** A girl who never cried**
"Hey, you filthy bitch! Get up"
A bucket of water was splashed on the bed Heidi Collin was sleeping. Narrowing her brows and flinching and jumping out of her bed due to cold water's sensation on her skin, on the cold December, she woke up with the shiverings and tremblings.
This was not even the first time that this has happened to her. This was their regular routine.
She looked with the furious, yet pitiful eyes to them.
She was so angry. She was so fire but just inside her mind and inside her heart. Outside her heart, she could not even show her angriness, her pains in her face and in her eyes.
"You fucking bitch, won't you just get up and bring us something to eat for the breakfast, "Athena spoke.
"But, we still get the breakfast here in-home," she said in a low voice.
Athena raised her hands on the air and spouted, "How dare you speak back to me?"
She took out the brush that she was brushing early morning and poked her head with the brush full of foams in her head and rubbed all the foams in her hair and then to her face.
She felt so disgusted and filthy that she immediately stood up from her bed struggling hard for the proper air to breathe in and backed away from them.
"So, just do what your boss says to you. So that I won't torture you more. And, and, and, I heard you got payment for your scholarship. Use that to buy our breakfast, "then they walked away from there, away from me.
She stood there, still for some time and walked to the washroom, washed away her hair which was disgusting and wash her face and came back, wore trousers, a sweater, and a warm jacket which she was gifted by her sponsor last winter.
And, she stretched her hand below her bed where she had wisely hidden her money. She took out some of the notes from there and wore her tennis shoes and walked out to the near convenience store to get something to eat for them.
She reached the gate. It was so cold outside the foster home. She looked back at the foster home and said, "I really want to walk away from all of you. "
She pulled her jacket a bit up, up to her mouth and rubbed her hands and blew the warm breath from her mouth, and walked to the store.
The store was near, two hundred meters away.
Outside the home, she was really happy. She felt like she got to breathe in the cold but fresh air. Her mind was really in peace and her soul was free.
Heidi Collin, she has been in this foster home for almost sixteen years.
She was such a beautiful 16-year-old girl. She wasn't tall. She was just 5 ft and 2 inches and her skin was fair and so fair that the blushes and the pains both could be clearly visible. She had beautiful pink lips and her eyes, they were so beautiful covered with the shade of the thick black long eyelashes.
Bullying her has become the habit of them. For fun and obviously because she wasn't easily intimidated by them.
And, why they continued to bully her and only her was because Heidi, though was bullied since her childhood, she never shed a drop of tears in front of them.
That was what they wanted to see. The drop of tears in her eyes but that thing never happened.
She always showed that she was strong but was she?
Nobody has seen her cry. Is it real that she never cries?
God knows. what is in her mind?
She had only one dream for a lot of years, just to get out of the foster home. To be away from all of them.
She was walking by the road which was all covered by the ice and snow and the road was a bit slippery. And, she was loving the way, her breaths were forming the huge gaseous smoke out of her mouth and she was happily playing with her breaths along the way.
She saw a white mouse running like a crazy in the middle of the slippery road and she got so scared that she jumped with fear and slipped down in the icy road.
"Ouch! It hurts little mice. Why did you come in the middle of the road instead of sitting inside your warm borrows?" she was about to stand up when an unknown figure walked to her and stretched out his hands to help her get up.
"Thank you, "she said with a red blush in her face.
"It's OK. Where are you walking to? Early in the cold morning?" he asked.
"Store, "she answered him.
"Oh! I am going in the same way, "he said giving the way to her.
They walked together along the way and for the first time in her life, she was so much interested in the talks of the guy.
She was 16 and in the stage of the development of the female hormones, which would obviously attract her towards any guy, and for the girl who was treated badly throughout her life, his smile was enough to make her fall for him.
They got inside the store and she bought lots of stuff for them.
"Why did you buy so much of stuff? " he asked her.
"So, that I don't have to come this long way tomorrow again, " she said keeping the buns, biscuits, noodles, croquettes, muffins, cupcakes, and the bottle of orange juices in the polythene.
"So, I guess, I won't be able to see you again, "he said.
She nodded her head and after shopping both of them started to walk back.
