Life Of Afreen

Chapter I

  

    My eyes slowly opened but I quickly shut them as the bright light stung my eyes, and only then did I realise I had fallen asleep on the floor of my bedroom. I sat straight and my head felt like the inside of a drum, I held my head with my hand and sat there for a while waiting for the pain to ease. After I was sure the headache had subsided a little, I stood up on my feet and dragged myself to the bathroom to clean up.

   The memories of the previous night hit me like a blow in the head and my breath hitched in my throat. The tears couldn't even come out because I had cried and cried and I was simply tired of crying.

    I sat under the shower as several feelings took over me; sadness, anger and a lot of mixed emotions. The whole scenario of last night keeps playing in my head.

   I received the worst news of my life yesterday  night. You see, the thing is that, like every girl, I fantasize alot. I used to imagine having the perfect guy fall for me; a guy with pink lips as every girl dreams for; a guy that's caring, loving, down to earth; a guy with black and curly hair; a romantic guy who gets you different colored roses, cuddles with you while watching movies after a long day at work ; a guy who takes you out on romantic dates; whom you get to play your favourite sports with every weekend; a guy whom you get to live a happily ever after in this Dunya and Akhirah. But then again, it was all a dream.

   I was seating on the sofa stuffing my face with blue angel ice cream while watching my all time favorite TV show; Game of Thrones and then a voice spoke behind me.

  "Assalamu Alaikum ya Binti",my father greeted.

"Wa'alaikumus Salaam ya Abi" I replied.

"How do you do princess?"

"Tamam Alhamdulillah, wa anta?"

"Ana Bikhair. All thanks to Allah. How's school,lectures and everything?" He asked.

  "Pretty good,turned out 300 level is not as hard as I thought, everything is going smoothly Alhamdulillah, one more year to go and bye bye Biology".

  Am a student of Biological Science in NILE university, Abuja. It's a four year course and am left with a year to graduate Insha Allah. Easy how time flies. I remembered some years back when I saw my admission status, I was expecting to see medicine but the reverse was the case. I cried my life out for days. My biggest dream of becoming a medical doctor was ruined. But then I recalled a saying in the Hadith;

  "But perhaps, you hate a thing and it is good for you. And perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah knows while you know not".

  I took Tawakkal and left everything in the hands of ya Rabbal Aalameen. Now it's all by gone.

"So sweetheart…", Abba started

"Na'am Abba"

"You know you're a big girl now. You're 21years of age. I think it's high time you settle down. You're not getting any younger you know. Plus your Abba here wants to see his grandkids"

I looked down and smiled.

"Marriage is one of the biggest Sunnah in Islam. Our Prophet(PBUH) had practiced it. There's a saying in the Holy Qur'an that;

  "One of His signs is that He has created for you, spouses from amongst yourselves so that you might take comfort in them and He has placed between you, love and mercy. In this there is surely evidence (of the truth) for the people who carefully think".

"So you see, marriage is very important as it is like completing half of your Deen"

"Ya naji kinyi shiru(why are you queit)?" Abba asked.

Maybe it's because this convo is really making me uncomfortable, I thought.

I just looked at him and smiled again.

"Remember my friend Alhaji Nura Tagwai" Dad stated in more of a statement than question.

"Yeah, what about him?"

"He lost his brother in a car accident"

"Innalillahi wa Inna Ilaihirraji'un(To Allah we belong and to Him we shall return). May Allah have mercy on his soul. Allah yasa Aljanna ce makomarsa. May he rest in peace".

"Ameen ya Rabbal Aalameen".

What Abba said next took me off guard.

"You know Alhaji Nura's son, Arhmad. That kid has a very good personality and to top it up,he is so religious. We talked things out with his father and we've decided on setting you guys up together".

I stared at him gape-mouthed. I couldn't utter any word.

"Afreen say something".

Nothing!

"C'mon dear…At least tell me you're happy about it"

"What!" That's all I could say. I felt my heartbeat stop; I was running out of oxygen; everything was a blur. Its like a thousand hammers were being pounded on my head. I felt a tear drop from my eye. I subconsciously got up from the couch and headed straight to my room where I cried the living daylights out of me and slept off in the process. 

                             

Hey y'all!!
  So how do you like my first chappie?
I know it's not that interesting, just introductory, but we'll get there Insha Allah.
  There's alot of unstoppable drama thats gon' be crying out of this book…buh you just gatta be patient.

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