While Emma saw him as imaginative and creative, most people seemed to see him as 'weird' -- a title he'd learned to embrace despite any negative connotations it might have. Cody was the youngest of six children, and he had to do something to get himself noticed. Cracking jokes was his solution.
Bags started to move along the conveyor belt, and everyone's suitcases looked the same. Hopefully something blue-and-brown-patterned would stick out. Cody shrugged. "Not painful, just kind of annoying. They stuck cotton balls down my throat for a bit. Made me talk a little like Elvis. If Elvis was playing Chubby Bunny."