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Heat burned her eyes, making them tear in defense, in despair.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9jGPdfdgpC
Hating what was happening to them and before them.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQ9hv7xYSc
The light was so bright, so hot.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr5B393Tdi3
Screams reached her ears, so high in volume and ferocity it almost made her eardrums bleed.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbDuLe9p7b
Slowly realization hit her, screams?243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhym2yGLe0
no, just one. One scream, Hers 243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEaYzrGFqYb
In despair, she jolted upright on her bed.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRHYnAonz2r
Her breathing was still shallow and irregular as cold sweat poured down her sun-kissed skin.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Gnh9DUiex
Oh, how she hated going down memory lane. The guilt that rode along with it.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJIy6pKudvD
Making her stomach twist in all different sorts of knots she didn't know how to untie.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwwhQZ142s
She took a couple of deep breaths, steadying herself, before slowly standing up.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzpX8Su8YJc
Daring a quick glance at the clock an exhausted sigh escaped her lips.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcfF6NZCLwF
It was 3 o'clock, freaking 3 o'clock in the morning!243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡutvJPHyIiD
She sighed again. Well, at least she slept for a whole four hours this time.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBI5tH9NT9
In the ten years, since the insomnia started, she became an expert in power naps.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkKWKpw22DX
She had to, to survive. As soon as her legs could carry her she made her way to the living room.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5mWMsHskn1
As usual, she stayed in a hotel room, the hotel changing weakly sometimes daily when it was necessary.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmxmpmxnE3y
Traveling from country to country to chase the best and hardest competitions to improve her skills on track.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6UF1WYnTwp
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.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLDdzFLmzBc
It was the only place where she was able to find peace of mind, for a little while at least.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4bqolpT4Y
And she needed it more and more every day.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMZEEINEDY
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?243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoAPKy0NbvM
Hell no!243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaYQ5HE3qOa
Shielding her heart meant she would nothing, nothing! have any meaning to her.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDb4JMUd1AX
That way it wouldn't hurt as much as you lost it. And after ten years of practice, she mastered the skill.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVtXsOJ7QU
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.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4gbDEFgg1l
Unresponsive, unsympathetic to anything around her.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKN6ZSIqlhH
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.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbYOhzajngZ
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.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjZISZPaLv
So why would she bother trying to explain?243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpQJw5Ko0Ex
They didn't care, not really. And they couldn't help her, or ease the pain she was now accustomed to.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpROXd2JTo
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.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRMQfZYcA5
Everything!243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBVL2qB7H0
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After taking a shower her discomfort from the nightmare finally resided to the back of her mind.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYrHG2bNW7n
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.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFxSFxKSeA
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.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHMknSMCHnt
Yeah, she was a mental case and many psychiatrists had tried to peek inside her brain, the turmoil of emotions raging inside of her.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcMc4Ti2iNv
Of course, as the scared little kid she used to be, she resisted every single one of them. Making her time there only worse.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxn2EmfocjW
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.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiD8nanZgbv
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.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7I682548j
He gave her the outlet she needed to survive, to cope.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrLat08HQzY
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.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhh5C8koSpL
He was a douche-bag after all.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxE4ypWren
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.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCESWeGrLQ
Without thinking twice she left, after kicking him in the groin that is, and never encountered him again.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMY8VRFjDo
Lucas, who was her coach these days, was a totally different person. Calm, loyal to a fault and a devoted family man.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdoYmrEI74
She liked that he didn't hover, as long as she ate three meals a day and performed as expected, that is.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75Cm6wSenZ
Recently though he did seem to notice the change within her.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6jrjMDfiG
That he didn't hover obviously didn't mean he would let her suffer in silence.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1rlny72R29
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.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwaKqCy5Dam
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.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjM4tDdeULK
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