"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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy5ZKPoXqhz
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYYlNk6c9B
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TRl5TLBV3
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He's right. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7pOxtgtzpt
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHXfdd51lkT
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTtFcXGrua
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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. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcFGG67Ws2
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FxGZhah7q
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡssofzfIy3t
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ38ptc2FD1S
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUIVBmvqBK
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplcFssw0Zz
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU25JW1sATD
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Dear god. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7L1B5sIKX
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyj8qG0kYtS
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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. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6a8Dizibwu
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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. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7lCyLCW9B
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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. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5U3oTUNaRH
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jZch19K4a
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡscHFKDRfHa
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"See you soon, Leah."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0kKVMoD61R
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWv6Ycy5SZ
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHihTRpIw1k
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It means that I have to leave. Now.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfsLvlAczd
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I stop speed walking and start running.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡow3TskW5sw
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrF9xSw3VUQ
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNj7XE5Ed7d
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCALRvyR7HG
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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. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUB1qrsIrKz
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbaXdtcIjN
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMcgYu14CFE
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsp9SRYZGi9
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFD4ScB0oi
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XukAVVOKL
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For me, anyway.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtHtv06WwtS
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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."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3nKorDsQY2
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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?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNspA9tOWa
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Silence. Then, "Ten."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW4YfDOROn4
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I hang up the phone.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOa58URo6DW
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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?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fthD35tGl
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9hMUZlBttu
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6XgIwbqVZ
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My lucky number. Twice.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡadovgov12L
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡksGHF2MNfy
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZfbkEeiSQI
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEWzrfyi8eq
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lgtCQbg8z
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdICqETyXqM
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLfR4QQX3ME
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSsrgxAn39v
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqMqACAKvS
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZAnx9KgoQA
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyZlJrN8zzL
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYd7yG7D1E
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIknNj8EDiI
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"What did I do?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNO1pPW62X
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFU0LNyX2f
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsPJpIMqPl
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTTctsSA2Ud
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Why is he nervous?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHiunVharM
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJca9rRiiL
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"To what?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTwEZv57sY
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN4purtetJe
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXDBoT12Qc
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I mentally check then reply to him.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWPNOg4Ccra
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"Yeah, why?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGfMgCp79oi
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Silence.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt971bW4oL1
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"David, spit it the fúck out."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9GppHjrax8
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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."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kbTHRzi0U
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBp9sM095J
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I'm in a daze. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgx5chG9pJP
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A wedding.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYsR5FyRTSI
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTQe2Drcyym
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I think I might shít myself.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmywPInZyCP
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7W6x6189YT
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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?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtFUNwJHl2U
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJ5XLctZzG
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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