Ayaana👑🥀

Graduation proper!!

Have faith in Allah!

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They got back into the car and continued their journey back home.

Breaking the comfortable silence that enveloped them ever since Ayaana's breakdown, Daddy asked Yaya Marzuk to get maize for all just by the roadside where they normally buy it.

One would think the journey is a very long one. It really isn't. Just a 40 minute drive away. But with this stopping and halting once in a while, it's bound to be longer.

But that's how it normally is, pausing on the road to get stuffs, buy ' abun kwalama' to munch on during the journey, then the traffics too..

So at last the 40 minute drive turns to a 1 hour 30 minutes drive!...

"Ummah, remember when I didn't know how to eat corn yet and Abba would always buy plus mine every time he got on our way back from school everyday? " I smiled remembering those days..

"Of course I do remember! And I remember what really happened and how" she wiggled her eyebrows..

"Oh no! Ummah " I whined

"Don't tell them or they'll laugh at me...."

I was already laughing remembering it in my head..

"It won't be fair if I don't tell them, you brought it up so..." Trying so hard to keep her laugh in but didn't succeed and bursted out the laugh...

Daddy was already laughing and Yaya Marzuk was already grinning and I knew that was all for me because they'll use it against me in future especially Yaya Marzuk...

She anyways started the story

"On our way back home every day after picking her from school, there's this woman that sells corn by the roadside.

After trying it once, we loved it and decided that would be our permanent plug.

The first time we bought it, her Abba didn't buy hers.

I remember the confused look on her face as to why her Abba got 2 piece of corns instead for 3 people...

Then she asked " Abba, you don't eat corn?"

He chuckled and answered " of course I do, baby"...

" Then why didn't you get for mummy then?"

He laughed so hard and replied " You don't need to ask that way, you know... "

" For your information, I got 2 corns for your Ummah and myself... Excluding my princess.." he added

" But Abba, why didn't you get mine? "

" Did I do anything wrong? "

"Of course not, my princess... You didn't do anything wrong..

I just didn't because I know your teeth aren't strong enough to eat that...

When you're a big girl, I'll get it for you everyday." He completed.

" But Abba, that's really not fair then. How would you eat it in my presence without me getting to eat it...? " She whined already teary...

"Princess, don't cry.. don't emotionally blackmail me with that,... Okayyy okayyy...I'll get yours tomorrow then,okayyy??"....

" No, Abba..."

" Don't be stubborn, princess... Be a good girl like you've always been...

" Just drop me here, I'll go and meet the lady selling corn and tell her I'll help her to sell her corn and in return, she'd give me corn to eat then..." She said.