Prologue
It was a rainy chilly July night when a young 17 year old girl reached Ashwick Valley and got down from the train. Though she was intelligent enough to gain admission in any college of her choice, but she had chosen Mount College in Ashwick Valley for her studies. This would be the last place her pursuers would ever think her to be in and so this place was best for her to hide from them. She has been residing with her maternal uncle from the time she was 6 years old since her mother died. Her mother's heart failed after finding out about her father who after 7 years of being involved in an extra-marital relationship with her, refused to grant her a wife's status and chose his other family over her and her mother. Since, then she had been living with her uncle's family. A family which had no regard for her dreams and happiness and who have fixed her marriage with a boy of their choice as soon as she finishes high school, without even asking if she is ready for marriage or not or if there is something her heart desires. Why should they have asked when the boy in concern was a son of a wealthy businessman who was going to help her uncle to start another factory? She was just a business deal for them. They never considered her a part of family and she was allowed to live with them only on her grandpa's insistence. But he too had passed away last month and so her uncle had found the perfect opportunity to gain business benefits out of raising this liability. And that is why she had decided to finally take her life in her own hands and stop being a liability on others. Her school principal had helped her get admission in this college. And so here she was, Brittany Pierce standing on Ashwick Valley Railway Station wondering about how to reach her college dormitory. She asked a passerby about the way to the college and he told her that there are two routes, the longer route goes through the road and will take her 1 hour to reach the college on foot as there was no transport facility available at this time of the night. The shorter route however will just take 10 minutes, but it goes through the jungle and the jungle is very dangerous. But, the girl was a brave heart. She decided to take the jungle route to reach her college. Little did she know that this decision of hers was to change her life forever.