Never In A Million Years

Chapter Twenty-Eight

~Allyson's POV~

It had been a week since my argument with Boithuto, and I was jogging around behind the tracks, trying to prepare for my race. It was the 400m finals and was I scared? Nah bro, I was terrified. I marched over to the doors as they opened, and I watched as the other racers were so calm. I didn't wanna think about it too much but I couldn't help it, after this race only three people were going to be crowned winners. 

I walked to my lane and got down on my knees, I traced my fingers to find that I was shivering, I then looked up and found Karay's piercing eyes looking at me, he smiled. That soothed my spirit. I watched the other runners practice their lift off, but I didn't practice mine. Confident? nah, I just felt like I had practiced enough and I was as ready as I'd ever be. 

"On your marks," the official finally said. 

We all did as told, the stadium got quiet.

"Set,"

I saw one of the runners lift off and run but I didn't recall hearing the gunshot. Oh no, she's definately out. The official walked over to each racer, with a card, green or red. He walked to my lane and gave me a green card. He then walked over to the Russian runner and gave her a red card. She was out. Her slow walk off the tracks gave me chills. 

They started again.

"On your marks,"

"Set"

The gun firing, started the race once again. We were running with our full capacities.