"Who the fuck is that?"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFDJK5oJ8pl
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This comes from Rochester as he watches Shemarré, a man with perhaps the most ridiculous and pretentious name that I have ever heard, walk towards where I am currently standing, surrounded by his family members.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfLpf51vdlw
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"Another photographer," I say as nonchalantly as I can.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVULDah9Moj
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He chuckles deep in his throat.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhjIgIw271Q
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"Ms Anderson, did I say that I wanted anyone else to come to this... gathering?"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH69pViDnw0
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I have to hold back my chuckle, because I can hear the anger in his voice. This man does not like to be overruled. He enjoys getting his own way.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjIrSVT9mX
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Well, so do I.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpS9RTJlEXB
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"David," I say, emphasising his first name just to piss him off, "you gave me a job, and I'm simply doing it. If you have certain... quirks, you should have had the decency to sit down and discuss them with me, rather than bulldozing me with demands the way you did."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2MIfvf9aHG
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I walk off, and leave Rochester with his jaw ticking and his hand shaking around his glass. I keep walking until I'm face to face with Martin.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDF3YUlJwI6
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"Hello, Leah," he says, shaking my hand with poorly concealed enthusiasm.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xiiRLgiHE
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"Shemarré Martin. It's a pleasure to meet you."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJgVR3hfrp7
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His smile broadens. "Please. Call me Shem."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1iXO09TMjS
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As I circle the family reunion several times, taking photographs, Shem passed on whatever he felt necessary to me.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYZqOHBhjF
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"Stay in the background. Make them forget you're even there."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpP6JvJ5sBh
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"Candids are always better; they speak the truth."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVIIZAmJV5f
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"At events like these, the ratio of candids to posed photographs should be approximately ten to one. That should be your aim."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7WJlCdHQlr
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Now, everyone is packing up, and Shem has to leave for his daughter's cello recital. 583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0eUyFNxwfX
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"Um... Shem?" I say, unsure of how to phrase the question that I want to ask.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgLt0zWajx
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"Yes?"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGWpzfO5S5C
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"Um... Why?"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7qC7VYiu8w
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He looks at me as if I'm stupid for a few seconds.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaiKXAi1XTm
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"Huh?"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8c5yl6nVWl
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"Why did you do it? Help me? You're so busy, but you went out of your wa—"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCI84eiYtMN
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"I saw one of your photographs at a show two years ago. It was called 'Wheels'; a photograph of two children, playing in a meadow. One on a bicycle—"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqNpT5GY0U
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"—and one in a wheelchair," I finish.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAanmHLZqwV
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"Yes," he says with a smile. "They looked so... happy. I loved how... it was just not what you would expect. Wheelchairs and joy... And I knew that I had to meet you. So when your agent called..."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXKTgwi1bBo
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He shrugs, and then looks at his watch. 583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV98tiokq7j
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"Shit! Kelly—"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vtpk2q6ih
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"Go," I say, as he walk-runs to his car, in a desperate attempt to not miss his child's recital.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡED65vPodIs
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I let out a shaky breath, all too aware that David Rochester has been stabbing me with his eyeballs for the past five hours, and I now have no one to protect me.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY4s8nuqDEZ
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Since Shem, drove off approximately three minutes ago, David has been giving me this "you're mine now" look, with a fucking smirk, which, if I'm going to be honest, is starting to creep me the fuck out. 583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ39RvVjrJ6x
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For the first time, I actually feel intimidated by him.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMkO8CMsoJD
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Which means that I have to leave. Now.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMftLUM7zB
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As soon as I get the chance I sprint to my car, and throw my camera bag onto the passenger seat as soon as I sit. I let out a breath that I didn't know that I was holding, and then go to close the door, which is pulled back.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8wv1igaJfn
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I don't have to look up to know who it is.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLe7LyyhCRQ
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"I wasn't done speaking to you."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZBhk9HPV9y
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"Well, I was." With a shaking hand, I try again to close the door — and he pulls it back. Again.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Teya3klsa
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"I think... it would be more... polite to speak to me outside of the car. Wouldn't you agree, Ms Anderson?"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUKRPJ8njb
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I gulp. "I have to go—"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1MljIjxLH
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"I don't think you have to do shit. I think you're scared of me."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejdUy0FRee
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My face heats up.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6iDNLN5c9Y
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"I am not."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EtdBhr2WZ
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He smirks. He knows he just got me.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrK7NqTbS8b
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"Prove it."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIu1HRvMxz4
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With a shaking hand, I push the door open and step out, sealing my fate.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbk3MTMiR1R
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"Much better," he says, with a look of approval.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWD8erfdTp0
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"Fuck you," I growl, my irritation with this man getting the better of me.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEuHFQDodR7
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He just smiles at me as if I just said the most beautiful word in the world.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0SqcafOUAc
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"Awe, I never knew that Little Ms Anderson was a potty mouth," he says, caging me in against the car making me feel so... small. 583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwCEVOWNNT2
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"Now let me explain something to you," he says dangerously low, his lips against my ear, "when I give instructions, I want them followed. I don't strangers showing up at my events—"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuH4JOOQyHz
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"I was doing my job—"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡktqISeqWIA
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"And I get to say who can—"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWrS8OU3bvO
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"Then don't ask me to do shit for you again! You're so fucking demanding! You can't even wait until the next morning for an answer, and I can't bring anyone along? Fuck you!"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfDOQY5yll
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I push his right arm out of the way and jump into my car. He's still standing there when I drive off.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡubQGeKHLha
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Dear Leah,583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7z6vAB07sh
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I sincerely apologise for my prick-ish behaviour towards you over the period of time which I have known you. I can't promise that I will behave, but I can promise that I will try.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdHVD560lSP
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I have your cheque prepared — I will be home all day today, so just come by and pick it up. If you want to have nothing to do with me, I completely understand.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTIwtZbkUSu
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Sincerely,583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmyPftA2si
David.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvEpSppwmS
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Please note that this is a textmessage that I received from David Rochester at 3:57 a.m. this morning, a text that woke me the fuck up, and the only reason why I am going to his apartment at 9 a.m. on this lovely Saturday is because he has my money.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhq4anCvq4H
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Briefly, I wonder what the hell his new job would be. No amount of money, however, would see me working with that asshole again.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsRKxIjffSo
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The door opens before I can knock. 583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOpgKMKRNx
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"Good morning, Leah." 583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqXK9ePuQn
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"David."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡroYdRwW38X
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I take the liberty to sit down on the couch, noting that my photograph now hangs beside the television. 583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWHiGLkDNK7
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"Beer?"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYVMBuIMEB
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"Yeah."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLbZlhOEzP4
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And he gives it to me this time.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUeJnJ3r5hC
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He flops down in the chair perpendicular to mine, and fiddles with a piece of paper, that looks suspiciously like a cheque.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsjeeewiKBo
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"I... I just want to apologise. Again."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTOeFeVxSxY
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"David, I really don't give a shit anymore."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbyV0NZP5fg
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He sighs, then looks up at me.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDx4v0oc3r
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"Leah, my behaviour was unacceptable. I can be an asshole and sometimes, I don't realise it, but that's no excuse."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHJIvTQwnl
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I'm actually surprised by the sincerity in his voice and eyes. He actually has some degree of decency. Wow.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDlfy1n6YJn
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"I... I accept your apology David."583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVJJTWTPWoF
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His eyes light up.583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRy8yLjWAP5
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"Really? So we're friends now?"583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4cVU5YBOvo
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I have to laugh humourlessly at that. Really? Friends?583Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEFUpqSZFXB
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"Not even close."
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