"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.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoKalToaRZ
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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.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfIPkKo4gl0
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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.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFMRsxxFA5
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He's right. 631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOPAXjvY6x
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLyCKwgzWN
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVV2dZUT3yt
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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. 631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTDOK28F93z
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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.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsTLKDm0igR
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGaSgCNqDf
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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.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPxCijfNRVt
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEiJnWPBxq1
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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.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABOJIMGeVn
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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.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxVC8eb5X3
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Dear god. 631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ZEqFoPMAo
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrYDwyOMQy4
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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. 631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD5VdjLbUrw
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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. 631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCQZWmtflL
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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. 631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJQuvqahi5
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi27gSOboRq
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcrf8Wic2ZU
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"See you soon, Leah."631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjKEQWmyzih
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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.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡff8uDnSImW
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSFXEpZ9rgP
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It means that I have to leave. Now.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoyakHdTx9
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I stop speed walking and start running.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUQ78gGYNF
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstaY9E04Vc
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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.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVsqKg1Pz40
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsAOoNBJWH4
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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. 631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDqBpHnBBL6
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyko77qH744
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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.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZBj7Eksj7
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYXwaBReDB
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJX8ToPw2Qs
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhzDblBie48
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For me, anyway.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xL3J8k9Zv
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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."631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMaqkaHmgSe
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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?"631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZ76t3S3mz
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Silence. Then, "Ten."631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52XVp9fkz4
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I hang up the phone.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLE0cKyNGa
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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?631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBbDelTWn1
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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.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡft0z3Gpnrq
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtc4KNYVIRh
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My lucky number. Twice.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfmWp6QUfJU
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ786j4oejhL
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhOgJ7PYaC
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQ8HPp9iKf
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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.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2pSc9QXdg2
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXn78bZI3b4
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWV3IiGWxyc
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6nb6xw9Br
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYa08lFxCbw
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMTiMFEg9OE
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJJFK88JxhN
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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.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf8YXF6oVvl
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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.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡouRtwduwmx
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"What did I do?"631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzuuiDYB18a
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfpFd1Kxk9O
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVenwJJu7dF
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUqXiGPCjB9
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Why is he nervous?631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHGrU8jMRS
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxvFRIkdOM
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"To what?"631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDnqimm0ilG
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXT5ZLtiAT
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpO0m7DS6ye
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I mentally check then reply to him.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvzyu5rKSFo
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"Yeah, why?"631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfeKKh1wwOH
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Silence.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzw6UWxb8Y6
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"David, spit it the fúck out."631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLsbBbFPMGS
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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."631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzS8IzZgym3
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1SJfm9pm7E
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I'm in a daze. 631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVu1ezyXj2
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A wedding.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTCXJJixJZ0
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpdjxASWYEh
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I think I might shít myself.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1iKs7Wv7xW
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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.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGeIb74w2Qa
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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?631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡId7DfJHGB9
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpgxoyDfhAr
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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