Falling For The Girl I Bullied
Chapter 77

Violet’s P.O.V. (Continued)

“I know what I am going to ask you is almost impossible for you. Still, I want this favor from you, Violet. You are the only one who can help Kyle”, he spoke again in a helpless tone, but there was a hint of hope in his voice. My heart started racing again because Ethan wanted me to help Kyle. He knew very well the relationship between me and Kyle. How could I help a person when I was the most scared of him? My eyes widened again in horror. “Don’t panic, Violet… geez girl… calm down”, I heard Ethan’s panicked voice and looked at him. He was now freaking out and he stopped the car at the corner of the road.

“Breath, Violet…. Breath”, he requested me and I just looked at him with teary eyes. He took my hand in his hand and massaged my shoulder gently. “Breath, Violet… breath”, he asked me again in a panicked tone. I followed the movements of his head up and down and breathed in that same manner. After some time, I felt myself calm and looked at him thankfully. “God, Violet… you gave me a heart attack”, he said with a frown while patting his chest. “And what you did?” I accused him in a meek tone. He shrank his nose in confusion. “What did I do?” he asked me in a confused tone.

“You… you know my relationship with Kyle and … and you are still asking me to help him?” I said in the same accusing tone. He huffed while shaking his head in disbelief and then looked in front of him before looking back at me. “You still think that your relationship with Kyle is still the same, huh?” he asked me in a calm tone with an amusing expression on his face. I jerked my head back while looking at him in confusion. “What do you think?” I asked him in a calm tone. There was only one relationship between me and Kyle and that was of fear and bullying. I was really curious to know what Ethan wanted to say now.

He smirked and then started the engine again. There was a mysterious silence in the car. He was looking in front of him outside the car and I was staring at him waiting for him to answer my question. “You really don’t know the answer, princess?” he asked me after some time and I shook my head negatively. “Nope”, I replied while emphasizing P in my answer. “Okay”, he said with the same smirk. He was now getting on my nerves. “You two are really the same…. You two have the same stubbornness”, he commented both me and Kyle. “What do you want to say, Ethan… please say it clearly”, I said in frustration, while crossing my hands over my chest.

He parked the car in the parking area of the supermarket and got off. I also unbuckled myself and got off with my wallet and my phone in my hand. We both walked towards the shopping carts. “I know him better than himself, Violet. I know that he has some feelings for you now but he will never accept this”, he said again while walking towards the shelf with me and holding the cart in his hands. My heart skipped a beat and a gasp escaped from my lips. “Yo.. you … a… re thin.. king.. wrong, Ethan… the.. there is nothing… ing between me and him”, I stuttered hard while trying to make him understand that he was wrong. Kyle would never have any feelings for me.

Ethan sighed aloud and then we started filling up the cart. My mind was numb and my heart was racing a marathon inside my chest. “Forget it for a while now, Violet. You two will take time to realize your feelings for each other”, Ethan shrugged his shoulders while asking me what to put in the cart. I told him, still in a daze. “What I was saying before… in the car… I want you to take care of Kyle. Give him your time and care”, he said after we finished groceries. Now we were in the vegetables and meat section. “Ethan.. I.. I really don’t kn..now what to say be.. because You know very well that I fear him the most. I am hardly dealing with the fact that he is going to live with me from now on. Living with him under the same roof alone…. This… this is something that I never thought… not even in my dreams…. Yet…. He is going to stay with me… in my house”. I opened my heart and told him what exactly I was feeling right now.

“You are wrong, Violet”, he suddenly said while picking up some vegetables. “What?” I said with a frown on my face. “You two are going to spend almost the whole day with each other. You are with him in almost every class. Then you are still the volleyball team’s assistant. You will stay with us there and then you two will be together at home too. So you are not going to stay with him under the same roof but you are going to spend the whole day from tomorrow onwards”, he stated everything in a very calm tone as if he was stating the obvious. But his statement startled me. There was no escape for me now. I am completely trapped with Kyle now. Unconsciously, I held the pendant again and fidgeted with it nervously while processing what Ethan said.

