Silently Falling for Her

Chapter 17

"Even if I'm stuck by rain, Even if I'm erased by darkness, I will save you... You are not alone."

I wanted to escape from Mireya because she will worry about us. So we all planned to play hide and seek, but Adam couldn't leave her alone so he met her in the morning at the cafe. We all beat the shit up the guys and for Bianca, she will pay for it in a different way that she might not even imagine experiencing. I saw this girl whom I barely know before a couple of months became more important. She was busy bickering with Kayden who always knows how to make her angry or annoyed with his flirty jokes and things. I drove to her home since her mom wanted to meet us probably to thank us.

"It's been so long since I have seen you all and I missed you all!" Her mom gushed pulling us for a hug. She loves to hug and make us feel at home. 

"That's why we wanted to meet you and we all miss you and especially your pie." Kayden patted his stomach indicating that he is hungry and made him the special pie. I flicked his head as we sat down. The kids came in squealing jumping at us and I was happy to see them healthy as always and more energetic. 

"Are you all even studying or not? Always visiting and roaming!" Adrian grumbled playfully making everyone laugh. 

"Mom wanted to see us and we came here because of her." Adam smiled as Adrian took place between Adam and me. Carina came and handed over some drinks as she scrunched her nose cutely not wanting to drink them, but eventually, she drank since Carina gave her a look of death gaze. 

"I'm going outside and call me when the dinner is done," Mireya said as she went upstairs and came soon with a sketching book in her hand and a pencil as she went out. I went to the kitchen to help mom since she needs to cook for all of us and it is a pretty difficult job. 

"I will help you with this thing." I grabbed the knife from her hand and started chopping the way she had done before. 

"Is she okay, Alex?" I know she will ask me about her to me. 

"Mom, she is fine. We are with her and she will be okay." I reassured her hoping she would not worry much about Mireya since she has all of us now.

"I can't help but worry, Alex. She might seem all happy and goofy with you all, but she never does open her heart to anyone, only a few times to Adrian when he shows his concerned face and a few times to me when she needs me the most. I'm afraid Alex." She paused as her voice thickened with sadness and pain.

"She has been dealing with the problem for the past four years and it never still cured. Athena has been saying the same thing and she never follows it and I also couldn't stop her because I don't her to get anorexic or some disorder when already one is enough for her. If this continues she might develop something that I don't want to say." A lone tear escaped her eyes as I stopped cutting the vegetables and hugged her closely. 

"I can't bear the sight of her in pain. She is not my blood kid, but she is my girl even though she didn't come to the world through me, she is my daughter, and I treat her like one. She never calls me mom because she is afraid that I would leave too as her birth mom left her in an accident. I love her so much and it pains me when I see her whenever she is in pain or sadness."  She hiccuped as I hugged her tightly. I don't know what to say to her. It's every mom's worry about their daughter. 

"We will take care of that too, mom. I don't know what she has, but when the goal is to make her reduce weight, then we will do it for her, for you, for us." I assured her rubbing her back.

"Don't be sad, I make sure she eats healthy and fine." She smiled and patted my head endearingly making me smile involuntarily. 

"I know you will take care of her." She chuckled. I finished helping as she shooed me away that she will take care of the other things and asked me to have fun. I went outside to check on Mireya since she was out for a long time. I sat beside her on the bench she was sketching the dark garden with the help of the streetlight and moonlight that was showing. 

"Planning to join the arts university after finishing high school?" She nodded looking at me with a glint in her eyes of her future dream. I smiled as I looked ahead of the dark place and why she is sitting here alone in her own thoughts and the smile which she always convinces someone she is fine and good and no need to worry about her. 

"Tell me what's bothering you inside," I questioned her, and I can hear her chaotic mind saying the things that make her confused and overthink a small problem. 

"Nothing is bothering me, Alex." She eyed me sideways continuing her sketching. 

"Then why do your mind and heart race with thoughts?" I placed my hands on her hands stopping her from sketching. She was silent for a moment probably thinking about the weight of the question. 

"You know me too well, Alex and sometimes I like though and I hate though because you are reading me like an open book." She gave me a small smile as I chuckled. She sighed before saying,

"I think I'm being a burden to mom and Adrian and you all. You might be probably wondering what happened to me and why I'm in pain when I'm on my periods and why I'm always closed off when sharing personal things and you might think what happened to me that I'm like this. To all these questions I can answer only a few not everything because I'm not that ready to share it with you and I'm sorry for that." 

"There is nothing need to be sorry and I understand you and you are not a burden to us." I squeezed her hand still holding with mine.

"You don't know the way mom and Adrian's eyes reflect my pain, Alex. You all have been taking care of me since you got to know me the moment and I haven't done anything from my side to satisfy you all not even taking care of myself."

"Mireya, You shouldn't do this for us, you must do this for you and your body. I like you the way you are you know your chubby bubbly self. I love it when you smile with your eyes twinkling in happiness and your chubby cheeks would go red with the smallest teasing. Your cherry lips would curl up into a smile when we all make you laugh even if you try to control it. It's your body and you must like it however it looks. You clearly know what BTS said 'Love Yourself' and you must love yourself. Don't reduce weight because my mom or Isabella told you to. Reduce weight because you care about your body and you need to be healthy." 

"I want to try, but I can't control myself." 

"I will help you throughout. I will ask my mom about the diet and try eating it slowly because it will be difficult if you abruptly change your eating plan. Change your eating plan for one meal and change it next for another next two meals and change your eating plans fully. You can do it." She nodded convinced of my answer. 

"What are you both doing here without me?" Adam sat beside her. 

"Stop whining like Kayden." She chuckled. 

"Actually I wanted to ask if you are free this weekend. I want you to go shopping with us." 

"What? With you both? I can't. You will take an hour to select a single shirt." I groaned.

"You don't have any choice, Violet." Adam grinned laughing at me. Alex shook his head and laughed at us.

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