"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.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftEHnyv6cT
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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.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLKJyF1svap
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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.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwc2zu9G4dI
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He's right. 633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70SAdngTYw
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYzAkNPRPhO
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOdpOM0xecJ
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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. 633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkaqTrRnLEr
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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.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstl5NUXw3c
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJblAzqXy16
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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.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQ4wHY9JjS
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpnhErPCR3u
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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.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc32yMGz2D3
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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.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZkaQZwaoad
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Dear god. 633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvNDrcqMhXu
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhgb9SfMs7W
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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. 633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ84FgvgJUte
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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. 633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwp7oDhU7n
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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. 633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06xAbfisn0
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡduBUFoCJy2
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2P5fXGoxcZ
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"See you soon, Leah."633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgiHVpwlvCB
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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.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡICynBL156l
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnBWL6dyFsH
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It means that I have to leave. Now.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Fs1Mq7BQq
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I stop speed walking and start running.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9hg3b0mFNM
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyONmLeuKAK
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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.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRptWz4z60b
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCES4lbgxLn
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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. 633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTlBYR7xFnB
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUvLyJUPrO
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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.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJLZ1sQVl2M
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyM0qZi7mmj
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4inZlwgRMI
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtGPqWIFWZn
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For me, anyway.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyoLSoWRyFS
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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."633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSNSxWgLpi8
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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?"633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWTeihWoLb8
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Silence. Then, "Ten."633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3sNzwjNIbp
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I hang up the phone.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmkcBIxLdqQ
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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?633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡndeY1fH42a
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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.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡndrNxD95QE
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNb2gEzhxG
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My lucky number. Twice.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtaZG0aLu3U
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbNAoGIPuG
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrh39sIOseS
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEYHVty55EK
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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.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXuuRdfHxR
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtwfNM4qmra
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd5DTpjVbPY
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlEma23LaDZ
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9anx7gDocX
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtNc6qLes4B
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHTtfibmzV
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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.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6GSvHhV4aZ
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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.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaaxhBE8VSN
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"What did I do?"633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFeJYVY5pSI
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0h5PECxh9
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa4fST3qIxq
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUslOS2O51e
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Why is he nervous?633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzcGwp8zhSl
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwztH6BoIiG
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"To what?"633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTFJ7YxvNPz
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwvjgmrV5h
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDlzi9wYPmj
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I mentally check then reply to him.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MwfWZi32z
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"Yeah, why?"633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9MAyfVHsef
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Silence.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQweYHJJ9CC
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"David, spit it the fúck out."633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1cLrorWHi
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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."633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs63cix790v
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8NhFwNJC2g
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I'm in a daze. 633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ8nkjUWj3k
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A wedding.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhgkkJjnhk
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdh1UZwXJyD
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I think I might shít myself.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqV3qxJCh1t
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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.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUie7RwW0by
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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?633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvXSVulqDRf
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.633Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWDosd9er45
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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