Hadiza in Lagos(Unedited)

CHAPTER 27

Hadiza's Pov

The work in the school was going on well and the JAMB exam was in less than a week.My aunty was quite worried wondering if I could have time to read and still go and teach.

"Please Aunty Aminat I want to send my mother a letter but I dont know how it will get to her",I asked as I saw her watching tv.

She didnt talk and just stood up from the chair to go inside her room and came back with an envelope.

"I have a message to send to her too so when you are done writing,just put it in the envelope",she said.

"Ok aunty,I was thinking I should send out of my salary to my mother after I get it".

"There is no problem".

I noticed the sudden change in her tone after I asked to write to my mother.

"You don't like it here?",she asked me.

"Ahh I like it oo,I just don't feel at ease these days knowing that I left her alone in Kano".

"Ok if you say so just...don't worry you can go".

"Ok aunty...maybe after I collect my salary for this month we should send the letter.

"There is no problem when you are done with the letter and your salary is ready,we will send it..Ehnehn my friends are coming here put those drinks in the fridge".

  "Ok aunty".

Friends???She doesn't have friends apart from Aunty Lisa and the teacher.Hmmn hmmn or maybe they are the ones coming.I just kept thinking within who the people that were coming were.

"And you can take one drink if you want",she said to me.

"Thank you Aunty".

I didnt even hear anyone knock on the door only for me to start hearing voices of two male voices as they interacted with her.My aunty entered the room not too long after to call me to help her in serving the visitors.

"Good afternoon sirs",I greeted as I placed the food on the dining for them to eat.

"Ahn ahn good afternoon",they greeted and one of them said to my aunty that he didn't know she had a daughter.

"Hawu She's my sister's daughter ".

"Ehnehn from the North?"

"Yes now".

However,I noticed the way the man that kept asking questions was talking and it seemed he was probably from the North too.

I just sat on a stool in the kitchen revising my books and at the same time listening to their conversations.When Aunty Aminat called me to clear the plates,the men tried to give me money but I refused politely.

"Hadiza collect it don't worry",Aunty Aminat said seeing that I looked at her.

"Thank you sir",I said as I collected the two #1000 notes.

"You are welcome ehn,how's your mother and everyone at home?".

"They are all fine thank you sir".

  "That's good fine girl"

I carried the plates away with joy praying the men come to check on my aunty almost everytime so that I could keep collecting money even though that sounded selfish.

"They have gone and I want to rest small",my aunty said to me as she saw me washing the plates.

I stretched the money they gave me to her but she said it was for me and I could do whatever I wanted to with it.

"Ahh thank you aunty and I want to read with Stella before night outside".

She just smiled,waved and went into her room.

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"How far that thing you wan teach me na Hadiza?"

"The factorization method abi".

"Ehnehn now?".

"Bring it let me see before I continue reading my book",I said to Stella.

I taught Stella the things I knew that she didn't ,which brought back memories of Hauwa and how we used to do like sisters.

"This thing don dey enter head sha,make I buy biscuits for Mallam place,I dey come uhn".

"Ok oo be fast because I will soon go inside".

"Now now I don come back".

When Stella got back,we were just talking about our lives in secondary school,memorable moments,old friends and how we were going to be in the University.It was until Aunty Lisa called her sister to help her with some things that we went into our different flats.

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