THE HEARTS REAWAKENING

57: INDICTMENT.

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KANO STATE, NIGERIA.

"Alhamdulillah, it is official."

The words rang out and bounced in the gloomy room, earning nothing but pensive looks from the occupants of it. There has never been a marriage where not a single soul is not happy about but this one that just got knotted have everyone's loathe and hatred filled in it which makes the people merged in the connubial to think whether it is ever going to work out. They both did it to save one person or the other, does it mean it will work out? No genuine feelings?

In the room, there are girls inside watching a woman lying on the mattress, unconscious and sick. She won't permit them to take her to the hospital because she wants to stay there with them and even if she dies, she'd rather die in the room than any hospital room. She wants it to happen on that mattress instead of a pearl cot. She is almost hundred percent sure she is going to die too and she hasn't awoken since the night before.

When Amirah got the news after the bachelorette party was over, she lost consciousness. As if the stress had finally caught up to her.

Afaf had went back into the room all pensive and gloomy, it worried Amirah but she told her it was no problem then and she just got the news about their exams starting a week earlier than the given time. Amirah loose herself into the night and danced to her heart's content, as if she knows the next thing that happens would ruin and shatter each bit of that happiness.

Afaf had to agree to the marriage because of so many reasons. Since Imad have the power to ruin them all, she knew ruining Amirah will be easier. They don't have the wealth and mastery to stand against him in court that he should divorce Amirah and Afaf have no doubt that Amirah wouldn't want that divorce. After she finds out they weren't divorced, she won't agree to the real divorce! She would want them to work out again.

Imad is nothing short of a monster living in a Prince's body.

And she can't just let him win like that, he's touched a sister this time around and she will make sure he repays one way or the other. She married Nazir because she don't want the reputation of their family to get tarnished when they were helping them just few weeks ago. They've wasted a lot of money for her to turn down his offer of getting married to him and besides, her love life is empty and nonexistent. Had she been in love with someone, she might consider turning them down.

If she cannot help her sister in this, then what would she do? Amirah dedicated her whole teenage years to them, she definitely would've jumped off a precipice if the chances were there. So why can't she sacrifice her own freedom for her sister? It's not like she can change what destiny has written for her, the marriage would've happened one way or the other. Nazir could just change the name without telling her and then she'd be married to him with no money to go to the court.

She asked him why he won't fight for Amirah's right in getting court divorce that is permitted Islamically but he told her Amirah wouldn't want that. And he is right. Amirah will downright turn them down in getting any shitty divorce so they didn't push it any further than that.

"She is not waking up, doctor." Aunt Azima complained for the nth time, totally disregarding the comment Husna just made about the marriage that has been conducted.

"She won't wake up now. She's still in shock. Initial stage where the cardiac output is insufficient to supply the normal nutritional needs of tissues but not low enough to cause serious symptoms. Give her a few more hours, she will wake up but for now, I think you should all step out and give her more air." The doctor stood up too, leaving Amirah's side.