Struggling.

"March 9, 5:30PM. I was alone at home, the construction was going on in the garage. Doorbell ranged, I was happy because I thought it as mum, but there were three bulky labors, whom I have seen working at the construction site, one of them was new, they asked me water..." ZouMi choked on her words remembering their horrible faces. "When I returned from the kitchen with a water bottle, they entered in and pounced on me, I fell on the couch. I struggled, pushed them, begged to move, but that went deaf on their ears." 

Pausing for a while she continued "The one which had a scar on his left eye hold my mouth tightly, while the other one was undressing me. Struggling beneath them, with all the mighty strength, a 17years old have, lost hope and stop struggling, they touched me inappropriately. Their dirty hands roamed all over my body, giving me goosebumps. I felt nothing, but disguised seeing them. God may have heard my pleas, before they can do anything to me, Uncle Lu, the Chief police officer, my guardian angle came to my rescue." 

"But we were only able to catch hold on the two I didn't see anyone less" Told the officer, confusingly.

"Yes, because he ran away, before you could catch him. He was wearing a mask, so I couldn't see his face..."

"Don't worry dear, they will get ten times more folds, than to what they did, I promise." With this, Uncle Lu got up as his emotions weren't in control, and didn't want to show to his little darling niece, who is already suffering. Different type of emotions was running within him. Anger, disguise, and hate-rate that can't be measured towards those bas*rds.

...

Next day, 

ZouMi went to her school. She halted near the gate, fear of how her classmates would treat her, after seeing her. With this fear and dilemma to enter or to return, three boys stood in a row with her holding her hands, assuring her that her brothers are with her. After taking a deep breath, she entered into the gate with her three brothers supporting her, standing shoulder to shoulder by her side.

When the students saw ZouMi, they greeted her with a warm smile, which gave confidence to ZouMi and replied with a smile.

A group of 5 to 7 students stood at the entrance of ZouMi's class, those where the students whom ZouMi either defeated or offended. She had no mood to deal with them now, so she tried to enter into the class. Just then the students who were standing at the door step moved, smiled at her, the whole class stood and welcomed her. 

One of them said "ZouMi you're the one whom the whole school fears, including the faculty. And that will always be like that. We all missed you. Welcome back." Smiling at her, the boy who talk was the other section, Hu Ting whose right hand was fractured by ZouMi.

With this warm welcome and sweet gesture, ZouMi regained herself and thanked everyone.

....

With every evidence, the court gave the date for ZouMi's case after 2 weeks.

Those 2 weeks went smoothly for ZouMi at school and used to daily visit her dad at his office. While getting down the car, she saw a huge building with a banner in front of it 'ME&U'. ZouMi entered the building, which was familiar to her. She straight went to the eighth floor, where the CEO's office was. The secretary greeted ZouMi, while opening the door of CEO's office.

Mr. Sid was on international call, so ZouMi waited on the sofa, while the secretary served ZouMi her usual chocolate burst cake. With a smile ZouMi accepted and was listening to the call and stored the details in her mind.

As soon as the call ended, ZouMi suggested some changes for the deal, which can be a benefited for their company. This wasn't new for Mr. Sid, it was from the starting of the day, when ZouMi used to visit him. At first, he was quite astonished to know the facts, which seems to have no benefit, but ZouMi always had her way.

As the father-daughter pair were discussing the matter, a smoothing voice of piano was heard, which was the ringtone of Mr. Sid's hand phone. It was a call from the lawyer handling ZouMi's case, "Sir we have our hearing on Wednesday, hope it's fine with you..."

"Okay, for sure."

After talking for a while, they hanged up the phone call.

"ZouMi, the hearing is on Wednesday. Look I know you're acting all mighty powerful, don't care attitude. It's tough, people will look down at you, but you should never listen to them. Never take their disheartening words, seriously. Because that's what they are, an invaluable human's. Life is tough, but only in your brain, your mentality. Once you set yourself free, nothing or anything can shake you. You always have your family by your side." Mr. Sid tried to explain the lesson of life, to his daughter, who's acting was seeing through him.

"What matters for us is, your own self, once you stop bothering about what people will say, how society is going to react... these are just our mind speaking. If we control our mind, we can win everything, everyone until, YOU PAMPER YOURSELF." He stressed on his last sentence.

Listening to all this ZouMi replied, "Dad pampering myself is easy, because I have you, mum, XuXu, Chen and Bai. But knowing the truth and facing it, is want I want to do, rather than not listening to others. I prefer giving them a tight silent slap with my success, which is the most powerful method." Smiling like a sunflower. ZouMi excused herself so that Daddy Sid could work.

Once ZouMi reached home, she went to her room and locked it from inside. Sitting down on the cold floor for a while, ZouMi got up and head towards the mirror and started...."