Prologue476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7iIibmLFNv
Heat burned her eyes, making them tear in defense, in despair.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6eFcTZ269u
Hating what was happening to them and before them.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrCOK0CesXM
The light was so bright, so hot.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCeLivXdYx
Screams reached her ears, so high in volume and ferocity it almost made her eardrums bleed.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8iBjO38dbJ
Slowly realization hit her, screams?476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYohNAaA76a
no, just one. One scream, Hers 476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡguouFZmrUT
In despair, she jolted upright on her bed.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AOrKXP94o
Her breathing was still shallow and irregular as cold sweat poured down her sun-kissed skin.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf7GgIUWjKP
Oh, how she hated going down memory lane. The guilt that rode along with it.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFWwQZutdJ
Making her stomach twist in all different sorts of knots she didn't know how to untie.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsuUm1RNjb
She took a couple of deep breaths, steadying herself, before slowly standing up.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXeB1tsLWW
Daring a quick glance at the clock an exhausted sigh escaped her lips.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ILwBNVb8B
It was 3 o'clock, freaking 3 o'clock in the morning!476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpQp4DJNzNF
She sighed again. Well, at least she slept for a whole four hours this time.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHbvO0hFaQr
In the ten years, since the insomnia started, she became an expert in power naps.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5JHMqQpyGx
She had to, to survive. As soon as her legs could carry her she made her way to the living room.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZCKQqTaE1
As usual, she stayed in a hotel room, the hotel changing weakly sometimes daily when it was necessary.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhVHIBigPF
Traveling from country to country to chase the best and hardest competitions to improve her skills on track.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZZoLgscwX3
The only thing in her life she actually, sort of, cared about. Running, endurance, pushing herself beyond her limits made her brains stop going places she didn't want it to go. Stopping the memories, the guilt.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7lIHtS4AE8
It was the only place where she was able to find peace of mind, for a little while at least.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4rrpLIvlK
And she needed it more and more every day.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡto8fGte92e
Having lost everything in her past, at the age of twelve, the track was also the only place she dared to let have any meaning to her. The rest of her life, her surroundings?476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRIWpLvfgS0
Hell no!476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYy2IgF3eLw
Shielding her heart meant she would nothing, nothing! have any meaning to her.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡud8yOUzMEG
That way it wouldn't hurt as much as you lost it. And after ten years of practice, she mastered the skill.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCZOaebsOJH
Her heart was surrounded by a thick, impenetrable wall some would say, and she heard it more than once behind her back, as she walked through the halls of the college, that she seemed like a robot.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXuHc3M5NqR
Unresponsive, unsympathetic to anything around her.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBocoit6j53
If she spoke more than twenty fully formed sentences in a day, not counting interviews and media, it was a lot and people found her silence, her preference for solitude simply. Well, unsettling.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx8IXCoVKlk
They didn't understand, would never be able to understand how it felt to have nothing. Nobody to care about you, to listen to you, to comfort you.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvD1tdtaUld
So why would she bother trying to explain?476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJ7ljz97ro
They didn't care, not really. And they couldn't help her, or ease the pain she was now accustomed to.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizBDzHIP1O
They could however use her words for a couple of minutes of fame. Causing a sensation if the media ever found out the truth about what happened that night. That she lied. That she remembered everything.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdcJJ8d1prU
Everything!476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AHkflZkCf
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After taking a shower her discomfort from the nightmare finally resided to the back of her mind.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhiveMXvmAT
She was still on edge, was familiar with the feeling by now, and knew the only way to get rid of it was to run. Deplete her energy. There was a time she didn't know when to stop.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqvDIOTVzTt
More keen on punishing herself, for her involvement in past events, than making sure she would actually survive the run. More than once it had resulted in blackouts, cardiac arrest, and eventually involuntary hospitalization.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJwkv8xShB
Yeah, she was a mental case and many psychiatrists had tried to peek inside her brain, the turmoil of emotions raging inside of her.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNMNSbHuwY0
Of course, as the scared little kid she used to be, she resisted every single one of them. Making her time there only worse.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4GEkrFzZEg
It all changed when Jonah, a junior high school coach and a total douche-bag, took it upon himself to teach her how to safely push her limits. How to become better and faster without causing major damage to herself.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7FT6vQnc8X
She despised the guy and was pretty sure the feeling was mutual. However, she couldn't deny what he had done for her. Pulling her out of a downward spiral, a dark place she never wished to go back to.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLBdSiEaIR
He gave her the outlet she needed to survive, to cope.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSbbhyIMqe
For that, she was thankful to him, and still was, but it didn't take long for their fragile cooperation to come to an abrupt end.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtIQ1mnVW9
He was a douche-bag after all.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1m4dkyzno
He'd mistaken her silence for consent and started showing up at the most inappropriate times, the worst and the final blow to their teamwork, was showing up while she was showering.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIqFIZsS47
Without thinking twice she left, after kicking him in the groin that is, and never encountered him again.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt301dqWb9c
Lucas, who was her coach these days, was a totally different person. Calm, loyal to a fault and a devoted family man.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlfxNYe8pa
She liked that he didn't hover, as long as she ate three meals a day and performed as expected, that is.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYEp4KGVfm
Recently though he did seem to notice the change within her.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrSQoqEHfnZ
That he didn't hover obviously didn't mean he would let her suffer in silence.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvRk1k0xZPr
After yesterday's competition, he waited outside her dressing room. Guiding her to his office as soon as she tried to leave. They didn't speak, as was usual for them when it was just the two of them outside a working environment.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIqZ3qbf9ZN
But his expression had said enough, tension radiated from his normally stoic face and his small lips were pressed into a thin line, all signs that she was not going to like what was going to happen when he opened that door.476Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwjXivo2yGN
and then Add to home screen.