Lacuna

4: HRH

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《Eulogies in Hausa》
"Ameeruddini mazan fama.
Mae karfi da karfin Allah. Katangar sikari kowa ya jingina da Kai seya lasa. Rijiyar tsakar gida me wuyar rabon gado. Gonar tsakiyar ruwa maganin awakai. Sangarama maganin ruwa. Gamzaki mahudar rana. Dan diga maganin kasa me tauri.  Aljannah me masoya da yawa. Dawisu kake sarkin ado. Gun hakuri kafi damo. Kabeji uban riga. Gwangeri kake karfen jirgi. Kyaure datsa yatsa. Kayi taka kayi ta rago Ameeru me duniya. Lafiya ki gudu sa gudu. Lafia mae maida garin wani kango. Lafia hana kangara. Lafia kwankwason jimuna me wuyar shafawa. Lafia uban masu uba. Lafia uban marasa ubah. Lafia gogarman zaki me tada hankalin bakar damusa. Lafia dan waliyin Allah. Sama lafia kasa lafia dan waliyin Allah yaki saukawa sannu salamun alheri"

With just a raised hand, the maroka kept mute.

Ali Haidar, Amir.  He walked without letting his heels touch the ground. Tall, thick and fair.
Without a turban, his curly hair would have bounced with every step he took.

He wasn't smiling, nor was he laughing, his expression was unreadable as he strode pass the palace workers.

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Amir's POV

Immediately I reached the door to my beloved Umma's quarters, I stopped, took a deep breath before going into her quarters.

After saying my salaam by her living room door, I went in.
Ughhh, so many women.
Well, everyone of them took my unsmiling face as a cue and left.
Hmm, except the Almighty jakadiya *rolls eyes* *clears throat*.
"Yarima Yarima, lale marhaban, said jakadiya. (As if you didn't see me come in, *rolls eyes*)
I refused to answer her, she obviously knows I want to have a private moment with my mother.

Umma clears her throat and jakadiya stood up and left.

I remove my turban and sit on the soft Turkish rug, "ummaaaa", I said.  Been long I saw you, I said with a pouty face.
She shrugs me off her body and says, "we met in the morning young man".
I chuckled, she likes acting like a military woman.

Funny thing is that, mai martaba was actually the soldier.

"Umma I want to follow mai martaba to Abuja." I pleaded with puppy eyes.

She sighed, "Yarima, you know convincing your father will be a very hard thing to do".

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Naina

"Yo Xav, I don't think that's supposed how it's to be done." I called out to the crazy teenager ATTEMPTING to  build a bird house.
So Xav found a stray bird at his porch and made it his pet and for the last hour he has been trying to make a bird house with the aid of YouTube but let's say it's not going so well.
"The dude in the video made it look so easy." Xavier clearly frustrated remarked.
"Well I don't disagree but someone was so confident about being some bird hero that he forgot he has no knowledge on engineering or architecture. " I sassily retorted.
And the look he shot at me could have killed me if looks were guns.
"Is that all you have to say?? Your calm demeanour doesn't suit your sour tongue." He stated.
"Whatever. " I said and swung my hips
 
Over the last couple of weeks..Me and Xavier have gotten a lot close( in a platonic way tho.*sighs*) but still it has been cool..
Elena called me to the house for my procedures and Xav had some chores to do. Fortunately after the incident, Xavier never asked about my health cause I wouldn't be able to explain.

"Nana, How are you feeling??"Elena started the session.
"I'm feeling just fine."
"Do you have any migraines? Low appetite? Constipation? Heart burn? Cardiovascular discomfort?"
"Hmmm, I woke up to redness around my chest. Is that something? The IV tubes are hurting from bending and walking and yes low appetite as always. " I replied.
Elena recorded that on the med tablet.
" Redness huh??let's check that out. And of course the IV tubes are meant to do that..you shouldn't move around much yunno."
She asked me to take off my shirt and I did
And she ran her hands through my chest and saw the veins pop out as her hands surfed...and she readjusted the IV tubes.
"Nana,this is not looking good. I adjusted the tubes,it would reduce the pain and I will administer some aspirin for you but this redness shouldn't be there..it has been 3 weeks already. Your body should have adjusted to the valve system already." She said..
"Is that bad?"
" Not really but it's not good either. It is a risk, even if it is 25% risk, it still counts as one."She replied.
So other procedures were checked and I popped my pills, the blue,the creamy one and the sliver like one.
I could totally relate to A$ap Ferg's line in Plain Jane right now.
She was poppin' pills like rappers in society
It's all good.

