Prologue238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3oHqlvimrf
Heat burned her eyes, making them tear in defense, in despair.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqesv8TEhE
Hating what was happening to them and before them.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXi7bOm9qww
The light was so bright, so hot.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP4mkaxEPDs
Screams reached her ears, so high in volume and ferocity it almost made her eardrums bleed.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbcZwyymSb
Slowly realization hit her, screams?238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44pOqfRWkr
no, just one. One scream, Hers 238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwfGpLxKqx
In despair, she jolted upright on her bed.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo995UYM75E
Her breathing was still shallow and irregular as cold sweat poured down her sun-kissed skin.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2lksT61rN
Oh, how she hated going down memory lane. The guilt that rode along with it.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDeo1mLl9k
Making her stomach twist in all different sorts of knots she didn't know how to untie.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSo2rI3Ko1C
She took a couple of deep breaths, steadying herself, before slowly standing up.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡICVBpe5WZe
Daring a quick glance at the clock an exhausted sigh escaped her lips.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxRUaIbxLmY
It was 3 o'clock, freaking 3 o'clock in the morning!238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwo2zlR2X8f
She sighed again. Well, at least she slept for a whole four hours this time.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5kOVG3pVc
In the ten years, since the insomnia started, she became an expert in power naps.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs11Hhj8410
She had to, to survive. As soon as her legs could carry her she made her way to the living room.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRvLg1EXX8v
As usual, she stayed in a hotel room, the hotel changing weakly sometimes daily when it was necessary.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqE8XvrCkT
Traveling from country to country to chase the best and hardest competitions to improve her skills on track.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EBkuCYhYs
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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhxzwN6Ddq
It was the only place where she was able to find peace of mind, for a little while at least.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpmXALFQnLn
And she needed it more and more every day.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwZ2GOn0Hh
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?238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoeFZJD2dMg
Hell no!238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJ5uw7UaDI
Shielding her heart meant she would nothing, nothing! have any meaning to her.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR87VabZuIY
That way it wouldn't hurt as much as you lost it. And after ten years of practice, she mastered the skill.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6kdJdVFU8e
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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24fxeQddZZ
Unresponsive, unsympathetic to anything around her.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjCVxlYNR1
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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpeFcLurjCH
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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9cPrKa1hyc
So why would she bother trying to explain?238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡogbVNkXzkW
They didn't care, not really. And they couldn't help her, or ease the pain she was now accustomed to.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8He3w9YdML
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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7Cv2pdhFy
Everything!238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzTrTsMdFH
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After taking a shower her discomfort from the nightmare finally resided to the back of her mind.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5CkhbEAe8
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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCkRx29qiSF
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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo7F8GBxwi8
Yeah, she was a mental case and many psychiatrists had tried to peek inside her brain, the turmoil of emotions raging inside of her.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmQAZoSeEOd
Of course, as the scared little kid she used to be, she resisted every single one of them. Making her time there only worse.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaJPoMeYLnQ
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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvukbmh6LiB
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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07E5D7IMb3
He gave her the outlet she needed to survive, to cope.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWUWWlVA0j
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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIrm6gYx0W9
He was a douche-bag after all.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiFHFktBob9
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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgOfyJABv5
Without thinking twice she left, after kicking him in the groin that is, and never encountered him again.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3bNLXefTr0
Lucas, who was her coach these days, was a totally different person. Calm, loyal to a fault and a devoted family man.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLyuVLVtI85
She liked that he didn't hover, as long as she ate three meals a day and performed as expected, that is.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFbZ4UcVI4
Recently though he did seem to notice the change within her.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfuV2ka39ry
That he didn't hover obviously didn't mean he would let her suffer in silence.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIB551wkcrm
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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuslHqsxa7G
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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34rDeUs2jx
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