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Chapter five

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Chapter five

 

“Why not samira hammad?” hajia rafi'a Hammad’s mom directly threw the question at him while looking at Samira who was there so naïve and artless with her medium veil that covered her entire body, she was so innocent that you would mistake her for someone else.

“Hajia it’s not that Samira is not good adequately for me it’s ju…” his mother impasses him Repeating the just he wanted to say in his sentence

“Just what?” she reprised 

“hajia there’s kulthum”    “We’ve been together for more than five years, she’s the best thing that has ever happened to me, and she’s a good girl you will loves her too” he said and ending the last words with a murmur briefly recalling what she says about his mother when he came to her crying the other day

“I am not contradicting you about her Muhammad, I want you to see the right path. Samira here is your cousin, she’s been staying with us syne you are in school (NDA), she loves you and I can defend so but why are you giving us hard time? Why that girl”

 his mother is such a strong and bossy woman she won’t like it when you mess up with her matters especially her family. Hammad's father died long ago but that doesn’t stopped her from struggling and fighting her battle.

Samira was there exaggeratedly, pretentiously honest. Her head crouched playing with the edge of her veil that looks pretty on her. Hearty yes, Samira is a beautiful caramel veneer girl, she has an oval face shape along with a pointed nose that fit her face satisfactorily to make her attractive but not for hammad truthfully. He knows his mother can be strict at times but he would assuredly convince her, however, he would let her be alongside her judgement for a meanwhile, and as for Samira, he won’t allow her to decayed his life. Despite that he knows he contributed in whatsoever she was today but still that doesn’t gives her the right to manipulate his mom’s mind and made her against what he loves.

Hajia rafi'a upkeep with her perturbation and nagging criticizing all that hammad has to say to induce and win over her. Hammad layover there as soon as he sees how frustrated she was and due to that she could marry him off to that cunning girl Samira right there at that time, so he excused himself in a gentle manner and quietly ambled to his chamber.

Later in time, whilst hammad was on his bed resting his head on the headboard and his two legs on the stool in front of him. He wasn’t sleeping but he was there like he was, thinking only god knows what. He catches on to the knock at the door and lazily sauntered to see who it was. And of course it was Samira! There she was leaning against the door wall, her small tiny eyes looking up at him. He didn’t say a word he only stepped aside for her to come in.

“What do you want?”  he asked scowling

“really?” she rolled her eyes at him

“yaya Muhammad you know what happened between us and now you are letting me go through this alone? I was hurt when you left me alone the other day, you didn’t even care to check up on me but only saw your annoying text message that made me shade sorrowful tears. Yaya Muhammad please come to think of me and the situation you made me faced” this time she was shading tears but crocodile tears factually.

He stood from his mirror drawer that he leaned on and constitutionally walked apropos her.

“like seriously? Are you for real? I left you in a bad situation? I didn’t check up on you? My annoying text message?” he chuckled at her words and annoyingly glared at her  “yes we slept together even though you are the one who seduced me but still the fault wasn’t yours alone to bear, i lamented what happened and that was why I messaged you saying I was so sorry for my action, and not even once have I blamed you for that night, it was awkward to leave you all by yourself, yes I admit that but please don’t say that was your first time” he knew he did wrong and he apologized for his foolishness but she never thought he will notice she wasn’t a virgin nonetheless stupendously she tried to bulwarks and cover up

“what do you mean? What do you want to say? That I am not a virgin when we became intimate? I…”

“Oh save it, please save it. I know everything Samira, I know I am not your first and probably not your last, so I am pleading with you now, please leave me and my life alone”

She stood up and adjusted her gown alongside her veil, she slowly wander to the door then for some seconds she turned to say something that she’s been edifying the whole time. “when that night happened you weren’t with protection and if by any chance I betides that I am with child, you will be hold responsible….i want you to hark back this” she spin and persisted walking

“I also want you to know that I knew all your plans let alone your blackmails, so your threat aren’t going to work on me. And yes go ahead and tell each and everyone in this world that you share a bed with Muhammad and become pregnant with his child, and see if anyone of them can force me to do what I don’t want” he called before she rotate the doorknob and  hissed at her after he was done to talking.

She had always been dreaming to marry hammad syne the day she was brought to his house. She wasn’t nasty at first but grew and wax to one rearward the time she onset with her mom, whom happened to be hammad's aunt from his mom’s side. She’s been planning to get her daughter to married hammad, but guessed their plan won’t work that easily.

Hammad has been trying not to enrage his mother, not even for a bit and it seems she understood his plans. He came back home today in the evening and made up his mind to speak to hajia about kulthum and their marriage. He went to his room and drop off his jacket then wandered to hajia's room where he found her arranging her jewelries in their box.

Assalamualaikum” he  accosted coming into the room

“Wa'alaikumussalam. Hammad?” she answered and called out his name constantly arranging the jewelries

“How are you alone in the house today? Where is Samira?” he said with a facial expression

“oh she went grocery shopping together with laraba. They should be back by now if not for traffic”

Hammad drew on some conversation as a mean to cast out the awkwardness in the air, and he succeeded. They perorated weightily in a soft manner enough for mother and son to dwell deep on.

“What about work hammad? What are your plans?” she asked eventually

Hammad runs a palm across the scruff on his jaw, moving it back and forth like he’s attempting to squeezed out the tension.

“work is fine, I will be going back to Lagos by next week in sha Allah”

Hajia heard him but didn’t say a word because she knows he will brought up kulthum's matter and that would be the last thing she would want him to discuss with her. His gaze fall from his mother’s eyes to down his laps.

“Hajia. About kulthum…” he looked up at her and she just inclined her head up and down as to indicate that he should go on

“hajia give me a chance to proof you that kulthum is the perfect match for me. I know you have your choice, and you only want the best for me, but I beg of you please give me a chance to show you the best kulthum can offer” he rumbled on his knees and sat by her leg, he hold the straps of her lace and lean against the bed’s stool.

She crouched down and sighed heavily. soon afterwards she tilted her gaze to him keeping the accessory’s box aside.

“Muhammad, I will never force you to do anything unfavorable or unhealthy. Inasmuch as you want kulthum I also want Samira with you considering how loyal and obedient she is, after all she’s your cousin. And I am not against kulthum the only thing I am against is marrying an unhealthy person” he was shocked and taken aback by what she just uttered, as in how did she came to know about kulthum's issue. She realized how jaw-dropped he was by her words, merely what could she aforesaid apart from the truth.

“Well yes, I happened to delve into her biography and of course I came to know her sequence. It was sad but what do you expect a mother to do when her son strongly reject her candidate and went for another woman who is currently battling for the vigor of her body, mind and sprit as well”

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