Hadiza's Pov
After I realized my mother was left alone in the living room,I stepped out to check on her and the state I met her broke me.
She was crying profusely....
"Uwa what happened to you?",I kept asking but she wouldn't talk."They want to take everything away from me including you ooo",she said finally.
"What do you mean Uwa?Who is the person that came looking for you?", I had so many questions to ask.
"Your father's brother came here claiming your father married you off before he died and I have never heard of such thing..I know this is a way for them to take you from me but it will never happen",she said.
My heart shattered into pieces upon hearing this because I never dreamed this was going to happen to me.
All my achievements down the drain..no way. I was speechless.I had to sit because I was having a blurry vision. Uwa will you let them take me?,I asked in tears.
"No way that will not happen when I am alive or even dead...come here Hadiza",she beckoned to me.
" I think this is what my husband meant by that bad dream I had,she said to me in tears.
We were both crying but just that hers wasn't as loud as mine.I sprang up and headed for the door."Where are you going Hadiza,my mother asked.
" I want to see Hauwa today".
When she didnt say anything,I opened the door and left.
I just wanted to be away from the house for a while.
Why did this have to happen now?No one seemed to matter on my way to Hauwas'.My mind was blank.Everything looked different.As I got to Hauwa's house,I just sat on the bench outside without calling her. Lagos,I and Hauwa's plan,my mother's struggle kept ringing in my head.
"I don't know for how long I sat where I was until I saw the sunset".
"Hadiza for long have you been here looking like this and what's wrong",Hauwa asked me.
"Hmmn I just got here not too long and I was too tired",I lied to her.
"Ok o if you say so but what happened to you?You don't look too good",she asked me.
"I am fine,just that something entered my eye when the wind blew".
"Hmmn Just tell me what it is ,I know when something is wrong with you....you always look down",she said.
"My father's family wants to marry me off but my mother is against it and I don't even know what to do and...",I broke down in tears again.
"Hadiza it's ok..Nothing of such will happen don't worry.I know how you feel honestly",she said.
"I think the man that came looking for me one time in Alhaji Sanni's shop is my father's brother because everything connects to each other now that I think of it.I don't even know what to think again Hauwa.Am I not done for?"
"Hadiza just calm down and think of something you can do to avoid this..you are stronger than you to be doing this to yourself",she said to me.
"Nothing is coming to my head..All I am thinking of is Lagos and my mother ehn Hauwa".
"Lagos might be the answer to all of these...don't ask me how please because I know that you know what I am thinking of right now,she said.
"Ahh I can't run away oo.. we are supposed to go together or have you forgotten? Moreover,you are yet to get a job".
"Leave my own matter for now oo,your own is more serious and I don't have any money yet",Hauwa said to me.
"I can't do that oo and I can't run to Lagos without you.I will look for another way out of this mess".
"Hmmn hmmn",she sighed.
By the time I got home,my mother wasn't home.
My stomach was already rumbling ...ahh I haven't eaten all day kwa. Let me prepare small food to eat.As I stepped into the kitchen,I was already washing the pot to use for cooking when I noticed a covered plate..
May Allah continue to bless my mother with this food she prepared for me already arggh.As I was devouring the food,I forgot all my sorrows at once because the food reached the right spot.
I slept off on the chair until I heard my mother's shout and knock at the door.
Hadiza!!she called from outside.
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Hadiza in Lagos(Unedited)
Ficción GeneralThe route to survival can only be endured by those who put in hardwork.An average Nigerian has to strive to make ends meet