Falling For The Girl I Bullied
Chapter 140

Ethan’s P.O.V.

“How can I stay calm, dad? It has already been twelve hours…. Twelve hours, dad,” Kyle yelled at his father when he asked to stay calm. To be honest, none of us were at ease right now. The level of anxiety and fear was at the top level in everyone’s heart. I was also biting my nails furiously due to fear. She was injured and twelve hours could be fatal for her. “Then yelling and panicking will bring her back, huh?” his father yelled at him this time. I went near to him and put my hands on his shoulders. He glared angrily at me, and I just blinked at him, telling him to calm down. He looked at me with so much pain in his eyes that I felt someone had squeezed my heart out.

He huffed and then looked in the other direction. “We are all worried, Kyle. But we have to think about how to replace her. Yelling at each other and panicking will not help her,” my dad also tried to calm him down. I knew that they were saying the bitter truth to us, but I was no better than Kyle here. Both our fathers were capable of doing anything but they couldn’t replace her yet. “We found the next vehicle that they used to transport her somewhere else abandoned in an alley,” the investigator said, apologizing for what his subordinate had told him earlier. The room was once again deafeningly quiet. “Did Axel and David replace something?” Kyle asked me in almost inaudible whispers. “No… not yet,” I answered him in the same tone. The tears in his eyes were now getting on my nerves now. I had never seen him as broken as he was today.

“I asked Mr. Bishop to send Sia and her friends here one more time. Let’s ask them one last time to tell the truth. If they don’t tell the truth this time, then we will file the report against them,” my father told us in a firm tone. We are at my mansion right now. All the boys were also here with us. They refused to go back until we found Violet. Mom, Samantha, and Violet’s mother were looking as if someone had drained all their b***d. Samantha was so furious when she saw Violet’s mother that she almost beat her sister. If it weren’t for her husband and Mr. Westfield, Mrs. Westfield would be bruised badly at that time. Victor was holding Samantha in his embrace. She was still sniffing from time to time.

“Let me talk with the girls this time, Mr. Parker,” Mr. Westfield this time in a calm tone. We all looked at him questioningly. He cleared his throat and then got up from the couch. “According to what we got after tracking the last locations of the trackers, the kidnappers removed the necklace from Violet when they changed their vehicle. Someone took the necklace from them there and then returned to the school. It then arrived at the Bishop’s Mansion,” he paused and looked at us. My dad and Mr. Knight nodded to him while listening to him curiously. I patted Kyle’s shoulder, asking him to sit back down. He almost fell down on the single seat like a broken log.

“Let’s assume that someone brought that pendant to them or one of them got it from the kidnappers. Mr. Bishop’s daughter was with the boys all the time. So, she won’t be the person who met the kidnappers. So, we need to ask the other two girls about the necklace,” he said, describing what he observed. “Mom,” suddenly Kyle called his mother who was also sitting with us in the living room. We all looked at him questioningly. “Who told you about the incident?” he asked her while knitting his brows. She looked at him annoyingly but slumped her shoulders down. “I got a call from an unknown number. He told me that something happened to you and Ethan, and you two were in the hospital. I didn’t believe him and called your principal. When he confirmed that it really happened, I rushed to the hospital,” she answered him in a calm tone.

“Did you give that number to the police?” Mr. Westfield asked her, and she huffed. “No one asked me,” she answered him and Kyle g*****d. He was about to say something to his mother angrily when I squeezed his shoulder and stopped him from spouting nonsense. “Can I have that number?” the investigator asked her and she looked at him. “Yeah… why not,” she said and then opened her phone. “Here,” She gave him her phone. “Thanks, Mrs. Knight,” he took the phone from her and noted down the number. “You heard a male voice or a female voice?” he asked her while giving her phone back to her.

“It was a male voice. Uhhh… I think… I have recording of that call,” she answered him and then looked back at her phone. “You have recording and you didn’t tell us about that?” Mr. Knight asked him angrily. “Did you ask me? No… you didn’t ask me, Sebastian. You just accused me of this kidnapping,” she answered him in a frustrating tone. “Here,” she gave her phone back to the officer and looked at her husband angrily. It was already eight in the night, and my heart was now running a marathon inside my chest. The time was not in her favor, and all we had till now were dead ends. The police found b***d stains in both the vehicles and confirmed that it was from Violet.

“Alexander,” We all looked in the direction of the door when we heard Mr. Bishop’s voice. Dad and Mr. Knight stood up from the couch and looked at him. “Sorry to bother you again, Marcus… but we still don’t have any clue… and there are only dead ends,” dad said to him while going to him. Sia was also with him, and she was looking calmer than earlier. “It’s okay… but I told you that Sia is not involved in this case,” Mr. Bishop again defended Sia in a confident tone. “Where are the other girls?” Mr. Knight asked Sia. “Grace is on her way here, but Millie’s father refused to let her come here. You have to talk to him, Mr. Knight?” Sia answered him in a calm tone.

“Uhhh.. Sia… come here, honey,” my dad called her and then looked at Mr. Westfield. She walked near my father and stopped near him. “He is Mr. Westfield. He is a lawyer by profession and Violet’s stepfather. He wants to ask you some questions,” my father introduced her to Mr. Westfield who was also standing right now. “Wow… now she has a stepfather too when her parents were missing from her life all these years, huh?” she mocked Mr. Westfield while looking at him with disdain. Mr. Westfield cleared his throat while looking at her with a calm gaze, but I could see that he was angry about her remark about him.

