Prologue324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLbD9rrrDJP
Heat burned her eyes, making them tear in defense, in despair.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTNXkjJEny
Hating what was happening to them and before them.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcALLKh1Zja
The light was so bright, so hot.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8tKccyPD5q
Screams reached her ears, so high in volume and ferocity it almost made her eardrums bleed.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmSwhyfuH6j
Slowly realization hit her, screams?324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRgiiAFReW
no, just one. One scream, Hers 324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlBIe180Gk5
In despair, she jolted upright on her bed.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKRvpagXOl
Her breathing was still shallow and irregular as cold sweat poured down her sun-kissed skin.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡViVy3n3bfm
Oh, how she hated going down memory lane. The guilt that rode along with it.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMg873IrIpr
Making her stomach twist in all different sorts of knots she didn't know how to untie.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWj0fBCW67B
She took a couple of deep breaths, steadying herself, before slowly standing up.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvcMWRtIJe
Daring a quick glance at the clock an exhausted sigh escaped her lips.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRyUAnEpK4Z
It was 3 o'clock, freaking 3 o'clock in the morning!324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0RXD0vC4uS
She sighed again. Well, at least she slept for a whole four hours this time.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjK67fTF1pX
In the ten years, since the insomnia started, she became an expert in power naps.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtftcHX3Pd
She had to, to survive. As soon as her legs could carry her she made her way to the living room.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhQP1w56Cu
As usual, she stayed in a hotel room, the hotel changing weakly sometimes daily when it was necessary.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEa4iOKOZsM
Traveling from country to country to chase the best and hardest competitions to improve her skills on track.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPKCcChYDN
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.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTrqnqx866G
It was the only place where she was able to find peace of mind, for a little while at least.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDp5H5od00
And she needed it more and more every day.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡceYLkfx4nr
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?324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJ05k9M6ls
Hell no!324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOYr8UbvNA3
Shielding her heart meant she would nothing, nothing! have any meaning to her.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmYUsc1pfk
That way it wouldn't hurt as much as you lost it. And after ten years of practice, she mastered the skill.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIQq7DMdp2
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.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQQ7RlRYCh
Unresponsive, unsympathetic to anything around her.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzaWEVYp46n
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.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4rkpSMCRr2
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.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6x2Nj1egJ
So why would she bother trying to explain?324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZexV56eF1
They didn't care, not really. And they couldn't help her, or ease the pain she was now accustomed to.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwoQuDY6G4
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.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqSv4JNwKgl
Everything!324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8PEeDXcn6
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After taking a shower her discomfort from the nightmare finally resided to the back of her mind.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4aQNZct14
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.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8nYLhiJFeo
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.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNJsXFTDxq
Yeah, she was a mental case and many psychiatrists had tried to peek inside her brain, the turmoil of emotions raging inside of her.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSe3fn3hUyS
Of course, as the scared little kid she used to be, she resisted every single one of them. Making her time there only worse.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthfiI4ZE1R
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.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1UwlKPM4T
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.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡykY2BDe5ag
He gave her the outlet she needed to survive, to cope.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPEbpDAGSI
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.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFscgCV3Fd
He was a douche-bag after all.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUnQhuJaTys
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.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡncWvhB4sin
Without thinking twice she left, after kicking him in the groin that is, and never encountered him again.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCRQUL0wVS
Lucas, who was her coach these days, was a totally different person. Calm, loyal to a fault and a devoted family man.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhB1qCTTbbj
She liked that he didn't hover, as long as she ate three meals a day and performed as expected, that is.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4Dp7X7iuM
Recently though he did seem to notice the change within her.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthdi9ZYDI5
That he didn't hover obviously didn't mean he would let her suffer in silence.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4j5SjHcd6
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.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMohbcmIqyB
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.324Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8TlTozXVu
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