Prologue336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYzwFk7q79p
Heat burned her eyes, making them tear in defense, in despair.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoRV75YuUpY
Hating what was happening to them and before them.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TqXbWfryY
The light was so bright, so hot.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZysFFcPUwa
Screams reached her ears, so high in volume and ferocity it almost made her eardrums bleed.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡedRqASwTzR
Slowly realization hit her, screams?336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPtQGDOw6u
no, just one. One scream, Hers 336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJq3cM0feor
In despair, she jolted upright on her bed.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq0n1XzF4fh
Her breathing was still shallow and irregular as cold sweat poured down her sun-kissed skin.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHZfInUja2
Oh, how she hated going down memory lane. The guilt that rode along with it.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0sh2UpcNi
Making her stomach twist in all different sorts of knots she didn't know how to untie.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenyqebZEbm
She took a couple of deep breaths, steadying herself, before slowly standing up.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOpK7e8i91N
Daring a quick glance at the clock an exhausted sigh escaped her lips.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7S1KqCB8g
It was 3 o'clock, freaking 3 o'clock in the morning!336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8V0f9ECZxO
She sighed again. Well, at least she slept for a whole four hours this time.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvaGmmiUNDv
In the ten years, since the insomnia started, she became an expert in power naps.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwIrBH1GhFM
She had to, to survive. As soon as her legs could carry her she made her way to the living room.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3fXCtDZb13
As usual, she stayed in a hotel room, the hotel changing weakly sometimes daily when it was necessary.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Go6u3GQZP
Traveling from country to country to chase the best and hardest competitions to improve her skills on track.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj2lQepvKAP
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.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRtu3bAoUYF
It was the only place where she was able to find peace of mind, for a little while at least.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBi7zqvV8Ri
And she needed it more and more every day.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyeG3tiwnMg
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?336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡooO2NZUszp
Hell no!336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhPqjDm3PE9
Shielding her heart meant she would nothing, nothing! have any meaning to her.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfuMj6CuzPT
That way it wouldn't hurt as much as you lost it. And after ten years of practice, she mastered the skill.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCR62hiomqS
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.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡElK0P7z6eV
Unresponsive, unsympathetic to anything around her.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpee8Zig2Zt
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.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvJg8zlTiah
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.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7GWuAjgqT
So why would she bother trying to explain?336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDnZcP0Ll0Z
They didn't care, not really. And they couldn't help her, or ease the pain she was now accustomed to.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6FNQJiy2Mw
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.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsAakFchDz9
Everything!336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9mJLNh7JN
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After taking a shower her discomfort from the nightmare finally resided to the back of her mind.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaO9oQnaP2V
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.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0rwOQ8RLb
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.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ17W8o5BVmn
Yeah, she was a mental case and many psychiatrists had tried to peek inside her brain, the turmoil of emotions raging inside of her.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfPcArF9JM
Of course, as the scared little kid she used to be, she resisted every single one of them. Making her time there only worse.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNGpnjEgKJQ
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.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqrxsxQDlOb
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.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYr6CgmWMtk
He gave her the outlet she needed to survive, to cope.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMd82saWb2n
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.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTnr0dFYhh
He was a douche-bag after all.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5yGy8PK06S
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.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡakvqLNR8N9
Without thinking twice she left, after kicking him in the groin that is, and never encountered him again.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYout4WhF45
Lucas, who was her coach these days, was a totally different person. Calm, loyal to a fault and a devoted family man.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMWwzWSkNg
She liked that he didn't hover, as long as she ate three meals a day and performed as expected, that is.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡef3qZ29lTl
Recently though he did seem to notice the change within her.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnwcOtCoji
That he didn't hover obviously didn't mean he would let her suffer in silence.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqODkESU4L0
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.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7d1mG8T2o8
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.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzpqY5a0FF
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