having Bf/Gf

Bella just tilted her head, her eyes still fixed on their joint hand as she nodded her head.

Alex immediately let go of her hand and rubbed his nape. "Uh, they are not chasing each other in reality. They were just having fun. You can not interfere with it. I mean you can interfere in it. But you can not use force. You can not backflip them. Alright," he replied stammering as he did not know how to explain to her without hurting her feelings. Thank goodness, the girl nodded and he took a breath of relief.

Bella though did not understand what he meant, she realised she was getting flustered for her to agree so she nodded her head. She would later ask Anna about it. She is the one who explains Bella everything at her speed so that she could understand.

Looking at their flustered interaction. Even Anna stopped running and looked at them with twinkling eyes. Mike, who was just behind her, looked at her and then followed her eyes and noticed Alex rubbing her nape and talking with a flustered face.

"Man, Alex had learnt nothing from me, in this year's long friendship," mumbled Mike as he shook his head.

Anna glared at Mike, "that's good, we could not afford two harems anyway. And just look at them, how cute they were looking." she said cupping her hands in front of her and putting them on her chest.

"Well, you are right about the harem things, girlfriends are getting expensive." he nodded and looked at them again, "I can understand about Alex, but Bella, she looked intimidating, not cute with that creepy style string. And men should not look cute. I feel there is a role reversal in their case," he replied gazing at them then at Anna.

Anna glared at Mike again, "oh please, is there a book which says men should always be intimidating and women should behave like bunnies! I don't agree, when I will make a boyfriend I will make sure, I will be the dominant one.

And Bella is not intimidating, she is just like a curious child."

"Woah, stop there, little one. You are not having any boyfriend till graduation. And you have to take our approval before making one. And we will meet him to approve." he replied, getting serious.

Anna just rolled her eyes, "brother nowadays high schoolers have boyfriends too, and when was the time you made your first girlfriend."

"That's not the point, you are not getting any boyfriend," he said seriously, folding his hands in front of his chest. "Alex, come here," he added when Anna only rolled her eyes and paid no attention to his blabbering.

Listening to his serious voice, Alex crossed the way of Bella and went to Mike, "what happened here," he asked both of them.

"Brother Alex, brother Mike is bullying me," replied Anna with a pout.

"I-i am bullying you. Huh? Alex, your little one here is trying to find a boyfriend." he added with a glare.

Alex's eyes widened, "Anna, how can you, you are just a baby?"

"And it's all because of you, I know your behaviour will leave a wrong impression on the young ones. No more girlfriend to you too," he added glaring at Mike.

Both looked at him with widened eyes.

"Brother Alex"

"Alex"

"Both shouted at the same time but Alex just shook his head. The one who wants to spend time with love can feed love to himself. No food for him" then he eyed Anna and added, "or her"

Both jaws dropped, "are you blackmailing us?" asked Mike speechless. And Anna nodded, she too thought that her brother was behaving like a kid here.

"You can think what you want, but no food for the lovers. Food is only for the family. And you know what am I going to make?"

When he saw he had their undivided attention he replied rather dramatically, "turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, Pull-Apart Christmas Tree, and Christmas pudding. And you know I had put extra cheese and oregano in the tree." he replied making a dreamy voice, 

Anna and Mike's eyes turned dreamy too. The dishes Alex named started flying in front of them. It's not every day that they had so generous food, it was a feast they could eat only once or twice a year. They started drooling at the thought of having all that food in their mouth.

"Come Bella lets cook the rest of the food and then we three could have a sumptuous feast, and since the two are having a fast, we can save a good amount for the morning too," he said loudly bringing the drooling pair out of their foody dream.

"That's blasphemy to keep their family hungry on Christmas night, you know," added Mike glaring at Alex. 

Anna nodded, "I thought, I am your baby sister, whom you love so much." she replied, bringing fake tears to her eyes.

Alex shook his head, he needed to be strict this time, "since you took yourself as the baby sister then it was more of a reason that I stop you from doing foolish things. And Mike, I am tired of seeing a different girl each Christmas. Let it be a family dinner this time." his tone was strict.

Both realised that he would not relent.

So they both nodded at then end with a downcast smile. Then they turned to each other and glared as they spoke in unison, 

"It's all because of you." they pointed at each other, then added

"Me, no you." pointing at themselves then again pointing at each other.

When they heard each other saying the same thing they glared further and then folded their hands in front of their chest and put each other back on their faces.

Bella who was looking at the whole scene with keen eyes like a curious child and listening to their sweet banter laughed at the end without even realising.