Prologue308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcEhtuftOQf
Heat burned her eyes, making them tear in defense, in despair.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqSrQXu60I8
Hating what was happening to them and before them.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKtO4VSPIdw
The light was so bright, so hot.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjU0wf6fQd
Screams reached her ears, so high in volume and ferocity it almost made her eardrums bleed.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTfrw1P0nu
Slowly realization hit her, screams?308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUphCfB2f9
no, just one. One scream, Hers 308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmpDPPx0JP0
In despair, she jolted upright on her bed.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH5gDDfib5y
Her breathing was still shallow and irregular as cold sweat poured down her sun-kissed skin.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi4GLokzgfz
Oh, how she hated going down memory lane. The guilt that rode along with it.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGkbGaeGSRk
Making her stomach twist in all different sorts of knots she didn't know how to untie.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3ir1BkEcr
She took a couple of deep breaths, steadying herself, before slowly standing up.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6Z5ZCk4Df
Daring a quick glance at the clock an exhausted sigh escaped her lips.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVaKYgZS7p
It was 3 o'clock, freaking 3 o'clock in the morning!308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiV68ugIJ57
She sighed again. Well, at least she slept for a whole four hours this time.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl1HUkYcvZX
In the ten years, since the insomnia started, she became an expert in power naps.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW5YefCwLnS
She had to, to survive. As soon as her legs could carry her she made her way to the living room.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuK0XQlh2uT
As usual, she stayed in a hotel room, the hotel changing weakly sometimes daily when it was necessary.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvMsDRQvVxo
Traveling from country to country to chase the best and hardest competitions to improve her skills on track.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI2wO3Rncf9
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.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs29At3GPDG
It was the only place where she was able to find peace of mind, for a little while at least.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9YnWnU6FO
And she needed it more and more every day.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5u8V5wZUS
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?308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOeJJdjsIak
Hell no!308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPMPuN4gKAX
Shielding her heart meant she would nothing, nothing! have any meaning to her.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwi0phryoz
That way it wouldn't hurt as much as you lost it. And after ten years of practice, she mastered the skill.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQilhwujv7p
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.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHYnGpy2Dxa
Unresponsive, unsympathetic to anything around her.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZjBAMNXdy
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.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAejQCrZkg
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.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxQDeZiwJrM
So why would she bother trying to explain?308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGkipXUwp6j
They didn't care, not really. And they couldn't help her, or ease the pain she was now accustomed to.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQvAywC2E1
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.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaixKT5ncQo
Everything!308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcq5tB92dN6
308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjeQUKivStd
After taking a shower her discomfort from the nightmare finally resided to the back of her mind.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyVqKCs06tl
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.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSBrRxqURiG
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.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0r0EK5VCMq
Yeah, she was a mental case and many psychiatrists had tried to peek inside her brain, the turmoil of emotions raging inside of her.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡanljvaHJru
Of course, as the scared little kid she used to be, she resisted every single one of them. Making her time there only worse.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDN2X21a1lh
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.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEo116LwUuJ
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.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLdboEhz7w
He gave her the outlet she needed to survive, to cope.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡilBM1iPxFU
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.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLzWP2eSvv
He was a douche-bag after all.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8EP4fjZEy0
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.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiwfkH2Vmgm
Without thinking twice she left, after kicking him in the groin that is, and never encountered him again.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmnlmyOqC7
Lucas, who was her coach these days, was a totally different person. Calm, loyal to a fault and a devoted family man.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jFi9hpiDO
She liked that he didn't hover, as long as she ate three meals a day and performed as expected, that is.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2qlIV3HbkJ
Recently though he did seem to notice the change within her.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOzNFqmv7g
That he didn't hover obviously didn't mean he would let her suffer in silence.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqofPH2acX
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.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80rFSGVC1r
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.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlQ3utgo5p
然後按「加至主畫面」