Sacred Love ✅

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Fatima arrived at her father's house with her husband and Son as early in the morning after getting the News of her Grandma's death.
She increases her pace walking to her Grandma's apartment.
Her heart beat at each step she takes.

She reached her Grandma's apartment and heard her family's voices weeping.
Fatima wiped off her tears and opened the door.
She glance at everyone and then at the corpse lying down on the tilted floor covered in the white clothes of the deceased.

Fatima staggered. She walked to the corpse and sat beside her.
Fatima opens the white clothes revealing her Grandma's face which looks like she will open her eyes and tell them she is alive.
Fatima let out a scream.
Maimuna holds her.
Fatima holds her elder sister tightly as they weep.

People began to visit them.
The whole area was sad about the death of Hajiya Fatima.
She is a great woman.
The society cries not only because she is gone but because they have lost the most generous woman in the Area.
Everyone knows her with her kindness.

The Imam arrived.
The ladies stride out of the apartment.
Hajiya Fatima's corpse was taken to the room opposite the gate.
The Imam's wife bathes the corpse.
She was draped in the white clothes.
The corpse was taken out after the Imam's wife bathed her.
The families were called to say their last words and prayers before the corpse should be taken to her final abode.

She was taken to the mosque.
The funeral prayer was conducted and the corpse was taken to her final abode. The graveyard.
Mummy, why is everyone crying? Fawzan asks Fatima.
She noticed everyone in the living room crying.

Fawzan, go and play with Asraf. Maimuna muttered.
Aunt, everyone is crying.
Mummy, why is everyone crying Ya Hamida had tears on her face too. Asraf muttered.
Asraf, Fawzan, Grandma is dead.
We will not see her again. She won't come back to us. Maimuna explains to the kids.

The kids nod their heads and sit quietly beside their parents.
Mummy, is the cat gone too? Fawzan asks Fatima.
No, the cat is there. The cat miss Grandma too. Fatima muttered with a sniff.
Fawzan, Grandma has given it to you. She told me that before her last breath. Salma, Hajiya Fatima's maid muttered and break down.

The men come back from the graveyard.
They walk to the lady's apartment.
Fatima glances at her father whose eyes are puffy. He looks distressed.
Of course, he should be. He is the only child of his mother and she is dead now.
Abbah has become an orphan because his father died when he was 22 years old. Fatima muttered.

Hajiya Fatima's sisters break down immediately they glance at Abbah.
Abbah cried in front of them.
Abbah, Yusuf muttered holding his father who was losing control of himself.
Abbah, let me take you to your room. Yusuf muttered.
Alhaji Umar stands up.
He started feeling dizzy.

He lost his stamina and almost fell but Yusuf and Muhammad were fast to hold him.
Abbah, the girls muttered worriedly.
Yusuf and Ahmad take him to his apartment.
They take Alhaji Umar who is now unconscious to his bedroom.

Yusuf, lie him down on the bed.
He takes out his phone and Dial the Doctor's number.
The ladies rush in.
Ya, Yusuf, what happen to Abbah? Fatima and Khadija ask their brother worriedly.
Yes, Hubby, what is wrong with Father-in-law? Sofiya muttered.

Rauda walks to Ahmad.
She holds his hand reassuringly.
Fatima walks to her husband and stand beside him.
Maimuna did the same.
Ibrahim glance at Khadija who didn't spare him a look. Instead, she focus her gaze on her father lying on the bed.