Abandoned Hearts

Chapter 3

📍Abuja, Nigeria

RUKKAYYA

"Ruky I swear to God I'm gonna leave you!" her mom thundered from downstairs.
"Mama I'm coming, I just need to get my bag!" Rukkayya said while getting her black Chanel bag. She was dressed in a 2-piece satin diamond embellished green abaya.



She came downstairs to meet an angry mama.
"Mama I'm soooo sorry, I just lost track of time" rukkayya said to her  mom with pleading eyes.
"I don't have time for this, let's go already!" Mama said clearly pissed by rukkayya's wastage of time.
Rukkayya always wastes time whenever she's going out, claiming she needs to look good always because who knows whether she's gonna meet her "Prince charming".
They got into the car and zoomed off into the busy streets of Abuja with Rukkayya driving.

"Mama where are we going to?"
Rukkayya said clearly tired of the uncomfortable silence between them.

"We're going to Baba's place, he said hajja dada is not feeling okay" mama replied with a sigh, Baba and hajja dada are Rukkayya's maternal grandparents.

"Oh ayya, May Allah grant her shifa." Hajja Dada is the sweetest and coolest grandma ever. Though she might have a strict face, she is a total softie. She being the closest to Rukkaya makes Rukayya untouchable.

"Ameen, that reminds me.... hajja dada said you haven't been visiting her." Rukkayya's eyes bulged, already feeling guilty.

"it's not like that mamaaaa" Rukkayya whined with a pout. "Sha, I call her from time to time, but whenever I want to visit her something comes up and the whole thought slips my mind" she said in one breath.
"Well keep the explanation for later because you will surely need it" Mama said cracking up a bit.
Rukkayya laughed knowing truly that she really needs that explanation later.
After some minutes her mom spoke up "Do stop by the supermarket, I need to get somethings for hajja dada".

Rukkayya nodded while humming to a nasheed that has been all over her fyp on tiktok.

She was laughing at a joke her mom said while remembering that she just passed the supermarket.

"Damnit" she said, Mama just laughed at her blaming her for loving too much gist.
After much difficulty of reversing the car and horning they finally reached the supermarket. They both stepped out of the car and proceeded to enter the said supermarket.
"Mama you enter, I forgot my bag in the car" Rukkayya said to her mom.
"Okay but be fast, I will head to the ShopRite. " her mom said while she entered the supermarket.
Rukkayya got her bag, wore her Balenciaga sunshades and proceeded.
Her look was giving all shades
of bossy. She's afraid sometimes, the Abuja sun might blind her eyes.
Lol.

She headed towards the snacks section. She got tonnes of Pringles, chocolate,some new biscuits she was going to try and loads of junk food.

Typical Rukkayya!

Rukkayya was a sucker for junk food!
She headed to the cosmetics sections and got some skincare stuff and headed to the section where they sell toiletries, she searched for mama but couldn't find her, she called mama and she picked at the third ring.
"Hello mama where are you?"
" I'm at the jewellery section actually, where are you?" mama spoke from the other side of the phone.
" At the toiletries section."
" Okay, why don't you come to the jewellery section, I saw some pieces that would look good on you." Mama said and suddenly rukkayya felt all giddy, she loved whatever her mom chose for her...
Well not all..
"yes maa I'm on my way!" she said and ended the call.

After several minutes of going in and out of sections, she finally got to the jewelleries section, it was a bit full so she was carefully looking for her mama.
She finally saw mama who was chatting with one of her friends who seemed to be Hajiya Mairo. After they exchanged pleasantries, mama showed her the piece of jewelry and to say it was beautiful was an understatement!
It was a beautiful diamond necklace with pearls embedded, it came with it's earrings, a bracelet and a ring.
They were talking about how Rukkayya never likes to wear necklaces to go out and whatnot when she felt someone's intense gaze on her.
She was met with those familiar brown orbs that she never wanted to look at for it made her weak in the knees, it was one  of his beautiful features that she "once" admired, those pink luscious lips, she quickly averted her gaze from him and left the jewelery section telling mama that she needs to pick a call, while going she kept on telling herself she was not weak, because she promised herself and most importantly her mama that she was going to stay strong.