Falling For The Girl I Bullied
Chapter 70

Violet’s P.O.V.

“Yes… you will feel better here instead of lying there alone”, Mrs Parker said with a smile on her lips after she settled down me on the couch in the living room. I was now better and could walk a little but not without support. Mrs Parker and others were still cautious towards me. “Thanks, aunt”, I thanked her and she shrank her nose in annoyance. “Call me Rose or …. Mom like Ethan and Kyle, Violet. Aunt sounds too old”, she asked me while making a weird face in disgust. I raised my brows in surprise because she wanted me to call her mother. I felt overwhelmed because I couldn’t tell anyone how desperately I wanted to call someone my mother back then whenever I felt scared or got injured during doing household chores or when the other children bullied me.

“Violet… what happened?” her expression immediately changed into worry and she immediately sat down near my waist on the couch. “Why are you crying?” she asked me again and I immediately touched my cheek. That was when I realized that tears escaped from my eyes. “Uhhh.. nothing.. it’s just.. just”, I tried to say something but choked on my own voice. She cupped my face and leaned down towards my face. She kissed my forehead and then looked at me with love. “I told you that I wanted a daughter too but couldn’t conceive again due to some complications during Ethan. I saw that daughter in you, Violet. That’s why I want to hear mom from your mouth”, she told me the truth again. I just looked at her while shedding tears.

She looked at me with the same gaze for a while as if she was waiting for me to call her mother. “Mom”, I whispered after some time as if I was testing the water. It sounded so good and Mrs Parker’s eyes lit up immediately. Her grin grew wider and she kissed my forehead again. “Thank you my child for giving me this happiness”, she thanked me for calling her mother. Everything was so overwhelming for me now. She really was an amazing woman. I was vulnerable in front of her now as I had lowered my guards in front of her. “from now onwards, you will call me mom instead of aunt or Mrs Parker. No matter what’s the place and who is with me if we meet outside in the future, you will call me mom, okay?” she ordered me in a loving tone.

I smiled and nodded. “Okay…. Mom”, I replied to her and she beamed showing me the full set of her white teeth. “Now … tell me what do you want to see?” she asked me and picked up the remote control from the centre table and the same time. I had a TV with a proper setup in the guest room too where I was staying these days but I never started that because I was not interested in watching serials or dramas. “Uhhh… do you have Netflix?” I asked her after some hesitation. “Yes… do you want to watch something specific?” she asked me while switching on the TV.

“Uhh… Jenny told me about a series on Netflix. She said that this series is worth watching”, I told her what Jenny told me about “Stranger Things”. Mrs Parker looked at me questioningly as she waited for me to tell her the name of the series. “Uhhh… it is called “Stranger Things”, I told her the name of the series. “I heard about this series too. Let’s see what is this about?” she said and then opened Netflix on the TV. I moved my gaze from her face to the TV. “Let me bring some snacks for you”, she spoke after putting the show on the TV and stood up from the couch. I just nodded and concentrated on the series.

She came back after some time and we both watched the first episode silently. “It felt good. We can watch this series”, Mrs parker said after finishing the first episode with me. I also felt that the series was good. I decided to watch more episodes later when I would be in the room. “Hey… how are you feeling now?” we looked up when we heard Ethan’s voice. I saw them coming to us. “How was the practice?” Mrs Parker asked him while standing up from the couch. He came near to us and then kissed her forehead. “It was good, mom but I am so tired”, he answered her question and then complained about him being tired.

He then came near us and leaned down on me. I looked up on him in confusion. He kissed the top of my head and my mouth opened immediately as I looked at him dumbfounded. “What?” he asked me in confusion when he saw my reaction. I just stared at him not knowing what to answer him because it was really unexpected for me. I heard Kyle saying something coherent but I didn’t pay attention to him as I was still looking at Ethan. “Don’t be surprised, princess. I always greeted my mother like this and you are also family now”, he said in a light tone while smiling. I blushed and lowered my head. My grandmother always kissed me like this back then.

