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Heat burned her eyes, making them tear in defense, in despair.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ40UhXXr1fb
Hating what was happening to them and before them.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4kV17kY7kT
The light was so bright, so hot.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpjEq3ZjA0
Screams reached her ears, so high in volume and ferocity it almost made her eardrums bleed.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡByZnrrDHE2
Slowly realization hit her, screams?258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡruHXr5M3o4
no, just one. One scream, Hers 258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpUWSI9ZWXL
In despair, she jolted upright on her bed.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3n0M0dO40X
Her breathing was still shallow and irregular as cold sweat poured down her sun-kissed skin.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMURLVPqKdO
Oh, how she hated going down memory lane. The guilt that rode along with it.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZNHQqUyeL
Making her stomach twist in all different sorts of knots she didn't know how to untie.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZUVhWo9p1
She took a couple of deep breaths, steadying herself, before slowly standing up.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlyCPGbGg0K
Daring a quick glance at the clock an exhausted sigh escaped her lips.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5wgoLXTnAA
It was 3 o'clock, freaking 3 o'clock in the morning!258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIi387GJAu
She sighed again. Well, at least she slept for a whole four hours this time.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZmnnpFDWHt
In the ten years, since the insomnia started, she became an expert in power naps.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofLBEAPEx4
She had to, to survive. As soon as her legs could carry her she made her way to the living room.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZI3M7eHrsw
As usual, she stayed in a hotel room, the hotel changing weakly sometimes daily when it was necessary.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ04sqCrJI03
Traveling from country to country to chase the best and hardest competitions to improve her skills on track.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9F8W7TPLV
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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2djlvtwHc3
It was the only place where she was able to find peace of mind, for a little while at least.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobUv7l0USf
And she needed it more and more every day.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM1n5FkdNIn
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?258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhZSYd0Ijq
Hell no!258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhK4i36cvZK
Shielding her heart meant she would nothing, nothing! have any meaning to her.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUz7m9YF7px
That way it wouldn't hurt as much as you lost it. And after ten years of practice, she mastered the skill.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUZu38jo9dl
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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOEGl8TkB0I
Unresponsive, unsympathetic to anything around her.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RDT5N6sBz
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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWcZ96BovmZ
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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy5kAAO87Xv
So why would she bother trying to explain?258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8CmvYmnNy
They didn't care, not really. And they couldn't help her, or ease the pain she was now accustomed to.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzvJButrupQ
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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqpMFPg08EX
Everything!258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡouX9v57Pd8
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After taking a shower her discomfort from the nightmare finally resided to the back of her mind.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDHdzj4gvB
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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87OZ4Rh8mW
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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYTRdi55EC
Yeah, she was a mental case and many psychiatrists had tried to peek inside her brain, the turmoil of emotions raging inside of her.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12oF35dpwX
Of course, as the scared little kid she used to be, she resisted every single one of them. Making her time there only worse.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7tsZEnhtQo
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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLaL29XmDWH
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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUwCrwECQA
He gave her the outlet she needed to survive, to cope.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyeZDfiquj8
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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjWJ02arLmD
He was a douche-bag after all.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xm8KkOIHG
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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ69tVs2hWiL
Without thinking twice she left, after kicking him in the groin that is, and never encountered him again.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHzREcy3Do
Lucas, who was her coach these days, was a totally different person. Calm, loyal to a fault and a devoted family man.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjvags6XOn7
She liked that he didn't hover, as long as she ate three meals a day and performed as expected, that is.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIgjVRgF0Z
Recently though he did seem to notice the change within her.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡruULpvfLjt
That he didn't hover obviously didn't mean he would let her suffer in silence.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJBiuxIMyP5
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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡElG8jEh7Il
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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCFjpK39wXI
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