"Who the fuck is that?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL85imR0dGf
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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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkWraL7lBDR
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"Another photographer," I say as nonchalantly as I can.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK4R7M1kOGT
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He chuckles deep in his throat.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8vLQDKmLQc
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"Ms Anderson, did I say that I wanted anyone else to come to this... gathering?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7CGmPiBI6u
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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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBctpY12GYj
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Well, so do I.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8YNmUgkgv8
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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."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcsb7bFGfJb
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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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnLyHxIB1C2
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"Hello, Leah," he says, shaking my hand with poorly concealed enthusiasm.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHko4JdDhfw
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"Shemarré Martin. It's a pleasure to meet you."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1FAsMq8VD
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His smile broadens. "Please. Call me Shem."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKLqPhT2rNL
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As I circle the family reunion several times, taking photographs, Shem passed on whatever he felt necessary to me.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBt0qxRbwPB
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"Stay in the background. Make them forget you're even there."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh15IKOBofF
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"Candids are always better; they speak the truth."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwO5RQ7ot0
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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."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTehImUgCht
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Now, everyone is packing up, and Shem has to leave for his daughter's cello recital. 578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ1fL6GYJib
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"Um... Shem?" I say, unsure of how to phrase the question that I want to ask.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCI2Wk5bUh
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"Yes?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCRS5Lc7tpY
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"Um... Why?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImPprHWpgM
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He looks at me as if I'm stupid for a few seconds.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7DK37FSvpj
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"Huh?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYLaRhfuzw
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"Why did you do it? Help me? You're so busy, but you went out of your wa—"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY9o86vGveS
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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—"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡueXYlrje9f
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"—and one in a wheelchair," I finish.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKZAOvtwHT
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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..."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGtl9SbGjX
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He shrugs, and then looks at his watch. 578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexUncxdK4O
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"Shit! Kelly—"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCDTRHDCC4a
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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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwzuEKXnnSb
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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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMsYtYYoaTJ
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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. 578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsIOV1QGglh
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For the first time, I actually feel intimidated by him.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNzqfgLTpsw
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Which means that I have to leave. Now.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2gQbPuuuH
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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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbe4JoMXh0u
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I don't have to look up to know who it is.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgB4v0dtbzc
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"I wasn't done speaking to you."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00lkNIZq4N
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"Well, I was." With a shaking hand, I try again to close the door — and he pulls it back. Again.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26bzgGv2Gq
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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?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWYC4E11yA
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I gulp. "I have to go—"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplX7lbTNJg
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"I don't think you have to do shit. I think you're scared of me."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhUmsuhebB
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My face heats up.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIXy7SfFcFr
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"I am not."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqEyIe1NkN
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He smirks. He knows he just got me.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCOUJrG812t
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"Prove it."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo9EiEbu6Dh
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With a shaking hand, I push the door open and step out, sealing my fate.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpmSiq2avaN
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"Much better," he says, with a look of approval.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UTF6e5UAX
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"Fuck you," I growl, my irritation with this man getting the better of me.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGhvmPRfZvI
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He just smiles at me as if I just said the most beautiful word in the world.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkDFvVzhF3g
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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. 578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkLoTyUZLLU
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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—"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1mtU3qHAhA
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"I was doing my job—"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBAQJBtmES
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"And I get to say who can—"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbIrfmigyv
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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!"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2cyVP7MJwC
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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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8N5EEZwURH
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Dear Leah,578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9UZLICLZGE
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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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiwgvNkpagI
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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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyIeM4Sf0yr
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Sincerely,578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSBO7mSC5v
David.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5K3rtu6CCJ
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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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8iCjiUKBGs
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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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXL5O1EgIEd
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The door opens before I can knock. 578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡli617E4XEw
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"Good morning, Leah." 578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡagzoVC2Omy
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"David."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU91wkOMIHs
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I take the liberty to sit down on the couch, noting that my photograph now hangs beside the television. 578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwxAoHww9n
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"Beer?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQbNS4VqFMO
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"Yeah."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyX0cyvjwhy
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And he gives it to me this time.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJT3Prj40D
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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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxbQEX2CfaS
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"I... I just want to apologise. Again."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Ebj5lNBSD
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"David, I really don't give a shit anymore."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjECLDaEt8B
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He sighs, then looks up at me.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPWQRRBIWzL
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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."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjcw7OkCYJF
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I'm actually surprised by the sincerity in his voice and eyes. He actually has some degree of decency. Wow.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnuWEpvD4rX
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"I... I accept your apology David."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWYTZdYtMu
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His eyes light up.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1vtfounhNt
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"Really? So we're friends now?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9qZxLtiVI
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I have to laugh humourlessly at that. Really? Friends?578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBet0WEZJpj
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"Not even close."
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