KAIZAN

Chapter five

Kaureen's pov

Anty Maryam told me directions to the study room. I've been in front of the wooden door for five minutes. I took a deep breath and knocked on the door. "Come in" baba said and I opened the door hesitantly and went in. Baba was sitting on the chair behind a wooden desk, I must say he has good taste cause everything looks so elegant and pretty expensive but simple at the same time. My aesthetic senses were showing lol. "Sit down dear" he said and gestured to one of the seats opposite the side of the desk he was. I sat down and after I got comfortable cause oooh this seats were soffftttt baba started
"I know you must be wondering why now after all this years? Well Kaureen it's partly because your mum passed away and she warned me not to ever show my face to any of you". Well yes he knew exactly what I was thinking but what did he mean by she warned him?. "Your mum and I met many years ago. I liked her and she liked me too so I asked her to be my girlfriend and she agreed. I realized I loved her so much so I planned on proposing to her but I had to show her to my mum first. What I didn't know was that my mum had already planned to get me married to Maryam. Cliche right? I told Fazah about it and she was nervous, we eventually set a date to meet my mum. I didn't tell my mum about it cause I wanted to surprise her since she had been pressurizing me to bring a girl home. On the day, I brought Fazah home but mum was not surprised nor happy. Instead, she was shocked and angry and insulted your mum and told me that I must get married to Maryam. I loved Fazah so much that I couldn't bear to betray her like that so I defied my mum and told her I'd get married to none other than Fazah. My mum was persistent always trying to force Maryam on me and setting us up but I made it clear to Maryam that I didn't like her. One day, Fazah called me and told me she gave up that she couldn't cause a rift between my mother and me. I couldn't bear to loose Fazah so I came up with a plan. The plan was to get Fazah pregnant and coax my mum into accepting her. I eventually got her pregnant but the result was opposite. My mum and Maryam embarrassed her and accused get of being a whore and a husband snatcher. Fazah was devastated and she hated me for ruining her life. Assuming I had allowed her to go at least she would have found someone else to marry. In those days, no one would marry a woman with a child as it makes her look like she has a loose character and Fazah was nothing like that. Eventually, Fazah gave birth to you and Sudais but my mother was not done yet. She told Fazah to leave you guys here as a loose woman like her could not take care of children well but your mum did not agree she fought and eventually carried you along with her. But before that she told me how much she hated me and how it would be bliss if I never showed up in front of her or you. I respected her wishes and didn't show myself in front of you and Fazah but I was always watching you guys from afar and that was how I knew when Fazah passed away because I tried all my best to help her but it was in vain but Alhamdulillah she's in a better place now". By the time baba finished his story I was shocked.