Falling For The Girl I Bullied
Chapter 76

Violet’s P.O.V.

I inhaled sharply right after entering the familiar space. Home…. No place in this world can be as good as your home. Although my home was not an ideal place to be called home because I lived here alone, this was the place where I had spent my whole childhood with my grandmother. This was the place that was built by my grandparents with love. This was the place where my grandmother took her last breath in my embrace. There were several good and bad memories I had here. “Violet”, I came out of my stance when I heard Sam calling me in a worried tone.

I looked at her beside me and saw the worry on her face. “I am okay… I… I just missed this place so much all these days”, I immediately told her what I was thinking. She took a breath of relief and shrugged her head a little. “I thought that something happened to you”, she said, and we both entered the living room together. Victor was walking behind us with Ethan and Kyle. Mrs Parker sent them to help Victor and Sam to prepare the room which I was going to rent Kyle for him. “You sit down here. I will take you to your room later. Let me clean your room first”, Sam instructed me and I just nodded.

I went to the couch and sat down there while folding my legs on the couch. Ethan and Kyle came with Victor behind me. I felt that there was tension between Ethan and Kyle as they had detached faces. “You two sit down here first”, Victor instructed both Kyle and Ethan in a stern voice and they obeyed him immediately. Victor could be intimidating anytime. Ethan sat down near me on the couch while Kyle took the single seat. “What happened?” I asked Ethan in whispers when Sam and Victor went to my room to leave my stuff there.

Ethan looked at Kyle with a blank space and then back to me. “What?” Kyle asked him in confusion. Ethan didn’t answer him and looked back in the other direction. I looked at Kyle who was still confused. “Did you say anything to him that pissed him so much?” I asked Kyle while taking Ethan’s hand in my hand. Ethan immediately intertwined our fingers and looked at me with a small smile on his lips. In the past few days, our friendship got stronger and I was comfortable with him holding or giving a light hug to each other. After Kyle, Ethan was the first person with whom I was comfortable with physical touch.

Kyle’s eyes immediately went to our intertwined fingers and he narrowed his eyes there. I gulped and tried to remove my hand from Ethan’s grip, but Ethan immediately tightened his grip on my fingers. I looked at Ethan with a pleading look but he grinned instead of understanding my plea. “You know, Violet. I really like your home. It’s really sad that you only have one room in spare”, he said with a pout and I narrowed my eyes at him. “I mean to say that I would also like to stay here with you”, he said again with that grin and my heart skipped so many beats in one row.

Sharing my home with Kyle and Ethan? A big no for me. “I am sorry… but I don’t have any spare room now”, I replied to him immediately, faking an apology. He made O shape from his lips as if he was thinking about something and then looked at Kyle. “No worries. I can live with Kyle in his room. Right, Kyle?” he said, as if he had found the solution and passed a wide grin to Kyle. My head immediately snapped towards Kyle and I looked at him with wide eyes. My heart was now beating furiously. Please say no… I don’t want to share my home with two hot boys. The girls in the school would kill the very second I set foot there on Monday.

I pleaded to Kyle internally and he scoffed while looking in the other direction. “I am not going to share my room with you”, Kyle replied to him and I took a breath of relief internally. I peeked at Ethan and he had a now gloomy face. He suddenly threw his hand around my shoulder taking me off guard. I flinched and looked at him in shock. “Then I will stay with Violet in her room”, Ethan grinned again and my eyes almost fell out of the sock in shock. Kyle also snapped his head in our direction. I looked at Kyle at first and then back to Ethan with the same expression and shook my head furiously.

“You guys…. K… k… k.. keep me out of your fight”, I immediately threw Ethan’s hand from my shoulder away and jumped off the couch. “Hey… this was mean”, I heard yelling Ethan behind me but I didn’t stop and stormed towards the kitchen. My head was about to jump out of my mouth any time. It was clear to me that Ethan was provoking Kyle but I didn’t want to come in between their fight. I stopped near the refrigerator and took a few deep breaths first before opening the refrigerator. I sighed aloud when I found that there was nothing inside the refrigerator.

