"Who the fuck is that?"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBGjBK6P5kj
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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.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnavL50O8Xm
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"Another photographer," I say as nonchalantly as I can.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8NfStTc6OC
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He chuckles deep in his throat.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZm7gguLXM
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"Ms Anderson, did I say that I wanted anyone else to come to this... gathering?"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMGjmifEUT
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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.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPOgUSmB75
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Well, so do I.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfFLYZrBYL
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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."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5qfAiDIkOU
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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.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfWuX311Egu
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"Hello, Leah," he says, shaking my hand with poorly concealed enthusiasm.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCDzFPsDp4
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"Shemarré Martin. It's a pleasure to meet you."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvP4OUhjiV
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His smile broadens. "Please. Call me Shem."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡes3S6pqBQ7
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As I circle the family reunion several times, taking photographs, Shem passed on whatever he felt necessary to me.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqqNLt6dDg
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"Stay in the background. Make them forget you're even there."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTIn81XeCj
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"Candids are always better; they speak the truth."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJnvODvkWl
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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."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKWLFXLIVa
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Now, everyone is packing up, and Shem has to leave for his daughter's cello recital. 557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdcf36oZPl1
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"Um... Shem?" I say, unsure of how to phrase the question that I want to ask.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtJzO94PbL
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"Yes?"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhuojZeMBBk
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"Um... Why?"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6XkbOmuxR7
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He looks at me as if I'm stupid for a few seconds.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Z4wauNSr2
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"Huh?"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdCWU07cZ1
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"Why did you do it? Help me? You're so busy, but you went out of your wa—"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbN0mguXBd
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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—"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4mSNQeBGI
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"—and one in a wheelchair," I finish.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBuZLR1dug
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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..."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBxaJao803
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He shrugs, and then looks at his watch. 557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdF0ddwx6aK
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"Shit! Kelly—"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9P3V4wo1w7
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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.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXpRXDIB6Ks
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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.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡolmLFBZxh9
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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. 557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvpK8ianZGM
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For the first time, I actually feel intimidated by him.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywcXmbNIQX
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Which means that I have to leave. Now.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUgfNYrKX00
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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.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡduTTPja50D
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I don't have to look up to know who it is.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtmW2hkoz9
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"I wasn't done speaking to you."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbOQFgnSuy
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"Well, I was." With a shaking hand, I try again to close the door — and he pulls it back. Again.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlD16QbrKFp
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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?"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg8puGhY8XV
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I gulp. "I have to go—"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQLFxvta8I
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"I don't think you have to do shit. I think you're scared of me."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkl52eur2sp
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My face heats up.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSbuqDr8sFs
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"I am not."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGnXEuMcg2d
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He smirks. He knows he just got me.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYgZRb7EUZJ
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"Prove it."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTvIOiu7lfe
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With a shaking hand, I push the door open and step out, sealing my fate.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7iAf8VcF7f
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"Much better," he says, with a look of approval.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmgE4gtfklx
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"Fuck you," I growl, my irritation with this man getting the better of me.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8GFaWGTIxf
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He just smiles at me as if I just said the most beautiful word in the world.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBchqIarZR
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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. 557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRWkqYvCBRj
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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—"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKr7AGQ6jE7
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"I was doing my job—"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡER3ANIAl6E
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"And I get to say who can—"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8buK5w1jdB
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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!"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhjxBQkv5dl
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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.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6POm7J49LS
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Dear Leah,557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF71W4vgnPN
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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.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX36RuuAOjD
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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.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXmMwjH0Mq
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Sincerely,557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqOIWQ4zCg
David.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhcxCDuZ9hY
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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.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTwXlLaTIeW
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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.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2BunFPhZf
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The door opens before I can knock. 557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDB08zEH1fM
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"Good morning, Leah." 557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡarElUA6sSY
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"David."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBj8yTrF8u
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I take the liberty to sit down on the couch, noting that my photograph now hangs beside the television. 557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS8yBRGVdkq
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"Beer?"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNFRKTUT3s7
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"Yeah."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmgQIOJGx1z
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And he gives it to me this time.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBSFFnYnEcm
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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.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCa9yiLfH4
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"I... I just want to apologise. Again."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Gj8pdfIiG
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"David, I really don't give a shit anymore."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1IJ2hJMiyP
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He sighs, then looks up at me.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiowXOJEEcZ
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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."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5I5P6YqM2I
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I'm actually surprised by the sincerity in his voice and eyes. He actually has some degree of decency. Wow.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYGCeFiLxV
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"I... I accept your apology David."557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4ydJGyjst
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His eyes light up.557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhEKavegPZw
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"Really? So we're friends now?"557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr9o1GM4qi3
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I have to laugh humourlessly at that. Really? Friends?557Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvvnRIp95Ld
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"Not even close."
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