"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.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7kJOYBQGZV
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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.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26hTGEjZm9
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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.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBO0G93gU7
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He's right. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaia37W51S2
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Post coital affection is not something that I'm a fan of. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ03lV4ULc9L
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That's a euphemism for "I hate it".594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKyZOpHASq7
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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. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfN5JalsgnL
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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.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRyXhptYaZd
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Additionally, I just find it awkward.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYBM7I96x7g
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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.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvybOhmp2Th
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"Thanks," I tell him, grateful for the gesture. "And speaking of home, I need to go home." 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSTAe7Vhpg
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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.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsk9uO60qFY
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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.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvhk7hqtMb
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Dear god. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbvu2RrB3GW
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"Um... no thanks. I need to go."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmfbEaBggh
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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. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ04fK8jNE3b
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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. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjFpr3jGmu7
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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. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY8McLP1C4z
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However, he decides to make this even harder for me.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEL8tAZ3tKr
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As I am leaving the room, I hear him say:594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOOeuQ7OAo
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"See you soon, Leah."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUkWgBdW29
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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.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHKreLlgcYW
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It says: We've only just begun. You haven't seen anything yet.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRCml7vOR4L
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It means that I have to leave. Now.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrgd8tce7R
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I stop speed walking and start running.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzU2OD5nFt0
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***594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dIbUuGsWC
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"You know that I hate event photography," I say to Marcus through clenched teeth into the phone.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNNHOQ5kOX
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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.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcavgvWHd6
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The truth is that I don't likeevent photography. I like to be creative, so I prefer artistic photography.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnRofSO0wS
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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. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTKJpaezEEm
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Additionally, weddings make a humongous amount of money.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKmIT3et46E
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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.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8LI7ypAlCz
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However, Marcus now wants me to go and take pictures at a five-year-old's birthday party.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWo6rtGBRN7
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"You're not in a financial position to say no."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCiZr7X0be
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He's right. Event photography makes money; artistic photography? Not so much.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9XY224l9dz
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For me, anyway.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKBoxmvuoiU
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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."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxTCB4wnl5
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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?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVljmYvmKeh
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Silence. Then, "Ten."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFeFTfROe4j
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I hang up the phone.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcUCasjRIx
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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?594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xxugHHqZl
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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.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPH6aaDdyB0
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That's seventy seven dollars in USD.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXK5HW58Ted
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My lucky number. Twice.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL2pfo6Eeyn
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Except, getting paid that amount of money for a day's work as a photographer is not lucky.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡusFClwYDP8
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He can go stick his díck in a blender.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Up1VnIM2D
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Relax, Leah. He was only trying to help.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyuLha3mrXa
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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.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq6KT29QQI5
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What the fúck am I going to do with tenthousand dollars anyway?594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEcl4V2TMn
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Buy just enough gas to fill my car?594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMiiiJbMh8
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Buy one pair of D'nexstep sandals?594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzAyVeHkdE9
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And he was there chatting me up about how I should do more events and make more money.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFT8uA3nPZ
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Events do make a shítload of money; far more than tenthousanddollars.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡokpr6ShcVN
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My minimum is twenty. He knows that.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdwUe6S2vOo
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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.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfNHj1rvr4
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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.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWuv0N2krD
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"What did I do?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBFUzCjNFH
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"Nothing," I sigh. "It's not you. It's... life. Anyway, what is it?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7SKdqA3cK
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He clears his throat nervously, then says, "it's not about séx."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8hj3TzMF4
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"And?" I reply, keeping the relief out of my voice.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHKUrMG0iMN
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Why is he nervous?594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYFBLgaesm
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As if hearing my question, he says, "I just want you to say yes."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOWUbZXjHTn
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"To what?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDnlmzcfig
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I hear him huff out a loud breath.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnPsb6A4JSr
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"Are you free on Sunday, a week from now?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0ILiEjAQY
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I mentally check then reply to him.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywYgPPPjO7
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"Yeah, why?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlN5UPXCHLJ
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Silence.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpwxKDgQ1p
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"David, spit it the fúck out."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJmbQi9v1A
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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."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYg3npuyYfy
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"And you want me to be the photographer," I finish. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2CmPZ6Jxo
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I'm in a daze. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAbZPWL1A7X
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A wedding.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgVSrkqaLvh
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I'm being personally asked to be a photographer at a wedding.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡerSpnD6ExL
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I think I might shít myself.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaqvhmR7Zaq
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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.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9l0fmwUmcU
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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?594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVeFwaccfwx
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I feel the words coming out of my mouth effortlessly; I don't even have to think about it.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwOmHbXvkE
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"Yeah, I'll do it."
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