Ethan glanced at me and shook his head once again while smiling a little. His reaction was really giving me chills. “You are the first girl in his life whom he carried in his embrace. You are the first girl in his life for whom he is so protective now. You are the first girl he cared for till now. And that’s why I know that only you can help him taking everything easy. The life is…. Well (he sighed and looked at me with a calm gaze)… well life is hard for both of you in different ways… but you are stronger than him. He… he is… strong too but not like you. He bottled up everything inside him. I… I want you to help him getting everything out. Let him feel that life is more than what he has experienced till now. I.. I want you to let him believe that he has someone else than me and boys who cares about him’, he once again tried to understand what he wanted from me.

This time I stared at him while blinking hard. Ethan sighed and then we proceeded in our shopping. I bought whatever I needed to buy. Ethan told me that Kyle liked scrambled eggs in his breakfast so I bought more eggs for him. Apart from living together, Kyle and I were going to help each other with household chores too. For example, I was responsible for our meals while Kyle help me with cleaning and washing. These were the terms that both Mrs Parker and Sam suggested for us. Kyle agreed with this agreement, so I also agreed.

After finishing our shopping, I paid for the things and Ethan carried them with me to the car. We put everything in the trunk of the car and then hopped inside the car. During all this time, he didn’t say a thing again about me and Kyle. “Would like to have something to eat before going back home. I… I am kind of feeling hungry”, he asked me and I nodded. “Let’s have burgers then”, I said to him and he nodded. We decided to go to McD before going back to home. I was still fidgeting with the pendant while thinking about what Ethan said to me earlier. “Do you know that Kyle also wants to study medicines,” he asked me suddenly, and I snapped my head towards him in surprise.

“Really?” I asked him in a surprised tone and he nodded. “But his parents are against it. They want him to study business”, he told me and I sighed aloud this time. His parents surely knew how to ruin their son’s happiness. “The only one thing that they let him do by his choice is playing volleyball and you won’t believe but they put a condition there too”, he told me about Kyle’s parents and for the first time, I felt that it was good that I didn’t have parents if they are like Kyle’s parents. At least I was free to do what I wanted to do. “He had to obey all their demands if he really wants to play volleyball”, he told me the condition and I really felt pity for Kyle. After experiencing care and love from Ethan’s parents, I really wanted to have my parents by my side, but after listening about Kyle’s parents, I was glad that my parents abandoned me instead of making my life hell.

We bought burgers and Pepsi for ourselves and I bought burgers and fries for the others at home. I was surprised to know that Kyle also liked veggies in his burger. I was not that hungry but I couldn’t help Ethan as I didn’t know driving. So, we stayed at the corner of the road till Ethan finished his burger and I just drank Pepsi while eating fries. He told me about Kyle’s preferences in food and I was really surprised because we both liked so many same things. It was a great relief for me because it would save my time cooking different things for Kyle. After finishing his burger, he started driving again.

I changed the topic and asked about his likes and dislikes. We were now friends but I barely knew anything about him. He told me about his preferences for food and also about what he wanted to do after school. I was not surprised when he told me that he wanted to join his father’s business because he wanted to expand it across the country. He had his own dreams and he was glad that his parents wanted him to pursue his dreams. He also told me about other boys. I just listened to him all the time while sipping my drinking slowly. Ethan was talkative and loved to talk about almost everything.

Soon we reached home and I got out of the car with the paper bag containing burgers and fries. I walked towards the trunk. “I got this, princess… you can go inside”, Ethan said when I tried to take a bag from his hand. I nodded and turned around. “O by the way”, he suddenly spoke again and I looked behind at him questioningly. “I know who gave this to you and also”, he said with a smirk and paused while leaning towards my ear. I was glued to my place in shock and my heart once again skipped so many beats in a row. “I know what this design is”, he whispered in my ear in a teasing tone, and I forgot how to breathe for a few seconds.