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Work was a mess and Capris home life what an even bigger storm. Most days were a daze that flew by as if they were all jumbled in one. Nothing seemed Normal including her physical well being. Capri was an athlete in high school. She ran track and played soccer; her nickname given to her by her principal was Flash! It was a sight to be seen how quick she was even after spraining her ankles, she never lost a race. She gained weight and her hormones were all over the place. One night in the shower she started bleeding and experienced abnormal clotting. Every drop felt like bolders at her feet. She finally went to the hospital after multiple soils in public and having to change throughout the day. Eleven times in one day was enough to know she needed to go to the hospital. That night there were words unspoken but she knew that when she was ready to have a baby it would not be easy. The intimacy that she so enjoyed was now at almost a complete halt between her and Taurus. With him that was the last thing on her mind considering all the constant betrail. She'd never look in the direction of anyone else, but then came Leo. He would randomly come in the gas station and compliment her. He'd even take the trash out at the end of her shifts. He complimented her all the time and would say silly things to make her smile. It took her a while to accept him and exchanged contact information. They would text for a while then he would ghost her. After all the shit she'd been throug and her self esteem beaten up. Capri fell in lust. Leo had and on and on girlfriend that would pop back up. After a while their relationship ended and Leo was In full pursuit of Capri which by this time she’d fallen back into Taurus spell, but not as you’d think. Taurus had been messing around as usual and Capri has had enough. She gave into Leo and started hanging out with him. He was not what she’d expected but it was something new and not being outside of her comfort zone she accepted all the bullshit. Leo would ask her to buy him stuff, including smokes, beer and other random items. He would get pissed if she’d say no or in all reality wasn’t ok with being taken advantage of and quiet honestly knew she deserved better, but could not help it.

She made the mistake of staying in the place that she had with Taurus and didn’t think he’d show his face there again after not seeing him for months. Leo got wind of this and despite what Capri could say or do to prove that they were in-fact not together leo was pissed and send Capri a text message with a ton of bullshit that it was over. All he did during their time together was hang out with his friends that always seemed to be at his apartment bumming at his house on his couch. They would rudely barge into the room asking if they were dressed. Leo would take her car to random clubs and come home late with no regard that his daughter was there and they both needed him.

You would think she would get her shit together and not go back Into the toxic bullshit, but she will learn one heart break at a time.

She could not help but feel useless and unworthy. The two people in her entire life she’d given herself to she somehow manage to get it wrong. There were many days of being in the dark, unhealthy eating habits and not talking to anyone. Her friend would come over and tried to cheer her up, but all that she could do was talk about Leo and how destined they are to be together. For some odd reason she could not get over him and how he made her feel a sense of purpose despite the growing up he clearly had to do.

In her time of weakness Taurus weaseled his way back in and convinced her to give it another try after months of humiliation blow after blow. She was lonely and the familiar feeling of having someone there even though it didn’t necessarily mean he was present. Honestly she wasn’t either, Capri knew it wasn’t right settling because she was lonely. He didn’t deserve her after all he did, but no one could convince her of that. He went back to his old ways and took it a step further. He was now calling her out of her name and locking her out of the apartment. He broke her phone multiple time and not being able to drive she could not replace it. The only option was to go to the management office and use there phone to contact her service provider. There was no evading the story and what kept happening because the apartment manager was nosey and she was quiet sure her neighbors were complaining because the arguments were out of control. They advised her to call the cops and fill the paperwork out so she wouldn’t be liable for the damages he’d done to the structure of the apartment. As they spoke all she could think was it was probably better of she wasn’t there, everyone’s lives would be so easy. She wanted to end it as if the pain would stop. Capri however had 3 sisters that had no idea what she was dealing with. She would not dare tell them as her mother was still not the model parent and far from being a quarter of it.