"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.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsuSpkn6drM
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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.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuilqLMDf9n
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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.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97duPptc6Y
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He's right. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALUmLZcHfk
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrufCtjSDi
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbx10V5DgT
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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. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXVMiW6IGy
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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.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcjQ1gvdJVw
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVC0fBwFunK
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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.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCEcJzlKojH
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLS77GKv1O
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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.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCmoqEAqtCm
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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.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡne2IOOA3Cs
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Dear god. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjuqw4ot2yf
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Ncd35J9eg
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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. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1yUT3yiZEg
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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. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKHgAyIZnk
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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. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUP3P5VJREN
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW2YjF3T0yo
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRCdgiEhFxV
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"See you soon, Leah."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd1kDzFpF84
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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.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVlg9Z7A38
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ky2kYb5D6
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It means that I have to leave. Now.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgINNgaPKve
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I stop speed walking and start running.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bnAAJjiDe
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehBXF6MNDF
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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.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0VxVZw6I6F
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHmtnJjrCPv
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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. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQqPzpQbJT8
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19lFYpxr6B
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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.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA3FrAwn4di
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzWrpueHue1
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgzCAtGpVEa
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡquuzBwMzlS
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For me, anyway.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIcFkPTxvqD
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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."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlV6CUGnWb
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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?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp9gQJjAymK
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Silence. Then, "Ten."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMifWG7s3P
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I hang up the phone.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrfWqG3Mzvh
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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?566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbUhUTzO29
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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.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbcruYqzcPm
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUcqGnsJsb6
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My lucky number. Twice.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQj1Fx7feWw
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡadGDnMTvtP
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFDHj5sYl6
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4F7V0Z6uTW
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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.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe1eJK2hvKt
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWk6ztWtJQO
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxg3JJPCoe
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS1oqa5HGGc
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjtxtiMb0M1
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZb0bdVVGSt
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJW8dkUP6N
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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.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YT39S5tgU
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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.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16yQuhzRHE
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"What did I do?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGgrJWyH9m5
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPGZpMcIfEI
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYQ917vgCO
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2KPktL1ZF
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Why is he nervous?566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWLheXtakXg
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZDrhtfRH9j
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"To what?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MdThxlS5j
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjkbqGk0kv
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3oCnYg7P0k
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I mentally check then reply to him.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzIRQRn3ytY
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"Yeah, why?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoK5RSNLBH7
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Silence.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL1GEyKMVQi
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"David, spit it the fúck out."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQYuYHYGZB
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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."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaPv9ujEbrQ
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpev0RGUDSX
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I'm in a daze. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLH5EkfLdf
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A wedding.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGN8rQKzcYs
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ781DPWJFtO
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I think I might shít myself.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡatndpJe3ng
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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.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpfhw1dm7Ay
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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?566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcbuA5lWhUS
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0cClMp9jNU
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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