Deep breath.
"Runners at their mark!"
You'll be ok.
"Get set!"
Just breath through the pain.
A gun sounded in the distance.
Shit.
XxXxX
Lucy sat in the waiting chair outside of the doctors office waiting to be called. The pain in her stomach pulled her attention demanding that she give it. She grumbled and slumped farther into the chair. This stupid stomach pain had been bothering her since June, and it was mid August. She had finally decided to go to the doctor to get it checked out. It was impacting her running and her times had taken a huge blow. She had began to lose time minute by minute and her coaches were not pleased. She had had a race yesterday and decided it best to take it easy, but still run. She finished with a 29:13 her worst time by a number of minutes. She sighed. It fricken hurt.
"Lucy Heartfilia," a doctor with curly gray hair and a tired face stepped around the corner. Lucy stood up and followed him to the back praying for good news.
XxXx
She was benched. No races for a month. There were only four months left before leagues and she couldn't afford to be out. But she had to be. She jogged around the track watching as the rest of the team headed to the trail. She wasn't allowed to run on the trail anymore, after she had passed out on the trail the other day the coaches decided to make her run laps every practice. It was probably for the best too. She had fainted about three miles out from the school behind the rest of the group on their way back. She must have been there for at least 30 minutes before an injured teammate happened across her. He had twisted his ankle on a dip in the trail and attempted to limp back on his own.
He shook Lucy awake and pulled her up. The two arrived back at school 15 after practice had ended. Coach was not happy. So she was stuck here jogging laps around the track while Gray with his twisted ankle walked. As soon as the team was finally out on the trail the two stopped to watch the football players rather then run. It was too boring doing laps.
"Screw this stupid foot," grumbled Gray.
"I feel your pain. I hate being week," she spat bitterly.
"Aw shut up Lucy you're not weak. You're just out for a month that's it." Gray responded.
She grumbled as a reply and turned back to the football players.
The doctors brushed her pain aside saying that it was only growing pains and she would be fine in a month. But it still sucked.
About 45 minutes passed and the team was still out doing a long distance run for today. Gray and Lucy decided to go to the trainers. Gray complained about wanting ice and Lucy wanted a popsicle. She had barely eaten during school for fear that it would upset her stomach.
They sat in the trainers Gray with his ice and Lucy with her popsicle. They talked about the start of the season. Technically they were just in preseason and the races were only preparation for the actual season. But it still mattered to Lucy. Practice was only optional at this point so people were coming and going. As they pleased.
Lucy sighed. "I better be ok by the first real race."
Ok so this is a story I decided to write based on my experiences this year because they were interesting to say the very least. Very entertaining. There was also some boy issues and I decided it would be perfect. So 99 percent of this fanfic is true. Lol. I know it's going to be a long one because this happened over the course of like 8 or 9 months so strap in. I hope you're enjoying it so far kisses to my lovely readers!