Hellion

3/ماہتاب

The next morning, Dua stood in the kitchen, making tea for breakfast when Ali came into the kitchen.

"Chai bana dau."
(Make me some tea.)

He knew she'd show nakhray but she was his only option. Ammi and Hoorain were out somewhere.

"Kis khushi mai?"
(And why would I do that?)

He tried to flatter her a bit,
"Iss khushi mai k tum boht achi ho."
(Because you're such a good person.)

"Achaa? Yadasht khraab hai? Kal tau mai sukoon barbaad kar rahi thi."

(Ahan? Did you lose your memory? I thought I was ruining someone's peace.)

Her way was that of a very bitter wife who fed her husband taunts day and night.

Ali smiled, a dimple slightly embedding itself into his left cheek.

"Please?"

She looked at him for a second and immediately knew what he was trying to do. He would always try to use his charm on her when they were younger. He even got out of getting punished because of his stupid pranks just by flashing a dimpled smile and widening those thundering eyes.

She sighed. Why did it always work?

"Okay but you have to take me to the mall to make it up to me."

Dua desperately needed some stuff and there was no mall or departmental store near this farmhouse where she could go.

"And why do you think I need to make it up to you?"
He questioned while picking a baby carrot off the basket of fresh produce.

She tried to make that face like Jannat again, where she turned her brown eyes a little watery and lowered her eyes to show him that she was still naraz (upset).

It usually worked on Ibraheem bhai, she hoped it'll work here too.

He shook his head,
"I'll take you because I need to get something,too. Don't think this acting fooled me, churail."

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After getting all the shopping done in the mall and after two hours of Dua nagging Ali to get her some ice cream, they stopped by an ice cream parlour.

They walked up to the counter and Dua started reading the flavours written in bold letters out loud to Ali .

"Mango, no. Do you think it will the original strawberry or the flavoured one? Um.. I think coconut is the best. They don't have twix flavoured gelato do they? "

Tired of her rambling through out the whole journey, he spoke up.

"God! Shut up, I am just getting coconut."

Her eyes widened, the cat-shaped eyes reflecting the bright yellow stools in the sitting area.
"Hey! That's my flavour!"

Ali rolled his eyes, his hand raising to massage the kink out of his neck due to the long drive.

"Why does it matter if I get the same flavour?"

Dua opened her mouth to retort but was interrupted by an old man, wearing a plaid button up shirt and some loose black slacks.