Chapter 46: Violet

Nathan chuckled as soon as he saw Kim Eunji grinning from ear to ear with her eyes sparkling as she received her favorite desert now on a disposable cap.

She happily scooped some and placed it in her mouth. She then walked towards the exit not minding if the people looking at her.

Nathan thought her reaction was adorable.

The surrounding customers thought that the couple in matching black and blue outfits from head to toe were adorable. Nathan let his stylist to chose the clothes that they would wear since he didn't trust Kim Eunji's fashion sense.

Nathan was portraying a doting boyfriend who was pampering his lovely and adorable girlfriend or wife.

"What are you still doing there? I thought we're already leaving?" Kim Eunji asked as soon as she realized that the man was not following her.

Nathan chuckled and then followed behind her.

While walking on their next stop, Nathan was in a grumpy mood. A lot of men were looking towards their direction. Probably because Kim Eunji's lower face was so attractive enough to catch the male shopper's attention.

She even looked adorable while eating her ice cream.

When Nathan and Kim Eunji passed by the jewelry store, Nathan paused for a while and then continued following behind her.

Their next stop was the mall's cinema. Since he planned this date on the last minute, he was not able to check what movie they would watch. Since they were already there, he had no choice but to choose what movie they should watch.

He decided to just watch what was showing in the cinema. He just hoped that Kim Eunji would be okay with it.

The movie that was screening was called VIOLET. The name of the female protagonist in the movie. It was a foreign Indie Film. Of course, there were translations provided at the bottom part of the screen to help the viewers understood the movie better.

The movie started with a young girl begging on the street for food. She had been holding her stomach which was probably growling non-stop because of hunger. However, she never dared to become a thief. She knew it was not good to do so. To make things worst, it was pouring hard that morning making her to be soaked in wet.

However no one dared to help her. Why? Because she's a daughter of a prostitute. In fact, her mother was at home and was extremely ill and some thought it was AIDS and they were afraid that Violet had it too. Her mother was an orphan at a young age and had no remaining relatives left.

Because of this her mother was taken advantaged by someone else. Later on that someone was in fact a pimp and had made her poor mother to become a prostitute at the age of fourteen. She had violet when she's fifteen. A child yet became a mother at an early age. Violet's mom didn't stop after having her. She also never cared for Violet at all and the poor child had been taken cared of by the neighbors.

Going back, Violet never hated her mother, she instead loved her dearly not minding the constant beating her mother would give her when her mother came home with a bad day. She thought that it was okay as long as her mother would not abandon her. However, the day that she feared the most came. She was kicked out by her mom out of the house and was left to die on the street.

Violet was already ten years old yet the child looked like she's still a six year old kid. Her growth development was greatly affected by the constant hunger and the harsh condition that she had been living her whole life.

She happened to pass by a fast food chain and decided to take shelter beside it since she thought that the rain won't stop at any time by now. She decided to take some rest and even decided to resume her journey to find her food afterwards.

As she was standing there, she saw a mother caring for her daughter dearly. Pampering her and even spoiling her. As Violet saw that, her heart ached and she felt envious of the child. Her mother never treated her as nice as that mother had treated her child.

Violet decided to look away. Violet's mind was not like that with children of her age. If one would got the chance to talk to her, they would say that she's a smart kid.

The rain finally stopped and the mother and child had also came out of the fast food store. Since she was standing a few meters away from the door, they passed by her direction and threw an unfinished food pack towards her.

"Eat that. It's such a waste to throw it away when there's someone like you more suited to eat it. You should go home and have some shower. You stink!" The mother was such a hateful person.

Violet looked at the food which was npw spilled on the floor. She did not utter any word but instead sat down and started picking up the spilled food and placed it back to the container.

"So disgusting. Let's go Mom!" The child called out for her mom and they left boarding an expensive looking car.

The security guard of the fast food store saw Violet picking up the spoilt food but instead of pitying her, he even kicked the container off her hand causing the food to fly away and landed on the ground a few meters away from them.

"Look what have you done! Get out of here! A beggar like you should not be in this place. Leave! You're disgusting the customers with your looks and foul smell. Shoo!" The guard harshly said.

Violet felt like her world had completely crashed in front of her. She knew that this world could be harsh but she never thought it would be this harsh.

The pain was evident in her eyes that it even penetrated the hearts of the audience watching the film.

Nathan did not pay much attention to the movie as his entire attention was on Kim Eunji all this time.

He frowned when Kim Eunji suddenly sniffed.

"Are you okay?" Nathan asked her as he suddenly felt alarmed.

"I'm okay. It's just that my heart ached for her." Kim Eunji was referring to Violet.

"Do you want to leave? We could go." Nathan thought that she's uncomfortable with it therefore, he said that.

"No. I want to finish this. Don't worry, this is just a movie. I'll be okay."

The movie continued and this time Violet was walking in the street still starved, that she didn't realize a speeding car was coming on her direction and it hit her.

The impact was too much that she was thrown a few meters away from where she was. The by standers thought that she must be dead.

After the accident happened, the driver immediately got out of the car to check in her.

Everyone was shocked when Violet moved her arm and reached out to the young man's hand who was checking her pulse and decided to never let go afterwards.

The driver was a handsome young man with a slightly rebellious look. He was clearly someone from a well off family considering the luxurious car he was driving. He was still wearing his school uniform which was known to be the country's exclusive school.

The ambulance soon came and the traffic police also arrived at the scene.

Violet was immediately taken to the West Medical City Hospital while the young man was brought by the police to the police station.

