"Who the fuck is that?"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJ57Yy0QiW
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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.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1qFi6zmhoO
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"Another photographer," I say as nonchalantly as I can.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAQf587WZc
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He chuckles deep in his throat.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKzqlq7FAkj
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"Ms Anderson, did I say that I wanted anyone else to come to this... gathering?"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPANFqO4Y2
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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.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IC4ZUNBZd
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Well, so do I.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezqNUwzqWj
579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96uW3NK2D9
579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXenlGypYwO
"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."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfw5YTNAnnr
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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.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLlqwiGP979
579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQRxKtvrREv
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"Hello, Leah," he says, shaking my hand with poorly concealed enthusiasm.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnW9LBufgry
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"Shemarré Martin. It's a pleasure to meet you."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnHUSyqXzXB
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His smile broadens. "Please. Call me Shem."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkq7B7z0E28
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***579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8v3LndO0g
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As I circle the family reunion several times, taking photographs, Shem passed on whatever he felt necessary to me.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26k4pfDlhX
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"Stay in the background. Make them forget you're even there."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvXCTtPCtlj
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"Candids are always better; they speak the truth."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZXSXJ02A62
579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2qmHCa3ks9
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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."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAaXncikFhl
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Now, everyone is packing up, and Shem has to leave for his daughter's cello recital. 579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27w8eAEkML
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"Um... Shem?" I say, unsure of how to phrase the question that I want to ask.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡak059wsx96
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"Yes?"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxqOtJBzZ4
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"Um... Why?"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6axm0jroUf
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He looks at me as if I'm stupid for a few seconds.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5l4mk5VtYC
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"Huh?"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeEoMbcANwK
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"Why did you do it? Help me? You're so busy, but you went out of your wa—"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRM02VGg1T
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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—"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxtcNCyMv5
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"—and one in a wheelchair," I finish.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLm6crzGt9
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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..."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJn3GUO9m8t
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He shrugs, and then looks at his watch. 579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSEkLMwj8a
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"Shit! Kelly—"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjTJdfc2Px2
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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.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDAHOHiYR6d
579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh7M0RxXBIK
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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.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFQtgZvIXY
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***579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2cU5fDYVK
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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. 579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF7tmQoGDuJ
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For the first time, I actually feel intimidated by him.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMPXcUrm1XM
579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrgmdyUmTjO
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Which means that I have to leave. Now.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5TRzz7LGL
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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.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJeygyeD6Zq
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I don't have to look up to know who it is.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXG4abvjVRh
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"I wasn't done speaking to you."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4G51PDZTz
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"Well, I was." With a shaking hand, I try again to close the door — and he pulls it back. Again.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwSpvSSRr2z
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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?"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrp9s3k64Qf
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I gulp. "I have to go—"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl7L0jMC9dk
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"I don't think you have to do shit. I think you're scared of me."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ73kHjwrNOS
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My face heats up.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2lecLiTU2
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"I am not."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiOLjzDe66
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He smirks. He knows he just got me.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJNHyNQYsb
579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAyzakOxmUt
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"Prove it."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1ynx9GeTP
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With a shaking hand, I push the door open and step out, sealing my fate.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9WNHM1a6Qq
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"Much better," he says, with a look of approval.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa5j3L8oAZp
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"Fuck you," I growl, my irritation with this man getting the better of me.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3l1OmiSKD
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He just smiles at me as if I just said the most beautiful word in the world.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCUmhqj9Ur
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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. 579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjrKmzNNdHa
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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—"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCEJ9Xa0jLQ
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"I was doing my job—"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYH1xxDOMsS
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"And I get to say who can—"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWw6ghLJcP
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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!"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMDe2iMl2Nc
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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.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhtKCtMFHCx
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***579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJpHxuHtSYy
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Dear Leah,579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7W78qA1Fsu
579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTnS39W3n31
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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.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMc0xVQNnLS
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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.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzRPBY8AKY1
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Sincerely,579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODvHZWqvlS
David.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDaR7hLOVu
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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.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZNvZ7Lw9F
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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.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBBVLBv4B2Z
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The door opens before I can knock. 579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ85Xdryv31R
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"Good morning, Leah." 579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmucXczYuz0
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"David."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUL3KG3GND
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I take the liberty to sit down on the couch, noting that my photograph now hangs beside the television. 579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsgo3fpUkaV
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"Beer?"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1kkKdKTi7m
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"Yeah."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwF9evZrlh
579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ85DJiZzsOh
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And he gives it to me this time.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLquqaIe9Cy
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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.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdnHOaKk0eS
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"I... I just want to apologise. Again."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN9nfRLHlNY
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"David, I really don't give a shit anymore."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡToaJ0o2L86
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He sighs, then looks up at me.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaMFvDL9uur
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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."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81ODSgk2KB
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I'm actually surprised by the sincerity in his voice and eyes. He actually has some degree of decency. Wow.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKuZjGMfRB
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"I... I accept your apology David."579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaH3jt2yC69
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His eyes light up.579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznYGci5DN8
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"Really? So we're friends now?"579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe35O4Qd4lJ
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I have to laugh humourlessly at that. Really? Friends?579Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwfLo6rSmmf
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"Not even close."
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