UmmuAbiha ( Her father's mother)

Chapter 49

Saturday
3:00pm

As the evening approached Amma's family prepared for the goganna sendoff. Her mother, sister's, friends tearfully bid her farewell, reminding her of her root's and cultural values.

Amma and ya khalifa departed, showered with blessings and prayers. Their journey had begun, built on the foundation of love, respect and tradition.

After they left everyone was sad and sullen. Amira, madeeha, ummi and maryam were as sad as hell. They cried like they were never going to see each other again.

They're all currently glued to their phones with sad face's and ummi decided to go to the backyard.

As she came out of the room, someone held her hand and dragged her to the theater room. She looked at the person and it was hanan. Unknown to hanan someone else saw when she dragged ummi and followed them.

As they entered the theatre room, hanan thought she has closed the door but the door was slightly ajar and the third person was eavesdropping.

"What's wrong hanan?" Ummi asked and before she could say anything hanan knelt in her front with her two hands clasped together in a pleading manner.

"Ummi I beg you in the name of Allah leave my husband's heart. Ummi I can't do without him, he's the only thing I have in this life. Ummi I promise you i would never be able to love anyone apart from Muhammad" hanan ended with tear filled eyes and ummi chuckled sadly.

"Believe me when I say so too hanan, I will never be able to love anyone the way i loved him" she said absentmindedly.

"Ummi I'm sorry pls forgive me. Ummi I made a terrible mistake but I never had the intention of betraying you. True I loved Muhammad but I always wished happiness for him because he always talk's about you all the time and I realized only you could be his  happiness. I never had the intention of taking him away from you" she said.

"If you had no intention of doing so then why hanan? Why did you get married to him" ummi asked.

"That day, that day even I was as shocked as you were. My marriage was arranged ummi and I had no idea who the groom is. When I came downstairs even I was as shocked as you were to find out Muhammad is the person I got married to" hanan replied

"If you didn't know then why did you say all those things?" Ummi asked.

"Because I wanted to taunt you. I didn't know Muhammad was the groom but when I came and saw him, I went with the flow and acted as if I knew all along" she replied.

"What did I do wrong that I deserve to be taunted?" She asked again her voice low and dangerous.

"I was always jealous of you because you always get the good things in life" hanan replied and ummi chuckled now tear's cascaded down her cheek's.

"If only you knew what i went through in life hanan, you would never have said I get all the good thing's in life. If only you know how miserable my life was. If only you know how pathetic and broken my life is, you would never have said so" she said tear's streaming down her face.

"Ummi pls just forgive me. I made a terrible mistake and to top it all my dad said he regret's ever giving birth to me. I disgust both my husband and dad ummi. When My life was starting to be perfect, I ruined it with my two hands" hanan said.

"You won hanan. He's all yours now. I may not be the best girl he has met but I hope that one day when he hears my name he will smile and say, damn! She was different" ummi smiled sadly.

"I haven't won ummi, I ruined my life with my own two hands" hanan said.

"You didn't ruin your life by marrying Muhammad, one day he will surely love you" she said.