Heart Strings Of Love

chp 2

             ZAID'S POV

Yasmeen my little sister has been disturbing me since last week to take her for shopping since she's going to start her cake business or catering whatever she calls it,and now she's taking forever to get ready ugh girls and their makeup disease."Yasmeen you better get down stairs before i change my mind about it"and she came running down stairs with her vail and hand bag in hands, typical Yasmeen she'll never get ready on time.

Sorry for not introducing  myself properly,my name is Zaid Muhammad Kabir the sole heir of MK & son's,my Abbie is alhaji Muhammad Kabir and my mummy hajiya saudat Ibrahim,my mum is a Fulani woman, but she doesn't know how to speak it, you've seen my sister Yasmeen already,we are only two in our house and that makes me the first born.

Alright enough about me and the introduction,we met mummy and Abbie in the dining having their breakfast,"mummy good morning, Abbie good morning"we said in unison"morning my babies how was your night?i cringed at the word babies "mummy please stop calling me a baby I'm 28yrs for crying out loud,see your baby here"i said pointing at Yasmeen who was busy showing Abbie something on her phone" but you're also my baby since i gave birth to you too,and speaking of age Zaid you're almost 30 when will you settle down"mummy will never understand that finding someone that you'll spend the rest of your life with isn't easy at all"mummy very soon insha Allah"I said scratching my nape,"you know very well that you are not getting any younger and your Abbie and I are eager to see our grand kids" i groan inwardly here comes the lecture again, that's when Abbie decided to join in our conversation"Zaid what your mummy said is true,you see you've started working in the company what else are you waiting for and not to mention most of your friends are married and some with kids", "Abbie i know, I'm
just waiting for the right person to come insha Allah".

"Alright may Allah bring the right person on time"mummy said smiling at me and Yasmeen was giving the'my brother is getting married' look,i just shrugged and within some time we're through with our breakfast and got ready to go for 'yasmeen's shopping' not the sarcasm, we entered my Benz and off we go.

"Yasmeen please let me know if you're done with your shopping I'll be waiting here in the car","no ya Zaid please let's go together because your opinion matters the most since you're my favorite person in the world please ya Zaid", Yasmeen said giving me her best puppy dog eyes that she's sure i can't say no to,sighing "fine let's go, anything for you", "yeeeees" Yasmeen sequled, we came out together with Yasmeen giving me a side hug,a thing she does whenever i say yes to her request and that brought a smile to my face i hugged her back,i love my lil sis a lot and yes we do argue about things, sometimes about things that are not relevant at all.

My phone started ringing and it's my secretary Khalil that is calling me,i wonder what's the matter since today being Saturday i wasn't expecting any call from the company at this moment,but i answered anyway just to receive the news that few of our staffs are misusing the company's fund and that got me very angry because being a CEO is not an easy task to handle,there are a lot of sacrifices that a person must make.

Upon entering the shopping mall,i decided to reply to my emails from work and to give Yasmeen a chance to shop for whatever it is she's shopping for when suddenly a lady of about yasmeen's age bumped into me as a result staining my white caftan with a dirt from her hands"oh my God am so sorry i didn't mean to stain your clothes","are you blind or something, can't you watch where you are going"? I hissed and start searching for Yasmeen."This girl and her wahala",and that's when i spotted her with another lady chatting without a care in the world.

"Yasmeen won't you finish what you came here for and let's go home?i have better things to do than staying in this mall all day","good morning"her friend that i didn't get to hear her name greeted me and i answered with a small smile, Yasmeen introduced her as one of her friends from the prestigious Nigerian American University ABTI where they studied masscom together. Later on i got to know that her name was haleemah, we're at it when suddenly the lady from earlier headed towards us sending me a death glare in the process not minding the stare her friend Lee was giving her because she was busy glaring at me the whole time,she didn't hear when Yasmeen introduced herself till Lee yelled her name that's when she recovered from her daydream or whatever she's in,"oh am so sorry about that" she said "no problem at all"Yasmeen shrugged it off, "anyways my name is yasmeen Muhammad Kabir it's nice meeting you in person,Lee has told me so much about you",yasmeen said "my name is husnah umar farouq it's also nice meeting you too she smiled warmly at Yasmeen, that when i cleared my throat,

"sorry husnah,Lee meet my brother Zaid"and that's when she gave me a fake smile greeting me inwardly but i heard her anyways giving her a bored look in return,and with that she bade Yasmeen goodbye and drag Lee out of the mall.