"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.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu88okKGCwd
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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.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7709n7Ypjl
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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.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXrjjbEZsf
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He's right. 527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCws7ODOwWj
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPe7hqbb6tp
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS6bGGd5Eus
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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. 527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYdfLorSEY
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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.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOepTy3qehd
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg68pxxKB5o
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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.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbcqIXXlYU7
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoAS99HnRPD
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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.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT1g1HZdytt
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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.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ851p0UFeBm
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Dear god. 527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJsV5xgPgb
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeRF1rs0GWH
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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. 527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIlxY49uXPB
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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. 527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDm4Iq8dzvN
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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. 527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr3FvS3rSl4
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6MXUhGem1m
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF62Amn7xOj
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"See you soon, Leah."527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡunKxqQ9GS8
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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.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSbMcQluMWu
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDsCLDz9L9c
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It means that I have to leave. Now.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsJKD3WKdOP
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I stop speed walking and start running.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqKSRy57XkQ
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTQ6DBdrKmW
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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.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEdvgGusPUJ
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhPUNribGRo
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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. 527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdPJYOFEqmj
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuM4Hpjbeg9
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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.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHk0qWJ9NrB
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUUn2iWXFSj
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2U7Jo77U41
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbGqX1IxXB
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For me, anyway.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPirC4ijZm
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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."527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7iNCciyVjc
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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?"527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUDy1MmBvH
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Silence. Then, "Ten."527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMewNbfwcXz
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I hang up the phone.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFdimP5j2P
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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?527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJmuh4RegS
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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.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBykUSezy5
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxRX4B4gR60
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My lucky number. Twice.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41K9JyEPkr
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnXxru3q43
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0CQ6Hb7B6Y
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgmecnQy4GY
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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.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6rrm1sDxX7
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5KhLFMIxy6
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI5WkXXrn9w
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIPADYrPpOw
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrrlG2rUcOn
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE7r251paMj
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwsAouhXUzP
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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.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ46XKzXXdQP
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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.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcbBVQQia96
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"What did I do?"527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5eJ2tcm84
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnu5YuL4Sy
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsnwo8UYOrJ
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgyQIQD2GzW
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Why is he nervous?527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlJFQwBP1Y
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWHzM1rLPh
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"To what?"527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Tyr6mfJyR
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrWBOrSZsW6
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp7WWlU5Nhs
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I mentally check then reply to him.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJBLpP3yAAe
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"Yeah, why?"527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZlv6OLA1h4
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Silence.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkp1sL3s8fN
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"David, spit it the fúck out."527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtgk1MDFFZ
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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."527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jMOapsViq
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZcXflQH9f4
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I'm in a daze. 527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgdiQu8Z4Zd
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A wedding.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoWatRImuVS
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCpWkPhz5L
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I think I might shít myself.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfz5t1M5m7X
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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.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqhF8zKIbX8
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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?527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87DeaT7k70
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.527Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpoGYynjAZ2
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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