The story of the girl and the painting

Once upon a time, in the old days...

 In one of the small houses far away from the rest of the houses

 an Old man lived with his wife and three daughters, Fredna, Aurora, and Mier

  The old man’s daughter from his first wife, her name was Emma. She was the fourth among them, and her mother had left her and married with another man. But The old man and his wife raised her when she was young, so her father was cruel to her and hated her because of her mother, and they made her their maid, but one of her father’s daughters, Mier, was the only one who loved her very much, and she was Always trying to help her..

  When she became a young woman, the other girls began to hate her because of her beauty and good looks.

 Although they were not wealthy

  All they owned did not exceed a few hectares of a land on which they worked themselves. Fredna and Aurora lived like princesses, doing nothing but entertaining and decorating themselves with the decorative tools that their father brought them from the neighboring town.

 As for Mier, she was trying in every way to help

 Emma even she were stolen some food and gave it to her without her parents knowing

 As for the youngest, Emma, ​​who surpassed her sisters in beauty and intelligence, 

  She is always out of sight, not sharing their entertainment or receiving gifts. Rather, she works since early in the morning until late in the evening, and in the end she only gets looks of hatred from her stepmother or anger from her two sisters.

 But behind the empty that she were giving all the things around which was the thing that maks her bearing the hardest time of her life, Emma were loved drawing and dreamed of being able to draw pictures for people that would add value to their feelings

 But her father did not allow her to study or go to school, unlike her sisters who did not want to study.

 But she filled that wasted time in her life by sitting alone in the wild and collecting plant leaves and making paints from them that she used to draw with . She used her old skirt to draw in place of the leaves, always making sure that it did not reach her father or his wife.

 But unfortunately, one day the fire in their stove died down, and since Emma was busy with endless field work and the road to bring coal was long, her stepmother asked her daughter, Fredna, to go get coal from the nearby store.

 But Fredna started complaining about her busyness in styling her hair, so Mier asked to go instead so that on her way she could bring some real papers and containers for her loved sister Emma, ​​because she was the only one who knew and felt what the poor girl was going through, so she went off thinking happily about emma’s reaction after seeing the thing that she like becomes true on her hands, but after she traveled a short distance and reached a small hill, there she heard a deep voice announcing a drawing competition, so Mier went to see what was happening, and after delving into the crowd she was surprised that the competition was general, and everyone could join also in addition to that, there was a financial prize and a scholarship to study drawing. One of the most prestigious schools awaited the lucky winner and the judges were very famous

So Mier forgot about the charcoal and went to tell Emma, also on her way shed brought some drawing papers and colors .

 After she conveyed the happy news to her, Emma almost flew with joy, saying:

  _ Finally I can study drawing

 But at the same time, she was careful not to tell her parents, so she contented herself with bringing coal.

 The competition remained a secret

 During the long wait and between free time and work, Emma began to paint a beautiful painting and added all of her feelings and the most beautiful things she could imagine. Every day she tried to finish her work quickly so that she could go to finish that painting. At the end of the week, Emma finally finished that painting and it was about the sunrise and sunset because the period that she were start painting on was always at the beginning and end of the day of painful and hard work for her.

 Emma finished the sun painting and she was very happy about it. But she could not hide her happiness and her face became too bright even when she was next to her stepmother and daughters, so her stepmother became suspicious of the matter.

 One day, her stepmother was at a women’s gathering, and in the midst of the conversation, one of them added:

  _ Her son will participate in a drawing competition

 Another said: My daughter will also participate

 The stepmother asked what the competition was

 The woman said, “Have you not heard about the drawing competition and its valuable prizes? They told her about all the details. The stepmother directly thought about Emma and her new condition during that period, so she quickly went home to search for Emma. She searched everywhere Emma went, and an small house hidden in the forest, so she went to it, searching it carefully, with anger rising above her.

 Finally, she found the painting to the sound of her rapid breathing and her looks, which shone with happiness at destroying the dream of her only husband’s daughter.

 I took her home and waited for Emma to come back

 After Emma entered the house, happy with her hidden achievement, like her joy, which she had been seen to keep secret for a long time, she found the whole family waiting for her, as if the cold of winter would end the fire of that painting, as if she were the only one.

