ALWAYS ZAYN

11'

SIYAN BAKI.

The Hausa tradition continue to take place as the older women took her to her new home. The house is large but not extra large, even though she is not seeing it very much from her veil, she could tell that it is large. They walk her to her room and sat her down on a bed, her face still closed. They said a few words of advice about how to be a good wife before leaving her with her friends, waiting for the groom and his men to do the siyanbaki (something her friends will do -asking the groom and his friends to pay before seeing the bride). Nana shook her head at how they're talking about selling her for a million. More guests came in to see the house and walk out with her face still closed, she was just hearing the Allah ya sanya Alheri.

Instead of listening to them, Nana spaced out, thinking about how life is going to be and maybe how the future is. Her life has been changed in just a month and now everything seems to be going very fast for her liking. She wants to give her marriage a chance, especially after how he is acting. Maybe he also wants to work it out, she'll have no problem with it but with adjusting to having him around.

Zayn sat down on his mother's bed when she asked him to come in. It is going to be about his marriage and he also wants to hear everything. That might help for he doesn't know much about marriage and didn't make any attempt to know, just the few musts and that's that. Now that she's going to talk to him about it, he wants nothing than to listen to her reckfully. This is his very chance to work out his marriage and love his wife.

"Zayn, I know you still have that unquenchable hatred for some people from the past but you have to let it go. Throw away any hatred for anyone from your heart so that you will not carry burden for a lifetime. Forgiving others is the best attitude to take. Negativity about someone will keep peace of your mind away from you. Remember the good things about him or her, and let go of the hatred. There is no use in keeping it within you, it'll never let you move on.

"Not everyone is meant to be in your future. Some people are just passing through to teach you lessons in life. Be happy that those people leave your life when they did, they were never good for you in the first place and be happy Allah didn't let them stay with you, that's for the best. Focus on what matters and let go of what doesn't. Make it beautiful with your wife.

"The small details in our lives are what really matters in a relationship. It is not the mansion, property, or the amount of money in your account. These create an environment conducive for happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves. Find time to be your spouse's friend do those little things for each other that build intimacy and have a happy relationship.

"I won't say much, your bride is waiting for you. You know how to make this work and how to work it out, I trust you, son." She kissed his forehead and he stood up.

He moseyed out of the house after greeting his paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother as the grandfather deceased some years back. His friends surrounded him and ask how the entrance will be, will they enter or not. He told them that there is no problem, they can enter and do whatever it is they'll be doing with the bridesmaids. Instead of just strolling to the house since it's in the same estate-like building, they use their cars to go there.

The house is very huge since there is his father's younger brother's side there which is a building of itself, a smaller one for his grandparents when they visit and his own which is not the largest but enormous. There are some distances between the four houses that's inside the fence. His father wants him to stay with them since his own house was built before he finished college, it was just some renovations that took place here and there but everything is great.

They salam-ed when they walked into the living room only to find the bridesmaids sitting on the couches with emotionless faces but they still answered. So that's how this siyanbaki of a thing take place? Oh well, his friends will deal with that but he's going to see his bride, his mind ricochetted.