SULTAN {Preview}

Chapter Twenty-nine

Chapter dedicated to me me me AmirahJulde 😊😊 #selflove. For as you guys are sleeping, I'm here typing 😂😂😂...
       
Surah An-Naba, Verse 8:
وَخَلَقْنَاكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا
"And We created you in pairs,"
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"As I said, remember to give her undivided..."

"Quality attention" Sameer and I finished up the sentence for Yusuf and laughed while he dusted invisible things off his shoulders, feeling like a pro. Sameer came along this time around, since it wasn't really an occasion, and that was after we filled him in on everything that happened during the day. Khalil wasn't with us.

The girls that conveyed the bride started trooping out when they heard our voices, they all greeted us and walked ahead. Qudsiyya was the last to come out, I prayed she won't stop and talk but seemed luck was not by my side.

"The groom can't wait to be with his beloved"she teased

"Qudsiyya you're are talking to a King" Sameer chipped in

"Oh, forgive me. The fact is still sinking in." she grinned

"Now let's go then, so he can go in and rest"

"No no, not yet. Where is our kudin sallaman yan kawo amarya money for the bridesmaids" she stretched her hand, the other akimbo, looking at me.

"Don't worry we will settle you, mu je. By the way Qudsiyya, when next do we get to be invited again?"

"Invited again, as in when Khairi puts to bed?" she asked

"No not that, I mean for your own wedding" he said which made her stop in her track. There was dead silence as Sameer realised what he said but then, there was no way to retract it.
The smile on Qudsiyya's face vanished but she quickly replaced it with another that didn't reach her eyes.

"Sameer Sameer , come and give us our money first then we talk" she managed to make light, the tensed silence. Sameer smiled then they all bade me goodnight and left.

I didn't like what Sameer said, but I'm sure he didn't intend to cause any harm by so doing. Now Qudsiyya was my agemate, few months older to specify,  and her being a girl, it was expected that she be married by now, because in this part of the world, it is believed that a girl child shouldn't spend more than twenty years of the first part of her life in her father's house. So for that, girls mostly got wedded at ages 16,17,18,19 and hardly even 20.

I usually don't like it when relatives pass comments like "yours is next", or "we want the next time we come to this house to be for your wedding" or yet again "wacce kaza tayi, kukuma yan baya saura ku" or worst still "ba kinki yin aure kin tsaya zabe ba". There is nothing wrong in saying "Allah ya nuna mana naku" or "Allah ya kawo muku nagari". I mean six out of ten girls would love to get married, the other two are possibly confused while the last two are either in denial or lying to themselves about the obvious fact.

There is no need for rushing into a marriage, marriage is too serious for that and that's why it's a contract that binds two souls as one. Marriage isn't like going to the market to pick a dress and buy, which you can easily dispose of when you are tired of it or when it is worn out. No, marriage is a life time commitment, and that's why it shouldn't be rushed into.