Luke and Violet - S01 E29

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Luke and Violet - S01 E29

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 29

Clark and Violet eventually leave. Both thank my folks for hosting lunch and say their goodbyes. Once my mom closes the front door, I try to sneak my way up to my room. She catches me half way up the stairs.

"Luke...come to the living room, we need to talk."

I take a deep breath and head back down. I saw this coming from a mile away.

My ENTIRE family is in the living room! All of them stare at me as I make my way to the couch.

My dad starts.

"Luke what the hell was that all about at the table? Is their a reason why Mr. Taylor was acting very suspicious towards you and his wife? I had to save your ass back there before things got out of hand."

My mom is next to speak.

Your father is right. You need to tell us what is going on."

I take a look at each and every one of my family members. My parents and my siblings give me a look of concern.

I was trying to think of some kind of excuse or lie to come up with to avoid the truth. After a few moments, I take a deep breath and decide to tell the truth...or a very vague version of it with a lie.

"When I ran into Mrs. Taylor in Mexico, we were at a bar on the beach. We hung out for awhile as we were both surprised to actually run into each other even though we knew we were going to be there at the same time in Cancun. We both had a lot to drink, and ended up having a one-night stand in my hotel room. We hung out multiple times after that. We never talked about it again. When her husband came over, I guess he could sense the awkward tension between us both and just assumed something was up. When you (my mom] mentioned that we ran into each other during my Spring Break, I guess he just put the rest of the pieces of the puzzle together."

My siblings excuse themselves to their rooms after hearing what I had to say.

Both of my parents were in shock. Eventually, they told me I should avoid talking to Mrs. Taylor and seeing her, especially with her husband in town. They then tell me that as much as it hurt, because they really liked the Taylors, they needed to cut ties with them. Both my parents, especially my mon, told me how "wrong and disturbing it was of Violet to have sexual relations with someone young enough to be her son.

ONE WEEK LATER....

It's been a week since that dreadful day when the Taylors came over for lunch.

As much as it hurt to not see Violet, even though she was just a couple doors down away from me, my parents were right. I needed to stop seeing her. I mostly hung out with Jacob to avoid thinking about her. I even hung out with Alaina, the Asian girl met at the party where I blacked out. We went on a few dates but mostly just hooked up at her sorority house and in my car. Alaina, Jacob and I even spent the weekend down in Tijuana getting FUCKED UP! I did whatever I could to stop thinking about Violet.

As I relax on the couch playing Xbox, my mom asks me to run to the grocery store to get some things she needs to make dinner. Bored not having much to do, I obediently step out and head to the store.

I make my way to the dairy section to get some shredded cheese for my mom's dish. As I grab a few bags, I spot a familiar figure to my left. I turn to see Violet grabbing eggs from the fridge. We both make eye contact at the same time, and I gasp! She has a black eye, with what appears to be makeup trying to keep it hidden. I make my way over to her to see how she's doing.

"Hey Violet."

She gives me a nervous smile as she says hi and tries to turn her cart around to avoid talking.

"Violet...what's going on? Are you ok?"

She stops and quickly replies.

"I'm fine Luke, I got to go. I'm in a bit of a hurry."

"Ok, I understand. What happened to your eye?"

Before she can respond, I feel a hand grab my shoulder roughly from behind.

"Hello Luke! How have how you been?" It's Clark of course.

I stare at him trying not to lose my shit in public. I knew deep down that he knew me and Violet had a thing for each other. I didn't think this was ever going to go down a domestic violence route. Clark makes his way over to Violet and puts his arm around her waist.

"Did my wife not tell you about her fall the other day? came home to find her in the kitchen with an ice pack to her eye. That was quite a fall you had huh honey?" He stares her down while she lets out a quiet mumble and nod in agreement.

Before I can say anything, Clark grabs the shopping cart and her hand, walking away.

"Have a nice day Luke," he says to me with a sick smile on his face. Violet turned to me quickly with a look of fear in her eyes. What did I get myself and her into?

The following day, I get back home from the gym. I had to relieve some stress with a couple hours of working out to take my mind off of the scary but sobering fact that Violet is in danger. She's in danger because of me. Because of us. Her husband is a jealous man. I actually try to convince myself that Clark is not such a bad guy. He could of just had a quick breakdown after he suspected his wife, who he has not seen in months, was cheating on him. He is in the military and might be having a rough time back at home. Maybe he's seen some shit that totally fucked him up for life. PTSD is real and it's scary. I've heard true horror stories about men coming home to their wives all fucked up in the head from the shit they have seen and dealt with in combat. Don't get me wrong, I am NOT defending Clark's reaction to hitting his wife. Hitting women Is NEVER okay. I want to beat the SHIT out of him for doing so! | just want to believe that Clark just had a TERRIBLE moment in which he overreacted and immediately apologized to her. I want to hope that Violet is not in any danger, that's all.

I take a quick shower after the gym. As I'm changing, I hear the sound of a familiar car with a sporty engine drive by. I look out my window just in time to see Clark drive by in Violet's Corvette with his large arm dangling out the window. It's only once I see him make a turn leaving the neighborhood down the street that I run downstairs and out the door! I run to Violet's backyard and knock

on the back porch door. I wait for a few moments, and see her

walking towards me. I see her with the same look of fear in her eyes as she stares at me. She talks through the screen door, not opening it.

"You shouldn't be here Luke"

I ask her kindly to please open up the door.

"I just need to know that you're ok, and I'll leave...I promise I won't bother you after this if you don't want me to."

Violet hesitates, but eventually opens up the screen door and steps out onto the porch to meet me.

"Luke...I think we both know why we cannot be seen together. I miss you....I'm sorry that things have to be this way...but you know why"

I nod quietly taking a deep look at her. She had no makeup on. Her black eye was almost gone. Through all the chaos she's been through this last week, she was still drop dead gorgeous! I just want to kiss her so bad!

"Violet...please just tell me what's going on, and I'll leave you be. I don't want to put you in anymore trouble."

Violet sighs and gives me the scoop:

After the night that we had sex when I first got back home for the summer, she received a text from her husband saying that he was catching a flight to California from Japan. He was coming home for an extended leave of absence from work. She was shocked as she was not expecting him for a few more weeks. And it was only supposed to be about a two week visit when he did come. She wanted me to leave and just to stay "friends" to avoid any suspicion from her jealous husband. The next day when Clark arrived, they had sex. After that, Clark found my undershirt on the floor of the bed which I COMPLETELY forgot about!! He questioned her at first but let it go. However, during lunch when she took him over to my house to meet the family, Clark began to notice both of us acting weird. Once it was confirmed to him that we "ran into each other" in Cancun, he slapped her out of rage when they arrived back at their house. Violet kept to herself after that to avoid any trouble, and was told to never see me again!

After hearing all this, I embraced Violet.

"I'm so sorry I've put you through this...had I known, I would have done ANYTHING in my power to make sure he didn't know about us...I would've skipped that dreadful lunch at my place...I'm so sorry violet".