Ruha

CHAPTER FOUR

"Everything happens for a reason" Aiyla

Whispers were what she heard when she regained consciousness, nervous desperate whispers

"She shouldn't have heard that, its too early" her grandmother lamented

"Umma, we leave for Abuja in three days, whether she likes it or not, we are her legal guardians and we are doing this for her wellbeing, there is more to what happened in that house that night and only she knows it, its time to face her fears mom and we'll all be with her every step of the way, we promised her"

Ruha blinked her eyes in successions and finally got used to the light, her head was spinning but that's nothing new, she is going back there, where it all ended and where her nightmares all began. They tried therapy but said she's too small and she didn't see anything, she saw more than anything, she saw everything and its been replaying for the past years. It never gets old

Her guardians all looked at her, watched her before snapping into action, helping her sit down and get rehydrated

"Ruha" her uncle called and she blinked the tears away, they were really going ahead with this, they were really serious

"Na'am"

"Ruha, we're doing this for your well-being, you will understand soon Ruha, we are spending the rest of the summer there" they were pleading, begging her to think about it, it made her feel guilty

"Okay" she whispered, her eyes blurred immediately after she whispered her death sentence herself, she vowed never to go back but now, she will, now she has to not on her own free will though

She stood up before they could begin their preaching "excuse me" she bolted to her bathroom to cry in peace

Her eyes were red rimmed with tears, thank God she couldn't have eye bags, her face looked weird and all. She washed her face and performed ablution for nafilah prayer. Call on to your lord when you are in a state of distress and she did that

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She looked at her empty black box which was opened, no single clothing, its a night to leaving for a good one and a half month and the house was in chaos. She signed, procrastination is never good and logged into sound cloud and played music, she moved around in her PJs. Her other three phone cases were thrown into her box, the days phone case is her purple one. She's after all wearing something similar to that tomorrow

She opened her wardrobe and grabbed her clothes and other important things with her ATM card. She was so busy packing she didn't notice Jamal until she turned and saw him on her bed going through HER phone, you got to be freaking kidding her

She cleared her throat and threw a glare at him making him look at her sheepishly, he waved at her "I was done packing sis and I wanted to help you. The others are running around screaming like banshees"

She rolled her eyes and resumed working. She was done in record time, by record time she means 1am. The house was dead silent by then and Jamal was asleep on HER bed, he's impossible!

Groaning she connected her phone to her charger and joined him on the bed knowing fully well she'll be awake from another nightmare in an hour

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~Aiyla