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    Haylee and Analia were finally able to convince their cousin that it was time to cut ties with David once and for all. Get on with her life and back out into the world of dating. She was a young vivacious twenty-five year old woman! After a lot of thought and long consideration, Felicia finally brought herself to accept the fact that she and David were over. Felicia slowly but surely started to separate herself from him and stopped seeking his opinion, advice and approval on every little thing she did. She simply no longer cared what his opinion was.
    Picking up on this sudden change in her, David started sniffing back around trying to mark his territory. Putting on his best I’m only three-fourths asshole and one-fourth of uselessness routine acting all lovey dovey again. That’s how her “mini me” Elena came to be in existence. Felicia never for one moment regretted Elena. But in the back of her mind she knew David impregnated her on purpose to keep her tied to him. After all a single mother of one, tough but doable. Single mother of two....not so easy.
    Trying to accept her reality for what it was, Felicia threw herself into trying to make her family work. David rented out his house and moved back in. He still wasn’t very helpful around the house nor with the pregnancy, but he was more helpful then he’d been in the past. So Felicia chose to see this as progress. Five years later and here she stagnantly sat.
    Felicia was starting to get to the point where she really had to ask herself was it worth the stress and anxiety David caused her to feel every day? All while in the confines of her own home just to have her girls’ father there? All just to give their daughter’s a sense of security, regardless of it being false. Looking in from the outside, a stranger would think that Felicia led a normal life. She had the perfect gentleman providing for her.
    He gave her five hundred for rent, even though he didn’t “live” there, and six-hundred for the girls. Sure he never went to the grocery store or bought the twenty bottles of sanitizer he used in a month or the two packs of bulk paper towels he went through monthly. David easily ate, shit and overly cleaned himself for five-hundred a month! Easy. But he never considered any of that. So whenever the girls needed this or that, it was Felicia they sought.
    Just because David was a horrible significant other, that didn’t mean that he didn’t have his Daddy moments. Felicia knew he loved the girls, he just didn’t have a healthy way of showing it. He didn’t know how to. His father never taught him how. Hell he barely even spoke to his father while he was alive. Felicia didn't know if he would ever be capable. David used his brow beating mentality to push their daughters forward. She didn’t have to worry about his methods as much when it came to Dana. She went above and beyond in soccer to please her father.
    Truth be told Dana hated it, but it was something he enjoyed bragging on her about. And she loved having something that she did make her daddy happy. Elena, unfortunately, didn’t have as good of a rapport with David. Especially when it came to sports. She tried soccer and hated it. It was so hard for Felicia to stand on the sidelines and watch her baby struggle, but David refused to allow her to quit.
    “She’s not going to waste all the money I’ve put into her playing.”
    That statement confused and puzzled Felicia as she was the one who paid the registration fees for both of them. But to point that out would cause a major blow up and it just wasn’t worth it. 
    “If you don’t want to play soccer you need to let me know before I invest more time and money! I know you take after your mother, but I was really hoping you wouldn’t be useless like she is. I was really hoping that my genes would’ve dominated her lazy ones. But I guess not.”
    Again Felicia was confused but held her tongue. Yes she was at her heaviest at one hundred