"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.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJBJ11NfsG
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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.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2JOhNtbSV
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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.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmQGwqPtSQ
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He's right. 654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRrRUShehZE
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfEVASBQ4lR
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjcczj91NEV
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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. 654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg1hrMxnGTG
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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.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8ZKcHt7vD
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXxehr587ia
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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.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtpRaHlKayV
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ1rQVPo2xi
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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.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLzRqFzdHjT
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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.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXcZiYhpzV4
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Dear god. 654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlQ2Cf0wPl
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BowgmKsyO
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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. 654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOwFFtivdx
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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. 654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQZZ8BSqk5
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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. 654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz66tyje49a
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6yJE1q9tqQ
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMngAGJbtWk
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"See you soon, Leah."654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbeLVQzt7bO
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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.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzOnvA1UxEO
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWH4W1i9krd
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It means that I have to leave. Now.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWamd7xMVGI
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I stop speed walking and start running.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa31FJMXCH8
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ5WvF1naAT
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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.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnGfvbqJ7D
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqqh0OobTR
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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. 654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB8MjaHJJOC
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxKrd2Zoloe
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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.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsD1Lz1h44Q
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKv6V4ne8wG
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKDX6Ao3GQ
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3UOxqXqMrr
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For me, anyway.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjhZ89HLyXR
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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."654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBj3eypw6G7
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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?"654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6k0IeZW7I
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Silence. Then, "Ten."654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtzDccWjW2Z
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I hang up the phone.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfMPPSWzVb
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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?654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp035NVU0Kq
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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.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXKojpC5nn
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNeAnC61bs7
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My lucky number. Twice.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB01Ee2jRLG
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9Hh6Ygmnr
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Vu43llsG7
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpBL1ixatdx
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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.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGwPPfZD8UG
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmN4pqz4fTD
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvLfPG3jErT
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL0W2OFGJdi
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeFywr29UlB
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMiHBNxOkfh
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzdz95VJvsV
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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.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMidkngexkx
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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.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vgmqvfeW1
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"What did I do?"654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ysKo3qdDM
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzhc3M3t7If
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44X4fmmQBA
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ93xsKFlIUN
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Why is he nervous?654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucjjJUOGQG
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDewWDntEJa
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"To what?"654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMISDxvvC0E
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLQDt82G5O
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkrsE2agpez
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I mentally check then reply to him.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb48wUAPQAK
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"Yeah, why?"654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LCGWb7GzI
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Silence.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUj8IbwfGWL
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"David, spit it the fúck out."654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSponWZygkE
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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."654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCviZm4lrPb
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpWQb8PvCJo
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I'm in a daze. 654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrc6QPXrdCR
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A wedding.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN13Ri3QAP6
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy4WwHwW3vr
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I think I might shít myself.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbo5AUOKwEi
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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.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcg9DqzMpMi
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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?654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNC2CvpDq8
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb68t7407xq
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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