Falling For The Girl I Bullied
Chapter 106

Ethan’s P.O.V.

“Still thinking about her?” Noah asked me in a low tone, and I just sighed. We were having our lunch in the cafeteria right now. We both were standing outside the room when Kyle talked with her. I couldn’t tell how pathetic and helpless I felt at that time when she called herself a damaged good. We didn’t mean to eavesdrop because it was their private moment, but we couldn’t close the door because there were so many students in the corridor and someone had seen Violet going inside the room. I and Noah stayed outside the room while browsing our phones, but her words took our attention.

“She refused him because she is scared of being in a relationship,” Noah said softly again, and I pursed my lips. “Hey… what’s wrong? What is it with your long face?” Dustin asked Noah with concern as he was sitting on Noah’s other side. “Uhh… nothing”, Noah immediately shrugged him off. Dustin narrowed his eyes at us but didn’t ask anything further. “Where is Violet? She didn’t come for breakfast, and now she is skipping her lunch too”, Justin asked this time. “She is with Mr. Stammers. He needs her help with the football team,” Matthew answered him this time. “Football team? What happened?” Justin asked him again in a confused tone. “Their assistant is not feeling well. I think, he is going back,” Matthew answered him while eating his food. “Buy something for her. She is working still; she needs to eat”, I instructed Matthew while chewing the food.

“Will she be okay with them?” Justin asked me in a concerned tone and I smiled faintly. “Don’t worry. I have already warned David. One mistake, and he will face my wrath”, I answered him ensuring Violet’s safety with the football team. He smiled and then looked at Kyle who was sitting on the other side of me. He was playing with food while completely lost in his thoughts. “Hey”, I nudged my elbow to his arm and he looked at me blankly. “Finish your meal. We have to go back to the stadium”, I asked him and he took a deep breath. “Their match will start in the next fifteen minutes. Let’s go there before that”, I instructed everyone and they all nodded. After that, we finished our meals without talking much. I kept glancing at Kyle and felt pity for him.

I knew that Violet liked him, and I had already this hunch that she would refuse him because of our past interaction with her. I didn’t stop Kyle because I wanted him to realize his real feelings for her. I wanted them to be in harmony with each other. Violet trusted him more than any other boys here, and that was enough for him for the time being. “Don’t think too much… she will be okay”, I tried to comfort him while going towards the stadium with everyone. He shook his head negatively and took a deep breath. “She is not okay, Ethan, and I am afraid that she will not be okay any time soon”, he answered me in a worried and sad tone.

“What do you mean?” I asked him in confusion. She might be fragile by appearance but I knew that she had a strong will. “She is running away from me because she thinks that I will also leave her like her parents. She… she is scared that accepting a relationship will give her another heartbreak and she is not ready to be hurt again”, he spoke further in the same tone. I pursed my lips and lowered my head. What he said was not wrong. After hearing her today, I couldn’t do anything but agree with what Kyle said. We didn’t say anything again and walked in silence. We both were lost in our thoughts.

We reached the stadium and took our seats with the other boys. I looked for Violet and found her sitting on the benches while Mr. Stammers and the boys were discussing something. She had lowered her head. She was also lost in her thoughts. I could see that she was still fidgeting with her fingers on her lap. She looked up when someone called her and she stood up. I saw David and Axel asking her something and she passed a faint smile to them. David looked worried and it made me smile. David was the second most arrogant boy in the school after Kyle. But everything changed after that incident. The worry on his face didn’t suit his persona. “What are they doing?” I Heard Kyle and looked at him.

I raised my brows when I saw him scowling. I rolled my eyes helplessly. He was back on himself again…. Possessive and jealous. “They are talking”, I replied to him in a teasing tone. “That I can see”, he replied to me in an angry tone. “Why does he need to stand so …. So close to her?” His next question shocked me, and I looked back at them in surprise. I raised my brows and looked back at him because Violet was still standing at a comfortable distance from David. I clicked my tongue and then looked in front of me this time. He was now showing the clear symptoms of being in love. She refused to be his girlfriend, but they were still close. She could refuse, but she couldn’t deny that she felt safe and comfortable with him. Among all of us, he was the only one who could embrace her without making her panic.

He muttered something under his breath that was not clearly audible to me due to the noise around us. I didn’t care to listen to him though because I didn’t want to listen to the nagging of a love-sick boy. Soon the match started, and the whole crowd cheered for the players from both teams. We also clapped and cheered for our team. The match started soon, and then there was so much noise all around us. I was also cheering for our team. They were out of practice for more than a month and got only a week to practice again. They managed to win their first two matches, and this was crucial for them.

