BEYOND WORDS
Chapter nineteen.
Hajiya mansura was still not convinced. Reason why Umar decided to bring his mother to make her understand, since its women's and parents talk, maybe she would understand.
It was a cloudy day when Umar took Hajiya sadiya to his in-laws house.
He horned as the gate man opened the gate for them. He parked his car and both of them got out."Masha Allah"hajiya Sadiya muttered as the sight of the beautiful building in front of her.
"I'm eager to meet the girl"
She spilled smiling.
"Now habibty, you'll see her now and you'll see the reason I choose her"
He replied.
Before she could reply back, an aged woman approached them and said.
"Assalamu alaikum, sannun ku da zuwa, hajiya tace ku shigo mana(welcome, madam said you should enter inside)"
The elderly maid said and turned to leave.
"Habibty you should go in, I'll stay in the car"
Umar said opening the car. "Okay"she replied and followed the maid.
Hajiya sadiya said the salaam as she led herself into the living room. There she met hajiya mansura who immediately stood up and welcomed her guest.
"You shouldn't have stayed outside and just come in, I saw you guys standing outside through the window"
Hajiya mansura said smiling.
"i was just admiring the beauty of the house"
Hajiya sadiya replied also smiling.
The maid brought refreshments for the guest and left.
Hajiya sadiya sipped the tamarin juice she poured in a glass cup and started talking.
"Uhm so.., I'll assume my son told you about what's happening and what we planned about it, and I know that it is not a little decision but a huge and drastic one, but I have no control over it too"
"you are a mother and you know the pain of watching your children suffer especially when its about their life to come, my husband has decided to marry someone off to my son and I couldn't even stop it"
At this edge, she was about to cry as her eyes went a bit red.
She paused and continued.
"Umar and your daughter loves each other, even though I've never seen her but I feel she's the right one for my son and he is the right one for her, please hajiya mansura put this into consideration and help my son's life from getting ruined".
She finally finished as a drop of tear found it's way down her cheek.
All this while hajiya mansura was looking at her and if she would be honest, she sympathized with her.
She let out a heavy sign and kept mute for some seconds before saying "I understand what you're saying and I really will like to be of help, but what if my own daughter's happiness got ruined in the process? She's the only child I gave birth to, and this is not my place to decide, its the girl's father and by Allah I know alhaji lawal will never comply to this "
She watched as hajiya sadiya's face turned from hope to the opposite.
"If its left for me, I would love to help but what about my daughter and her feelings? Won't she feel betrayed?"
Hajiya sadiya looked at hajiya mansura and said.
"I understand too, and I'm not saying we should not tell her, of course we can ask her if she wants this and if she says no, then its alright we will leave the matter and continue to pray for the best"
Hajiya mansura kept quite processing everything before saying "okay then, I will talk to her later and inform you of her reply,if she agrees then I'll try to convince her father, may Allah choose what's best for us"
She concluded with prayers.
Immediately she said that, hajiya sadiya's face lit up, she smiled and thank hajiya mansura so much as they picked another topic to discuss.
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Umar was sitting in the car bored with full of thoughts running in his mind. What if she doesn't agree? What if she what if she....
His mother was taking long inside so he decided to call sumayyah.
She picked after three rings and said the salaam, he answered as they began to talk.
"What are you doing?"
He asked her.
"I'm doing nothing, I'm just here reading a book on whattpad"
She replied lazily.
"Oh, then you'll have to gist me about it later"
She smiled and replied "okay"
"and guess what, I'm here with my mum, she insisted on coming to see her soon beautiful daughter in law to be"
"Wait what? You mean you're here? And with mum?"
She asked tensed.
"Yes she's in the parlour talking with mummy and I'm outside in the car, and don't let her catch you calling her mum, call her habibty"
He said as she immediately hung up and wear a long hijab and headed out of her room, she peeped and saw her mother talking to another woman she was sure was umar's mother, her face said it all.
She then went back to her room and called him, first ring, he picked.
"Why didn't you tell me you were coming and with mum?"she asked worried, she was worried thinking maybe his mother would reject her and say her son won't marry her, she might not reach her expectations.
"Hey hey don't worry,she likes you and she is only here to see the lucky woman that got her son"
he said smirking.
"No, maybe she's here to see how lucky her son is to have me" she replied smiling.
He mimicked her voice saying that as they both laughed.
"Come outside"
He requested.
"What?, how do you expect me to come outside when they are at the parlour and I have to pass through there before coming out? "
"Um I don't know, just find a way to come out or I will come inside and get you myself, I want to see you".
He said with his deep, husky voice.
"What are you saying...excuse me mummy is calling me through the phone and I have to pick, I'll call you back"she lied and immediately hung up.
She did that to avoid his request.
She wouldn't pass through them and walk outside to him, no it wasn't possible.
She laid in her bed with so many thoughts in her head.
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