Gemini

Chapter 3

Fadila had dressed up, with time to spare.

As she sat in the living room with maama, Layla, Muhammad and Ahmad waiting for the time so she could leave, her phone rang; it was a blocked ID so she decided to answer it and find out who it was.

"Dee-Dee" the voice exclaimed.

Fadila couldn't help but smile, she knew exactly who it was and boy was she glad to hear from her.

"Fatima, is that you?" she inquired even though she knew the answer.

"Of course, who else would it be?" Fatima, Fadila's twin sister, replied.

Fadila got up and left the living room, making her way to the hall.

"I have missed you, Fatima! How long has it been?" Fadila asked still excited to hear from her sister after a long time .

"It's been too long" Fatima replied.

"To think I could go so long without you!" Fadila said.

"Don't worry sis, we'll meet very soon I promise" Fatima assured.

"Great, so how is Aliyu?" Fadila asked her sister. Aliyu is Fatima's husband.

"He's fine" Fatima replied, short and simple. She knew her sister didn't really care for Aliyu. They didn't get along very well.

"And how's the oyinbo (white man)" Fatima asked after Zaid. On a normal day Fadila and Fatima would argue over that comment, but that day she really couldn't care less. All that mattered was she was talking to her sister.

"Zaid is fine" she replied, emphasizing his name.

Fatima laughed not because she found it funny but just because she missed her sister.

"How are my little boys" Fatima asks.

"They are fine, Alhamdulillah. Fatima, you should see their hair, it's like it grows every single day. They are so adorable, sometimes I just can't believe they're all mine" Fadila coos over her kids.

"Masha Allah, I just hope you let Zaid spend a little time with!" Fatima teased.

"And Ameerah" Fadila inquired after a short laugh.

"You should see her, it's like she's growing by the second, and she's just too adorable. Some things that she does all I see is you. You two are just so alike" Fatima replied Fadila.

"That's great, Alhamdulillah" Fadila said.

Fatima and Fadila talked for a long time, that Fadila almost forgot about the dinner she was meant to attend.

"Dee, can you keep a twin secret?" Fatima slyly asked her sister.

"You know I can" replied Fadila.

The two of them could barely remember the last time they kept a twin secret. They called it T.S; even the name was a secret only they shared.

The thought made Fadila laugh. How young and secretive she and her sister were, or still are, to be frank.

"I'm coming tonight" Fatima revealed, Fadila wasn't expecting that.

"Coming? Coming where?" she asked.

"To your house so you can take me to Abubakar's to see everyone" Fatima replied

"I have a better idea" Fadila said.

Fadila and Fatima hatched a plan.

Fadila and Fatima would go to the dinner together, but no one else would know Fatima is coming; just like she had planned from the beginning.