When Anna saw the sad expression of Bella she felt bad. Was the girl feeling neglected? 'Come on Bella ask for a solution, ask for a solution' she screamed in her heart but her face remained neutral. But minutes passed Bella still did not ask anything.
Waiting was making Anna flustered, what if her idea backfired and Bella left them, in a panic she decided to take the initiative again.
"I have a solution by which you can stay here forever.."
Bella, who was lost in thoughts, when heard Anna, she looked above in her eyes, to know more.
Taking it as a good sign Anna continued. "Brother Alex is already 22. He will soon have a girlfriend." She hinted, betting her big round eyes.
But Bella just tilted her head confused as she kept staring at her as if still waiting to hear her solution.
Anna sighed, "you are bad at guessing Bella." she finally spoke folding her hands in front of her chest as she puffed up her cheeks.
She waited for Bella to speak further as she looked at her from her peripheral vision but that girl was still sitting there like a statue, waiting for Anna to speak.
'Oh lord! We need to train her a lot' Anna's face palmed herself again. Looking at her stony face. 'I had to work a lot for you two. Keep that in mind when I want many nephews and nieces' she sighed as the thought crossed her mind.
'For my future nephew and niece.' she patted her chest as if she had taken a pledge and then stood up again. Her eyes filled with determination as she approached Bella again.
"I mean, if you will be his girlfriend then he will always stay with you. And if you marry him in future then you will stay together for this lifetime" and I can have cute little babies to play with me' she added in her heart.
"Then I will be his girlfriend," said Bella and Anna jumped. She wanted to dance, finally, her hard work worked. Yay!
But looking at Bella's serious expression she coughed and cleared her throat.
"I stood up because... I want water, yes, water. Do you want some?" she asked, faking that she was thirsty.
She could not let Bella know that it was all her plan. Because Bella is like a kid, she would blurt everything in front of Alex and then... No, no.. she could not let this happen.
She would make Bella believe it was all her idea.
She brought the glass and drank the water in one gulp taking all her happiness inside with its flow.
"Hmmm, are you sure that you want to be brother Alex's girlfriend?" Anna asked, faking seriousness.
Bella blinked her eyes as determination flew in them, as she nodded.
"Good, but how will you do that?" she asked and Bella's face turned blank again as she stared hard at Anna as if Anna was speaking a foreign language. 'because I am sure you have no idea about it.' added Anna in her heart, shaking her head.
"You know what a girlfriend is right?" asked Anna again to test the waters.
But Bella just stared at Anna blinking., and finally, shook her head.
"Great! How did you even turn 21! You are 21 right?" she asked, realising she had never asked for Bella's age.
Bella blinked as she shook her head, "then 22, 23,24? Oh come on, you don't look like you are 25 or more! Or are you 20." but no matter what number did Anna take Bella shook her head.
She wanted to say she was just made a month ago, but could she say that, because in human terms she should not look like this, so she replied, "my body is of a 21-year-old girl."
"That's what I had said, for the first time, en? What do you mean by your body... Oh never mind! So, I was asking have you ever liked a boy?" she asked, making her eyes big, her face telling she was in a full gossip mood.
Bella tilted her head. It took her whole minute and just when Anna was thinking to give up, Bella nodded.
Anna's eyes shone "really, who was he? Your classmate, neighbour, friend?" but before she could give more options Bella spoke
"Alex," her one word, created fireworks in Anna's heart. She swore she never felt that happy even when she was the one being proposed.
"You-you mean brother Alex, right?" she asked, biting her lips and crossing her fingers.
Bella nodded, this time she didn't even take a fraction of a second. This was the swiftest reply the girl had ever given.
"Wow, Bella so you already liked my brother. And here I was worried that this feeling was one-sided. Tch tch. I wasted the whole time just like that." she pointed. "Anyways since you like my brother, you should try so that he would like you too," she added, this time more confidently and openly.
"Alex did not like me?" Bella asked furrowing her brows, her face tuning contorted.
"Oh my, have you ever tried? Even if he liked you, he didn't know about it. So, you have to work hard girl. I know you would have been waiting for him to make efforts. But in the matter of love he is dumber than you." she spoke but then realising what she had said, she closed her eyes and bit her lip.
Then, slowly, she opened one eye and peeked at Bella to check her expressions and when she saw it was still blank, she opened her both eyes and sighed, rubbing her chest.
'The biggest advantage of making Bella her sister in law was they would never have arguments' and for this, she was ready to do as much hard work as needed. She did not want to repeat what happened between their parents.
"Since he was not doing anything, you have to take charge, alright?" she asked, and when Bella nodded, she rubbed her hand as she said
"Good, then let me teach you, how to seduce my brother