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Heat burned her eyes, making them tear in defense, in despair.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtzOh8zoZ8X
Hating what was happening to them and before them.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4uqCdlzHu
The light was so bright, so hot.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPFDP9pT3R
Screams reached her ears, so high in volume and ferocity it almost made her eardrums bleed.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDmyUKAr8C
Slowly realization hit her, screams?281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycLrW0rnX4
no, just one. One scream, Hers 281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKBKBDShGQs
In despair, she jolted upright on her bed.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlEQEAxsep2
Her breathing was still shallow and irregular as cold sweat poured down her sun-kissed skin.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBA9KFzW5vJ
Oh, how she hated going down memory lane. The guilt that rode along with it.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJvMmB8usY
Making her stomach twist in all different sorts of knots she didn't know how to untie.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKdMiOS12xs
She took a couple of deep breaths, steadying herself, before slowly standing up.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVo89I9hHqQ
Daring a quick glance at the clock an exhausted sigh escaped her lips.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNm5JJHt2zl
It was 3 o'clock, freaking 3 o'clock in the morning!281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtojJfQEIFx
She sighed again. Well, at least she slept for a whole four hours this time.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF23OubqJ3g
In the ten years, since the insomnia started, she became an expert in power naps.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡad6zrh1da5
She had to, to survive. As soon as her legs could carry her she made her way to the living room.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4L6iR8TzL
As usual, she stayed in a hotel room, the hotel changing weakly sometimes daily when it was necessary.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8cfX6SZg5p
Traveling from country to country to chase the best and hardest competitions to improve her skills on track.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOYeY2xIvt
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.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfrZNsdPhh
It was the only place where she was able to find peace of mind, for a little while at least.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGdNK7HbbgC
And she needed it more and more every day.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0bbyGZNkau
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?281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXXc9qhsfw
Hell no!281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ311SqMtRMs
Shielding her heart meant she would nothing, nothing! have any meaning to her.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznJ8K4B2NB
That way it wouldn't hurt as much as you lost it. And after ten years of practice, she mastered the skill.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLQLQcYTyzm
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.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaa7uxDBPfG
Unresponsive, unsympathetic to anything around her.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2aP5grI91P
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.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzu7LeBezw6
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.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyjVIez4SUM
So why would she bother trying to explain?281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUcM1ZlEZg
They didn't care, not really. And they couldn't help her, or ease the pain she was now accustomed to.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgWxdbnDAi
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.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0NUtZiJve
Everything!281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJMIB0a91o
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After taking a shower her discomfort from the nightmare finally resided to the back of her mind.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSKeizSBZbX
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.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ad8yJ3Uwt
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.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmnnoXetks2
Yeah, she was a mental case and many psychiatrists had tried to peek inside her brain, the turmoil of emotions raging inside of her.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Ml5Fcwj60
Of course, as the scared little kid she used to be, she resisted every single one of them. Making her time there only worse.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvONPUlZzu1
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.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHbCl2t0B6
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.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5TOPS38LbE
He gave her the outlet she needed to survive, to cope.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXexj0goQU8
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.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4E5U6YW9P
He was a douche-bag after all.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1iOprNe6TP
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.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcmX9qujDa
Without thinking twice she left, after kicking him in the groin that is, and never encountered him again.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5oXWeNbFIF
Lucas, who was her coach these days, was a totally different person. Calm, loyal to a fault and a devoted family man.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRJY4w15En
She liked that he didn't hover, as long as she ate three meals a day and performed as expected, that is.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl000emKNqM
Recently though he did seem to notice the change within her.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZXGTKAHRih
That he didn't hover obviously didn't mean he would let her suffer in silence.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG64DWWAKi6
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.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEoNEze6yW2
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.281Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBibN0GOja
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