Falling For The Girl I Bullied
Chapter 71

Kyle’s P.O.V.

I saw Ethan saying something to Violet and she laughed harder when I entered the living room. “Kyle… tell her that I am not interested in her friend, Jenny”, Ethan yelled as soon as he saw me. I scoffed internally and went straight to the single-seat couch. I was still pissed at his k**s to her. “Yes, you are not interested in Jenny because you are interested in her”, I said to him in my mind but didn’t utter a single word. She stopped laughing when she saw me and it pissed me more. She could laugh in front of him but not when I am present. I threw myself on the single seat and looked at the TV screen. “You are watching Stranger Things?” I asked her when I saw the still on the TV.

“Yes…. No.. the episode has ended”, she stuttered once again and I glared at her. She immediately lowered her head as if she had committed a crime. She always lowered her head in front of me. I shouldn’t be phased by her reaction because it was the same reaction I always got from her in school. But I was hurt by her reaction. She was happy a while ago and now she was silent and once again hid herself in her shell. Ethan was sitting near her on the carpet. He was doing everything to make herself comfortable with us since day one. She now didn’t flinch or panic when any of us go closer to her. I also found that she stopped stuttering in front of Ethan and others but still stuttered a little in front of me.

I looked in the other direction when I heard mom saying something. She was on the phone and had a wide smile on her lips. The other maid, Rebecca was behind her carrying a food tray for us. Mom stopped near Violet behind the couch. Rebecca put the food tray on the center table and I looked for the remote control. “Here”, I heard Violet saying something in a low tone. I looked at her and saw her holding the remote control in her hand. I stood up and was about to take a step towards her when Ethan took the remote control from her and raised towards me. I wanted to glare at him for what he did. She was still not his girlfriend and she was giving it to me already.

I took the remote control from his hand and sat down on my seat once again after taking a glass of juice from the tray. I changed the channel and started a sports channel. “Kyle”, mom called me after finishing her call. I looked at her while drinking the juice. Ethan was now feeding Violet. He was really spoiling her too much now. “You have your first photo shoot this Saturday”, mom announced and I almost spat the juice out of my mouth while looking at her in surprise. “I got a call from Marshal earlier and he told me that two clothes brands have asked you to do a photoshoot for their brands. Out of those two, he selected one and finalized all the things on your behalf. He will contact you soon to tell you the location and time for the photo shoot”, she told me everything and a smile crept on my lips immediately.

“Wow… that ..that’s great…. Now I can brag that my brother is a model, huh?” Ethan exclaimed happily and I just glared at him happily. Ethan had a wide grin on his lips which made me happy too because I knew that he was happy for me. “Congrats bro”, Ethan congratulated me and I bowed my head a little accepting his best wishes. “The good thing is that they will pay for the photo shoot on the same day after finishing the shoot and according to him, the amount is in five digits”, she told me the details further and my eyes widened in surprise. Marshal told me earlier that I could get good pay in modeling but he didn’t tell me that this could be the amount. The minimum five-digit amount was enough for my half-year’s fee and other expenses. I would even get some spare money after depositing my fee and paying for rent and other expenses.

I looked at Violet who also had a wide smile on her lips. She didn’t say a thing but I knew that she was happy too. She was still thinking about whether to congratulate me or not. Ethan then stood up from the carpet and took a bowl of fruits from the food tray. “Here”, he gave that to Violet and then took a bowl of chips from the tray again. “Here”, he gave that to me and then took another bowl and sat down near her legs on the couch with his glass of juice. “We should celebrate your first job. What do you think, huh?” Ethan asked me after taking the first sip from his glass.

“It’s too early to celebrate. Let me finish the work first and then I will give you a pizza party”, I said to him and he beamed showing me his full set of teeth. Suddenly mom’s phone rang again. We looked at her as she walked around the couch and went towards another single seat on the other seat while picking up the call. “Hey, honey”, she chirped indicating that it was Ethan’s father. “Bro”, Ethan called me in a low tone and I looked at him. “Let’s have a small party tonight?” he asked me in a low tone and I narrowed my eyes at him.

