The Girl With Two Minds

Chapter 6

We were here,  AUM Academy Of Sports!

My entire team was having a great time and then there was me, who was about to faint seeing the tracks. The tracks were huge!! They were the tracks I've always wanted to race on! Oh my god I was about to run on Tartan tracks!!!

Soon someone allotted us our rooms. The boys and the girl stayed in different rooms which were about a 500 metres away from each other. Everyone was fighting for the beds but that was not what I cared about, just when Theo message me to meet him in the corridor urgently. I  kept my backpack on the bed which was not being fought for and started walking to the corridor wondering why Theo was being so restless and what he wanted to say.

I see him and wave, he walks up to me
"Hi what's the matter? Why so urgently?" I asked stressing on the word urgently
"Do you realise this is the first time we've spoken ever since we got on the airplane?" I felt like an idiot, Theo kept telling how he was looking forward to spending time with me but I couldn't help but spoil it
"Umm..yeah I'm actually---"
"I know it's tense but stop telling your self that. You'll  fall sick if you worry so much and I don't want to spend the next 7 days taking care of your health" I couldn't say if Theo was trying to me nice or rude but I promised him not to lose my mind over it.

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Someone knocked on our room door, it was our coach with some papers in his hand. Were they what I was thinking? I didn't want to look at any sheet of paper because I knew that the schedule was printed on every single one of them. I know I had promised Theo not to lose my mind but my blood pressure was on high levels to even stand up.

"Kiara, you have your heats on the first day and your finals on the last day" said one of my team members. I wanted to die! Although I'd have five days for rest, all I was tensed about is that I'd have 5 days just to worry about my next race! This didn't seem good. I was so panicked that I picked my phone up and rushed out of the room saying I wanted to pee but I called Theo

"Theo I need you to meet me in the corridor RIGHT NOW!" I was shivering so much that I dropped my phone I bent down to pick my phone but I burst into tears. I felt warm tears roll down my cheeks as I took support of the wall to sit down. No sound came out of my mouth, just tears making my vision blur

I was wiping my tears when I felt a hand twist around me, it was Theo. He gently started rubbing my back until I calmed down. Finally I was in the state to speak.
"Kiara are you alright? What's wrong now?"
"Did you not see the schedule?! My races are--" I couldn't even complete my sentences without bursting into tears again. I didn't want to cry in front of Theo but I couldn't help it
"Calm down. You don't need to worry so much, it never helps"
Maybe Theo was right worrying wouldn't help me do any better. I stopped weeping, I didn't want anything to spoil my races. Not at all!

Suddenly I felt one of Theo's hand go up my cheek. One of them still tangled in my hand and the other resting on my cheek he leaned forward and kissed me on my forehead "You'll be just fine"
I was suddenly very calm, not crying anymore, not even shivering any more. Theo's kiss worked like magic, all the fear had disappeared. "Now just go and rest. You've to kick many asses tomorrow"

He helped me get up and told me to go back to my room
"Umm Theo I'll be able to go only if you let go off my hand" we both giggled as he gently left my hand. He waved me goodbye and started walking back to his room

All of a sudden something felt incomplete. As if something that was with for a lot of years was leaving me now. My hand felt incomplete without his fingers entangled in mine. I already missed his soothing voice, Theo was my calm in the chaos.

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It was 9pm, I had to sleep early so that I get up on time tomorrow. I had dinner with my team but this time I actually spoke to them and cracked jokes. They all had been a part of the nation's before so they weren't very tensed. My group referred to my state of anxiety as 'a cat on hot bricks'. I wasn't so tensed alright, it was just a pinch of tension which everyone was undergoing. No need to make it a big deal!

I knew I could sleep well tonight and I don't need to try 1000 sleeping positions. I slept as soon as I crashed on my bed.

All I knew was that tomorrow I was going to give my best...