"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.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzbxpjJMW03
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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.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBipASJe3Qw
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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.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKBobhwviPD
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He's right. 622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbVJ9mdBCY
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsebt9u64Sw
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYqHKwBePYL
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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. 622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHGGye6WkDq
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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.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa4fNxV1lD0
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPUWMOwWyI6
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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.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4onMRvF261
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFRb20hCrN
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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.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcZDbytYHa
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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.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM921aQaU31
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Dear god. 622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJEBMFOnCmU
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5JSzZ3bTDV
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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. 622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtkrhrO4Ps1
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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. 622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4G46JAzpJu
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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. 622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRyUB4bkSs
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDRYsMrKDRM
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwwOVLDSfw
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"See you soon, Leah."622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsUvs96TEy2
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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.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ey3gjMd5M
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6OiCCTpOpl
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It means that I have to leave. Now.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSk6uNjcMif
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I stop speed walking and start running.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9zhlMXXej
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmH8W6YDE2
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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.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5q0UxsFMq
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBeZ3c8HitU
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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. 622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkywyqdnTu1
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwCJOySscXU
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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.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrx1i8kTrxt
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡocrXd0V6b7
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqqd0INanxu
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLM4pIQI3io
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For me, anyway.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIRuVrqV1eH
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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."622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMRZYGzAElC
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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?"622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAj9a1ejqVr
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Silence. Then, "Ten."622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNjlG8ukcx
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I hang up the phone.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwkmb5h7hH9
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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?622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk9wem2rvI4
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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.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8rKlaOHzQB
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRFCMchRDSp
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My lucky number. Twice.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9rjPDLBmfs
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXR1ncQUC0J
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3KzZT2bPJe
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlSrxIaDW5N
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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.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMuDNEcRxt
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ10ZMurJeVU
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULq8zi24xO
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhpKpRs667
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡchWsiJWkXh
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyig2je50DB
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3YJmXqoEBr
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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.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtFF9QGlV6V
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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.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgnAr5BYLId
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"What did I do?"622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3OEw6powt7
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡklHAxZEt5x
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2z7cSeY71q
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthNzGOxRtH
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Why is he nervous?622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovW6YOVqRl
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxY1qnzkcU
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"To what?"622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7uOeDKEVQL
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2As5vUGFGE
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEN4V3Ht0E0
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I mentally check then reply to him.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfm5LH21UQ8
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"Yeah, why?"622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTIs76lGyUv
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Silence.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡObBWHhvrSA
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"David, spit it the fúck out."622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlLXlSb0mP3
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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."622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz94mpduDhB
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjxOZYj8gAL
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I'm in a daze. 622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVJ3OrxpjFU
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A wedding.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMf7N15GT2X
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr1XmDT8xSR
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I think I might shít myself.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlZu4txyYYD
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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.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX4dnBeGvd1
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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?622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWJYX5tDWZ
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.622Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSVeek6vqa
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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