"Who the fuck is that?"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXrD652vhw8
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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.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdEFYjiFP0r
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"Another photographer," I say as nonchalantly as I can.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0I44Xmth0o
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He chuckles deep in his throat.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZunHyrfilZ
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"Ms Anderson, did I say that I wanted anyone else to come to this... gathering?"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUZvOATMwe
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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.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡafBkDY1RVO
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Well, so do I.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIjVV8VEkfp
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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."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1vkLVxdEG
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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.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcEDW3j9cRR
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"Hello, Leah," he says, shaking my hand with poorly concealed enthusiasm.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmTaPN2ava
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"Shemarré Martin. It's a pleasure to meet you."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jIsw03L9B
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His smile broadens. "Please. Call me Shem."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ46muKiCdak
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As I circle the family reunion several times, taking photographs, Shem passed on whatever he felt necessary to me.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4u9GDAvYha
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"Stay in the background. Make them forget you're even there."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYC1AsksNQx
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"Candids are always better; they speak the truth."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzLXO5vjze
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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."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtZN8TqmpB
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Now, everyone is packing up, and Shem has to leave for his daughter's cello recital. 547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUneDUJH2Xn
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"Um... Shem?" I say, unsure of how to phrase the question that I want to ask.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDoEfOaKcH
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"Yes?"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEm4BivXGLM
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"Um... Why?"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9nYrLTaDgW
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He looks at me as if I'm stupid for a few seconds.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBcI3xWSxNz
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"Huh?"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmgEla5DrX
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"Why did you do it? Help me? You're so busy, but you went out of your wa—"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9P00DcBRBS
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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—"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7fNiLraMkx
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"—and one in a wheelchair," I finish.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYlc5hWpN4j
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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..."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSaw8eRhwxh
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He shrugs, and then looks at his watch. 547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qM60v9YqH
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"Shit! Kelly—"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLFjzuAe22
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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.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg6NukkFKJp
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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.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTvdbhbXSJq
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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. 547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIYt8KmIJ8y
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For the first time, I actually feel intimidated by him.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDWFHW7WL5
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Which means that I have to leave. Now.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ZrPbaYOuC
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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.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB07LIovwEH
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I don't have to look up to know who it is.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4u05657yg
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"I wasn't done speaking to you."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJBrVgGqN7
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"Well, I was." With a shaking hand, I try again to close the door — and he pulls it back. Again.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0yqFYAOYLy
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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?"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkLcMfOu3X
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I gulp. "I have to go—"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDqUGm6gsRq
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"I don't think you have to do shit. I think you're scared of me."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRGQ93Wz5GC
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My face heats up.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFvMyDwVmpO
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"I am not."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjhEaJpPPZ
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He smirks. He knows he just got me.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrSGbsvQMj
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"Prove it."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAYKOknLidl
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With a shaking hand, I push the door open and step out, sealing my fate.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOuUCOMOW3
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"Much better," he says, with a look of approval.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLKykM7itXs
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"Fuck you," I growl, my irritation with this man getting the better of me.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1r2lp5QLHn
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He just smiles at me as if I just said the most beautiful word in the world.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡISfP0uvrAa
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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. 547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMRc5P5FKZ
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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—"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1SmnDuki5
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"I was doing my job—"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrYwU84C3Rl
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"And I get to say who can—"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9TwlQLMyjb
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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!"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYtszO0Kgi
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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.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvK3mTDsyFc
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Dear Leah,547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFw7rwdler
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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.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ507qxAd7Ph
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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.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrK7S1Dga02
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Sincerely,547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNb7C4uiSO4
David.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY9DD1EFsrt
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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.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9GjulXZc2
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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.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTsbMBTH25j
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The door opens before I can knock. 547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAogsJ8vAJI
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"Good morning, Leah." 547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpk8d1UEhZZ
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"David."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOJuWhUEnp
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I take the liberty to sit down on the couch, noting that my photograph now hangs beside the television. 547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWuVbJckjD
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"Beer?"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgo2EaVFQaJ
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"Yeah."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Vizg5jxhb
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And he gives it to me this time.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtdvuPFO3FG
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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.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFSTLtQwIU
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"I... I just want to apologise. Again."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG9MnCW00ZA
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"David, I really don't give a shit anymore."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7urtxELOD0
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He sighs, then looks up at me.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0VlIALTzh7
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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."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd8G0E80wNR
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I'm actually surprised by the sincerity in his voice and eyes. He actually has some degree of decency. Wow.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTG7yo0GfZg
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"I... I accept your apology David."547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTl0gtgGSq3
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His eyes light up.547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnLxA59B7Su
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"Really? So we're friends now?"547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs9w5bbaTyV
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I have to laugh humourlessly at that. Really? Friends?547Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHw5EhfsEaf
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"Not even close."
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