Falling For The Girl I Bullied
Chapter 143

Violet’s P.O.V.

I was sure that I would die soon. There was no strength left in my body. My whole body was aching badly, and I felt pain everywhere whenever I tried to move my body. I tried to assess my injuries, as I had nothing to think about to keep myself distracted from the situation in which I was right now. The darkness was frightening me to death. So, I kept my eyes close. My legs were bent a little at the knees. I felt restrictions around my ankles and my wrists. They had tied my legs and wrists together with the same rope, leaving a little gap between them. I can’t roll my body on the ground due to the position of my legs and wrists behind me.

I didn’t know if they would be able to replace me. I desperately wanted them to replace me. The silence and the whole setup were very similar to those in horror or thriller movies where the main lead or someone from the main cast was held by the bad guys or the evil ghost. All those scenes where a ghost came out of the wall or from the bottom of the bed, or from the floor. “Calm down… calm down, Violet… don’t think about those creepy things,” I scolded myself internally when I realized that I was panicking due to my own thoughts. There shouldn’t be any ghosts anywhere near me. My heart was now racing like a train inside of my heart.

Soon all the hopes of being found by them started fading inside my heart. The silence around me was enough to tell me that I was in a very secluded area. There was no way that they would be able to replace me here. I sighed and then thought about the good times that I had spent with all of them. In a span of fewer than three months, I got the care and love from all those boys and from their families that I craved all my life. I had only Samantha as a mother figure in my life. Now I had all those mothers in my life who showered their love on me whenever they got the chance. I had Mr. and Mrs. Parker whom I called mom and dad. I had Ethan as a brother figure. I had Kyle, the most understanding and loving boyfriend. It was so funny that I fell for the boy who was my bully.

I laughed lightly when I recalled all our memories together, both good and bad. I remember how he ran away out of my room when he realized that I was half-naked. He never tried to invade my personal space, not even I agreed to be his girlfriend. I was content with my life and had no regret. If… If I had to die today then I didn’t want to die in depression and in sadness. I closed my eyes and let the silence around me consume me. The pain was still unbearable but I didn’t pay attention to it now. I was busy recalling my good memories. Kyle was right when he said that I had a really strong imagination. I felt that I was experiencing all those happy movements once again.

Suddenly my ears perked up when I felt that I heard something. I didn’t want to give myself any false hope. So, I comforted myself by saying that it was just my illusion. But I opened my eyes slowly when I heard something again. My heart started thumping hard against my ribcage. I concentrated on the sound and tears started building up in my eyes. I was not able to open my eyes completely, but I could open them a little now. There were here. There were here because I heard someone calling my name. Yes… yes.. this was not Ethan or Kyle’s voice but I was familiar with this voice. I tried to move but winced in pain.

They were searching for me and I had to do something… anything to let them know that I am here. I still didn’t know what this place was, but it was deserted. My voice should echo if I managed to use all my strength. My head was hurting badly and I knew that I was running low on energy. But the urge to survive is always strong if you are desperate to stay alive. I gathered all my energy and yelled at the top of my lungs. “Help.” I coughed hard after that and my voice echoed, making me shiver in fear. I coughed and then started taking deep breaths. I heard the voices again and they were now very close to me. I didn’t get what they were talking but I heard them yelling my name.

It was Matthew…. Yes it was Matthew. They were here. I heard someone else yelling my name again, but I was not so familiar with that voice, yet it was also familiar. “Help,” I yelled again and tried to move. They wouldn’t get my exact location as my voice was echoing. “Violet,” I laughed while crying when I heard Matthew’s clear voice. “I … I am here,” I screamed but this time, my voice was not as strong as it was before. “We … we got you… we got you… just… … just relax… don’t exhaust yourself,” I heard him comforting me. His voice was still distant but clear to me. “I… am here,” I yelled again, closing my eyes.

I have to stay strong now. They found me. They would save me no matter what this place is. I heard them asking something but I had no power left in me. I was now shivering from the cold. I had no idea why the room had suddenly turned cold, but it was now freezing me. I slowly opened my eyes again when I felt a faint light. “She is here. She…. She is hurt. We need something to pull her up,” I heard Matthew yelling in a panic tone again. I saw a dim light above me but wasn’t able to see him or anyone else. I sighed and then closed my eyes. It was enough for me that they were here and somehow found me.

Kyle’s P.O.V.

