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Post by tabitha lilith darling on Mar 30, 2015 16:28:13 GMT -5
  There was a time when the only running Tabitha did was when she heard sirens. That was usually accompanied with loud laughter and a group of friends who were the kind of bad influence that the blonde girl couldn’t see until it was too late. Now, running was her way of keeping control of her life. Tabitha signed up for marathons and fun runs just to give herself something to focus on, to keep herself out of trouble, and to stop from dwelling on the screwed up mess that was her life. Her job as Sophisticakes was hardly where she planned to be at this point in her life, but Tabitha couldn’t change her past. Even her dreams for the future seemed near impossible to achieve, and she didn’t have anyone she trusted enough to ask for help in getting started on that path. She remembered being told she had to start out small, which is why she took up running, but somehow that was all she still had, even now.
Tabitha was feeling worse lately after a lonely Christmas. Working in the bakery had been fun with the staff there, but then she had been coming home to her apartment where there wasn’t a single card or present from her family, and the bareness of it reminded her of everything she had lost back in California. She was the family’s disgrace, stricken from the branches of the Darling tree now, and it seemed that there was nothing she could do to repair the damage she had caused. The more she found herself in her own company, the worse she felt. It wasn’t like she could talk to anyone about her past, and the only one who knew anything about it was her boss, Felix, but they weren’t close enough for her to confide in him. Hell, Tabitha was still awkward when she had to ask him for time off.
Her feet pounded against the concrete and her pacer beeped, clocking the fourth mile of her run in the silent lull between the songs on her playlist. In the next second her ears were filled with the sound of fast paced dance music, but her mind was empty of everything but the path ahead of her. Tabitha wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her wrist and pushed herself harder as the path she was on headed uphill. The cool air didn’t bother her as she pressed on, reaching the top of the hill and then controlling her pace as she headed down, careful not to let her speed get too fast. Tabitha had no plans to stop yet; she had set out that morning with the intention of running until she was burnt out. However, what she hadn’t counted on was cramp. It struck her as she rounded the corner, crippling her left leg without warning. Tabitha cried out and fell hard to the sidewalk, rolling over, and dropping her water bottle to clutch at her calf. “Shit! Ah, god damn it!” She hissed, gritting her teeth and slamming her foot on the ground as the pain seared through her leg.
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TAGGED! @open
WORDS! 527!
OUTFIT! Cramped Cutie!
LYRICS! All I Want - - - A Day To Remember
NOTES! <3 <3 <3
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