So later that day,Mom and Dad came in from work,
Elena spoke to them about the abnormalities in my procedures, they were up and worried about that...only to make things worse, Dad got a call from my uncle, which was strange cause Uncle Lewis hadn't contacted my dad in the longest of time.

After Dad was done with his call, he was seem pretty tensed. I tried to get him to talk about it but he said it was nothing I should worry about.
So I head back to my room, to write in my journal about the day's events...My phone lit up indicating a text came in and checked my inbox and it was a message from Xavier.

Hello Naina, I'm heading out for a drive.
I just found out that my childhood friend, Amir might be in town. Finally I could introduce you to other species of our kind lol.
                                                        Xav.

I replied back a simple "Okay" and went back to my journaling.
When I was done, I head over to social media and I see that I have gotten quite a number of followers on IG, which was an achievement in our generation today.
So I scrolled through Instafeed and I come across a familiar profile "Xav.xx" as I clicked on the profile, I was overwhelmed by the number of his followers and his posts had alot of engagements. As I browsed through,  I got to see that my next door neighbor was quite handsome, I mean I see him a few times in the week but at this moment, it felt like he was a different person from his style to his poses to his caption. I shamelessly gawked that his picture till I came across a particular picture with this lady, she was the definition of beauty, like she was the combination of Naomi Campbell and Rihanna, yes that beautiful. I checked the caption for the post and read

"To the moon and back babe.*lovey dovey emoji*"
And when I checked the date, it was 4 weeks ago,  Probably around the time he left Lagos.
Somehow I felt hurt. Why won't he tell me ?? But then again,  Naina this dude is handsome and cute, you couldn't expect him to be single  could you??
You are right. What was I even thinking?.

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Xav

I couldn't contain my joy when Amir told me he would be coming to Abuja soon, Like myself and Amir have been friends from way way back, he was a crowned prince but he was still my wing man from creche. To everyone else, he's emotionless, stern and mean but to me, he's cool and misjudged.
I was driving over to his hotel room, it was Transcorps Hilton, not so far from the estate. 
Getting into the gate, I was directed to his room, it was a luxury suite, presidential suite mostly likely.

I knocked at his door, he opened it up himself and gave me a brotherly hug.
"Xav my man, how are you??" He said after releasing me.
" Prince Amir, I'm doing fine." I said in a mocking tone.
" You're annoying as always...It's so good to see you, you know." He stated.
"Likewise yo, so why are you in Abuja anyways?" I asked as I found myself a chair.
" I wanted to ask you same,  but I'll go first. I came here for an Emirate Council Meeting with Mai Martaba." He replied so eloquently.
"Oooouuu some major royalty shit yo, I'm proud of you man. How's Umma by the way? Well mom was transferred here so we had to move." I said.
"Thanks, I know right. She's fine as always, it took major convincing for me to be  here. Ohh that's great." And so we continued about different topics and about how his parents need him to look for a wife soon and knowing Amir,he was not  the stable type and it is super hard to please.
"Oh well, Xav, how's Julia?" He asked.  Julia was my girlfriend, by was I mean then and now. She's met Amir a few times but it's been a while since we spoke, we had a fall out about my family's relocation so we weren't in best of terms.
"Well she's okay according to her recent posts on socials." I replied.
But he knew me more than that.
"Uh huh, I have seen her recent posts. Are you two okay?? You two had a fall out about moving right ?." He questioned,  as you can already tell he's going to be a wise Emir.
I nodded to the affirmative.
He sighed and then laughed, well he knew Julia was one hell of a person, well IG posts don't show her ugly sides so yeah.
Well we spoke about games, movies and plans for the future.  I wanted to bring Naina up but I discarded the idea...

Well, well, well, look who's updating again. (Grins)

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