Anete Point of View

"Today I'm going to do good to my lovely brother too." With belt in one hand and another hand into a fist, I landed hit after hit on him without giving him any time to take a breath.

"How good of a brother you are, huh! I cannot repay my kind brother by being unkind right?" Did you think your second sister is a docile woman?

Let me show you what I really am!

Zorion ran to Tiny and took her as his shield as he hid behind her. However, how can a tree hide behind a small stick?

But what was more surprising is that Tiny actually stepped away from Zorion and allowed me to beat her fiancée. She also made the gesture to continue and she will not come in between two siblings.

She sure knows the depths of love between siblings. How fortunate for Zorion!

"You want to run away? You want to hide? How about I let you hide in a coffin? Does that sound comfortable and safe, you matterless donkey headed fish face!" I roared and replaced the belt with a long wooden ruler that Bart usually carries around for his project purpose.

Something that made me petrified more was no one from the Almond family intervened in the whole fiasco. They don't know what exactly is happening and looked as confused as they should be but they did not stop me from beating the pulp out of their future son-in-law.

Speak about thoughtful people; Almonds will rank first in the whole milky way.

"You lost your mind! I'm your brother for God sake! Are you really going to kill me?" A hint of terror was heard in his voice.

He kept trying to run away but wherever he went, he was blocked by Ilaria, the best sister in the world. So no matter where he ran to, I followed him in the same speed and patted him with the wooden ruler, a little harshly.

He tried many times to pull the wooden ruler out of my hand but hey, I'm Anete Allard who was once obsessed with workout. My body today could be this strong because of all the obsessive workout I did for eight long years.

"You really want to do this to your brother? For someone else? I am your brother, your family, your everyt-" He suddenly stopped with his dramatic and eloquent dialogue and thought for a moment before correcting himself. "Maybe not everything but I am something to you."

"You still dare to feign hurt when you did something so terrible to me? Heights of shamelessness, I tell you. Did you inherit all the brazenness from our parents?" How can he do that to me?

He still call himself my brother when he almost broke my heart beyond repair?

Some brother he is!

"Are you not tired yet? Look at me, I need to be admitted in ER. Meow, seems like we cannot get married, after all. I don't want to leave you in this world as a widow." As expected from the weird Tiny Almond, she did not even feel sorry for him.

"Even after death, I will love you, Human sculpture. There is ironclad rule in the family, never get involved between two siblings when something went wrong. It would make things worse." Hearing Tiny, Zorion stood frozen and stared down at her as if he lost all the hope in life.

Seeing his trick fail, Zorion glared at his fiancée and grinded his teeth at her. Tiny nonchalantly shrugged her shoulders and went to sit on the single sofa settee.

I wonder, does she really not care?

"However, what exactly did he do?" Just when I thought she didn't care much about Zorion, she asked.

My eyes moved to the thoroughly beaten brother of mine and lava sprayed out of them. "Will you not tell your fiancée how you made full preparations to destroy your sister's life? Let's see if she still wants to marry you when she knows about it."

Zorion, instead of showing how guilty he was, he was standing there showing how he is not at wrong in what he did. Seems like he truly believe he is not wrong.

"You don't think you are wrong, my dear brother?" Ilaria scoffed as she walked to Zorion and kicked his leg.

"Protecting my sister is wrong?" He retorted back in a huff. He looked down at me and Ilaria in utter disbelief as if he cannot believe that we are questioning him over his kind deeds.

"Protect me by creating a rift between me and my boyfriend? By breaking me and Cacao apart, you are protecting me?" As if the whole Almond house was struck by lightning storm, everyone stood there shocked.

From a two year Almond to thirty something Allard, every person who heard me went still with their eyes focused on a certain man.

Every single eye contained mixture of anger and ridicule in them. Seeing that he now has ultimate attention of everyone, Zorion's back shrunk a little.

Looks like he is scared!

He knows how to be scared too? If he does, he wouldn't have done that.

Aunt Love, Cacao's mother, took small and lifeless steps towards Zorion and pointed her finger towards him. "What did my poor son do to you? He is an innocent, kind and caring man who loves your sister more than anything in this world." Her tone was soft but accusing.