“Okay… okay… go and freshen up first”, Mrs Parker ordered them and Ethan pouted while looking at his mother. I looked at Kyle who was not looking pissed. “What? If you want to k**s her as I kissed then you can. We are all friends after all”, Ethan spoke to Kyle in a teasing tone but his words took me off guard. A k**s from Kyle? My breath hitched inside my chest and I peeked at him timidly. Kyle glared at Ethan and then looked at Mrs Parker with a soft gaze. “I am hungry, mom”, he said to her. “Go and freshen up, honey. I will ask Rebecca to prepare something for you two to eat”, she instructed him too and he nodded in response.

He then looked at me and I immediately lowered my eyes. My heart skipped a beat once again in anticipation. Both Ethan and Kyle then walked away towards the stairs. I felt a little disappointed because Kyle didn’t say a single word. I really didn’t understand him. He behaved so oddly. He teased me whenever we are alone and kept a distance if others are around. He always had his cold face with everyone around us. “Do you want something to drink, honey?” I heard Mrs Parker asking me something. “Uhh… no… Mrs…. I mean…. Mom.. I am .. I am good”, I answered her and called her mom again when she gave me a stern look when I was going to call her Mrs Parker again.

“Ask Rebecca to prepare a fresh glass of orange juice for her, mom”, Kyle said to her while walking towards the stairs without looking back. Ethan who was walking behind him also shook his head and I was sure that he was laughing right now. Mrs Parker looked at his back and then she looked back at me with confusion. “Okay… this is better than nothing”, she said and then picked up the remote control from the table again. “I am starting the second episode for you”, she told me and then started the second episode of Stranger Things. She then put down the remote control near me on the couch. “If you want to see something, then change”, she instructed me in a low and gentle tone. I nodded and she straightened up herself. She then walked away. I took a deep breath and started watching the episode. I liked the main female lead, “El”.

Where is mom?” I averted my gaze from the TV when I heard Ethan asking me about her mom. “She went to the kitchen”, I replied to him in a light tone. He had taken a shower as his hair were wet and he had changed into a large t-shirt and basketball short. “Are you mad at me?” Ethan asked me while sitting near me on the carpet. He crossed his legs and put his hands, crossing them there, and rested his chin at the top of his hands. “Why would I be mad at you?” I asked him in confusion. “I kissed you without your permission”, he said with a small teasing smile and I blushed while blinking hard. “Uhh… you took me off guard”, I replied to him in an awkward tone and scratched my head behind my right ear.

“As I said to Kyle, we are friends, and kissing a friend of the opposite s*x like this is, I think, normal and not to be counted as an intimate k**s, right?” he justified his action and asked me afterwards in a light tone. I smiled this time while looking at him. He was not a complicated personality like Kyle. What?” he asked me and I just shook my head negatively while smiling widely. “Nothing… I was just thinking about what you asked me”, I replied to him in a calm and composed time.

To be honest, I was comfortable with Ethan’s presence around me and that k**s didn’t make me uncomfortable. I felt warm and cared for. when he said that he always greeted her mom like that. He didn’t say a lie because I had seen her kissing the top of her mom’s head whenever he come back home. “If you don’t like me to get close to you then you can say to me without any hesitation. I will not do anything again to make you feel uncomfortable around me, I promise”, Ethan once again tried to make himself clear to me. “Yes, this is true that I don’t like people touching me or coming near to me in close proximity but to be honest, Ethan, I don’t feel uncomfortable in your presence and you didn’t scare me by kissing me on my head. You just took me off guard because this was the first time that you came so close to me”, I told him my feelings truthfully in a calm and firm tone.

He grinned and then looked behind him at the TV screen. I pouted when I saw that I missed the rest episode as I forgot to pause. “You like this series?” Ethan asked me and looked back at me once again. “Uhhh.. actually I heard about this series from Jenny. She has watched all the seasons of this series. This is my second episode as I watched it for the first time today”, I told him truthfully. “Jenny like this, huh?” he suddenly spoke with an amusing smile on his lips and I raised my brows at him. “Ethan”, I called his name teasingly and he looked at me while raising his brows. His expression immediately changed in horror when he realized what I wanted to imply here. “No… it’s not about me”, he immediately yelled and I laughed harder.

“It’s really not about me, trust me”, he spoke in a low tone once again and I just shook my head while laughing. “Kyle… tell her that I am not interested in her friend, Jenny”, he yelled while looking in the other direction and I immediately stopped laughing when I heard Kyle’s name. I peeked in his direction and frowned when I saw a pissed expression on his face. What was his problem?