She opened her eyes slowly and rested them on my face,I gave her a smile that doesn't come directly from my heart,and she turned to look at Asma'u who was standing by the door hands akimbo waiting for my mother to greet her " husnah an tashi lapiya" as my mother called her husnah because is her maternal grandmother's name " you surely know I don't like this kind of greeting and I hate it" husnah said, Mami sighed and said "husnah in kwana" she rolled her eyes and said " ban ganshi ba" then she turned to me as she waited for me to greet her, yeah seriously that's their habit of my mother greeting them first them me even if we did not pray fajr. I rolled my eyes and set them on my mother's face and she's giving me the don't cause us any trouble this early morning look. I turned to her and said " husnah ina kwana" as my mom doesn't want me calling her Asma'u just because she has the name of her so called grandma that is not related to me,and can you imagine she called me with annoying names like ke or shattutu or indodo. I hate those names as she already knows that. " Sai kin Bata min lokaci tukunna" husnah said and there she walked away.
We all Rose to go and do the everyday house chores and I mean sweeping the whole compound even the gateman's place,washing the toilets,washing my step mom's cloths and all these my mother get to do them everyday and I will fetch water as if there are no tanks in the house but they won't let us rest , preparing thier meals,washing their cars,washing my sister's cloths as they get to wear five cloths everyday and everyday we get to wash them,feeding the goats and the cows as umma loves rearing animals. After all these, we only get to eat their leftover and they don't pity us considering I cooked the food. After zuhr , I will massage umma's legs and Mami will massage husnah's body as if they work all day, how embrassing, if only dad could be here things will not be happening like this, or maybe things will be a little bit easy for us considering he was the one that gave them the room to do whatever inhuman things to us when he was alive that is why I don't see their fault sometimes,but at least they should have known by now we are family for goodness sake " Kuma ae kishi ba hauka bane" I wish Mami will follow my advise, we could have gone ba now " koma ina ne muje kawai" I am tired of the life am doing here in the this house. But she always say " A'i na karki damu kanki Allah be manta da mu ba Kuma Suma watarana zasu gane" I usually sighed and rolled my eyes whenever she said that.
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MY DESTINY
De TodoEverything is falling out of my hands and I can't do anything or rather say, I don't know what to do.i can't even run away, though I feel like it every single second. I can't stay because everything that happens keeps killing me.i want to shout till...
