"Who the fuck is that?"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0eDIw2qpR7
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This comes from Rochester as he watches Shemarré, a man with perhaps the most ridiculous and pretentious name that I have ever heard, walk towards where I am currently standing, surrounded by his family members.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaqzaqe0A8
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"Another photographer," I say as nonchalantly as I can.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8feoQTM70d
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He chuckles deep in his throat.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhgT4MvaZqi
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"Ms Anderson, did I say that I wanted anyone else to come to this... gathering?"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFn5qfssDuy
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I have to hold back my chuckle, because I can hear the anger in his voice. This man does not like to be overruled. He enjoys getting his own way.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0P4upkk7B
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Well, so do I.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgd89sfTah
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"David," I say, emphasising his first name just to piss him off, "you gave me a job, and I'm simply doing it. If you have certain... quirks, you should have had the decency to sit down and discuss them with me, rather than bulldozing me with demands the way you did."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsLzqlUMrvq
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I walk off, and leave Rochester with his jaw ticking and his hand shaking around his glass. I keep walking until I'm face to face with Martin.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFqb7yYApLA
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"Hello, Leah," he says, shaking my hand with poorly concealed enthusiasm.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2OMN7ZIReS
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"Shemarré Martin. It's a pleasure to meet you."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡclVd4TUEE0
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His smile broadens. "Please. Call me Shem."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSs87eWQkLb
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As I circle the family reunion several times, taking photographs, Shem passed on whatever he felt necessary to me.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo2Dc5ULluG
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"Stay in the background. Make them forget you're even there."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDJNnlgIPa
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"Candids are always better; they speak the truth."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7AYUsGkRbK
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"At events like these, the ratio of candids to posed photographs should be approximately ten to one. That should be your aim."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoyGryYgsNb
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Now, everyone is packing up, and Shem has to leave for his daughter's cello recital. 528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcAblH2HJFI
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"Um... Shem?" I say, unsure of how to phrase the question that I want to ask.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUejaAVkTPC
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"Yes?"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xVzbZBGZg
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"Um... Why?"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOdjK9M3ys5
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He looks at me as if I'm stupid for a few seconds.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCD6WMgdFQ
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"Huh?"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfam5x4HHRK
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"Why did you do it? Help me? You're so busy, but you went out of your wa—"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvNNp2ei8Q6
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"I saw one of your photographs at a show two years ago. It was called 'Wheels'; a photograph of two children, playing in a meadow. One on a bicycle—"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8pzSn3G76K
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"—and one in a wheelchair," I finish.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuilL2SYJ92
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"Yes," he says with a smile. "They looked so... happy. I loved how... it was just not what you would expect. Wheelchairs and joy... And I knew that I had to meet you. So when your agent called..."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07lGkRsEJh
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He shrugs, and then looks at his watch. 528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6Sk0uI2w4
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"Shit! Kelly—"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnFIZby6bUU
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"Go," I say, as he walk-runs to his car, in a desperate attempt to not miss his child's recital.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzFOSdiGYe
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I let out a shaky breath, all too aware that David Rochester has been stabbing me with his eyeballs for the past five hours, and I now have no one to protect me.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1niqbi94Or
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Since Shem, drove off approximately three minutes ago, David has been giving me this "you're mine now" look, with a fucking smirk, which, if I'm going to be honest, is starting to creep me the fuck out. 528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbX4sNWQntR
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For the first time, I actually feel intimidated by him.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXreUBhJ7X
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Which means that I have to leave. Now.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb24H540S50
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As soon as I get the chance I sprint to my car, and throw my camera bag onto the passenger seat as soon as I sit. I let out a breath that I didn't know that I was holding, and then go to close the door, which is pulled back.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVmGJVH6oJ
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I don't have to look up to know who it is.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnl1bszsQN
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"I wasn't done speaking to you."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv7c4uC7tO3
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"Well, I was." With a shaking hand, I try again to close the door — and he pulls it back. Again.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgxImFT2oad
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"I think... it would be more... polite to speak to me outside of the car. Wouldn't you agree, Ms Anderson?"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTNi1yJCmFP
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I gulp. "I have to go—"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6y6PXdHHo
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"I don't think you have to do shit. I think you're scared of me."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9hCuBX02NI
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My face heats up.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMSYcAhuSVN
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"I am not."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9Ka0QuV4G
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He smirks. He knows he just got me.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOwoDeNKrtj
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"Prove it."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRt9xj2nNIL
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With a shaking hand, I push the door open and step out, sealing my fate.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6AoB20R170
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"Much better," he says, with a look of approval.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTv3MfVHq4q
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"Fuck you," I growl, my irritation with this man getting the better of me.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhenTUxr8dO
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He just smiles at me as if I just said the most beautiful word in the world.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3xpBXk743M
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"Awe, I never knew that Little Ms Anderson was a potty mouth," he says, caging me in against the car making me feel so... small. 528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1PyEfUb3W
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"Now let me explain something to you," he says dangerously low, his lips against my ear, "when I give instructions, I want them followed. I don't strangers showing up at my events—"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx5t6QOJexq
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"I was doing my job—"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUQCZw7Ztr
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"And I get to say who can—"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJXWHqTxCrq
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"Then don't ask me to do shit for you again! You're so fucking demanding! You can't even wait until the next morning for an answer, and I can't bring anyone along? Fuck you!"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtrVTH5I8E
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I push his right arm out of the way and jump into my car. He's still standing there when I drive off.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WjkvkFFbE
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Dear Leah,528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbWeROB59zC
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I sincerely apologise for my prick-ish behaviour towards you over the period of time which I have known you. I can't promise that I will behave, but I can promise that I will try.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLs03T4HO8g
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I have your cheque prepared — I will be home all day today, so just come by and pick it up. If you want to have nothing to do with me, I completely understand.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYWOGNFpIo
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Sincerely,528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLoHsETVZXq
David.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6q5TKzs7J
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Please note that this is a textmessage that I received from David Rochester at 3:57 a.m. this morning, a text that woke me the fuck up, and the only reason why I am going to his apartment at 9 a.m. on this lovely Saturday is because he has my money.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGS4E4ztjjs
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Briefly, I wonder what the hell his new job would be. No amount of money, however, would see me working with that asshole again.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb5kXMe1GWX
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The door opens before I can knock. 528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnLLJjqYScK
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"Good morning, Leah." 528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6FgTDf5oFO
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"David."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9oBaGXxYp
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I take the liberty to sit down on the couch, noting that my photograph now hangs beside the television. 528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWUO2P5PJB1
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"Beer?"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxNLbBqnxw
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"Yeah."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYc272Jd79D
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And he gives it to me this time.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE5gU4ixNWb
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He flops down in the chair perpendicular to mine, and fiddles with a piece of paper, that looks suspiciously like a cheque.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7oau3uHMX1
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"I... I just want to apologise. Again."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyp3eOF64Zz
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"David, I really don't give a shit anymore."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDVjFRhmNzd
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He sighs, then looks up at me.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZ6ijGhKf6
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"Leah, my behaviour was unacceptable. I can be an asshole and sometimes, I don't realise it, but that's no excuse."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0tc9b6pl7C
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I'm actually surprised by the sincerity in his voice and eyes. He actually has some degree of decency. Wow.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVWKFq8QDhv
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"I... I accept your apology David."528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuoKSOFZLSv
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His eyes light up.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZSp9SpLks
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"Really? So we're friends now?"528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOOgVb8zTi
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I have to laugh humourlessly at that. Really? Friends?528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kQS7z5Uzf
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"Not even close."
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