Prologue257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxmk84FKOO
Heat burned her eyes, making them tear in defense, in despair.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHCZqhvWqLU
Hating what was happening to them and before them.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6xlDgDymLN
The light was so bright, so hot.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWoxZE28GMa
Screams reached her ears, so high in volume and ferocity it almost made her eardrums bleed.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoR3d7lSyJ
Slowly realization hit her, screams?257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVeMGNvLgns
no, just one. One scream, Hers 257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwfuUsqRGe5
In despair, she jolted upright on her bed.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMCfvhLtQmt
Her breathing was still shallow and irregular as cold sweat poured down her sun-kissed skin.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe5WIh7ocRR
Oh, how she hated going down memory lane. The guilt that rode along with it.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6f92lOkPsU
Making her stomach twist in all different sorts of knots she didn't know how to untie.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyz71rth95Y
She took a couple of deep breaths, steadying herself, before slowly standing up.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzHe3rZmXfL
Daring a quick glance at the clock an exhausted sigh escaped her lips.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqaAkUxOkHg
It was 3 o'clock, freaking 3 o'clock in the morning!257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbEXlyEkwmi
She sighed again. Well, at least she slept for a whole four hours this time.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbqcI7EOE1
In the ten years, since the insomnia started, she became an expert in power naps.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6qFXvbX9Vg
She had to, to survive. As soon as her legs could carry her she made her way to the living room.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwxUt6G87HB
As usual, she stayed in a hotel room, the hotel changing weakly sometimes daily when it was necessary.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLoXiJXTix
Traveling from country to country to chase the best and hardest competitions to improve her skills on track.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1uNzRIh0gN
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.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Iuwnc28aG
It was the only place where she was able to find peace of mind, for a little while at least.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdC98kiWQ6
And she needed it more and more every day.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8m4mFNFqiC
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?257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjLrCY0zwH
Hell no!257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzlVOWMIi3K
Shielding her heart meant she would nothing, nothing! have any meaning to her.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ31XIU5pCXb
That way it wouldn't hurt as much as you lost it. And after ten years of practice, she mastered the skill.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4WxTqw2Uxb
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.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRzw930aoBC
Unresponsive, unsympathetic to anything around her.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrsqdr41BLv
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.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCMwb4M4XX
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.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJm2YUVZ7ct
So why would she bother trying to explain?257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhwe57y0MXj
They didn't care, not really. And they couldn't help her, or ease the pain she was now accustomed to.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN19jPrc9oa
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.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSYukUHspo
Everything!257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ8hKLByq2R
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After taking a shower her discomfort from the nightmare finally resided to the back of her mind.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsKa0c8103D
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.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUrfQnrgOP
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.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBSHFUULJB
Yeah, she was a mental case and many psychiatrists had tried to peek inside her brain, the turmoil of emotions raging inside of her.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZLWatHtRG4
Of course, as the scared little kid she used to be, she resisted every single one of them. Making her time there only worse.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVzFhIIyrmG
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.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwQ1doOx5x
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.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu8o0XCMzoW
He gave her the outlet she needed to survive, to cope.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthnmZZ9sXB
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.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr7p0PFzUSs
He was a douche-bag after all.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡENuH2e4HRR
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.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQgI6HjfKP
Without thinking twice she left, after kicking him in the groin that is, and never encountered him again.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡczVMEqpt24
Lucas, who was her coach these days, was a totally different person. Calm, loyal to a fault and a devoted family man.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeT2tXyCJ0d
She liked that he didn't hover, as long as she ate three meals a day and performed as expected, that is.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjDaG1v2tH
Recently though he did seem to notice the change within her.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9WDU1Oq7Y
That he didn't hover obviously didn't mean he would let her suffer in silence.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jCb3lsPY8
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.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZCoGTbdsr1
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.257Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxrCnP0owC
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