"Who the fuck is that?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqmupOhUSh7
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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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQN9YQ201fY
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"Another photographer," I say as nonchalantly as I can.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6IQ8MUjaW
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He chuckles deep in his throat.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Gx9tKDTYy
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"Ms Anderson, did I say that I wanted anyone else to come to this... gathering?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6yy7HLrfC
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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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQnKRGCXonz
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Well, so do I.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHvwU24Pr5p
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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."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7oDTkXk08K
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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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8Ax09Jc8w
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"Hello, Leah," he says, shaking my hand with poorly concealed enthusiasm.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCOJbkXL8zT
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"Shemarré Martin. It's a pleasure to meet you."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS7TAEy08hK
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His smile broadens. "Please. Call me Shem."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIkYytfjX68
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As I circle the family reunion several times, taking photographs, Shem passed on whatever he felt necessary to me.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOCLftwYfA
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"Stay in the background. Make them forget you're even there."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuG0y2lYvE0
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"Candids are always better; they speak the truth."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXJDbzup3i
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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."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshNNlDWzXP
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Now, everyone is packing up, and Shem has to leave for his daughter's cello recital. 504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURcMTPifbL
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"Um... Shem?" I say, unsure of how to phrase the question that I want to ask.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyPFY1ez5AQ
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"Yes?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnM0PA0Qlub
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"Um... Why?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuurlInpiL
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He looks at me as if I'm stupid for a few seconds.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2FgMPZkWSe
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"Huh?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZvTrKEwP6e
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"Why did you do it? Help me? You're so busy, but you went out of your wa—"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYi92U1JZy
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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—"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNO84x0m9G6
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"—and one in a wheelchair," I finish.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ivTTRt0dw
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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..."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhXVvhPdjsd
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He shrugs, and then looks at his watch. 504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4JT37RPw8
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"Shit! Kelly—"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLf64vlmJVd
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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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3soSfyRz2
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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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1cDnGOH0ju
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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. 504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUeJ24Qznuk
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For the first time, I actually feel intimidated by him.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt7wQbMAZyB
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Which means that I have to leave. Now.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtUJxbQtESz
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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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnBlULK6BX9
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I don't have to look up to know who it is.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHiCE7u7blA
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"I wasn't done speaking to you."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvHHHJ2gES
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"Well, I was." With a shaking hand, I try again to close the door — and he pulls it back. Again.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqtjtSwoaen
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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?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDWkMg7UgG
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I gulp. "I have to go—"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYbeAr2RQcP
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"I don't think you have to do shit. I think you're scared of me."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT77saTU9Su
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My face heats up.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6x2nSPtJ0
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"I am not."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlZSf3sST0
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He smirks. He knows he just got me.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4MKuineBRF
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"Prove it."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lCCEtEuVe
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With a shaking hand, I push the door open and step out, sealing my fate.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLAKFkVgkyR
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"Much better," he says, with a look of approval.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX7ltqfjtaM
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"Fuck you," I growl, my irritation with this man getting the better of me.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGBduTMSlmU
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He just smiles at me as if I just said the most beautiful word in the world.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqDPR8JelF8
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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. 504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7IG5QQ043G
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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—"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ufJBiEPl1
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"I was doing my job—"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYEmysJkEQf
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"And I get to say who can—"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIYR01BG2bR
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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!"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMQUeO99pNG
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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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWKAlFUedOB
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Dear Leah,504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPN0ywS1UBq
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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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP0q5VCdaiY
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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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGrpvFlE7TA
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Sincerely,504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUg18YTbftA
David.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy86B6SVh6O
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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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPkDuNgpU1j
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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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn2kInALeLW
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The door opens before I can knock. 504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLHHgtSuXeX
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"Good morning, Leah." 504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQP9BazUzXj
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"David."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRIzb22LwrJ
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I take the liberty to sit down on the couch, noting that my photograph now hangs beside the television. 504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7Fx9xttjY
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"Beer?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsV9dPcvc5E
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"Yeah."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz0Fc1zDDfh
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And he gives it to me this time.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIM1JfLaWsD
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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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtWo5dEsPU
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"I... I just want to apologise. Again."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImhcbd2f9P
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"David, I really don't give a shit anymore."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZzcb74xRK
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He sighs, then looks up at me.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡagdmresXk3
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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."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4kIVEhsMfI
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I'm actually surprised by the sincerity in his voice and eyes. He actually has some degree of decency. Wow.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3IDGX2HCq
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"I... I accept your apology David."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jGBNWUnx1
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His eyes light up.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqyBYVxqq5
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"Really? So we're friends now?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqOIIeD1Ek9
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I have to laugh humourlessly at that. Really? Friends?504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuWRSgrbAGU
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"Not even close."
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