Yours

Chapter 3

Yes, it was Ya Abdul alright.

But he wasn't alone.

I felt my body freeze when he walked up to us with a girl behind him.

She seemed about my age and she looked gorgeous dressed in a long black wrap dress with a black veil.

When he reached us he grinned at Aliyu and Aliyu stood up before they enveloped each other in a hug.

Did I mention they were now close to the point where you can refer to them as bestest of friends?

Yeah.

As if they weren't the ones throwing punches at each other two years ago.

When he released him Ya Abdul turned to me and he smiled "Rabi'ah."

I smiled back "Ya Abdul."

"Ya kike, Ya gida?"

"Lafiya qalau, ya aiki?"

"Alhamdulillah."

He turned to the girl behind him who exchanged greetings with Aliyu while I and him were speaking.

"This is, Amma, My girlfriend" he told I and Aliyu.

I felt my heart drop.

A small smile made its way up to my face as I looked at her "oh..ya kike?"

"Lafiya qalau, ya gida?"

"Alhamdulillah"

From there the three of them spoke as I turned my attention back to my almost empty plate of food, ignoring them.

After a few more minutes, Ya Abdul and Amna went back to their table.

"What's wrong? You look upset" Aliyu asked me as he sat back down.

"Really? I'm fine."

He frowned before he cleared it up with a smile.

"Don't forget, i'm still coming to see mama this weekend."

The rest of the night went by smoothly, surprisingly there was no awkwardness between us.

But again this is Aliyu, conversations can never be awkward with him.

After about 3 minutes of arguing about who is going to pay, he won the argument like he always does, I don't even know why I bother, he'll never agree.

I turned to glance and Ya Abdul and his girlfriend one last time as Aliyu escorted me out of the restaurant.

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"Amma Kuma?" Hameeda said.

"Mhm, that's her name, maybe nickname, i don't know" I said as I played with a loose thread that was coming out of my quilt.

"But he was NEVER told me about her how dare he?" Hameeda exclaimed from the other side of the phone.

I chuckled.

I hadn't gotten the chance to gist hameeda what had happened when I came back because of how stressed I was, so I was telling her the following morning and she was vexing at the Ya Abdul/ his girlfriend matter.

"Remember how we thought he was with that your doctor, Dr Aisha yeah?, Ashe we were wrong."

"Mhm-..wait, Amma you said?, describe how she looks to me" she said.

"Uhhh, she's uhm medium tone, tall, slim, big eyes an—.." Hameeda cut me off.

"SHE is Dr Aisha's sister!" She said.