I checked the shelf for other things too because I remembered that I had to go for shopping at the time of that incident. I sighed aloud and pouted while hanging my head low. I had to go shopping. There was so much of work pending for me and I had only one day left, i.e. Sunday. “What are you doing here?” I flinched when suddenly Sam spoke behind me in a curious tone. “Uhhh… I was just checking the refrigerator and shelves for groceries and other stuff”, I told her truthfully and she nodded while pursing her lips into a thin line. “Let’s go outside first”, he said and then put her hand around my shoulder.

We both walked out of the kitchen together. “What do you want to eat for dinner?” she asked me in a light tone. “I missed spaghetti and steak cooked by you”, I told her with a genuine smile on my lips. Sam was a good cook and I really liked her cooking. She was the one after the grandmother who taught me to cook so many dishes. She smiled and rubbed my arm gently. Sam was my mother’s younger sister and she resembled my mother so much. Still, I never missed my mother whenever I saw her because she was the polar opposite to my mother and she always showered her motherly love on me.

I saw Victor sitting with Ethan on the couch and Kyle was still at the same place. “Uhhh… Violet has to go shopping. Who will go with her?” Sam asked both the boys and I looked at them curiously. “I will go”, Ethan stood up immediately after raising his hand while answering her question. “Kyle and Mr Stockholm have to discuss the changes that Kyle wants in his room. So, I can go with Violet”, Ethan further explained his reason for going with me. I looked at Sam and she nodded to him with a smile. “Okay… let me bring my wallet”, I said and then walked towards the stairs.

I glanced at Kyle but he was still looking in the other direction. He was always like that. He never talked with me in front of others. He always pulled that cold face of his whenever there are people around us. I went upstairs to my room and opened the door. I smiled when I saw my small cozy room. My personal space, which I loved the most. I went to the cupboard and opened the drawer where I put the cash. There was a small locker in the cupboard where I kept cash for household expenses. After taking some money from there, I locked the locker once again and closed the cupboard too.

I walked out of the room and went downstairs. Ethan and Sam were standing together but Kyle and Victor were not there. “Shall we?” Ethan asked me in an enthusiastic tone and I nodded. “Buy chicken for dinner too”, Sam asked me and I nodded. Both I and Ethan walked out of the house towards his car which he had parked outside my house. “Nice pendant”, suddenly Ethan commented on the pendant on my neck and my hand immediately went straight to the pendant. “Th.. thanks”, I thanked him while caressing the pendant lightly. “I never saw you wearing any jewelry. This is the first item that I am seeing on your neck. You haven’t had this when shifted to my house”, he remarked in a light tone and walked around the car to go towards the driver’s seat.

My heart skipped a beat and I clutched the pendant tightly. I looked back at my home but no one was there. I couldn’t tell Ethan that Kyle had gifted this pendant to me. The thing that I noticed about the design of this pendant was that it seemed like a random structure but it was actually the letter K in gothic style. No one could tell the real structure of the pendant at first glance and that was why I was relaxed while wearing it. But Ethan was an intelligent person and I was scared now. I wondered did Kyle know what he gifted me.

I hopped at the passenger’s seat of his car and buckled myself. He also buckled himself and ignited the engine. “Violet”, he called me after some time and I looked at him nervously. I didn’t want to talk about the pendant with him. “I want to talk with you about Kyle”, he said and I raised my brows in confusion. “You know what is his situation with his parents and there is nothing that has hidden from you now”, he spoke again in a calm tone while looking in front of him on the road. I didn’t answer him but pursed my lips into a thin line. He took a deep breath and glanced at me once.

“Kyle is not that boy he showed always showed to you in school. He is actually a very sensible, responsible, and caring person. I am sure that your opinion about him has changed now”, he paused and looked at me for a second and then looked back at the road. I nodded in answer. He is caring that I could say now. The way he took care of me was enough to tell how caring he could be towards anyone in need. “His father is making things difficult for him now. He called him today and threatened him”, he told me further and paused again. His cold was now stiff and I could say that he was disappointed right now.

“Kyle never shared his problems with anyone, not even with me. I always guess about his problems by noticing changes in his mood. He needs someone in his life who can understand him and his problems without saying a word. He doesn’t need anyone to solve his problems because he is capable enough to solve them on his own, but he needs someone who can stay with him and support him whenever he feels low”, Ethan spoke again and told me about Kyle. I didn’t understand why he was telling me all these things. I was now curious about what he was going to say further.