I was about to answer him when mom called him. “Here… talk with your dad”, she said to him while giving him her phone. Ethan took the phone from her and greeted his dad first. I looked at Violet and raised my brows when I found her looking at me. She immediately lowered her eyes and filled her mouth with grapes hurriedly. I smiled at her attempt because now she had a hint of red on her cheeks. She was blushing again. She was again having some naughty thoughts about me inside her mind. I wondered what those thoughts were.

“Okay… I am going to the study then”, I heard Ethan saying something to his dad and looked back at him. He finished the call and stood up from the couch. He gave the phone to his mother first and then put down the empty bowl and glass on the table. “Kyle take help Violet and take her into her room. Some of my friends are coming to meet me here”, mom instructed me while looking at her phone. I will take her”, I was about to say her okay when Ethan interrupted me. I huffed internally but didn’t say anything to him. Mom looked up at him in confusion but said okay while moving her shoulders up and down.

Ethan took the bowl that Violet had in her hands from her and put it down on the table. He then leaned down and slowly pulled her up from the couch. She wrapped her one hand around her shoulder and tried to get on her feet with his help. “Aaahhh”, she winced in pain when she stood up on her feet. “Be careful”, mom screamed and then next second she was on the other side of Violet holding her from her shoulder and I was also on my feet. “That’s why I asked Kyle to help her. You are always careless when it comes to help her”, mom scolded Ethan and hit him on the chest while glaring hard at him.

“I… I am sorry.. I… I… held her at the wrong place”, he stuttered while telling us what was wrong with her right now. That was when I saw that his hand on her torso was a little down from the place where she got the wound. “Move and let Kyle hold her. He knows how to handle her better than you”, mom scolded him again and Ethan frowned. “It … it’s okay.. he doesn’t know where I got the wound on my chest”, Violet defended him in a painful tone still shrinking her nose in pain. I was so mad at her right now still defending him when she was in so much pain. Ethan looked at her apologetically and then looked at me.

I went forward and carefully replaced him. Violet immediately wrapped her both hands around my neck and I steadies her on her feet first. “Are you sure that you can walk?” I asked her with concern. She shook her head but mom refused to let her walk. “Lift her, Kyle. I think walking in pain will cause her more pain”, mom instructed me and I nodded in agreement. I then lift Violet up in my embrace in bridal style. “I am going to study”, Ethan said in a gloomy tone and then he walked away. Mom grunted in a low tone and muttered something angrily. I sighed internally an then walked towards her room with her in my embrace.

“He really didn’t know where the wound is”, Violet whispered to me and I glared at her. She was still defending her. “Then why I never pressed that place, huh?” I asked her angrily while walking towards her room. “Be… because you know the place well”, she answered me and I looked at her face with raised brows. “It’s you who app… applied ointment there so many times. Except you, mom and Maria, no one has seen that place”, she spoke again and that was when I realized that she was telling the truth. Ethan and others only knew that she got injured at the lower side of her chest. They didn’t know where the place was.

I pushed the door of her room to open while looking at my hand’s position on her torso. My heart skipped a beat when I realized that I always put my hand near her breast line. Ethan avoided putting his hand there and that was why he put his hand a little down and hit the wounded place. I didn’t know but I was relieved that he didn’t touch her there. “I put her down on the bed gently. She slowly removed her hands from my neck but I didn’t straighten up. My eyes were now on the place on her head where he kissed her earlier. “You didn’t flinch when he kissed you here?” I asked her while touching that place. “Th.. that was only a friendly k**s”, she replied to me and I looked down straight into her eyes.

“So, you will not flinch if I k**s you too, huh?” I asked her while narrowing my eyes and she shrank her nose in confusion this time. She scratched the side of her head and now I was curious to hear her answer. “I … I … never flinched when you k**s me”, she said still scratching her head. I saw her in confusion and sat down near her. “When did I k**s you?” I asked her and she blushed this time. “You have kissed my forehead, temple, and sides of the head so many times in… in the past few days”, she answered to me and I tried to recall when did this happen. My eyes widened in shock when I recalled all those moments.

She lowered her eyes again while biting her lower l*p anxiously. My breath hitched when I realized that I had kissed her so many times unconsciously and she neither protested nor flinched at my touch. Without thinking anything, I leaned towards her and before any of us could understand what I was doing, I kissed her on her cheeks. She gasped aloud and my heart skipped a beat again.