Falling For The Girl I Bullied
Chapter 31

Kyle’s P.O.V.

“You can stay here for as long as you want, Kyle”, Ethan said to me while throwing himself on the couch in the guest room of his house. I nodded and then threw myself on the bed and closed my eyes while lying down on my back. The whole day was completely exhausting and I felt so tired that I wanted to sleep for some time. Once again, my parents chose their business over me. It didn’t surprise me. Still, I was hurt and disappointed. How I wished them to choose me for once over everything, but no, for them, their business was everything. I have no regret of what I did with Sia. I let my parents see her in a s****l act with that football team captain. I knew that the school would not take any action against them because it would ruin the school’s reputation. I only wanted to get rid off of Sia and I was relieved that I succeeded in my mission.

The scene earlier in school crossed my mind where my friends were standing beside me showing their support to me silently when my parents were trying to persuade me to go back with them but they were not ready to listen to my terms. They still insisted that whatever they were doing was for my own good and I needed to listen to them because I was not smart enough to make my own decisions. I really hated my parents to act like that in front of all those students but it didn’t make me feel inferior to anyone. Everyone had their own problems in their homes and that was my way to deal with my problems. I clearly told them that I was not going to go back if they didn’t want to let me breathe there.

“Don’t think too much, Kyle. They will come around soon”, I heard Ethan’s voice again which made me take a deep breath and I opened my eyes. “You didn’t tell me where you were last night”, he again asked me the same question that he was asking me since the morning. “I told you that I was in the parking area there. There was no other place to go for me and you know this”, I once again answered him the same thing that I was telling him over and over again and now it was annoying me. “You think that I am that stupid, huh?” he suddenly accused me and I looked at him this time. He was still half lying on the couch while glaring at me. “I don’t know why can’t you believe me this time, Ethan. I am telling you the truth still you are asking me the same question again and again”, I replied to him in an annoying tone and he scoffed.

“You were in the parking area the whole night, right?” he asked me once again while sitting properly on the couch and I didn’t give any reaction. “If you were sleeping under the sky the whole night then you should be cold, and dishevelled. Instead, you were in good spirit and clean as if you have taken an early shower to start your day”, he said and my eyes widened in shock, but I immediately recomposed myself. He really had sharp eyes. “I don’t know what you are talking about”, I said and moved my neck straight again and closed my eyes. “You stayed somewhere else and you didn’t want to tell me where”, he said once again in an accusing tone but I just took a deep breath. I couldn’t answer him because there was no way that I was going to tell anyone about Violet.

Speaking of her, she was also there in the crowd. I saw her once but she hid behind Albert, I think. “What was Carter doing with Albert there, huh?” I suddenly opened my eyes and looked at Ethan while asking him about her in confusion. Ethan jerked his head backwards while widening his eyes in disbelief. He scoffed and laughed sarcastically while looking at me with the same expression. “You are really something, Kyle”, he said in a sarcastic tone while laughing and then slumped his body down on the couch again. “What? I have just asked you a simple question”, I said to him in confusion and he gave me a death glare this time. “I am asking you a simple question since morning and you have been avoiding that question like a plague”, he once again accused me and I took a deep breath. I sat up on the bed and looked at him helplessly.

“Okay…. I agreed that I was somewhere safe. I spent my whole night somewhere else where I was safe and I cleaned myself there before coming back to school but I can’t tell you where I was”, I told him the truth that he wanted to listen but didn’t tell him that it was Violet’s home. “I only can tell you that whoever gave me shelter for the night was a harmless person and he also fed me both dinner and breakfast”, I tried to put him at ease before he could ask me something again. I knew that I was fueling his curiosity, but I was really fed up with his constant nagging. I mysterious smile crept onto his lips but he didn’t say a word but gave me a meaningful look as if he already knew where I was last night. I hated him for being so vigilant but loved him for being so caring for me.

“You could tell me this earlier, Kyle”, he said in a low tone but the smile on his lips gave me a chill. He knew something and only wanted to confirm his suspicion. I didn’t persuade the topic and lay down once again. “Sia had planned something for Violet today and one of her minions sold her out. So, we decided to keep Violet close to us so that Sia couldn’t harm her today. You needed us at that time. So, Noah asked Albert to keep Violet close to him and didn’t let her go away at any cost. That was why she was with Albert there”, Ethan told me and my jaws tightened immediately. “I think this is the time to put Sia in her place now. She is flying so high”, I said in a cold tone and opened my eyes once again, looking at the roof over me.

“I guess you are right because whatever she was going to do today was the worst a girl could think of a way to harm another girl”, he said and I looked at him once again in confusion while sitting up. He just jerked his shoulders giving me a look and all the lines on my forehead straightened up immediately. “She was going to strip Violet naked in the girls’ room”, I asked him in a cold tone. “Nope”, he immediately shook his head. “They planned to knock her out and threw her in the last stall of boys room…….naked before the football team finishes his practice”, he told me in a calm but cold tone and I gasped in shock. I widened my eyes in shock because I didn’t want to imagine what could happen to Violet then.

“Everyone knows that we bully Violet for fun and now we are keeping her with us attached to our h**s all the time. Sia is obsessed with you and she doesn’t want any other girl close to you even if you are bullying her. That’s why she tortured Violet every time only to keep her remind all the time that she is not wanted by everyone and doesn’t get any idea about being close to you in any means”, he paused and then took a deep breath. “This is all about me, huh?” I asked him in a low tone and he pursed his lips into a thin line before nodding his head once. I lowered my eyes and looked blankly at a spot in front of my eyes. I hated Violet but not to that extent to let anyone hurt her like this. I had my own reasons for keeping her around me but it didn’t mean that Sia or anyone else could hurt her just because she was near me.

“We can’t leave her alone now, can we?” I looked at him while asking him the question in a cold tone. He sighed aloud and then stood up from the couch. “Everyone in the team is agreed to keep a watch on Violet all the time. Not all of us like her still feel that it’s none of any other’s business to decide for them who will stay with them or not, let alone Sia. Not everyone is Sia’s fan either”, he said while shrugging his shoulders and walked towards the door. “Take a rest and then come for dinner. We have some assignments to finish”, he said and then walked out of the door, leaving me alone in the room with so many thoughts running inside my mind.

I threw myself back on the bed and closed my eyes. I recalled the look on Violet’s face when she was hiding behind Albert. Our eyes met for a second only and all I could see was curiosity, nothing else. She seemed to be curious about what was happening between me and my parents. I was not sure what she understood, but I was now feeling bitter about that. The last thing that I wanted to see in her eyes was sympathy and pity for me. I smiled bitterly while opening my eyes. Both I and Violet had the same fate of not having our parents’ love in our lives. The only difference was that she was abandoned by her parents in front of the whole world and I was still living with my parents in that abandoned house left by my parents for me.

“O hell”, I cursed and g*****d aloud when I remembered about the biology assignment that I needed to finish with Violet and we had to finish that assignment before Wednesday because of the match we had next Saturday. I told Violet that we would discuss how to work on that but…… I took my phone and opened my phone book. I g*****d in frustration once again when I remembered that I didn’t have her number. It was already Thursday and we didn’t have much time left for the biology assignment because we have other assignments too. I guessed I had to visit her at the diner where she works.