"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.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4gyDuE6smZ
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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.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUTM6qDgrx
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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.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4VAqRyhTho
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He's right. 614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUrPvVZnW6
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZ8D9hNHDO
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUxE8SYD9pY
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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. 614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGjslQ0jOP
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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.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2KNYTQHLrP
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZI8GTJfzhy
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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.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhI1nhzMjt6
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkrwZtghsN
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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.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6VWIGDzSN5
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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.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lXCSnyihL
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Dear god. 614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡASQVm3tX65
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrsYwn2UBK3
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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. 614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdiCzgDl7vg
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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. 614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8IB02YniX6
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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. 614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSlr7cPcP8
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeo0YSB0By2
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTWrmA1JtuK
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"See you soon, Leah."614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSiXRIz1k7n
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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.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSQ8JqadEap
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNMrbzrpbjp
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It means that I have to leave. Now.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPi0lNY3Bt
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I stop speed walking and start running.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhqL4R2PaWg
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA8ulOuLH7D
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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.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7mVoVIAbk
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuDrYvTcHPn
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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. 614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3ZiJrOFrn
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi4pDR10d6c
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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.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBCc01rVNF3
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd9uZBtwBKz
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexj9RSzTtU
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGwkNyjXQiJ
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For me, anyway.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7hq09A5or
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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."614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGKPxZAYF1
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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?"614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGiTPuqYh7r
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Silence. Then, "Ten."614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxwJyYGBaBU
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I hang up the phone.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQA7QjpRzb
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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?614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuwfyVwkIX5
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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.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeL8rFSmdBD
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpBxtfg5wez
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My lucky number. Twice.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2cHrvEPM7k
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCMFoEvUfv
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoRYESQMFXl
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ou54gWTp5
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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.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP87yatVRjD
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkdc7Sv43r
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJsPlnbgsO
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMstx7YRX2P
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiyqjJ1Cd1H
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5qk9eWYdjP
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfXJg6PNQa
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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.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPZVAdLFsz
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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.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkieV62D5gi
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"What did I do?"614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDdtAOKk1FH
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJLEn67YPxf
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWRXCiBxlTb
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSKpEOjxgc
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Why is he nervous?614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNYMzOeTnVu
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcHEQD7WWp
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"To what?"614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ4O4UsSwuD
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSHaGHuP2o
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnBfVpYtlAL
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I mentally check then reply to him.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Xgz9slC8r
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"Yeah, why?"614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrtI3tjqiz
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Silence.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzN5g5Iw4TP
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"David, spit it the fúck out."614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5wkxnpD1GK
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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."614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPrKR3Mtdfo
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCBsejctofq
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I'm in a daze. 614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Eyzj1J6de
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A wedding.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyTdbC2b1lX
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ157Zni5Rpf
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I think I might shít myself.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8FDCCY8AU
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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.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Rlw12WrIA
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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?614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVnvit2eGf2
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.614Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOoXJBo8oW9
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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