"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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERvhKflPem
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVpmnqnZWcd
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBqkF5ZCx1
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He's right. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa4Z7DFUCx5
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCjjVqXVzs
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMjgZe1tAl5
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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. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5xsPNO43A
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡymFT6tkk4m
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXVhRBGGZUP
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZhhx8wAqb
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXqx2HUBUa
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFErNsDQWq
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt8SzWHHqhA
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Dear god. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQnJWHiI3P3
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GcSLMufWE
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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. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡORuCX5kZe8
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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. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgXhVISbfZ
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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. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqid4oL07v
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL7d5uWSpWQ
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbKEIWSgIa
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"See you soon, Leah."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBuZ4zDtdU8
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYmkIgssUZ
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOl2XRVuRVS
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It means that I have to leave. Now.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmK9tUfTF7C
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I stop speed walking and start running.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhyVg8QtNQu
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgNHzWApTR
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDMpW9lXd4
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0vDmUC9DSa
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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. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNaxYXDnJi8
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtHKmCfsT2g
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWkOJpUIzT
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyTf0s6FZX1
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyN9pamReKz
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG8aqUKIg6j
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For me, anyway.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZob3EvQ6mK
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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."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Ob5i4k3Ob
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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?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8fBndRHJD
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Silence. Then, "Ten."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfXVhaXxLyA
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I hang up the phone.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLZlsuJnSJ
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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?517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhlSPDghSW0
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqyIHZbnd9T
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrB4dFQHDBW
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My lucky number. Twice.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFqg1uEI6P
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt26D7Yfw3U
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXHgeQkzVPQ
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiMg0uWiANj
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN92aDbIVC4
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4gs07s3Lxp
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Ogr5Z1wbd
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJKAdhg9Xw
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtLWpnuRVw5
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdJYJhvmhn
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgstyb4yR3D
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvGhGTv8I7h
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxTtNLpRTeC
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"What did I do?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLIaQjfn59
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxdXPAVBrR0
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy4sma2c9Lm
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcwvkx8ZDMy
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Why is he nervous?517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrat6VGI8LC
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1IFHyLUOv
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"To what?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Mcokj5Miz
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfJQEgbJSo
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO7eWhHUk2H
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I mentally check then reply to him.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSBg5C9TmVB
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"Yeah, why?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWzc6rGbLbq
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Silence.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVvEejzsMl
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"David, spit it the fúck out."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzbIlzGMZvm
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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."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tIVEij7wy
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEgrfhVEIqs
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I'm in a daze. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7BaHp9o78
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A wedding.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe0vZ8L0i5h
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡklGPvZD04m
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I think I might shít myself.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnROHf8jAM
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNEdHgWfzkK
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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?517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTtfycfeYss
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNv2IPLM2VW
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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