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[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

A new roommate, boring barista job, two college exams and countless stakeouts later and the government decides to hire me to do something for them. Maybe I should've taken a photography class and gotten noticed sooner, but I guess it doesn't matter.

It makes me wonder if this is their way of making people go to this ball thing, though.

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[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

What's the new job?

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

They're having me be paparazzi.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

You're kidding.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

Nope. I wish, actually. Although taking pictures is a fairly lax way to earn money and I generally like it... Balls? Not so much.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

Well, I haven't liked them for a while, anyway.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

Hah, yeah, there weren't a lot of balls in Queens.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

Neptune had 'balls'. Usually just an excuse to rent a limo and never make it to the party.

You've never been to one?

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

Are there even celebrities to take pictures of? It sounds very surreal.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

I think this is for a newsletter? I'm not 100 per cent, but that's what it sounded like.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

A limo, huh? Nope, never. I guess I was just a teenager deprived of that experience.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

You weren't deprived of much.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

Well, hopefully the pay is pretty good.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

Limo sounds pretty classy.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

It's generous for a few hours of work to be sure.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

Depends on what you use it for.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

I won't ask!

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

Then there's that at least. And you don't have to go through the stress of finding a date, I guess.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

I don't mind. I've actually only done it twice and the second time was pretty tame if you disregard the skinny dipping. But my best friend was considerably out there, and I've heard stories.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

Who needs a date? Going stag is so classy.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

Always interesting to hear skinny dipping called 'tame'.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

Well, when your date is scared out of his wits because your father owns a handgun... And the skinny dipping was just me all by my lonesome.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

I'd bet you'd have no trouble finding a date. Except now they have you there as a working girl. ... not that kind of working girl, of course. You know what I mean, right?

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

Protective parent, huh?

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no worries. You're going or what?

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

I guess you could call him that. He was also town sheriff and a P.I. for the longest time so he has an excuse for the weapon but... you know. He likes scaring off my dates.