paradise comes with a Price

Chapter twenty three

First, know your worth
_salamatullah

Chapter twenty three

Is the pottery wheel working well” Doctor Haroon asked as he phoned kulthum to hear from her

“yes doctor, and it is also favoring me” she chuckled as she said

“Nah, you are just skillful and that’s it” he complimented her and she chuckled again

“Doctor khalifa told me that he will come to katsina soon before he fly to Germany”

“Germany? What for?” she curiously asked while her attention was on the clay she was wheeling

“I don’t know but I know he will inform you when he gets here”

Their chat rhymed with the pottering as they conversed heartily.

After kulthum typed pottery for doctor Haroon, he dedicated almost all of his time later than his work times. He provided pottery wheel, clay and the rest of the equipment needed. At first, he thought she was just exaggerating even though he was somehow satisfy with her but he couldn’t believe all that until he watched her and was persuaded on how he saw her work and indeed she was skillful even though she wasn’t that expert.

Alongside the therapy and the healthcare given, she overcome the paralysis as shown by the MRI and city scans yet couldn’t defeat her long term enemy epilepsy. Actively, kulthum learned to leave with epilepsy without feeling it as an obstruction to her view, in fact it showed her that illness are blessings and it can neither deem her light nor capability.

She can now talk, walk and participate in her daily routine in life. She was the exact opposite of her old self, merely the time she saw hajia rafi’a after she was discharged from city clinic she actually recalled her memories with hammad, especially their love birds era.

Ring ring ring!

Amma's phone rang as she just started to say her prayer. Kulthum who was by amma's  wardrobe seeking for a beautiful veil to match up her fitted gown lace was interrupted by the tone and rambled to picked it up.

Oh it is doctor khalifa” she said before picking the call

“Hello, doctor khalifa” she commented

“Really? Doctor, again?”  he murmured

“Oh, I am sorry, I forgot. Yaya khalifa” she corrected shyly looking down at her toes

“So…why are you with amma's phone? Where is yours? The last time I checked you told me that amma's phone wasn’t your taste and you won’t ordered for the same as her's” he squabbled and she threw her head back and laughed denying that she wasn’t the one that said so

Amma got done praying and collected her phone away while glaring at her playfully, therefore she left the room laughing at her amma and got bumped by the door handle

“Khalifa” amma called chuckling at kulthum

“Na’am amma, ina wuni (yes amma, good evening)”

“how are you? Ya asibiti kuma? (How is the hospital also?)”

“I am good amma and so is everything.”

“Haka akeso (that’s how we wanted)”

He hesitated for a while before he spoke out and that too with a stutter.

“Amma, I need…a favor from you”

She was silence for some seconds too because she knew it is indeed a great matter for him to got a bit afraid to ask and she’d promise herself that there is nothing he would asked in this world and she wouldn’t do if she had the chance to.