Tell me you love me

My skin is your canvas

Adi wakes up feeling ticklish around his nose. He opens his eyes to see Ayub sitting on his chest with a marker pen in hand, drawing modern art on his face. "arre!!!" Adi gets up with a start and looks incredulously at his son who is staring back at him with a mixture of confusion and disappointment.

"Ayub tum kya kar rahe ho?"

"aap uthe kyu? Meri drawing abhi complete nahi hui thi", Ayub replies with a pout.

"main kya tumhari drawing book hu? Tum mere par drawing kyu kar rahe ho?"

"arre?!! Aap ne bhi toh mere aur mummy k face par subah drawing ki thi", he replies still unable to understand why Aditya is angry on him.

A few hours earlier:

Aditya had woken up early in the morning and drew mustache and whiskers on Zoya's and Ayub's faces, while they were sleeping. Aditya did that because his sleep had gotten disturbed when he was thrown off the bed by Zoya's kicking.

Aditya was fast asleep when Zoya came back from her walk, and he doesn't know why she laid down next to him, but he knows one thing that the mother-son duo are very dangerous to sleep with. Both of them had the tendency to kick and move in sleep; when Adi woke up, the whole other side of the bed was empty, and both of them were sneaking on his side. Agitated he decided to take revenge.

After drawing on their faces, he clicked some photos and decided to go back to sleep.

Zoya wakes up at her usual time in the morning, tightly grasped in Adi's arms. He has locked all her limbs down with the way he has embraced her; his face is buried in the crook of her neck from the back, while Ayub is sleeping sprawled at a weird angle, with his foot on her cheek.

"Aditya please chodiye hume! Uthiye na pls!", she whispers to him as she tries to get out of his hold and get up. Aditya grunts in sleep before turning over and freeing her. she urgently needs to pee and dashes to the bathroom.

While brushing her teeth, she gasps looking at her face. "haw! Ye kya h?" she rubs the ink but it doesn't budge. Taking some face scrub, she scrubs the graffiti again and is relieved to see that it is getting washed off.

When Zoya comes out, she sees Ayub's face with similar markings and immediately knows that this was Aditya's prank. It's both hilarious and annoying. To teach him a lesson, Zoya wakes up Ayub and allures him into drawing on Aditya's face, the same way with a marker pen.

Back to the present:

" arre aur kitni drawing banani h tujhe?" Adi says, exasperated looking at his chest and arms and face in the mirror, all covered with Ayub's artwork. "maine toh sirf mooch aur daadi banayi thi tum logo par... tumne toh puri rangoli banadi h mujh par!"

He storms towards Zoya who is standing by the kitchen counter and laughing hysterically at his plight.

"aur herogiri kijiye... kisne kaha tha shirtless sone k liye? Ab bhugto!"

"kya matlab? iss mein mera fault h? Iss chachundar ne ye sab tumhare kehne par kiya h!"

" ji nahi! maine toh bas kaha tha ki papa ka thoda sa makeup kar do, jaise unhone humara kiya tha. Ab aap itne khoobsurat h, kya kare? Ye chiselled chest, biceps, well-toned abs, with clean shaved face, and waxed body, upar se shirt bhi nahi pehni hui thi toh niyat toh fislegi hi na... if I was in his place I would not have been able to stop either", she explains, sighing towards the end.

Adi is shocked at her boldness, never before had Zoya openly admired his looks. The way she said it turns him on big time. Turning to Ayub he calls him over and asks him to go over to his friend's house and play. Ayub happily obliges and goes away, leaving them alone in the house.

" achcha toh mujhe dekh kar, tumhari niyat fisal rahi h?", Aditya asks Zoya, caging her between himself and the kitchen counter.

Zoya grins at him mischievously without replying.

" koi baat nahi agar drawing karne ko nahi mili toh. Ye doodle art saaf karne mein help kar sakti ho, instead", saying so Adi pulls her to the bathroom with him and turns on the shower, wetting them both.

" waise Zoya, you don't look bad yourself, you should try sleeping topless someday too, you know, to return the favour", Adi winks at her, making her go red in the face.

"hatiye!! Leave me! I have work to do!" Zoya tries escaping but Aditya presses her to himself more, preventing her from leaving. He is about to kiss her when they hear the doorbell ringing.

"arre iss waqt kaun hoga? Aditya chodiye hume, darwaze par koi aaya h. hume jane dijiye, let me check."

"jo bhi hoga baad mein wapas aa jayega aur aise iss halat mein bahar jaogi? ", he holds on to her, tightening his grip.

Zoya is about to argue back when they hear the main door opening and a woman's voice ringing through asking for Aditya.