"That not true." Zorion mumbled.

"Alright fine, he loves Anete more than anything in this world but only a little less than himself. So what?" After saying her piece, Aunt Love turned to me and held my hand in hers, "What exactly happened, dear?" She asked me.

Due to his appearance after hiding for so long, I was so fired up to teach him a lesson that I did not think about the questions I should be answering.

What should I tell them now? That I am Choco Drizzle and concealed that truth from Cacao and his family?

I didn't know what to say so I looked at Ilaria who sighed but did not say anything.

"He paid a girl to play the role of Choco Drizzle."

"What?" Everyone said in unison. "But how did Cacao believe it?" Again, they asked in unison.

I hesitantly looked around not knowing how to start. "Because he provided enough information about Choco Drizzle to make Cacao believe that fake girl."

"And how does he know so much about Cacao's penfriend? Even we don't know anything about her. He never lets us near those precious letters." Aunt Love wondered out, showing that she did not understand anything.

Suddenly, as if someone lit up a firecracker under her, Tiny shot up from her seat and went to Zorion so fast like a shooting star and gasped at him loudly.

If disbelief can be a person, then it would be Tiny Almond right now.

Did she guess it already? Did she know that I'm the real Drizzle without even me confessing it?

Tiny is that smart? Suddenly?

"You- that – You really-" She stammered and looked at him in incredulity.

Zorion did not even show the least bit of remorse on his face. On the other hand, he proudly tilted his head up, squared his shoulders and pushed his chest out.

He still believes he is not wrong, does he?

"Are you that proud of yourself? That means I did not beat you enough." I gritted and gave him a few more beatings but after a ten or fifteen hit, Tiny stopped me and turned to Zorion.

Her disbelief now turned into pain, heartbreak and disappointment.

Wow! She feels for me so much! I can see my own heartbreak and pain on her face.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Zorion looked at Tiny from top to bottom and narrowed his eyes. However, a hint of anxiety is still present in his eyes.

Hmph! Now I will see how you will feel when Tiny takes a stand for me and criticize you.

"Why did you do that to Anete, Human Sculpture?"

"Uh?" Zorion gulped with a trace of little fear. "Well, isn't because – "

"You are jealous." Tiny cut him off.

I'm sorry, jealous? Why would he be jealous?

"Jealous of your cousin? Have you lost your nonexistent mind? Why ever would I be jealous of that blabbermouth?" Zorion exclaimed.

Uh? I thonk so too. Although Cacao is jealous worthy, given how Zorion is, he is not the type to get jealous of someone because they are better than him.

And Cacao is many times better than him! That's a fact.

"No, you are jealous of your sister, aren't you? You did all this just to keep her away from my cousin."

"And why would I do that? Why would I be jealous of my own sister? You lost it, didn't you?" Right. What is Tiny talking about?

I'm stumped by her sudden absurd assumption. What for would Zorion be jealous of me?

"Because –" Tiny took a deep breath telling us that she is controlling her Tsunami of her emotions.

"Because you are the real Choco Drizzle and you didn't want your sister to take away your pen friend. Human Sculpture, how could you?"

Say what?

I'm sorry I think I heard it wrong.

No, it must be a dream. Only dreams will have such absurdity. Yes, this must be a dream.

How did Tiny end up with such conclusion?

Zorion is Choco Drizzle?

"What? You are the real Choco Drizzle?" Seddenly my heart slipped from the ribcage when I heard the familiar voice and saw the sudden appearance in the scene.

Cacao, what are you doing here?

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Next chapter is here. Enjoy!

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Zorion deserves that beating. Don't you think so?

Anete should've hit him more. Who agree?

This Choco Drizzle case solves one mystery and comes up with another confusion. 

Now Zorion is the real Choco Drizzle? Tiny Almond is so smart I tell you!

So Zorion did all this because he didn't want Anete anywhere near Cacao. 

So according to Tiny, only Zorion has rights on Cacao?

What a mess truly!

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