THE HEARTS REAWAKENING

40: THE PAST.

KANO STATE, NIGERIA.

Jabir messaged Imad with the address of where they should meet, at a resort in the outskirts of Kano. He's been anticipating that meeting the whole day cause staring at Amirah only brought nothing but contempt inside of him and Jabir making this suspense also add to the irrationality of his thoughts. He feels like what he saw is true and that his friend is prolonging it for when he is not together with Amirah. It's not like he is going to kill her, his hatred for her will just proliferate and that is it. He won't even be there for long if he confirms it.

J: Bring Salim along with you. I'm already there waiting...

I: Sure.

Imad sent a quick message to Salim to meet them there, better to go with separate rides just in case they are not going back to the same place. He hopped onto his BMW and swerved to the said address watching Amirah hail a tricycle and settled inside after a bit of negotiation with the man inside. He rolled his eyes, that is how people like her will end hopelessly on the streets like all other plebeians. He thought she would have a car by now but guess not.

"What's up?" Imad greeted, sitting on a couch under an umbrella where he's sighted Jabir occupying.

The place looks nice with a rectangular shaped pool right beside them. Comfortable looking couches only a few people a re occupying. The smell of standard fast food, coffee, cider, hot tea, soda and all that. There are a few waiters scattered around taking orders of the people there and he noticed the menu in front of them after that. He's never been there so it is definitely a new place opened after he left for Chicago years ago.

"Where's Salim?" As soon as the seam of his mouth closed, he saw the aforementioned man walking to where they are in his usual quick unequal strides that always amaze them. The guy is always three steps ahead of them.

"What's with the meeting?" Salim drawled back and flop his large frame on the couch, crossing one leg over the other instinctively. His eyes are filled with curiosity looking at the two men currently gathering their thoughts.

Jabir was first to adjust and look at Imad straight in the eye with galore of disappointment and triumph. Imad had a hunch what that all means but deeply wish it wasn't true. It will make hating Amirah harder than it already is, it won't be easy to avenge his illness and broken heart if she is pure to all those faulty allegations. Was he been histrionic about the whole matter like a mutinous kid?

"What you are thinking and merging Amirah to doing is purely out of your own beholden. Those allegations are purely ribald and excessive arsenal of jealousy feeding your head. She is not having an affair with him but something is about to happen between them if you still want to continue acting like a prepubescent infant." Jabir shrugged, almost groaning when his eyes landed on Salim's confused gaze.

The guy don't like being in the dark so with a grunt from him, he sparked. "What the hell is going on here? What affair and jealousy are you talking about relating to Amirah? I'm I missing something?"

He obviously is missing something, his eyes swept from Jabir to Imad who looks paralysed on his chair in deep thought. Oh, alright then. Not the best person to gauge out explanation from so his eyes waltzed to the last option, Jabir. His eyes quickly took the minutiae details he might not supposed to see but he did anyway. Imad was suspecting Amirah to having an affair!

"He thought she was having an affair with your Attorney, Nazir Jalo. I went to his office to prove him wrong and damn well did prove that he was just making baseless accusations. The man wants to wed Amirah as soon as possible as we talk so there is no room for liaison between them when conjugation is sprouting."