"Baba, you'll be coming right?" She curiously asked
Its her graduation, so she needs her father here, he's always been proud of her
"Yes! Me and your sisters will be coming, but hajiy"
She stopped him before he continues
"Okay baba let me submit my project I'll call you back" She really don't want to hear anything about Hajiya, She knows she won't come and She's not even expecting her
"Jids!" Zainab exclaims
"Zain, zain, congrats" She walked to her and gave her a light hug
Zainab Got married a year ago to Jidda's senior and her life has been all roses, from the looks of things she's even pregnant
She finished her youth service thats why Jidda is congratulating her, Zainab studied Micro Biology so she graduated a year before jidda because in Nigeria Medicine is five years
"What are you doing here" jidda asked because what will she be doing in the school cafeteria
"I got a job, so I'm here to print some documents"
Of all the places in town
"I came here because I wanted to see you silly" she laughed
"I was just about to call you, when I saw you" she added excitingly
Jidda walked Zainab to her car, where they spent more than 1hour catching up on old times
Jidda finally remember that she has to submit her project and she has to leave for work
Zainab handed her a huge sum of money as they were about to say goodbye but jidda refused to accept the money
"Jidda, you took care of me in this school har nakai 200lvl before I met my husband
All the money you got from working for Imran, you split it into three, one for you, one for me and the other for your family, I owe you this much, this is my first salary, please please take it" Zainab plead
"Zainab I didn't do it because I wanted you to pay me, you took care of me too, you split everything Sadiq gave you and brought me half, I'm just grateful" jidda held her hands
Zainab dropped Jidda to Dr Nasir's office, who was unfortunately her project supervisor
Flash back
"Jidda you sound worried when you called, I hope everything is fine" he asked leaning in his office chair at the Hospital
On normal circumstance Jidda would have start admiring him, but she's too troubled for that
Jidda found it hard to talk, she kept looking at the perfect marble wall
"Y-you k-knew" she finally said wiping the tears off her face
"What do I know?" He curiously asked
She told him everything the doctor told her and he was silent for a long time
"Yes, I knew, I knew since the first day you came to the lab, I told you I traveled because I didn't want you to know, I didn't want to hihe broke the silence
"Why?"
"Because, I didn't want to instill fear in you, you are a strong woman I don't want to weaken, I've been practicing for 17 years, I know the power of the mind, I have sickle cell patients that are always sick because they choose to believe they are weak, so they can't do anything" he sigh
And I took a deep breath
"Jidda I don't want you to be like that, I want you to continue being the strong person that you are, that fierce intelligent girl, who always hustle" he added
She understood Dr Nasir, with everything going on in her life,had She known this a little earlier She could have died
At this point all She want to do is cry, not because She's a sickle cell, because She was tired of being strong and there, she let the tears flow
Dr Nasir stood up and walk over to where she's sitting and engulfed her in an embrace, she cried and cried for more than ten minutes, he was quiet he held her in his arms and didn't try to console her, he knows she need to bring it out, she's been too strong
They stay in that position even after she was done crying, Dr Nasir didn't make an effort and so did she, she was so comfortable in his arms
New wave of emotions washes over her as he raised her face to look at him, their eyes met for less than a second
He wiped her tears and assured her everything will be okay
