Prologue331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4DNqexGkl
Heat burned her eyes, making them tear in defense, in despair.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYV5Jgw5gf9
Hating what was happening to them and before them.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0gDguslNR
The light was so bright, so hot.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHz8WNDSpH
Screams reached her ears, so high in volume and ferocity it almost made her eardrums bleed.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMRau3TRkM
Slowly realization hit her, screams?331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0tqNvlrvX
no, just one. One scream, Hers 331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNlTsyCe5DE
In despair, she jolted upright on her bed.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0G4egYglT
Her breathing was still shallow and irregular as cold sweat poured down her sun-kissed skin.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNaZLwJzZc
Oh, how she hated going down memory lane. The guilt that rode along with it.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn76uHiUXN3
Making her stomach twist in all different sorts of knots she didn't know how to untie.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLU7U7StkpL
She took a couple of deep breaths, steadying herself, before slowly standing up.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsiSqwSo6Ie
Daring a quick glance at the clock an exhausted sigh escaped her lips.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiohOo5RlD1
It was 3 o'clock, freaking 3 o'clock in the morning!331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqbjwYyY4HU
She sighed again. Well, at least she slept for a whole four hours this time.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQml5iT51B3
In the ten years, since the insomnia started, she became an expert in power naps.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡow6Jt71w03
She had to, to survive. As soon as her legs could carry her she made her way to the living room.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQcwoYSFXvW
As usual, she stayed in a hotel room, the hotel changing weakly sometimes daily when it was necessary.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTNqk9jlnR4
Traveling from country to country to chase the best and hardest competitions to improve her skills on track.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ZTOs2J6DZ
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8QVEtfWtZ
It was the only place where she was able to find peace of mind, for a little while at least.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoVDlvwOWL
And she needed it more and more every day.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKsEzyxFR6q
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?331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsO1CQK7pV
Hell no!331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhpzBgadm8y
Shielding her heart meant she would nothing, nothing! have any meaning to her.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9SXL1oNcY
That way it wouldn't hurt as much as you lost it. And after ten years of practice, she mastered the skill.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9mlWMQ4tE
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5Wmzfroch
Unresponsive, unsympathetic to anything around her.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdM7blDRUCJ
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFj2gsgY6L
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0Cq60uMWh
So why would she bother trying to explain?331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttDnUT4KC9
They didn't care, not really. And they couldn't help her, or ease the pain she was now accustomed to.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzHNmHVtyib
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOjupXp0aJ8
Everything!331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZGqDzVS4LS
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After taking a shower her discomfort from the nightmare finally resided to the back of her mind.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQLHyJLgMr
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgvFvyrD2i
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu1JK8rsxr6
Yeah, she was a mental case and many psychiatrists had tried to peek inside her brain, the turmoil of emotions raging inside of her.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAqrHmF4Hor
Of course, as the scared little kid she used to be, she resisted every single one of them. Making her time there only worse.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bDu0mDfaK
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhe4yxDR1qP
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLzySEsAYzH
He gave her the outlet she needed to survive, to cope.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA61dXj4bZK
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLzYE46apvC
He was a douche-bag after all.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2nKswXwP72
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHbJ0WL5gu6
Without thinking twice she left, after kicking him in the groin that is, and never encountered him again.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5dpBe6dmrG
Lucas, who was her coach these days, was a totally different person. Calm, loyal to a fault and a devoted family man.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGQKJk1mxt
She liked that he didn't hover, as long as she ate three meals a day and performed as expected, that is.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiujxythxRa
Recently though he did seem to notice the change within her.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMDQQMXDhkA
That he didn't hover obviously didn't mean he would let her suffer in silence.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8yvBkkBJk
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFrHN1hYRy
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhKcMaHaNGQ
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