Prologue477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAmWCufP7c
Heat burned her eyes, making them tear in defense, in despair.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvvctv6O71E
Hating what was happening to them and before them.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIdQafQ7jCv
The light was so bright, so hot.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtytn7HqbYX
Screams reached her ears, so high in volume and ferocity it almost made her eardrums bleed.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9H6tuSm2d
Slowly realization hit her, screams?477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBKRg5NTMT
no, just one. One scream, Hers 477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBYkOzZWV43
In despair, she jolted upright on her bed.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuqxNvmSy9
Her breathing was still shallow and irregular as cold sweat poured down her sun-kissed skin.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9JzMC3qTUK
Oh, how she hated going down memory lane. The guilt that rode along with it.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRFisKlDXnc
Making her stomach twist in all different sorts of knots she didn't know how to untie.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzUdYUcEHa
She took a couple of deep breaths, steadying herself, before slowly standing up.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR61L3L21Wu
Daring a quick glance at the clock an exhausted sigh escaped her lips.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVbbw9QfWc
It was 3 o'clock, freaking 3 o'clock in the morning!477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOp8KCFZw5i
She sighed again. Well, at least she slept for a whole four hours this time.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLT6oN4ifIR
In the ten years, since the insomnia started, she became an expert in power naps.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8g3ubXdHH
She had to, to survive. As soon as her legs could carry her she made her way to the living room.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoQ0qYb0rJ
As usual, she stayed in a hotel room, the hotel changing weakly sometimes daily when it was necessary.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDPsR8jC4Ym
Traveling from country to country to chase the best and hardest competitions to improve her skills on track.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypJRMxS5vM
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.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacv6KEAJmM
It was the only place where she was able to find peace of mind, for a little while at least.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGQIzeHRHRW
And she needed it more and more every day.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlaW8wTqOeo
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?477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhpzJrqnl2o
Hell no!477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgR98D3nJvm
Shielding her heart meant she would nothing, nothing! have any meaning to her.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURgz4EQlbK
That way it wouldn't hurt as much as you lost it. And after ten years of practice, she mastered the skill.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVWNqvtJVj
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.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhwSoDtgtf
Unresponsive, unsympathetic to anything around her.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGXqktvVB1a
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.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKdBcg4SH7N
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.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxwCYV8N7vB
So why would she bother trying to explain?477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGmQGWBtM3
They didn't care, not really. And they couldn't help her, or ease the pain she was now accustomed to.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj0v5BZhV2q
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.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi2G6Y8KIhU
Everything!477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLaWksVU3HH
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After taking a shower her discomfort from the nightmare finally resided to the back of her mind.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAniH49SfT
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.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡctVUrb5Ayj
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.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEkJJ9ZK8p1
Yeah, she was a mental case and many psychiatrists had tried to peek inside her brain, the turmoil of emotions raging inside of her.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡATQmtK38Hr
Of course, as the scared little kid she used to be, she resisted every single one of them. Making her time there only worse.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQ99bDVYE7
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.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLc3EavwfRX
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.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRSmHfwthG
He gave her the outlet she needed to survive, to cope.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABSKLC3dl6
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.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqwQObxbD9
He was a douche-bag after all.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6VjdJ3Zub
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.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKanb5c9mrN
Without thinking twice she left, after kicking him in the groin that is, and never encountered him again.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8kvOEeNxS
Lucas, who was her coach these days, was a totally different person. Calm, loyal to a fault and a devoted family man.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ830muUD2mt
She liked that he didn't hover, as long as she ate three meals a day and performed as expected, that is.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBFpo5PfO0j
Recently though he did seem to notice the change within her.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLxaGww98xC
That he didn't hover obviously didn't mean he would let her suffer in silence.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqUgT24myK
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.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHsO8IqI2N
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.477Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoiKVxuy8F
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