YOURS, JANNAH

#THREE

Jannah sighed at the dinner table in front of her ladened with surfeit of food on it ranging from the ones made with vegetables, fruits, wheats and so on. She gave her all into cooking him those meals making sure everything is going to be to his liking only for that to come crashing into smithereens.

For the nth time, her husband's driver called to tell her that her husband just left the country to one of his many fishing expedition for oil. He's done that more times than she could count. She's lost count now on the times she had to begrudgingly pick her phone to answer the driver's calls. She loathed seeing his name flashing on her screen.

And the worst part? Her husband isn't the one commanding the driver to tell her about his departure but being the magnanimous guy the driver is —Edward— he calls her every time just so she could give away the food she's made before it gets wasted like it had a few times. And she shouldn't expect him home. In other words, not wait up for him. This is yet another day and she is going to give out every single thing she's made because she is suddenly not hungry anymore.

She is darn tired of this treatment but she got used to it with a man like her husband. There really is no much to complain about mainly because she's never been a nitpicker. She accepts everything the way it is and just go along with the flow, there is nothing else she can do when she lacks strength for all that. Anything that will disturb her peace of mind is not welcomed at all hence, her calm nature.

But this? This is getting too much and debilitating her peace at the same time. She's spent more than five hours making the dishes she's noticed that he loves after getting equipped by his mother on a few things to add to her menu. She wants him to be comfortable in his own home.

And now she is going to give all that away not because she wants to from the core of her heart but because she's got no choice but that. It's either give it away or it gets rotten, she cannot stand that. They always keep away the options to themselves leaving her with no escape itinerary.

She swallowed an acrid gob behind her throat before standing up to go call the gateman. She passed by her daughter who's happily watching 'Dora The Explorer' that girl that's always in the woods with her monkey. She's wondered one time why her parents never ask her to sit at home for once so they could film it there then remembered her mother-in-law telling her it's just a movie, there's nothing serious about it. Especially cartoons.

"Mallam Sani!" She called, adjusting her long hijab to close her head and neck. Her feet is also closed with it because of how long it is, like she loves them.

The gateman, Mallam Sani came out from his room at the end of the mansion because miraculously, he always apperceive her calls even from miles away and her voice isn't that large or echoish, just a bit throaty.

His room is as large as her parent's house back in her home, if not larger. The man lives comfortably and never works much. He only eats, listen to his radio, pray and sleep then repeat the same routine the next day until Adnan comes back home which happens once in a lifetime.

His trips are not short. It's either he spends the month digging up oil from where he is not supposed to —earning enemies from all over the world— or three months flying from one place to another in a private jet she'd wished more than million times to get burnt. Not her fault. She's a woman with needs and her husband is just never present and when he is, she's either off that or something is just not there.

She's not breached the line of questioning his loyalty to her, she won't make that mistake many women are doing nowadays that's breaking their marriage. Him being loyal to her is actually not her concern and that's not because she is not jealous but she hates the mere thought of it, it's seized from her head. It'll make her go crazy with overthinking and whatnot. And Adnan is not the type of man she could just ask about his whereabouts, nope. The guy hardly speaks more than five words to her. And honestly, she trusts his loyalty when it comes to that. Stupid? She just do.