“Sia,” Mr. Bishop called her name in a stern tone. “Sorry, dad… but this is the bitter truth of her life. I won’t deny that I bullied her to … to.. okay… in the worst ways that I could think… but who gave this courage to us. I did this because I knew that no one was there to protect her. I knew that it would break her more, and that was what I wanted since the beginning,” Sia spat the venom again, but I raised my brows in surprise at her bluntness. She didn’t even refuse that she was a bully. “I think… we can have this conversation some other time, Ms. Bishop. Right now, I have only a few questions for you,” Mr. Westfield spoke this time in a calm tone.

“Okay… if any of my answers can help you to replace her…then ask me,” she replied to him carelessly and then looked at my dad. He asked her to sit down first. “According to what I came to know… you are the first one who noticed those kidnappers, right?” Mr. Westfield asked her in a calm and gentle voice. “Kyle,” suddenly Axel came near to us and whispered to us. “What?” Kyle asked him immediately. “The man said that he got a hint on the group who are involved in this kidnapping but he is still not confirmed. He said that he will confirm within half an hour,” he whispered again while looking at the elders cautiously.

Kyle’s eyes lit up with hope and I also looked at Axel with a hopeful gaze. “Okay,” Kyle answered him in whispers and then we all looked back at Sia and Mr. Westfield. “I just ran out of the car in panic when I saw those kidnappers approaching Kyle and Violet from behind. I shouted Kyle’s name, but he didn’t listen to me. I was running towards them with two more students when they hit them. Someone grabbed me from behind when they took out their guns. They… they hit all of them with … with their guns and Kyle and Ethan fell down on the ground. They took Violet with them, almost… (she gulped hard and now fear was again on her face)… almost dragging her on the ground like… like a sack,” she finished and I closed my eyes. They caught us off guard and didn’t even give us time to understand what was happening around us.

“You said that you ran out of the car as soon as you applied the brake, right?” Mr. Westfield asked her, and she nodded in confirmation. “It meant that you didn’t park your car and also didn’t take the key out, right?” he asked her again, and she just stared at him for a few seconds and then nodded. “Yes… I didn’t remove the key at that time. I was almost in the middle of the parking lot when I saw them. So I immediately applied the brake and opened the door to shout,” she replied, and it was now our turn to furrow our brows. “If your car keys were still inside the car, then how did your friends get your bag?” he asked her and she just blinked while staring at him. “Do they have duplicate keys to your car?” he asked her again and she just stared at him in the same state.

“No… they don’t… a… and ye… yes… you .. you are right. My. My bag was in the back seat and I didn’t think about taking it out of the car. My bag must be inside the car, not with them,” she answered him in panic and then looked at her dad. “The locks were alright when our driver got her back from school this evening,” Mr. Bishop said this time, and my father looked at the investigator. “I am going to get a warrant, asking the school authority to hand over the security footage of the whole day of the parking lot,” he said to my father and he nodded. “Ms. Bishop,” Mr. Westfield called her name in a very gentle tone. She looked back at him but fear was now written all over her face. It was clear that someone had tried to frame her here. Either this was the case, or she asked someone to do this to keep her out of suspicion.

“I want you to calm your mind down, and think about anything that you think can help us in this case,” he asked her again, and she looked here and there while thinking hard. “Sia,” at the same time, we heard Grace’s voice, and Sia immediately stood up. Grace almost ran to her and hugged her tightly. “What is happening, Sia? Why are they questioning us?” she asked Sia in a shaky voice while holding her tightly in her embrace. “They found Violet’s pendant, completely covered in b***d, in my bag, Grace. Only you and Millie can tell us now, where did you replace my bag?” Sia explained the situation, and Grace gasped in shock and pulled herself away from Sia. “In… in you… your bag?…. but… how?” Grace asked her in a panicked tone. “That’s why we called you here, Grace. You and Millie brought my bag to my house. My bag was locked in my car. Then how on earth, did you get my bag?” Sia asked her in an angry tone this time. “It… it was Millie who asked me to come with her to your home to give your bag there,” Grace answered in the same panic tone.

“What?” almost everyone, including Sia yelled in shock this time. Grace flinched hard at her place in fear and held Sia’s arm while looking at us fearfully. “Wh… where is Millie? Sh.. she can tell you where did sh.. she replace your bag?” Grace asked Sia in the same shaky tone. “I am calling Mr. Mathews. Either he will bring her daughter here, or I will file the complaint against his daughter,” my dad immediately took his phone out of his pocket while muttering angrily. “Th.. there is o.. one more thing,” Grace spoke again in the same tone while looking at me and Kyle fearfully this time. “What is it?” Sia asked her while holding Grace’s hand on her arm. “Violet once… (Grace gulped hard)… once scolded Millie fo… for betraying Sia,” Grace paused while telling us and then looked at Sia.

“What do you want to say, Grace?” Sia asked her in an angry tone this time. “I.. I heard fr.. from Violet at that time.. th.. that Millie.. al… also has a secret crush on Kyle for years an.. and Millie… is.. is with you be.. because yo.. you are capable of getting rid off those girls who approached Kyle,” Grace told her while trembling hard this time. “What?” both Kyle and I almost yelled at this time and stood up from the single seat where we both were sitting. I was sitting on the armrest of the single seat. Sia’s eyes widened in shock and she just stared at Grace. “We need to talk with this Millie girl as soon as possible,” Mr. Westfield said in a hurried tone this time and looked at my dad.

“Kyle,” Axel and David immediately approached us and everyone looked at them. “We got the last location of their vehicle before they abandoned it,” David yelled anxiously, and I looked at Kyle. “Let’s go,” Kyle said while running towards the outside with me. “Sia, Grace… you two stay here,” I heard Mr. Bishop yelling at her, but we didn’t look behind us. We could deal with everything later. Finding Violet was our first priority.