Last night was fuckery.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSOZXBmQnMf
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After returning from David's house, I came home to find my apartment in complete darkness. After trying to turn on the light no less than ten times, I chose to believe that the bulb had blown. I walked down the passage way towards my room, stumbling over the box of clothes that I had left right outside my door, and after trying- and failing- to turn on the light in my bedroom, I finally accepted that my light had been cut off because I neglected to pay the light bill. Again.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡivoxLnj0a4
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I had to use my phone to put a picture of my latest photograph on my website before going to bed.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIB9RTKRrdx
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Now, driving my rickety old car, on my way back from dropping off the said box of clothes to the 12 to 17 girls home not too far from my house.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyEFD1z2Aiy
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As I am driving, my work phone rings. It's Marcus.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFeXBr3cMyX
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"Yes, dear?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW4aI27W6cy
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I see you've put up something else on your website. Why didn't you tell me?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJgiFxOnlaP
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I really don't have any time for this shit right now.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVmhPEBprk
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"I put it up last night, using my phone, because my electricity had been cut off due to lack of payment. I was tired. As I am now."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEp0MK83xo
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He sighs, still sounding displeased.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQjxT2ACt7Z
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"Someone saw it and wants it. Wants you to deliver it too. I'll text you the address. It's somewhere in Stony Hill."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4eCoOUrwwm
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"Okay. Does this someone have a name?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNKssq2mq4g
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"Yes. David Rochester."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3qRz5hZGjs
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David Rochester.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHFQZcrPOSz
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It just had to be him, didn't it?522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHaj9oqLzq
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Why couldn't it be someone else?522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5HZqTAA17o
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Why?522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjrd0QuXT0B
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Additionally, if he has a house in Stony Hill, why the hell is he living in a studio?522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBYmOqB0OFr
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These are the thoughts that plague me as I drive my car angrily up the hill towards his address.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8HtHSzFF1
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I park right outside a large, two story house, and push a button on something that looks like an intercom, on the wads beside the gate.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWdWZ6u4aO
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Instead of a voice coming through the intercom, the gates began to open immediately, and I begin walking up the steep drive with the photograph — rolled up this time — over my shoulder.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5NbAheVt68
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When I reach the main house, I see him standing in the doorway with a smile in slacks and a dress shirt. This time, he takes the photograph from me, and envies me in, following me inside the house.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw064JAgJKe
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"I saw your photograph on your website this morning," he says by way of explanation.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdDjJXBk0A
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"How often do you go on my website?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTqa9wkM9vU
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"Every night since the first time I saw you. I found it by googling your name."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdOqMq4jX34
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We reach the living room, and he sinks into the couch. I follow suit.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjtNOYcbMgJ
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"I think I should go home."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcupIDCFeQD
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"Have dinner with me."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnv4IrN9zb4
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We both say this at the same time.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZAMJWA0uvj
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"I think I should—"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPW3dSYUnA
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"Leah, please."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuVNLLINRKv
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"You already apologised."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡViar8eCLXr
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"I know. I want to prove to you that I'm not a complete asshole."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHA8vwD0jT
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I rub my forehead in frustration.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfmpiOPtmDK
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"Why does it matter so much to you?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy6q0v1tEof
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"I like you. You're interesting, and I want to get to know you better."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7NfskpuBWb
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I look up, grasping just how crazy this man is.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLa92cuntDl
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"You ordered my painting and called me up here to eat dinner with me."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFBXhxSD8R
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He just shrugs. 522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK8QoPh2Cic
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"I knew that you wouldn't come any other way."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2HxoGM0PCd
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I close my eyes and take a deep breath. When I open them, he's staring at me, waiting patiently.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0MWQmgBCl
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Why the hell not?522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2KA7iM6Cs
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It's true. I have nothing else to lose. I didn't pay my electricity bill today; the bank was too full, so my apartment I still completely dark.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9P7CR4Rx8z
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"Okay. Under one condition."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ91PtRflWV1
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"What?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jES8zIjKA
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"I get to charge my laptop."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMv1OAhBFNW
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David an I sit beside each other at his dining table, eating pasta and talking. So far, I've learned that his favourite colour is red, his favourite animal is a dog (hence he just bought a photograph of three dogs dressed as a ballerina, an Ashanti tribe member, and a Chinese princess), and that he hates cockroaches (like me).522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFJ1eqdF8r
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It actually isn't that bad.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYK0BlJTTYj
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"So... tell me about yourself."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFB1f6jjnZR
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"What do you want to know?" I ask. There isn't really much to know about me.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTdKZ8Na4Z
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"How did you become a photographer?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiumubow89T
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I chew my lip, wondering how much I should say. He looks at me, waiting patiently.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbJwnttoLma
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"I had a photograph in my bedroom of my mother as a child. It was so beautiful; black and white. She had her eyes closed, head upturned.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7G9745f6c7
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"When I was fifteen, our house burned down. Ever since then I've been trying to to produce a picture even half as beautiful as that one."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYL7Sb7zzWp
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He nods, obviously thinking about something else.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2MvwX3538
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"Because of how you view that photograph, you'll only be able to achieve that goal using something of great emotional value to you."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoAmQ6BFfHU
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I know this. The only problem is that the fire took more than the house and picture from me. My mother was all I had, and she died in that fire. Since then, I've never been able to connect with anyone.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08UvFZwZwn
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"I know," I say with a sigh.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hlkJTEKHV
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He shifts the conversation to a better topic — my favourite colour, which also happens to be red — as we finish our meal.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZ7ZWEsqDq
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Once I'm done, he offers me a glass of red wine, but I decline.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8fFyoKmLq3
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"I don't like red wine," I reply.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuwFLGCJtb
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"I'll make a note of that for next time," he says as he walks me down the hallway.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2MrpMMKwaD
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Next time?522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbbw1izMX4
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"So," he says, a small, nervous smile on his face as he opens the door for me to leave, "friends?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDdohXHigR
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I give him a small smile of reassurance. He's actually not so bad, and I don't want him to think that I hate him.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQGwJFJvJZZ
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"Friends."
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