Prologue504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZE6OWKcEBM
Heat burned her eyes, making them tear in defense, in despair.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA2Tqy9RdfH
Hating what was happening to them and before them.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87YWrkiZgr
The light was so bright, so hot.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsnvC90WdAl
Screams reached her ears, so high in volume and ferocity it almost made her eardrums bleed.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc59jTBmgrW
Slowly realization hit her, screams?504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTu6GH4Jfc
no, just one. One scream, Hers 504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXkqrufLLzp
In despair, she jolted upright on her bed.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo6unDnOUec
Her breathing was still shallow and irregular as cold sweat poured down her sun-kissed skin.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2IXRogo3Hy
Oh, how she hated going down memory lane. The guilt that rode along with it.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQeXHMduJl7
Making her stomach twist in all different sorts of knots she didn't know how to untie.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡua57fR1Z4i
She took a couple of deep breaths, steadying herself, before slowly standing up.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBHTZIB9ivw
Daring a quick glance at the clock an exhausted sigh escaped her lips.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWRfbxeMdd
It was 3 o'clock, freaking 3 o'clock in the morning!504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqOvEyd1ow9
She sighed again. Well, at least she slept for a whole four hours this time.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF90XoU3Pvy
In the ten years, since the insomnia started, she became an expert in power naps.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESXxbeGQEA
She had to, to survive. As soon as her legs could carry her she made her way to the living room.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWUoxcTHzu
As usual, she stayed in a hotel room, the hotel changing weakly sometimes daily when it was necessary.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdN4TqYO3iZ
Traveling from country to country to chase the best and hardest competitions to improve her skills on track.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPQIDRBWrl
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAoug5y6fw8
It was the only place where she was able to find peace of mind, for a little while at least.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXhqbvn9TZC
And she needed it more and more every day.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRbr8WVD0hH
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?504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDoubNwmTA
Hell no!504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZAWiCqk61V
Shielding her heart meant she would nothing, nothing! have any meaning to her.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCmSzjwC41
That way it wouldn't hurt as much as you lost it. And after ten years of practice, she mastered the skill.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wyAkFgddi
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdDnRXigbRg
Unresponsive, unsympathetic to anything around her.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3i6GNITUy
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmripuohMay
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdYADrdW9g
So why would she bother trying to explain?504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCXkZIcQmD
They didn't care, not really. And they couldn't help her, or ease the pain she was now accustomed to.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjhPFWCpAxv
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnN97Pvwu9i
Everything!504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu78PA8O4an
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After taking a shower her discomfort from the nightmare finally resided to the back of her mind.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXu0ixHZlS
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Zm5hdnc5z
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLG6EVvwKbb
Yeah, she was a mental case and many psychiatrists had tried to peek inside her brain, the turmoil of emotions raging inside of her.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDGhsMeEuvX
Of course, as the scared little kid she used to be, she resisted every single one of them. Making her time there only worse.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDhbLxU9yxL
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXDRcsWALo
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCLmv4Z1gJ8
He gave her the outlet she needed to survive, to cope.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPRcPf7pZa
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK5LQWzyHy0
He was a douche-bag after all.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfLbcllBP8c
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaO9JSmM67M
Without thinking twice she left, after kicking him in the groin that is, and never encountered him again.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGQnDAbKwy
Lucas, who was her coach these days, was a totally different person. Calm, loyal to a fault and a devoted family man.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRQMhWhqYEd
She liked that he didn't hover, as long as she ate three meals a day and performed as expected, that is.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBGPdOkYDpF
Recently though he did seem to notice the change within her.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoU4NETmxPm
That he didn't hover obviously didn't mean he would let her suffer in silence.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcq2CcCtedS
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFCjNkg29E
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxcQam0rqer
and then Add to home screen.