"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.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMVKWBRzObv
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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.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsX1OdZ5eL2
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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.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mAC3d8FHq
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He's right. 596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8KJGTVJiAB
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLAO8NqFjjE
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfYNTiPkcRO
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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. 596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78m86sSMUb
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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.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ64Anm916dA
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3YFpJefPQe
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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.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjgXf3OIHY
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmnLZu1cJXX
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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.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0POKdTfxhi
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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.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6XdhCMslTv
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Dear god. 596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3JMWlyeCTe
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUhMrbo9xk2
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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. 596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaUCsejbKrX
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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. 596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEbTYJqIHY
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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. 596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG74mQ8nFDv
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPao3W0qbFe
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNzhnJfOooN
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"See you soon, Leah."596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb14guKB5QA
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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.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmG61vlqig
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLfoTDG5jN6
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It means that I have to leave. Now.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUiGnXCRwwX
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I stop speed walking and start running.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJlkbo6aZ6I
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI5BmtBMD6i
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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.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr5kQmDs59r
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5yw7Fn7ER
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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. 596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3pmBxOivH9
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA8b0AaHjYL
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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.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZNGG6T25l
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZmRBX8Z6n
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZB2JqYJrr
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd194eY14T8
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For me, anyway.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7OBvWfYyLq
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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."596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMOwLggCGu
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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?"596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ67SKk2hGhR
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Silence. Then, "Ten."596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRirxdTJ8X
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I hang up the phone.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1ekIDgDiU
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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?596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJzQh9Uepew
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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.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqxsgiMWO5
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ17iRW02yWi
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My lucky number. Twice.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTGI3nUokn
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWbPvpLlO0
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoaRG43zAKF
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCjsz0Tnyv
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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.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhp1dOYjgh
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aDetmLRIq
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm39LqEnFH0
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJidaF1nGY
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6V3MQ9nPLL
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76Mj0iITVh
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhgf8Ihbuo
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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.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHpUlouXsyi
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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.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ZKIVHCChr
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"What did I do?"596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡecFFQSqtPM
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRl94yCc1Q
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbaGSe9VX7K
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYPvP4iPV3
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Why is he nervous?596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3n5SjgYIUL
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoIflQlUpFY
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"To what?"596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ahg2eOHgV
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzbMeKWWtlq
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡug8Dy6UPVn
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I mentally check then reply to him.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9fxQfaleIO
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"Yeah, why?"596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1VvJgkGDv1
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Silence.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIq1hY9paCT
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"David, spit it the fúck out."596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3DWkBP5dMz
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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."596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TSjH4Ikf0
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMuT9h267xP
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I'm in a daze. 596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvFtt2jHlFC
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A wedding.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJaBkNzc5x
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Gy93GhK6K
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I think I might shít myself.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe4BAH4tPKZ
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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.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFgTi2au3pA
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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?596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡui0IILaIPJ
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.596Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡElPbTfkpVJ
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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