Mine Forever .
m
ore than a wink of sleep in the last two weeks.. I was trying to force some food in my mouth but the darkness was
prayer). I lazily strode to the bathroom to perform ablution, I prayed and started recit
n you if you don't wake up! Are you dead?" My obnoxious be
led hoarsely and turn
eat" she screeched. What? Did she say two thirty?
y didn't you wake me up
en blaring since One thirty, disturbing my ea
and pray. I took a bath and fixed up my room before i was done it w
he nags me in that same manner. I smiled widely at her disheveled look. She saw me and
slept that much, thanks for waking me u
patted my back and go
te cake I baked when i was studying last week. Yeah, i bake when I'm frustr
er eating and moved t
. Ahmad is her boyfriend, they have been together for three years now and
it" she says nonchalantly. I could tell somet
What's going o
s lying. "Liar! I have been hearing the midnight fights these
ad has been talking to him about sending elders for a formal introduction to my family.. And he doesn
three unmarried half sisters and her father thinks it's not right to marry her off fir
ays babied by everyone. Ya Khadija is thirty two years old, has two daughters Nasreen and Fareeha with her husband Mustapha. Ya Fahad is thirty years old. He and
ou tried talking to Mommy? Maybe she can persuade hi
tell me to be patient and wait for my time.." She half scream
out itself inshaAllah and you and Ahmad will be together
ope s
er assertively and ga
or my last paper but my mind kept wandering off, sometimes i find it so hard to concentrate it's so annoying. I heard
d with so much excit
and Fareeha squealed, jumping ar
iss you so much."
oo.." They say
your graduation" Nasreen said and
thousands of miles away from home but I'm kind of used to it. I have been in the UK s
I want to speak with Aunty Ama
bye
hirped, popping o
you"
xams going?" Sh
ne more to go and in about two months I'm g
d I blushed . "I remember the day you first left home and how had you cried.
hern Nigerians, it was normal that a girl my age is properly settled in her matrim
fall" i said lamely. Don't get me wrong, the thought was appealing but w
e a beautiful, well mannered woman and any man will count himself lucky to have you as a wife," she tried to cheer me up and i se
st son Shattima right?" She quirked her
t him a couple of times" I had a feeling she was goi
was confused and she knew it "you know how they always wanted to be not j
have to do with me?" I
on behalf of his son" my heart sunk deep into my
kind of joke?" I a
with him. Baba would never agree if he thought he was a bad person" I was too shocked to move or
nuinely excited about this and nothing will be
s like his own and his wife Aunty Ameena is a lovely woman, always sending me gifts and spoiling me rotten.. I know all their kids, his sister Zarah and i grew
er than i am and is apparently a no nonsense kind of
ill stand by me" i said with all seriousness. I knew i wasn't bei
"of course I
dulge them so they can stop but I'm sur
Love comes from the strange
ange as it get," I
said with a lot
m happy even if it meant this. Besides i knew the guy will be some kind of snub or freak show and t
try"
't regret it