"Don't you find it curious that both our homes have leaks?" I ask while lying down, staring at the ceiling. We're lying down on opposite sides of the bed.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTWvCsg1EFl
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"I fixed it. I figured that you'd be staying over more, and I thought that you may not... uh..." He seems as if he doesn't know how to word his feelings.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3EuLHD3vp
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"Want to sleep in the same bed as you?" I say, completing his thought and putting him out of his misery.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2CMrGbu2g
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He's right. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcIvBHAOrU8
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT90fGVKWZz
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMW3bwd4lY
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Things always get complicated somehow, and eventually, feelings develop. Not on my part of course; I'm so cold, I'm beginning of o believe that I can't fall in love. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwj4JGQoQ0n
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However, the subject of my lúst always ends up developing these feelings for me, and I always feel guilty for not being able to reciprocate them.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnVc9GINS32
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJRNiRozXt
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After this happened with my first two fúck buddies, I stopped the whole 'cuddling and sleeping in the same bed' thing altogether.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYOECTChmYB
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkXiaj5cOiQ
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I get up and start to get dressed, panties first, but I hear his low voice, dripping with séx, and freeze, then turn to look at him.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUix0TWu3X
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"You sure you don't want to stay a little longer?" he asks, that naughty grin creeping onto his face again. I am officially turned on again, and I know that he can tell; he's looking at me as if he's already won.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9mFym7zbM
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Dear god. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgFlWx2PWy
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhD8mp6Mj7r
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I try to sound strong, but I know that I sound like a weak, tempted creature, denying itself of a basic need. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfpNSWLjX1x
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I dress myself in a haste, putting on my shorts backwards and my shirt inside out, and he doesn't even try to hide the fact that he's laughing at me. Doesn't matter. Right now, I just need to get the héll out of this house. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvHspmHFNY
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"Well, goodbye," I say, once I'm dressed, as I turn to leave and speed walk out of this bítch as fast as I can without it qualifying as running. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZkvDyMd2k
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBRjXXfAD9p
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJhHeJtbGS
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"See you soon, Leah."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBka5zLsRE
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The way he says it, especially the way he says my name, is a promise that he will fulfill my sexuál desires.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkMbtfOWBhF
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNS7JYAvVk
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It means that I have to leave. Now.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3hmaG6Tsl
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I stop speed walking and start running.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiMztpW7f91
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***570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7iwdFMtQsT
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIwGcAlWVWj
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The last event I worked at was the "Water Party". I have to admit, that was educational and fun, so I didn't mind. Before that, there was David's family reunion, which I was only going to do because I really needed the money at the time; I was just about broke, ready to go into my savings account to buy food. Dragging Shemmaré along was an afterthought, but it made it less painful.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQdRdvikKf
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqbqtJ3ukNP
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The only event that I love to photograph is weddings; I think they're beautiful. Every wedding is different, and the setting alone is like a piece of art. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtcQAUFnTIf
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxN2I9bq19z
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However, I've never been paid to photograph a wedding; I always bring my camera and take pictures at the weddings that I'm invited to, but ironically, I've never been employed to work at the only event is that I'd want to work at.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2cIIthYCg
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jnSgWdD9P
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo85ApF6s1I
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpHfami7II
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For me, anyway.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGR2BcC3w1K
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"Just keep going to these events until your work becomes recognised. You'd have a lot more money if you weren't so stubborn, you know."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIO8lzsLvqR
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"You know I don't like this," I growl into the phone. "And how much are they giving me? Twenty? Thirty?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJK0xHtpzb
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Silence. Then, "Ten."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZaDS8DkgNA
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I hang up the phone.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbPhxh5YoS
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He expects me, Leah Anderson, to stand up at a five-year-old's bashment all day, using my camera wasting my battery life for ten thousand dollars?570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU2RjGfpuIZ
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Obviously, he's lost his goddámn mind; and he needs to find it instead of telling me bullshit about doing an event for ten thousand dollars.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9gV0KBjcei
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3UKz1WhfNZ
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My lucky number. Twice.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUPafS10C9
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEf4dUfd1kN
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡreGZZYNGxn
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3RbKtMboMd
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I know that that voice in my head is right, but if Marcus is really going to try to convince me to do an event, he could at least try to raise the price, or find someone else.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5QYGaNRj8J
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZFNTHpcX4z
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYjKN9LYqw
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9uFkZfxZFi
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO40cpxQpdq
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdFgF7D0fTp
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOHFX6xKg9
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I sit down, on the edge of my bed, placing a hand to my pulsing temple, trying to calm myself down, when my phone rings again. I'm ready to decline the call, when I glance the caller ID.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx5JPdmrvbD
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"Hello?" I say, trying not to make my annoyance leak into my voice. However, if this is a booty call, I am going to throw my phone into the wall.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTPq0t6e9Ho
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"What did I do?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj72HXeGbDD
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhjWGYwAuBa
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPftYph2Wnx
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0L3OplpKN8
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Why is he nervous?570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlxeJPTa3R
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5M2kN02sR
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"To what?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LzwSCSfAH
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡui4D4mXjjO
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVn5Q1jreFw
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I mentally check then reply to him.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfAxbfqKHR
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"Yeah, why?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ51R3mi5edD
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Silence.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡikyCjazRDq
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"David, spit it the fúck out."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWOGPwJjqqQ
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"Okay. My brother's getting married, and didn't think to book a photographer. And now he's asking me to do it for him."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAG9GNMBtSY
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP6NHwWKf8k
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I'm in a daze. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRa2ENRd4B
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A wedding.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNCtjUY0k4
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPva4hjsFg
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I think I might shít myself.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFW4ZzJZjO
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"Leah? Hello?" he says, reminding me of his presence, of where I am: in my bedroom, on my bed, and not atop of one of the cumulus clouds outside.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHqNKdJ75ar
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To be honest though, I am. I never expected this; its like an early Christmas present, and who am I to turn that shít down?570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo494NB0P2i
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM0u2U30ZIa
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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