'YOU'RE WHIPPED!!!'

"Bro, do you like Ann?" James asked Evan out-of-blue.

Evan looked back at James and Alex and saw them staring intensely towards him.

"Shouldn't we send back Anna to her room first?" Evan swallowed as he asked them.

"Right." Alex said and he bent to pull Anna in his arms but Evan stopped him. "Stop!!" Evan remembered Anna's waist injury and instinctively stopped Alex.

"Let me help." Alex frowned but James stopped him and Evan pulled Anna in his arms in princess carry. Evan then walked towards Anna's room and started climbing the stairs.

"Why?" Alex asked James.

"Relax, bro!!!" James pulled Alex into the kitchen to make some coffee, 'its gong to take long' he thought.

...…

Upstairs,

Evan laid Anna on the bed carefully and drape the quilt on her.

He checked the air-conditioning and switch-off the lights.

Evan looked back at Anna who was sleeping peacefully and sighed. 'What do you think would be my reply? Huh' He thought.

...

Meanwhile, the people in the theatre room have watched different movies and were thirsty. They thought of pranking the people downstairs but were stunned when they heard James ask Evan.

"Bro, do you like Ann?" the question was so sudden and thunderous that Mark and Ethan almost knocked their knees on ground.

Thankfully, Mia and Jasmine were there to stable them.

The four of them signaled each-other to stay put.

But were disappointed when Evan said nothing and left for upstairs with Anna in his arms.

"We should wait here; I think something interesting is coming up!!" Mia whispered to them.

"How do you know that?" Mark asked with a frown.

"My boyfriend is making three cups of coffee; a late-night discussion is coming up!!!" Mia said to them excitedly in a low voice.

Jasmine just nodded and they sat down on the floor in a conspicuous corner so that they can hear the voices coming from downstairs and patiently waited for Evan to come back.

....

Present,

Evan came downstairs and saw Alex and James sitting in the living room with three cups of coffee laid on the table, he chuckled lightly.

'Am I going to be interrogated or something?' He thought.

Alex looked at him with raised brows seemingly asking about Anna.

"She is sleeping quite well." Evan said and took a cup of coffee.

James and Alex took theirs and looked at Evan, Alex leaned on this seat and appeared not interested; but his grip on his cup gave away his thoughts.

"So, Evan, do you like Ann?" James asked Evan again.

Evan was silent but moved after a while and looked towards James and asked. "Why do you claim so?"

James chuckled. "Are you playing here?" and suddenly turned serious and added. "Because we're serious there!"

Alex looked at James and smiled, this attitude shows Anna's importance for them and him.

"Want an honest answer? …. I can give you that but tell me why do you think so?" Evan asked his question again but he humble himself to quite an extent.

"Very easy!" Alex said abruptly, he then looked at Evan with a deep and meaningful gaze.

"You are looking at Anna with the same gaze!!!" James finished Alex's line.

Evan was still calm and asked again. "What gaze??"

"The same passionate, caring and helpless gaze with which James look at Mia every day." Alex explained as his sight fell onto Evan from James.

Evan was silent as well as Alex and James.

Upstairs, the four who were secretly listening to the whole conversation were now started getting restless.

"Same gaze as James, huh!" Jasmine was smiling ear to ear. Mia and Mark have puzzled expression's while Ethan's expression was full of excitement.

"Do you think, he will admit about it?" Mia asked Ethan and the other two looked at him too.

"He's my brother, but he's very secretive. But he definitely has some feeling towards her." Ethan was unsure about things related to his brother.

Evan was indifferent towards everything in his life and the appearance of Anna indeed changed him but he can't claim it based on his own thoughts, right?

"Oh"

Everyone concentrated back downstairs.

Right now, Evan was reminiscing about his every encounter with Anna; her different and amusing expression. Her love, care, excitement, anger and everything.

Alex looked at him but he didn't notice anything.

Suddenly both Alex and James started laughing looking at Evan which bought him out of his stupor. He looked at them a little alarmed, their expression gave him a bubbly feeling and he was afraid to face it.

"GOD!! WHAT DID I SEE JUST NOW???" James spoke up with excitement clearly visible in his voice.

"What?" Evan swallowed unconsciously.

"Evan, you're Whipped!!!" Alex said with a straight face but a small smile slipped away silently.

As if understood what they're trying to stay, he smiled in return.

"Well, I guess I'm!!!" Evan admitted his feelings for her.