Cracking Mr. Codehead (DA Series Book 3)

Chapter 30

Illaria Point of View

Tsk tsk tsk; what weird and funny rituals!

Zorion only had to touch the feather and take it to Tiny, she was already squirming and laughing like bunch of bells ringing together.

That was when I realized, 'Ah, my new sister-in-law is very sensitive to tickles'.

It was the easiest task for Zorion to get laughter out of Tiny but that cannot be said in the case of Tiny because Zorion, my brother, has some serious density of thick skin.

It was first just a few tickles on the face, in the nose, in the ears but when he was as cool as cucumber in summer, Tiny reached level two.

While I really wanted to help her because Zorion can be thick brained sometimes. I mean, can't he just pretend to be a little ticklish for the sake of his future wife and her family?

No. Instead he took pleasure in making her work like a bridal cow.

I looked around cautiously, to see if anyone from Almond family is displeasured but to my surprise and not-so-surprisingly, they were having as much fun as Zorion. There were actually encouraging Tiny to dare anything to tickle him while supporting Zorion at the same time to not give in.

Watching every Almond being so thoughtful and united, I felt a pinch in my heart. Such a family, such relatives, such values and such feelings, you can only get when you saved the world in every previous life of yours.

When my eyes laid on Devon, who was being cold on the outside and having fun in the inside, even he was having a loud entertainment as he joined the crowd.

One moment, I felt myself turn pink which I didn't know I could before today while the other moment, I turned a little red, not from blushing but from anger.

I wonder how one can feel two completely opposite emotions at the same time but looking at a particular Almond, I couldn't help but experience plethora of sentiments.

To be very honest with myself, I know for sure that I like that man; maybe love as well. And this is the very reason I'm feeling very complicated now.

Shaking my head to push away those thoughts to the back of my mind, I saw Tiny force Zorion out of his shirt and then tickle his underarms. In front of many people, there stood my brother half naked, still proud and arrogant as he felt nothing from the feather.

"Can't you just laugh a little and let that poor girl go?" I whispered to which my brother gave me a satanic smile.

"Don't you know how she was after me for months? I hardly had any relief all those months that she was torturing me with her madness." He whispered back with a devilish grin.

"So, you are getting back at her?"

"I need to pay her back in small negligible installments though! Do you think I can be as mad as her to torture in such full extension?" I sighed and shook my head at this blockheaded and childish brother of mine.

"Now, never mind me. I'm going to be married soon so you have to put all your mind on yourself and a special some Almond." I looked up to see Zorion signaling towards Devon with his eyebrows ever so slightly that only I noticed it. "Let me tell you, of all the Almonds, he the second most reliable and likable Almond. Don't let him slip your hand."

"Who is the first one then?" I asked raising an eyebrow.

"The youngest male Almond of the cousins." Huh?

Youngest male Almond of the cousins? I looked around and when my eyes landed on a young boy in teens who is having fun, no doubt, but all have a kind of disgust painted on his face.