"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.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfB7RRdOvDP
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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.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB1lp8MgWYi
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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.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIb524v873
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He's right. 652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi31et7s5BL
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCiQSVS6Qwf
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpo7el7T8Eb
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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. 652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfw6AN1UPQR
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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.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1RYI6RvMU
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy99gar0SEo
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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.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEt0ytWaecz
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnr58f5TcFt
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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.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5GhmnESn7o
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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.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡntyrQKuedU
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Dear god. 652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvk6gPoOQg
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡscfXno68jM
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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. 652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJArjONV3J
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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. 652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1G4kK7Hbq
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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. 652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3EHFinRPCv
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DNTgGyVdz
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxnEWrWXcG
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"See you soon, Leah."652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOhsLuTQcXz
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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.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqe3NLlgHn
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ59f55RNgMg
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It means that I have to leave. Now.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTcjSmLQqEE
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I stop speed walking and start running.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtGv1H5GlC6
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***652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBImFGsHseJ
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyFykpgHIAV
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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.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjLd1mmOe3s
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1XN6y6bWhJ
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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. 652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡib4awvqQko
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYnQyL6ZhJI
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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.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojvwkousUN
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZo9poMUzcE
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpQrnYv4zZd
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzDN2ChtYz
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For me, anyway.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9M6wK9AAuJ
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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."652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0RQjQ7xwK2
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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?"652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvo4Pl6Qa4D
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Silence. Then, "Ten."652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBTzlVAW7nh
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I hang up the phone.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtSRvMbvfs
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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?652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgnD5mqNnMX
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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.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4eQGtjQGAZ
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgtylDj7JO
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My lucky number. Twice.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEH3QHyImJ
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqOqzxz0Htf
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgcBKQ5abOE
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3NiKCMdii3
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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.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDql0T7c2a
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJrBoresCm
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYDyMRrg8B
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡykgVFDFcx7
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQPcxQSKpR
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr3JeJsbZR8
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYNwWaMOg8
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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.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRWMg5XC0e2
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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.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6PTMUqJYrO
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"What did I do?"652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6LAb5yX7O3
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwmoZT2t3jo
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHgtN2wgod
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4lQeUxOWt
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Why is he nervous?652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTpimGhpPM
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlSXoA1BNt6
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"To what?"652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8yuH67tOAJ
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR6v8rKKAeR
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlmRUb8drrX
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I mentally check then reply to him.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5lTryxUbB
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"Yeah, why?"652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoyr3ixbQwt
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Silence.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmdZbKX9iT
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"David, spit it the fúck out."652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhgyBC7KtqL
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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."652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9fXT4d9i9c
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQCxtqeVTB
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I'm in a daze. 652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf8uhAVIBV8
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A wedding.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP9q60cRaL2
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyb4MAI3IKA
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I think I might shít myself.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjzQeqcI6hA
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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.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcN3FSNX9hT
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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?652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wECSnjTCg
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.652Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQgUiXnT66
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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