Hearts entwined in jannah | (jannah series #2)

CHAPTER 8: ELITE ENSEMBLE

KANO STATE, NIGERIA.

"Guys I'm getting married!" Azra shrieked but instead of the excited reaction she was hoping to get, the five girls stared at her wide eyed as though she had suddenly grown two heads. Badriya Babandi who had been casually sipping her smoothie almost choked on it, the news came as a shocker for her. Azra? Marriage? The two words did even make sense when joined together, or did it?! She had never seen the girl with a man she calls a lover, despite her unarguable beauty and now marriage? Did her family maybe force her into one? No, no, no. Her father wouldn't do that, he loves her. But who knows? Maybe he did it to strengthen an alliance, but if that was the case then, Azra wouldn't be standing in front of them all smiles. The Azra she knows will throw tantrum until things go her way.

"You are joking girl." Badriya said as she rolled her eyes and resumed sipping her smoothie, amongst the other five girls, she is the only one who was able to regain her sense back from her shock.
"C'mon baddie, why would i joke with something like that? Mahi tell her." Azra said as she turned to Mahi who sat beside her.
Abubakar Badriya Babandi is her full name, the daughter of bauchi state governor, a multi millionnaira, owner of B&A industries.
"Can you believe she and Amir have been dating but they told no one? Uncle found out last week after their graduation so the marriage was arranged." Mahi said, all the girls now turned to look at Azra with raised eyebrows.
"You are so dramatic Azra, what's the use of hiding the relationship?" A fair skinned, tall lady with plump lips said and Azra only shrugged, she would go with the story that she and Amir hid their relationship. It is a much better story. The lady who spoke is none other than the arrogant and pumpous Laila Barde, daughter to a rich mogul, Muhammad Barde. He is a business tycoon, a mult millionnaira.

"Yay! So what events are you planning?" Among them all, she is the cheery and jovial one, soft hearted with a beautiful smile and dimples that showed whenever she smiled, her fulani traits are hard not to notice. Her name is Maryam Ilyas, daughter of the finance minister, Ilyas Yakub, also a millionnaira.
"We haven't planned that Mary, but you know how I do my thing. It's always classy." Azra said as she flipped her silky black hair, unlike her mother, Maha, Azra doesn't care about closing her hair or not. Maha has scolded her alot but she later got tired and left her alone, though she still chided her from time to time. Even Mahi is the same, infact all the girls in their group are the same.

"Zara isn't invited." Dark skinned, oval shaped face, plump pink lips and a pointed nose, she couldn't be called ugly neither could she be called extremely beautiful but money made her beautiful. Her name is Yasmin Buhari Dangana, the president's daughter. A rich business tycoon, and soon to be billionnaira or at least that is what she tells herself because she is in an unspoken competition with Azra. Azra's father, Ayman Shugaba is the only billionnaira among their fathers. Yasmin Dangana whose father is the president of nigeria thinks that he should be the richest since he is above them all but the harsh reality is that, Ayman is more powerful and wealthier and her father has been trying to befriend Ayman for a really long time but Ayman wants nothing to do with politicians.

The Zara Yasmin is talking about is the lady sitting close to Maryam, yet she said those words infront of her. Yasmin looked at Zara and then scoffed, the audacity she had to be sitting close to Maryam after what she had done to her, how could she even face her? She truly is shameless. Maryam has been married for a year now but something happened 8 months ago after her marriage, Maryam saw Zara's number persistantly calling her husband, Usman. When she checked his phone she realized Zara had his handle on whatsApp, twitter and Instagram. She kept following him on all his social media account, trying to talk to him. Maryam blocked her from all his social media accounts and deleted her number, the only good part was that, her husband wasn't intrested in Zara from the way she read the chats, it was Zara who kept trying to force herself on him. Maryam didn't confront Zara and she kept quiet, though she told them all.