 The two girls were looking at her with a smile, convinced and satisfied that Emma would fall into eternal pain. Her stepmother was furious, but Mier was the only one shedding tears today over what Emma was facing.

 Her stepmother started grabbing her hair with extreme hatred

  She threw emma on the ground, with eyes filled with tears of sadness over the injustice that was burning on her precious painting, and her stepmother said to her, her voice echoing in the depths of an endless darkness within her after that.

  _You are ungrateful. We took you after your mother threw you away and fed you and gave you between us so that you could do this to us and participate in a competition without our knowledge to take the financial prize for you alone and make people mock my daughters. Do you think I will allow you to do that?

 Emma rushed towards her stepmother's knees, begging, looking at her father, perhaps someone would move. Please, father, allow me to join the precedent. I will do everything you ask of me. Please allow me.

  But the father looked at her with eyes that were almost seems as the ash of the painting next to her, and the reflection of his leg shone in her eyes until a blue mark was imprinted on her body and the sign of fatherhood that had disappeared.

It was a false mask on his face, and he said, “You will do what I tell you to do against your will, you ungrateful person.”

 she saw in that fire all her dreams burning in front of her

   She couldn't sleep that night. Emma woke up before sunrise to go to work without breakfast to fill the hunger in her stomach or a loving side to fill the void of her family's cruelty.

  As well as the dry bread and the cup of water that was like ash water that she poured on the fire of her painting while cleaning the fireplace

But One day, shortly after sunset, when Emma entered the house, there was a sudden knock on the door, and her stepmother commanded her, saying:

  _open the door

 As she was leaving, a man and a woman were at the door

 The man began to say confidently, with words following each other in an orderly manner in Emma's ears, as if the scene was almost like a dream, had it not been for the fact that she used her hand on the wall, holding her stomach, trying to avoid the dizzy painful vibrations in her head, and she could not say, "I haven't eaten anything for days."

 And the words came like this, are you Emma?

 She replied, wiggling, “Yes, sir, I am Emma.”

 Her father and his wife came running to the sound of sounds strange as usual, and he quickly made sure to add the most horrific description of his daughter in front of them, so he said, “This wretch has done something bad. Please forgive us.”

 The man said, with a confident smile on his face, behind the words of this man in front of him. He said, “Will you allow us to enter?”

 The father said hesitantly, “Yes, please.”

 The man added, “I am Elian Smith, and this is my wife, Jezabal. We are responsible for the drawing competition, and we have come for your daughter.”

 The father and wife were surprised as to why they were banned without any reason, so his words began with eagerness and fear.

 _Why? My daughter didn't even participate in the competition

  The man said: No, Emma participated in the competition, so we came to tell her that she won.

 Emma did not reject the idea that she was the first, even without hearing the reason behind it, but her eyes, which filled with tears of joy at the unknown words about a realistic reason and an effort gone into ashes, could only say, “I did not present any painting.”

 The man said confidently: “Your sister, Mier, cannot attend it on your back”

 Mier, that name seemed to be unknown to many people in the minds of the father, the wife, and even Emma, ​​while the man was adding

 Mier told us everything. Before the day the stepmother burned Emma's painting, Mier had woken up early in the morning and went to the small house and took the painting and took it to the competition. When the winners were announced, Mier went to the judges and told them everything.

 The man took out the painting that Emma was painting in the colors of the forest and grasses and said that this painting is not perfect, but it is a painting with feeling, so we decided to give the owner of the painting a chance to find out.

 “Can I really go?” Emma said, fear terrifying even the smallest limbs of her body

 The man's wife said: Yes, no one can prevent you from going because the competition is supported by the governor, so you can go to the art school.

 Emma felt a happiness she had never felt before

 As the days passed, Emma said goodbye to her heroine and the only reason for her success, and thanked her for everything.

 She looked at her father with eyes that brought back to her the meaning of life and enough reason to shine for him and said

 _ I do not hate you despite everything. I thank you for taking care of me

 After my mother threw me away.

 The man and his wife took Emma to art school

 The parents sat filled with anger and blame for what they had done to her

 Emma went to art school and that's another story