I smirked when I saw Kyle kept on looking at Violet instead of enjoying the match. I sighed helplessly but didn’t say a word to him. There was no point in saying anything to him right now. I knew he wouldn’t listen to anyone. He had a lot on his mind, and he needed time to think properly about his situation with Violet now. We cheered aloud when our team scored the first goal after fifteen minutes. “Did you notice?” suddenly Vivek whispered in my ear from behind. He was sitting in the next row behind us. “What?” I asked him in confusion. He signaled me to look in the other direction. I followed his gaze and my eyes narrowed immediately.

“What about him?” I asked him still looking at the person in front of my eyes. He had a nasty smile on his face. He was looking at the ground but I felt something odd. “Follow his gaze”, I heard Vivek again. My face immediately went cold when I saw where he was looking right now. I cursed him under my breath and looked at Kyle. I was relieved that Kyle still had his attention on Violet. “I heard two boys from his team that he is thinking about approaching her”, Vivek told me once again and I scowled this time. “Keep your eyes on him and ask the others to do the same. We can’t let him anywhere near her”, I instructed him and looked at him too. He nodded and then took a deep breath. I knew one thing about this person was that he was no good for anyone, especially for Violet.

Augustus’s P.O.V.

I never found any other girl so interesting as she was. She had this timid appearance but knew how to keep her distance from everyone. She was the first girl, who was immune to my charm. I tried to impress her last year during the maths olympiad, but she politely refused to even talk to me. I didn’t expect that I would meet her again, and she was more beautiful than she was last year. I tried to reach her twice, and both times, she stayed stiffened, and on guard as if I was going to strangle her. She was sitting there on the ground while watching the match. What took my attention was that she was taking notes of the game instead of drooling over the boys. “You chose the wrong girl this time, brother,” Hunter, my best friend, chuckled, and the corner of my lips curled up immediately.

“I don’t think so”, I replied to him still looking at Violet Carter, the assistant of the volleyball team of Sky High School. Hunter raised his brows in confusion at me. “I’m not sure what her deal with them is, but she is something that has made them all overprotective of her.” She is not acting hard to get, she is actually hard to get,” I said to him in a careless tone, still looking at her. “How?” he asked me, and I looked back at him annoyingly. “She refused my friendship request last year”, I told him and he raised his brows in surprise. I scoffed and then looked back at Violet again. She approached their coach and then showed him her notes. I could say that she was not into sports, and from what I heard about her, she was a nerd. A nerd who had knowledge of sports, and all the boys from the two teams were protective towards her.

“Have you seen their cheerleading squad?” Hunter asked me again and I looked at him while shrinking my eyes a little. “What about them?” I asked him and he smirked. “I heard that the leader of the cheerleading squad is the daughter of the next mayor candidate, Marcus Bishop”, he told me and I raised my brows in curiosity this time. “There.. she is the one”, he pointed towards the squad and I followed his direction. I scowled when I saw that girl. She was the typical queen bee type who demanded attention from everyone. The girl had some curves, but I could say she was easygoing.

“If you want to approach that girl, then you have to hurry, Augustus”, suddenly my other mate, Darius spoke to me and I looked in his direction. “Their volleyball team captain is also interested in her, and I saw him hugging her in the morning”, he told me and I chewed on my inner cheeks. “Yeah… and their vice-captain, Ethan Parker… he is also very protective of her. I heard that something happened in their school with them, and both Ethan and that girl got injured seriously. The girl barely managed to survive that incident”, he told me further and now my curiosity shot up at its peak. It was obvious that their school had suppressed the matter. I knew Ethan Parker. His father was also a candidate for Mayor, and also influential in the business world.

“Try to find out the truth of that incident”, I instructed Darius and moved my gaze to my girl again. “What did you see in her, huh? She is…(Darius made a face while looking at Violet, and I stared at him coldly)… she is plain Jane”, he spat and I smacked the back of his head immediately. “Do you have stones in place of eyes?” I asked him angrily and he looked at me in confusion while rubbing the back of his head where I hit him earlier. “What did I do now?” he scowled and I huffed. “Look at her carefully”, I smacked him again and he winced in pain this time. “She has no makeup on her face yet she is beautiful. Her clothes… they are also decent. She is a nerd and the best thing is that she doesn’t pay attention to boys, like other girls around us”, I almost yelled at him angrily. He frowned and then looked in her direction. “Maybe she is just putting an act of being a shy and innocent girl to get the attention of boys like us”, Hunter spoke this time while looking between me and Darius.

I scoffed and then looked at Violet once again. I had to talk to her and had to make her fall for me before the tournament ended. It was a bit hard but I knew that I could do this. I already had a plan in mind, and all I had to do now was put it into action. The first phase was to gather information about her and their cheerleading squad, which seemed like the right approach to me. I had noticed that most of the girls hated her, and I was sure that a little sweet talk would make them tell me everything that I wanted to know. So, Ms. Violet Carter…. Be ready for me. I am coming to get you, baby girl. Whether you are putting on an act, or you are really that innocent. You are mine to contaminate.