“Th… this… th… what the hell is this,” I yelled while looking at the bodies inside the tank. “Shit……. We need a full backup and ambulances….. I repeat…. We have four dead bodies and someone hurt,” Hank shouted at someone but my eyes were glued on the bodies inside the tank. The smell was awful, indicating that someone was using this place as his dump yard for dumping dead bodies. I gulped hard when I realized that a serial killer or something like him was also here at the same time when they took Violet here. “What the hell is going on, Kyle?” I heard Ethan yelling loudly. “Go down, now,” Hank yelled at me, and the next thing that I knew, he dragged me down. I didn’t know how I got down but I felt that I couldn’t breathe. “Catch him,” I heard Hank yelling something, but my mind was completely numb.

Somehow I came down on the platform. “Kyle… Kyle…. What happened?” Ethan yelled at me. “Kyle… Kyle,” I heard my father yelling through the call. I looked at Ethan but I was not able to tell him anything. “We have bodies here,” Hank told him, and his eyes widened in horror. “B… b… bodies?” he stuttered hard and looked at me in horror. I nodded while trying to catch my breath. “She is here,” suddenly I came out of my stance when I heard someone yelling aloud. “Matthew yelled so loudly that his voice boomed throughout the whole area.

“What????? Where???” I yelled this time. “She …. She is inside this tank,” he yelled and I looked at Ethan. Ethan hurriedly descended the stairs, and I followed him. Hank could take care of things here. “What did you see inside the tank?” Ethan asked me while running downstairs. “Bodies…. Dead …. Dead bodies….. five bodies… I… I think one of them is alive…. Or at the verge of death,” I told him while running. “Wh… what?” he yelled in horror and I just jerked my head. I wanted to erase that memory but I couldn’t. “We… we need something to take her out,” Matthew yelled in panic.

“I should have thought about this earlier,” I muttered angrily. I was upset with myself. I thought about replaceing her but didn’t think that she should be in urgent need of medical attention. I immediately called Mrs. Parker and put the conference call on hold. “What are you doing?” Ethan asked me while breathing heavily. “Calling our mom to come here with medical aid,” I answered him while waiting for mom to pick up the call. Both my mother and his mother were at the same place when we left his mansion. That was why I called our mom to tell him whom I was calling now.

We met others at the stairs of the building, where Matthew was with my dad. “Mom… we… we need an ambulance here,” I asked her as soon as she picked up the call while running upstairs. “Did you replace her?” she asked me in an anxious tone. “Yes, mom… an.. and she is hurt,” I answered her while running upstairs. “Why are you breathless? Are you okay, son?” she asked me worriedly. “I am okay, mom… everyone is okay… we are just running upstairs,” I answered her hurriedly. “I am sending you our location… hurry up, mom,” I said to her before hanging up.

All of us stopped near the platform and both I and Ethan bent to our knees while catching our breaths. It was a good thing that it was a clear night and moonlight was the only source of light after our flashlights. “Where is she?” I asked my dad who was on the stairs up to the platform. “She is inside this… she is conscious,” dad answered me in a hurried tone. “Come down, dad… let us look there,” I asked him to come down so that we could go up. There was not enough space for more than four people to stand in a row. The space was too narrow.

He immediately came down. A policeman and Matthew were up on the tank. “How is she, Matthew?” I asked him while looking upwards at him. “Sh… she is all tied up… an… and she ha.. h.. has b***d everywhere on her face and… and on her clothes,” he yelled in panic. I looked at Ethan and Noah who also climbed up behind me. “Go,” Ethan said to me and I nodded. I climbed Ethan’s shoulders again with the help of Noah and Matthew pulled me up. “There… there she is,” he told me after I climbed up. I nodded and then crawled towards the mouth of the tank.

I looked down and my whole body trembled hard in horror. She was lying on the bottom of the tank, and there was b***d near her head on the ground. “We… we need to go down,” I said to Matthew. “B… but this is too deep and we have nothing to pull you up,” he replied to me in a fearful tone. “The help will arrive soon. She is alone down there. It will be better if .. if one of us.. stay with her there… and also .. we have to check if her injuries are serious or not,” I said to him while looking back at him. “He is right… someone must be there with her,” Ethan also supported me. “But this would be dangerous. The whole place is old enough to make big moves,” the policeman sitting with us said to us in a concerned tone.

“Still I want to go there,” I insisted and then looked down inside the tank. The tank was indeed deep and we couldn’t see properly even with the flashlights of our phones. “Let’s help you go down there. She must be cold too,” Ethan said this time in a worried tone. I nodded and then looked down again. I slowly put my legs inside the tank. Ethan and Matthew grabbed me by the shoulders, and slowly they pushed me inside the tank. At this time, all I wanted to do right now was to go to her and take her in my embrace. I jumped down there on light feet.

