Chapter 1

** 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. "