Wanting Her(#1)

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Alhaji.Ismail,who almost got knocked down by a car, came home exhausted mentally,physically and emotionally.

Due to the chaos in his mind,he forgot to drive his car home,the car was the least of his endless problems.

"Abba oyoyo,Abba Ya dawo, (dad welcome,dad is back)" a little boy almost seven years of age shouted,alerting him siblings. He ran into the house to call his two years older brother and four years older sister.

The little boy however, did not notice his drained father,in enthusiasm to finally meet his dad who has been away since morning,jumped at the mere sight of Abba.

"Miye wai? (What is it?) Ka wani ishi mutane (that you are busy disturbing people about?) His sister that he ran to call shouted annoyingly. She was in the middle of something when the little devil came to disturb her peace of mind.

"Abba ne ya dawo, come let's go greet him,I've missed him all day" he breathlessly said looking at his sister who was at the point of killing him with glares.

"kar ka fita,ka tsaya in zo na same ka,se ka yaba wa Aya zaqi, (let me come and meet you there,I will beat the hell out of you if you don't leave this minute)" she warned.

"Ke Dama munguwa ce, (I know you are evil), I pray his brings something,I swear you won't eat." The little boy disrespectfully answered his elder sister and ran out.

"You are dead meat when I catch you,idiot" shouted as she ran after him.

"Nusaibah,Naseem, what do you think you are doing? Ke kina da hankali kuwa?(do you even have sense? When will you grow up and act like you are supposed to?" Nabiha, the eldest daughter scold her siblings who were turning the house upside down,disturbing her peaceful moment of watching soap series on zeetv.

"He started it" the 11 year old,who nearly cried,pointed at her nuisance of a brother.  "Wallahi,she started it" he cried.

"Look I don't care,who started it and who did not,stop disturbing our peaceful home,abeg!" She annoyingly hissed.

Nusaibah shot a deadly glare at her brother Naseem,who was busy wiggling his tongue at her,and then walked out of the sitting room to continue with what she was doing.

Minutes later, their pompous mother,hajiya Najaatu,walked magestically down the stairs dressed in a black stripped emerald bubu.

" me ke faru wa ne haka tun daga daki nake Jin hayaniya (what is going on here,I have been hearing your quarrels from my room?). She asked her eldest daughter, Nabiha whose eyes was fixed to the television,her attention was far away from where her mother was.

Her mother waited for her distracted daughter to answer her but alas, her daughter didn't know what was going on.

"Ke! ba da ke nake magana bane? (You! Am I not talking to you?)"
Hajiya Najaatu shouted.

Startled Nabiha turned to face her angry mother tapping her foot on the floor with her hand on her waist.

"Mommy me kika ce? Ban ji ba wallahi(Mom,what did you say? I did hear you wallah." Nabiha asked.

"How will you be able to hear me Dama? Bakin sa yan iskan nan à gaba ba,ai Baza kiji ba." The mother annoyingly replied.

"Am sorry mommy,kinsan jiya fa ban kallah ba kuma da safe ba wuta. (You know I didn't watch yesterday's episode and in the morning no electricity). Replied Nabiha,whose attention was half way gone again.