He was now facing some serious charges for reckless driving. What more, he's barely 18. But the young man was not worried of what will happen to him, he's more worried of what will happen to the child.

Because of the accident, Violet was in coma. The doctors could not tell when she will wake up.

The young man was released after he paid bail.

He then rushed to their hospital and did not left Violet's side.

Four years had passed and Violet still had not woken up from coma. She was in a vegetative state for quite some time. The young man in the name of Kevin decided to adopt her into the family since he found out after a series of investigation about her background.

He found her pitiful and decided to take her in. He's an orphan himself and was not closed to his relatives except for his uncle who owned the hospital. But his uncle had a family of his own and Kevin found his uncle's wife annoying that he decided to live alone back to his parent's villa together with his loyal servants.

Violet finally woke up and as soon as the news came to Kevin's ears, he immediately drove to the hospital not minding that he was still taking his finals in the Uni.

Ever since the accident happened, he really got attached to Violet. Not on a romantic level but on a familial level. He thought that if his sister was still alive and had not died in a car accident together with his parents, she would be at the same age as her.

Inside the ward, a beautiful faced teenager was sitting on her hospital bed looking outside the window. Since she had been in coma for so long, the wounds and injuries she had suffered during the accident were now healed.

Violet's face was no longer dirty but not now replaced by a beautiful face with fine features even at such at her age. Her skin was glowing in pink. And she was no longer malnourished and had even grown to 163 cm at her age.

When the two met, Violet smiled at Kevin. Kevin helped her in coping up with her education. He was surprised when he found out that Violet was a hidden gem. Despite being deprived by her rights to education, she would borrow notes from the children of her neighborhood and looked at it.

She was mocked for pretending to understand their lesson but she never uttered any words to refute them. She let them be.

Now that she got the chance to finally learn, she was grateful of him.

She graduated College at the age of 18 and decided to help Kevin running his company afterwards. At the age of 19, she went back to where she had grown up together with Kevin who was now her husband. She never regretted marrying him at such a young age. He was such a good man and he loved her so much and they were happy to be with in each other's arms.

As Violet visited the place, she felt nostalgic. For nine whole years that she was away from that place, nothing had changed. Her neighbors may not be able to recognize her but she could still recognize them.

Hand in hand, they turned walked until they reached the in front of the house where she had spent ten years of her childhood.

Kevin knew that her past had been a his wife's sore spot and he knew she would never be able to move on if she would not confront it. He gently squeezed his wife's hand to reassure her that she's not alone.

A neighbor unexpectedly recognized her because of the red birth mark on her nape that made her mother to blame her for all of the misfortunes she had encountered in her life because she had that mark.

That neighbor then knocked on the door and a young child boy who looked like eight years old opened the door. He then called out his mother who was carrying a toddler in her arms and was heavily pregnant with another child.

Violet was clearly stunned when she saw her mother. The viewers thought she would confront her mother when she saw her again.

To Kim Eunji's surprise as she watched it unfold, there was no trace of hatred in her eyes.

Violet was calm and composed. She was surprised when she found out that her mother and Kevin knew each other.

But her mother was surprised when she had a clear view of the man beside her. Violet could tell that her mother was holding her emotions on check.

Though reluctant, she still decided to let them in but Kevin had another idea in mind.

He arranged for the entire family to stay in a hotel. This way Violet and her mother would got the chance to had a proper talk.

That moment finally came when the night came.

Violet found out that it was not her mother's intention to kick her out of the house that day. She did that in the fit of anger. After realizing that Violet was no linger around, she felt guilty and regretted what she had done. She wanted to look for her but she was so ill that she failed to do so.

One day, a young man came in her house and told her about the accident that Violet had encountered.

Many people thought that she would demand Kevin for money because he injured her daughter but even Kevin was surprised when she didn't.

To make it up to her, he brought her to a different hospital to receive proper treatment.

Before Kevin left, her last wish was for her daughter to be happy. She knew she could not give the life that Kevin could give to Violet. She was not also someone who would abuse his kindness to her therefore she didn't ask for any monetary compensation and even asked Kevin to not let Violet to meet her again.

After she recovered, she left her work as a prostitute and had managed to be a kitchen attendant in a small restaurant where she met her now husband.

She had changed her life for the better because though she wished for Violet to not come and look for her again but deep inside, she would always be looking forward for that moment to come. And it did finally happen.

That night, she asked for her daughter's forgiveness though she knew that she had no rights to ask one.

Violet who had been silent while listening to her suddenly cried and did not hesitate to forgive her mother.

The mother and daughter had finally reconciled at the end. Violet's half-siblings then rushed towards them and gave her a warm hug. Kevin on the other hand stood on the sideline with a doting look on his wife.

But all of their eyes widened when Violet became nauseous and covered her mouth as she was about to throw up.

The viewers walked out of the cinema with red eyes and Kim Eunji was not an exemption. This worried Nathan greatly.

The story had deeply touched their hearts. The movie was based from a true to life story of Violet Lopez. The woman who received several nobility awards because of her good deeds and raising charities for a cause for the benefit of the young women who were rescued from prostitution in her country.

They were saddened that this scenario had existed in other countries. That there were many little Violet out there waiting for help and a chance to change their lives.

The Violet in the movie was fortunate enough that she happened to meet Kevin by chance. But what about the others?

Also, the viewers had various opinions about violet's mother. They never agreed what her mother did to Violet when she was still a child, however, they did understood her at some point.

They were glad that she had redeemed herself and had lived for the better. They would surely hate her if she did not stop being a prostitute.

They were glad that Violet had now reconciled with her mother at the end.

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