I ran towards her as soon as my feet touched the bottom. It was so dark here that I barely saw her when I ran toward her. I immediately turned on the flashlight in my phone while sitting beside her. It was so stuffy here that I felt that I couldn’t breathe for a while. She writhed a little on the ground. I immediately untied her hands first. She was whimpering but her voice was so low. “You will be okay… just hang on for a few more minutes,” I comforted her, and untied her legs. I wanted to kill those bastards right now for what they did to her.

I took her upper body into my embrace on my lap. She winced lightly when I cradled her head in my arm. “How is she?” Ethan yelled from up. I put down the phone on the ground so that I could keep her comfortably in my arms. My heart was now beating furiously due to fear. “Ethan do something to pull her up. Her breaths are shallow,” I yelled when I put my finger under her nose. “What?” he yelled in panic. “Hey, love… listen to me,” I slowly cupped her face while calling her gently. She whimpered but didn’t open her eyes. It was too dark here that I couldn’t see her face clearly.

Her face was a little sticky and I guess that it was her b***d mixed with the dry filth on the bottom of the tank. She needed urgent medical attention. “K…yle,” she took my name in an almost inaudible voice. “Yes, princess.. I am here,” I replied to her while trying to locate the wound on her neck. I was sure that the kidnappers had thrown her inside the tank and she should have some more injuries and bruises on her body.

My hand trembled when I touched the wound on the top of her head. It was big. “Hurry up,” I yelled when in a panicked tone. I took out my jacket and covered her gently. She was shivering, and her condition was making me worried to death. I looked up but only saw flashlights at the opening. “Ethan,” I yelled when something came to my mind. “What?” he yelled back. “Make rope from your shirts… we have to take her out from here at any cost,” I instructed him. The air down there was stuffy and if it was making me feeling sick, then what about her? She was here for more than a couple of hours.

“You have to stay strong, Violet. We are going to pull you out from here,” I whispered to her while stroking her face gently. She whimpered in a very low voice. I pulled her up a little and put her head on my shoulder under my chin. “A… am… I going to die?” I heard her asking me something in a very low tone. “Nothing like that is going to happen…. Just trust me… we will get you out of here soon,” I consoled her in a gentle tone. All I could now was to rely on Ethan and others to replace a way to let her get out of here.

“Kyle,” I looked up when I heard Ethan calling me after some time. I took a breath of relief when he threw a rope made up of their shirts and t-shirts. I immediately pulled her up in my embrace in bridal style. “Aaahhh,” she screamed in pain this time. It seemed that she hurt her back too. I gently put her down on the bottom. “Violet…. Violet,” I called her name when she didn’t make any sound this time. My heart, which was already beating hard started running a marathon now. “Violet,” I gently patted her cheeks in panic. She didn’t respond this time.

“What happened?” Ethan yelled. “She is not responding,” I answered him in a panic tone while patting her cheek. “No.. no.. no… you have to stay strong,” I felt that my heart was about to come out of my mouth. I immediately tied the rope around her waist tightly and then looked up. “Pull gently,” I yelled, and took her in my embrace again. The height of the tank was almost twice my height. They started pulling her up slowly. “Is ambulance here?” I asked while pushing her body higher in the air. “Not yet,” he yelled back, and I g*****d angrily. They slowly pulled her out. I turned on the flashlight of my phone again when she went above my reach. My heart was still hammering hard against my ribcage.

“You climb up now,” Ethan said after a while, throwing the rope inside again. “Okay…. Hold tight,” I answered him and put my phone back in my pocket after switching off the flashlight. I slowly climbed up, and Ethan gave me his hand when I reached his limit. “Where is she?” I asked him as soon as I got out of the tank. “Your father took her down. The ambulance is about to reach,” he informed me. I nodded and then we all slowly went down from the tank, and then to the platform. I ran downstairs with them on my tail. Whatever s**t was going on here, my father would take care of those things. I only needed to concentrate on my girl. I was glad that she was still alive, and was thankful to God for keeping her safe till now.

“I called everyone and tell them to meet us at the hospital,” Ethan told me and I nodded while running downstairs. “Will she survive?” I snapped my head backward angrily when I heard Vivek asking me a stupid question. Noah and Dustin smacked his head immediately. “Of course, she will. She has managed to survive till now despite being injured so badly. She is our girl. She will survive,” Noah scolded him, but I smiled when I heard him showing his faith in Violet. Noah was friends with her before we were, and they shared a very strong bond of friendship. I jerked my head a little and sped up.