Yours

Chapter 12

Today is Umar's 'surprise birthday party.'

It's in quotes because he found out.

Obviously, it's Umar.

Hameeda was so upset because she spent weeks planning it only for him to find out a day before,he made it worse by telling her he found out at least two days after she started planning.

Which brings us to her forcing him to act like he's never ever heard a word about this birthday surprise.

Mind you she asked him what flavor he would prefer for the dessert parfaits immediately after that statement, but I no dey put my mouth inside married people matter.

All this drama unfolded in front of me when I went to Umar's office to give back the files he gave me on Friday when I went to Ya Abdul's office for the meeting. What would have taken 2 minutes had taken a total of 47 minutes 11 seconds listening to Umar and Hameeda's argument. Yes, I'm counting.

"Toh ni dai ka ji ni na fadda maka, but I still can't understand miyasa zaka mun haka, you went all this while without telling me so Miyasa zaka fadda mun?, we should have just went like this because now I'm upset" she said as she pouted at him
(Ok, I have told you, but I still don't understand why you would do this to me,  so why would you tell me?)

I turned to Umar and he looked like he was 3 seconds from jumping off a cliff, Hameeda's argument has been the same for the past 50 minutes and even I am tired.

"You forced me to tell you" he said for the hundredth time as he adjusted his daughter who was sleeping in his arms.

"Yes I did and that's because you said something which was too suspicious and I needed to confirm! But you could have simply lied!" She said.

"Toh kiyi hakuri, I've never seen or heard anything about this event happening tomorrow" he said
(Ok, I'm sorry)

"Good, that's all, we'll stop talking about it now because you don't know, you've never heard of it-....mtchew why is she still calling me I thought we've agreed on it?" She huffed as she picked up the call "hello..yes...yes" she turned to Umar "you said coffee flavored yes?" He nodded trying not to burst out laughing "yes we'll take the coffee...and add in some chocolate or vanilla too because not everyone would like the coffee...yeah..ok bye."

She hung up before turning to him and pointing at him "you've never heard of it."

He nodded "yes"

I shook my head at them in amusement "can I go now?" Speaking for the first time in 30 minutes after she shushed me, during a conversation SHE asked me to back her up in.

Honestly with all these moods she's been having these days I was contemplating asking her if she's pregnant again or not, but Aliya is barely 6 months old, that can't be possible.

"Yes you can Rabi'ah, thank you for playing judge" Umar said with a tired look on his face.

I chuckled feeling a little bit of sympathy for him, Hameeda is a lot to handle, but maybe he deserves it for deserting her for all those months.

"Hey! Why are you dismissing her, I-"

I didn't get to finish what she was saying because I closed the door behind me.

Ok maybe she is pregnant.

This is what brings us to 24 hours later as I rocked a crying Aliya in my arms.

She's been with me for 30 minutes now because her mother was getting her makeup done.

"Shhh" I whispered for the 100th time to her only for her to cry louder.