Being His(Updates Every Friday)

9.

I'm not so sure about this chapter. It's a prelude Sha with clues, for the next seven chapters. So please read it 😃

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The pounding of Nadia's heart didn't stop until they watched Maymunatu slide through the pedestrian part of her house's gate and disappear from their sight. Nadia and the girls watched the gate shut behind her for a moment before taking stock of themselves. 

"Ya Nadia, you just saved someone's life. I know you do it every other day at the hospital, but this is being a superhero." Sarah said with complete awe in her voice. Nadia exhaled a deep breath she didn't realize she was holding in and put her car in drive to go home. 

"In three hundred level, during clinical posting, something of that nature happened to me. I went off to a wedding with my friends -my so called friends- at the time and they left me in the company of sketchy people. It took one older woman to take a chance on me and I thank Allah everyday for that woman." She sighed some more before allowing herself to stop at the red light. 

"I'm going to be so much more aware of my environment more. I didn't even realize it until Sarah spoke." Nadia chuckled at UmmulKhair's statement, "We don't notice abuse of any kind easily, I think that's why it happens so often. It's the way we behave when we find out that matters." She pressed on the accelerator once the light turned green and they drove slowly till they reached home.

Something occured to Nadia as she navigated their way into the house. "Society makes you hate the next woman, it tells you that she hates you and tells her that you hate her. It pits you against one another, it's either beauty, men, power, anything at all could be used to put you in a mud fight with your closest female, they make you think that you shouldn't stand up for her." She swallowed as she put the car on park. 

"I urge you to forever remember that the only gender that will understand your pain is your own. A man will never understand menstrual cramps or when someone looks at you wrong like a woman will. Your enemy is not the next woman, it's not your sister or your friend, it's the person who is willing to put you against your fellow woman. Never forget that." She stepped out of the car and wrapped the boubou they'd worn around her knees and took in her bag, leaving Sarah and UmmulKhair to empty out the car. Before the incident, they'd taken several beautiful photos that Nadia wanted to salivate over. 

"Ya Nadia, she wants to speak to you." Since Sarah and Maymunatu were in the same age bracket, they'd exchanged phone numbers. Nadia took the phone from her cousin and put it to her ear. 

"Assalamualaikum," She greeted as though she didn't just leave the girl a few minutes earlier. "Aunty Nadia, thank you so much for saving me, I'm grateful. I want to say that I promise I'll never sneak out again. Thank you so much again." Nadia nodded and when she realized Maymunatu couldn't see her, she gave a weak reply, only perking up to say a small Dua for the younger woman. 

Sarah took back her phone and while Nadia sat there watching, Sarah made arrangements to go visit at home. Immediately Sarah dropped the phone, she asked with a raised brow, "Who is giving your permission to go visit her?" 

Sarah pouted, her lips could hang a bag. "You said I could go anywhere as long as I'm accountable. I like her and she likes me too, so I want to be her friend." Nadia shook her head and got up to go to her room, immediately reminded of the mess they left it. 

"Oya get up, go and clean my room that you turned to yours earlier. I want my bed laid at least." Sarah rolled around on the sofa, refusing to get up for a few seconds, Nadia watched her grumble before pointing at the stairs while trying to be stern.