Chapter 2
Aladden
I cruise down the hallway, wave at a few people, but then launch myself into a dark corner and try to control my breathing. It’s a panic attack, that is what the doctors and Dad tell me.
Everything has changed over the past year. I was on my way to being an Olympic champion. But that one night, destroyed my dreams, my hope, and left me with more than a guilty conscience.
They started happening after the accident. But I can’t control them. I never once had them before a big competition. I was definitely too cocky to let something like fear get in my way of victory.
“Ten, nine, eight, seven, six.” I get to six and grab the bottle of pills in my bag. They are lost at the bottom pit and I am trying to control the chaos in my head, but I can’t reach it fast enough.
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