But, suddenly she stopped and said,"Wait for me for a while, "and then she ran back to the store and returned almost half of the things that she had bought and run back to him.
She ran so quickly that she was out of the breadth and her body started to become hot and her cheeks red.
Touching the knees, with both of her hands she raised her back gently and said," Let's meet again tomorrow Aries. "
** You are worst of worst Athena** She walked back to the foster home with the slow steps along with him. And, she stopped her footsteps in front of the gate of the foster home.“Why did you stop here ?” he asked.“ I live here. This has been my house since the last 16 years,” she answered pointing her index finger to the foster building.” Oh! I am sorry,” he asked for the forgiveness scratching his neck.“No, it’s ok. It&rsq
** A dream or a reality**She ran like a leopard not looking back to them. For once in a while, she wanted to be away from them. For once in her lifetime, she wanted to far away from them. But, not like this. She wanted to leave the foster home, fairly and in her own consent, not like this, being chased.After she had run, a long-distance, she stopped bending her waist and touching the knees and sitting down on a ground restlessly, she looked back at them. They weren’t there. Finally, she thought she was safe from those bullies.But, the problem actually started from here. The problem was that she never had imagined and the problem that would change the rest of her life forever.“Where am I?” she spoke to herself.Where in the world i
** I am telling the truth**She opened her eyes slowly. Her eyes fell on the fan which was hanging above her head and the number of students was staring at her like she was some alien. With lots of a number of faces around her, she woke up unconscious." Was it a dream? Was it a nightmare?
** Interview**She woke up restless and panicked and turned on the light beside her bed. She grabbed her hair and pulled out the drawer beside her bed. The petal of cherry blossom that would prove that it wasn't just a mere nightmare.She picked it up and tried again to cut off her hand with it.
** Was it actually nightmare?**“ Your highness, Majesty, do you really think it’s her ?” Aries asked the CEO of the Emerald.He didn’t turn his face but he kept on tapping his finger on the table and said,” I am not sure Aries but she makes me feel as she is the one for the ritual. That day is soon, going to finish and this girl can give us our freedom. She can give us the way to eternity and the afterlife. If she is really the one we were looking for,” he replied.“ Yes, your Majesty but she is really someone who doesn’t know anything. Should we really let her know about this? She is really naïve, your highness,” Aries said.He raised his index finger and then, turned to him. “ Since when did you start to be kind to her? Remember Aries, she is our sacrificial scapegoat
** Getting a job**It was pre-planned for everything that happened to her. Everything was meant to be like that. She was meant to be bullied. She was meant to be illusional and she was meant to fall off the cliff just because someone was checking up on him and was still gonna check up on her.Her life was totally going to be changed after she had joined the company because it wasn’t the company she yearned to work but it was the company she was trapped in to be there. The boy, the newspaper, the charms on the face of the CEO, and the vacancy announcement, they were all trap to bring her there, to bring their sacrificial offering to themselves.He was cursed. Cursed with one of the strongest curses, he was stopped from leaving the world and joining the destination of the eternal afterlife. Only, a suitable sacrifice who should be a woman could break it.
** Lone Again**Heidi was more than just a shocked. She expected Aries would remember her and they would be talking something like friends but no, it was different. Instead, he didn’t even ask, how she was she all these years. Life is such a ridiculous thing right? Who knew that one day, it would turn like this? She thought deep and took a bus home.When she reached her room, she heard some sounds from the inside. Who could it be? No one comes to her home and literally no one except Katie as she had no one who could come to her home. She could even hear the sounds of the guy in there.She quickly opened the door and then, stared at her room. There were the outfits scattered on the floor. The female one. Was it Katie? She walked further and she saw the male outfits another minute. She picked up those clothes a
**Ridiculous Life** Heidi couldn’t sleep all night. How could she ? She had one joy to celebrate and more than that joy she had something she had lost so near to her heart. Maybe, she was so much overacting or maybe she was thinking too much but at the end of the day, she lost her friend. One and only friend.She opened the fridge and checked the beer in there and walking to her balcony and looking at the beautiful half-moon, she sipped the beer, thinking how unfortunate she her fate was. The warm tears were rolling down her cheeks and she was smiling a forced smile looking at the moon above.“ What the hell? Why are you crying a lot today ?” a