"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.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDqjOJiJoj
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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.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAr7vKZ0C3C
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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.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22fqE5M6Xi
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He's right. 561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmInbWNPKAs
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡujimIVhspP
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNOkaXeqR41
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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. 561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmB5ZpTkQVH
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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.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEyBG1JnlOP
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXpYPoUEed
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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.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIyzHvge3lT
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaH7YJljS0c
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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.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmapMdxIqek
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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.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJx9146akU
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Dear god. 561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ13eLljMWFH
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZlTcOtDFmn
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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. 561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXkdhUOhR4
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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. 561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPl84jFXBW9
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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. 561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIdCqraoEL7
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyiJuhxqbNz
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xhPfAnZke
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"See you soon, Leah."561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM1JJlXa0rV
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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.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUcTX5uoTb3
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXCUwlXPHF
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It means that I have to leave. Now.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5tagT7nvuY
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I stop speed walking and start running.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLTE4yMK6e6
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1GALaDRWq
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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.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwl57l4WHBI
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtimUuLbD8
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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. 561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLuBEUrL42m
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9slIRtjTwr
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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.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9DI1JRdO2
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ48Oosgi9TL
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzjG2iKmvh
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3efYK4KuPw
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For me, anyway.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXfFDqnDuzu
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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."561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUFAY60ouL
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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?"561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVpzHYcgnq
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Silence. Then, "Ten."561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiWRQbFbKkF
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I hang up the phone.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL0ImBMIGBT
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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?561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsbwKRikSNS
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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.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDRc4EER4I
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LvnaPOvBr
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My lucky number. Twice.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrcc4ZoF8p3
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBEz4f1PbJ
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7MK9AJ8UW
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKSYnIWAhp
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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.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7PqGOXzgmR
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpie6VF4EsX
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ekqEWnOBe
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpyH6WgXUoO
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJXRLuboP5
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jqpeoCEEJ
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJBz3nNW0NJ
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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.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2EA2s0INwl
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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.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcKpAHOVGoZ
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"What did I do?"561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78PfJsZyAb
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0TrrHWUpmL
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWo3LJxHjOA
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ306JeYoVLE
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Why is he nervous?561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOG4oq3tb12
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6hY3ZqQGqQ
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"To what?"561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacY5SBBGiO
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfIGTZ4i6V1
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1PHvys7i6V
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I mentally check then reply to him.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWAXv9RD4rR
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"Yeah, why?"561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDii6nO88NH
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Silence.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVjrOKLAEc
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"David, spit it the fúck out."561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoGs6svS6lU
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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."561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHC24qkHwJ
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ2mcV4e1sm
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I'm in a daze. 561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtC5gWJ4s4f
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A wedding.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS6UhcCgE6j
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBVZuqbcaXx
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I think I might shít myself.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbxRVXqFc3
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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.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjMXigKGRGZ
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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?561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTqMWTIaW66
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.561Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZE7xMaK7G
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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