White Rose

CHAPTER FOUR

"Seek knowledge from cradle to grave" ~Ahsan

Nahar was seated on her bed in her room, staring at the white ceiling, lost in the thoughts of nothing but a knock on her doors interrupted her "please come in"

The doors opened revealing Ya Zynab dressed in a nice atampa looking ready to go out, her perfume diffused and spread in the room, it had a nice scent "get ready, you and I are going to the market"

Nahar nodded and stood up, this is the first time she's going out in almost a month, since Ahsan brought her to his home and if she said she's excited she's lying. She definitely isn't

All she wanted was to stay in the silence of her room but it was too good to be true. She picked the first dress she saw, a green gown with belt and wore it then paired it with a white veil. She wore a pair of shoes she had, sprayed perfume and walked out, she didn't really know much, her life literally stopped a few months after her secondary school graduation in Maiduguri. She immediately shrugged it off, no memories today

She walked out and almost crashed into Ahsan "I'm sorry" she apologized looking down, her entire body tensed

He was quiet for a few seconds before clearing his throat "it is okay, Adda told me you are going out, do you need anything, if you do don't hesitate to tell her"

She nodded and followed his lead downstairs, no where in hell was she going to ask for anything, they have given her more than she'll ever want or need

She met up with Adda, Huda and Hannan at the door ready to go and joined them. It has been a while since she stepped out and the weather was nice, sunny but nice and the outside of the house is beautiful

Adda led them to a black big car and opened the doors, she helped the girls to the backseat and Nahar to the front seat. After making sure everyone had their seatbelt on, she drove out into the crowdy Kaduna street. Nahar watched it fly from her window as they moved into the highway. There were a bunch of people moving and different fancy cars passing by in speed, at one point they even passed the governor convoy "mummy I want to drink water" Huda whined moving

"Nahar, please help me out with her"

Nahar nodded and handed her a bottle of room temperature water. She drank it and smiled "thank you aunty Nahar"

The way she said it warmed Nahars heart and she found herself smiling "it is alright"

They arrived at the market and she parked then went down, Nahar followed and soon they were walking in with Nahar holding a sleeping Hannan and Adda holding Huda by her hand

They bought lots of foodstuff that looked too much according to Nahar but what did she know, Adda was a huge shopaholoic from what Nahar could see and they spent almost four hours in the market under the scorching hot sun

"Okay I'm done" Adda announced to them finally and Nahar sighed in relief already imagining her bed

They went back to the car and Adda drove them to a mall "we will get something here then eat and go back home kun ji"

"Okay"

They all went out and she took them to a phone store where she bought one with a phonecase, after the man set it up, she handed it to Nahar "this is yours"

Nahar was taken aback "what?"

Adda shrugged "yep, collect it"

Nahar collected the delicate device from her and thanked her, she waved it off "come on, food"
Huda jumped in excitement and they went to the restaurant and a waiter came to them "good day, what will you all like to have?"

"Order" Adda said, Nahar shrugged looking around and Adda sighed

She ordered for them all "so Nahar, did you finish secondary school?"

Nahar nodded "yes"

"When?"

"Almost 2 years ago"

"So you mean you have waec and Jamb result?" She asked

"Yes"

"Did you pass both?"

"Yes, I did, my lowest was C6 in waec and my Jamb score was 290" Nahar replied shrugging. The waiter brought their food and excused himself. They immediately dug in

"That's impressive"

"Thank you"

"Where did you apply? And what?"

"Ummm.... Bayero university, medicine" she said looking down. She didn't want to think about that, all her happiness before everything crashed down
"Did you get in?" She asked confused

Nahar shrugged "I don't know"

The conversation ended there, they moved onto lighter topics and when done they went back home

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"What do you think about going back to university?" Ahsan asked a few days later, she was washing the used things in the kitchen and Adda and her kids had said their goodnights exhausted
Nahar looked back at Ahsan in confusion, he was seated on a chair on the kitchen counter with his white laptop, phone and coffee in front of him "I don't understand"

"Will you like to go back to university?" Ahsan asked again looking at her, his head tilted and a curled strand falling to his forehead

"Yes, one day in shaa Allah"

He nodded and slid a couple of papers to her, confused she picked it up and read through it, they were her documents, Jamb results, birth certificate etcetera. She looked up shocked, she had lost this "this are your documents, since they are still valid, I applied to BUK for you and you have a post UTME exams coming up in a month and half, we are going to Kano, I already have a tutor waiting for you"

She was shocked "what?" He nodded "but this, this is too much Ahsan"

"Think of it as a gift, it is said that one seek knowledge from cradle to grave, I'm just a helping hand in that. So are you ready to resume school?" He was smiling so brightly she nodded

Her eyes teared up as she looked at everything, her life, her dreams, Alhamdulillah "thank you Ahsan, Jazakallah khairan"

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Uni is hectic af. If not bcoz education is almost compulsory, imma rethink my life choices. Enough of my rant tho🙄

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