as a cue to start pounding her in earnest, he moved in and out of her with the strength and speed of a piston, making her feel like a human fleslight.
She was being a perfect little bitch for him, her moans were like music to his ears, and her pussy was so tight and warm he felt like he could do this forever and never get bored of it. All that exercise she did kept her primed and ready for this, tight as all hell, and warm enough to feel like heaven.
This was the best sex she'd ever had, but after about 40 minutes of fucking like animals and Peedee filling out six condoms in the process, she needed a break, which was like a minute long, which was all the time Peedee needed to replace the latest condom he used, and this time, shove his cock up her ass.
He fucked her like a dog in heat for another hour, he used her to the point of exhaustion, he ignored her when she asked him to stop, and instead fucked her ass until she came twice more. By the time he had his ninth orgasm, her brain was mush, her legs were shaking and she was too tired to move.
She let out a pleasured groan when he pulled out to take off the condom and felt the warm of his jizz when he shot it all over her ass and back. This boy was something special, she really had to ask him if he would want to move things into the bedroom. He said yes, but first went back to the kitchen for some water. After drinking to recover liquids and giving her some for the same reason, he took her arm over his shoulder and practically dragged her into his room. She was so limp and jittery that her legs were practically useless for another five minutes.
Once they were in bed and the energy had returned to Garnet's legs, she picked the boy laying beside her, kissed him with her tongue so deep in his mouth that she could touch his tonsils. In less than a minute, he was already on top of her. They'd been so weird through the rest of the day, that it seemed appropriate to her to end with missionary.
Or it would have been because he told her "Eh, we ran out of condoms, are you sure you want to keep going?"
Maybe it was how horny he made her or some other biological reason like her inner clock begging her to let her womb be used for it's intended purpose, but regardless of the reason she said "Who cares? Lets keep going".
And so, for the remainder of the night, no one could pull him out of her. No matter how tired they got, no matter how many times they came or how many times Garnet's body accepted his seed, they just kept going and going. They fucked for hours, sometimes in silence, sometimes in passion, sometimes in lustful rage. They just kept going like animals.
They were a little more than sore by the end of it. But they didn't care, when it was all done and over, they just cuddled until they went to sleep.
By next morning, Garnet woke up with a clear mind and a body that felt better than it had felt in years. She looked at the body she spent the night with and thought to herself, "oh, right". She took off the sheets and noticed that she was still leaking his cum, she thought "I better do something about that", she stood up and bottomless as she was, she walked all the way back down to the living room to look for her bag. Every step she took on the way there let out a bit more of the genuine littler of cum that was inside her. Anyone could follow the path she took, as her vag let out droplets every two or two steps, which became a puddle after she found what she was looking for.
Her bag had a lot of stuff inside of it, and she had to dig around a bit to find the pills she was looking for. She never traveled without at least one box of plan b. It was better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it, and boy she could feel that she needed it right then and there. But as she went to the kitchen to look for a glass of water to drink it down, she started thinking... "do i really need it?"
She didn't even ponder the answer, she opened the trash can and threw the pill in. Instead, she went back to Peedee's room and asked him "Hey Peedee, do you have a girlfriend?