Tiny Point of View

"What are you staring at?" I asked breathless.

I didn't know kitchen can cook romance. His eyes are staring down at me like a dog staring at the bone. He almost looked distracted unlike his usual composed self.

I knew Cacao can do it. He is my cousin and a famous love guru for a reason.

"You." He whispered back in trance. It's like he is not in this world anymore. "You got right curves in right places." His whisper got scratchy as his gaze trailed down along the length of my body.

We are particularly close; too intimately close making me feel tingles in my stomach. I only felt such tingles when I went on rides in amusement park.

"Silly, of course I do. If I have curves in wrong places, I would look weird and funny." He blinked once, twice and a couple more times before clearing his throat and stepping back a little from me.

"I-I mean," He coughed blinking his eyes as if he has a deadly infection inside the,. "I mean, good thing you at least have right curves in right places unlike your brain." He suddenly spoke loudly.

It felt like the words he said came out against his will.

Such an interesting man he is!

Hot, arrogant and interesting. Just the right spices I like.

"You know Human sculpture; if you die before I did then I will get a museum and display your remains there. You are really intriguing."

I read somewhere that teeth and some of the hard bones do not decompose even after buried for years so why not display them in a museum!

The museum will be a symbol of my love for him.

"I don't doubt it. You will kill me some time around." He mumbled walking back to the washbasin to wash his hands.

And so the next forty minutes he worked beside me in silence, stealing glances at me every now and then. Every time I catch him looking at me like a thief, he would put on a blank face and wiggle his eyebrows gesturing me towards the stove.

I made a kind of pasta with gravy made like Indian curry. I once tried it at home and found it really tasty. My family loved it too so from then on, I've been making pasta with Indian curry as the base.

Let's be real for a moment; east or west, Indian curry is the best.

Then there is thick vegetable soup and mashed potatoes while Human sculpture made roasted chicken and some type of dessert made out of plain yogurt.

Just about we arranged everything on the table, Cacao clapped as he got in. He wore a big smile on his small face.

"Bravo. Bravo! Look at the sumptuous food here; I can see love in them."

"You are just blind." Human sculpture commented turning to Cacao with a frown.

"Even a blind can see the love in it." Cacao remarked back patting Human sculpture on his back.

"Now, the next task is to feed each other. What is lunch when there is no romantic punch?" Cacao spoke in a drunken way.

Human sculpture and I sat down to have lunch when Cacao clapped a few times to gain other attention. "Enjoy the lunch, you birds." He said turning a full circle in the same place he was standing for four times before he left us with a wink directed to each.

"Bon Appetite." Human sculpture heaved picking up the fork and stabbing the roasted chicken with it.

Looks like he likes chicken a little too much!

Taking a healthy amount of chicken, he squeezed some lemon on it and brought it to my lips to eat. A sudden thought came to my mind when he offered steaming food to me.

Will the spicy chicken taste like honey since he is feeding it to me?

Will steaming food scald my mouth or will he scald my mouth since he is hotter than the food.

After I'm done with my revenge, I am going to go on long trips with him to some cold places.

Copying his action, I took a spoon full of pasta with gravy and offered it to his mouth. We took our first bite together and both of us moaned out when delicious food assaulted our mouth.

We complimented each other's food and continued to feed each other until both of are full to the brim.

My heart went meowing the whole time we were feeding each other. It was as if I was eating him not his food but then I reprimanded myself saying he would taste better.

By the time lunch was finished, we were already smiling down at each other with our stomach and heart full. The following hour we traveled by car to the next location Cacao has prepared for us.

It was a large clearing with trees and some heavy wooden and metal boxes stacked up here and there. It was a place where we play shoot paintball.

Wow!

I watched this game in TV many times and loved it but did not participate in it ever. Cacao got us our uniforms of two different colors; mine being grayish blue and his being dark green.

"We are in two different teams?" I narrowed my eyes at Cacao feeling disappointed that I couldn't go to the battlefield with Human sculpture as his partner.

"Good decision." I heard Human sculpture saying as he loaded his gun with paintball intently as if he is going to a real battlefield to kill his enemy mercilessly.

He pointed his gun at me and adjusted it ready to shoot me even before the game began. His frown suddenly turned into a sly smirk as he looked at me evilly.

"You can't shoot me, Human sculpture. You just can't." I challenged him giving him my own smirk that I only use on people who are very close to me.

"Expect the expected."

"It's 'expect the unexpected'." I corrected to which he chuckled devilishly.

"Oh, it's not a surprise that I will shower you with the paint by the end of the day." Oh really?

"Let's see who will paint and who will taint." I spoke without thinking.

Now that I challenged him, provoked him, what am I going to do to win? I have never played it till now.

"Hold down your donkeys, both of you. Let me tell you the rules first." Cacao interrupted us, dressed in a coach uniform with a whistle hanging around his neck.

"Rule number one, you both need to escape from the paintball that will be shooting at you from the hidden corners of the clearing all the while looking for flags same color as your uniform."

"We are not shooting each other? Then why do we have guns?" Human sculpture and I spoke in unison.

"Let me finish the rules and you will understand. Rule number two, whenever a paintball hits you, the one who gets shot will kiss the partner wherever they want."

I and Human sculpture exchanged glances, both different types of glances though. I looked at him with a shy smile and he looked down at me with scowl.

"Rule number three, if you crave a kiss from your partner, then the guns in your hands serves you the purpose."

Cacao, my dear cousin, I love you!

"Rule number four, there are ten flags of each of your color hidden around the whole clearing. Whoever gets highest number of the flags by the end of two hours game will have the right to make an important decision for tonight."

"What kind of decision?" I nodded when human sculpture voiced out the question.

"You will know soon. Rule number five, with every flag discovered, you should show off your victory to your partner by hugging them for ten seconds."

"Why?"

"What why?"

"What should I kiss and hug her when I'm competing with her?"

"Because you are competing with her with love." Cacao said as though it is a fact that Human sculpture should know it.

"I don't love her." Aish, Human sculpture! How can you be so dumb sometimes?

That is why we are hugging and kissing; to fall in love with each other.

But then again, he is so cute when he is dumb. So, I stopped Cacao from explaining and did it for him.

Standing close to him, I cupped his face with my cold hands and brought it down to me. "Trust me when I say that I will look so beautiful while playing the game that you wouldn't be able to resist yourself from kissing and hugging me. Sweaty disheveled look suits me the best. I love how I look after my daily jog. Trust me." I warned him beforehand.

I really find myself irresistible soaked in sweat. Every day I spend five minutes before mirror after my morning jog.

"What makes you think that, sweetheart? Do not forget that I've seen better." Human sculpture almost scoffed at me in mockery but it's okay.

He doesn't know how Goddessly I look in sweat.

"Seeing better is different from seeing me. I'm an Almond for a reason and a female Almond is filled with nutritious attraction." At that, Human sculpture snickered, passing me an amusing leer.

"Let's see."

"Oh, you will."

Just like that, the game started on great spirits.

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