"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.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwEhLIVnyiV
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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.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm22NdE2xpA
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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.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEw3fHymXjf
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He's right. 599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccrmnGeAmQ
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWYWHGp5Eqd
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSv1LDhhcYW
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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. 599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSkCeBohKZQ
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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.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE62XAKXeJT
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxiF9GlGcqM
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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.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDj177FSXGp
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81q1KdJkSR
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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.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBQpyaPdhw
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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.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2QfIzjJyP
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Dear god. 599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIxJAWyRSpe
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsLWo6l3pAp
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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. 599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1biwm8ITx
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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. 599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBUma88iEKA
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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. 599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwfe8RcNuB
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnAxxV2gY83
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhqcwAnFKae
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"See you soon, Leah."599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXfz6kxgk1K
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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.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqhQEYfPqmm
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3AmqARx1dS
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It means that I have to leave. Now.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8m3lkzPQJ
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I stop speed walking and start running.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZV6O3NxZC
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gMEDEf2pR
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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.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3TPw71Cc33
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKvpkOAOso
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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. 599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmzOmqq8wJ2
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0we1ng3mLW
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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.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr0nVqGpihq
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAgN6o7473
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8tzsVicEPb
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGfI1Dryrwj
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For me, anyway.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPC7BvB6qj
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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."599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDKPrcIMgBl
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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?"599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAypTfx4yg
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Silence. Then, "Ten."599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtx4OSngHhe
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I hang up the phone.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7jiaMuD8EV
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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?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxghCDvPTq
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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.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18A4adjW0F
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP8ollso9To
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My lucky number. Twice.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhBX142C5Cr
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rbQ1YEU2w
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkuwzyBwOl4
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVwtcoiaHZ
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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.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI9hNSAQ9rr
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYo9yAgb3Th
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHzWPiht0H
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfo7gHu6Sg
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKVCvQZFji
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8ObVwDjoi
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiR5WPH0Gkf
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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.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5HMwzNjfzk
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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.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXM3r0Bzuy
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"What did I do?"599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡit4oLGCGDg
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtajTVs6dk
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGJkQkvBMU
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC5pGxGZ2qi
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Why is he nervous?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDl5Jlpzj0B
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKIBynxI7v
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"To what?"599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrxyae8itD0
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqPhJaM5i7
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCW913E0Iqk
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I mentally check then reply to him.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdPw0Cr1ma4
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"Yeah, why?"599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LuGKtv4YZ
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Silence.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUQFOaIASeQ
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"David, spit it the fúck out."599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuaDkhTJKer
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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."599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNXwRcA9sZs
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdzC6pHGqtX
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I'm in a daze. 599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLBuii2qm7q
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A wedding.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGUpU2mA1O
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡInCs7Ax40Q
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I think I might shít myself.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmde8NCr4z8
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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.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXv9ETT5Oa
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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?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXEf14IPoRa
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnz3eMwGPDg
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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