"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.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmgw5RsvfZd
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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.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaz15JVMg53
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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.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsYAb24WFlj
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He's right. 617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWv5i8UQOUG
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJeRhKPhaM
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvLzkp0j5w1
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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. 617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9UJJQy2t1R
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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.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7kmuQaOv8g
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZaVxTH4JUW
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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.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBUeQ7XMuVm
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVqZ58fnsU
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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.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6RnKgyZsd
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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.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIZPolXrJm
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Dear god. 617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjMh8WWVHam
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVn6fjTUP4S
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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. 617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZTkRTENml
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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. 617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmkTZTCWUgk
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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. 617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1804Fki25
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3AUFng331J
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2pY5MsJId
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"See you soon, Leah."617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPadiJeGdVT
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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.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Oxba7z0xl
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQC4XmY7DL
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It means that I have to leave. Now.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBRgVcQmB8K
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I stop speed walking and start running.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3wcSahbE7
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYL9ZEpofTA
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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.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTFuXal3FDx
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUy8771SVk
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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. 617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2XZepemQ0q
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuLNtn2z6x0
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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.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeyYBeh4q93
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlEDGueJ5uC
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41kZsbpd2E
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoMz7w3pM66
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For me, anyway.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UR8LU6l6n
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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."617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWzcD831tQQ
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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?"617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0YbDnHaPQJ
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Silence. Then, "Ten."617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBvVtj1WYq
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I hang up the phone.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp6QOJaqQlx
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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?617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKMEB7cCQmg
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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.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrWY4h9dOCy
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyYnHLa5XjL
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My lucky number. Twice.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWnz6VruF6
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJb08tVE6hg
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiwk0HQFAx9
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGANp0TgC2N
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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.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI2UM9rSm7o
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxyiZb0nvh4
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGgYEtUNDYA
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡerrVxaKCjH
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmDfbGuUPu
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGOYUhyUU3
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIzyfCdahRl
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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.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9JYFY4nCLA
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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.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKhfagkGTzV
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"What did I do?"617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡADBDXDx0bc
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5oaZMf6FWY
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vtxigOewM
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbwzmJMakTR
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Why is he nervous?617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLNygx9gN3D
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7EujmTnuk
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"To what?"617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbXghNr8EQ
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvoUJrK0WlZ
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡigMj5Ph4pX
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I mentally check then reply to him.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZijS8LBNu
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"Yeah, why?"617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3cbUeX8Yrh
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Silence.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJB6ppk9oZj
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"David, spit it the fúck out."617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ39l2mUMeZc
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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."617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2BaIRzcOmE
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwV5WTNGFR6
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I'm in a daze. 617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt9UWV0ZXpI
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A wedding.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsaZEq9hQv5
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWNQOKRoZL6
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I think I might shít myself.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtCJIsPqavs
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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.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxLM8850h2Z
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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?617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Gyr5YKwdZ
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.617Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMXljb4RKp
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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