Lovable Zainab

chapter 39

Chapter 39.

Zainab's POV.

It's not easy staying with the family you are about to marry into. Just yesterday Yusuf father asked me to prepare pounded yam and vegetable soup for him, apparently my mother had babbled on about how good I am at making those dish and he was craving it and I had to prove that my mother isn't a liar.

Usually the future in-laws try to test you with different task to determine if you are right for their son but I don't think that was my father in law's agenda. He just simply wanted to eat it.

I eventually prepared it for him and I must say it took a lot of effort to prepare it but it was all worth when alhaji Musa showered me with praises and the impressed look he gave me is enough to make me feel proud of myself,. I'm sure my mother would be proud of me if she hears this.

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After breakfast I went back to the room Fatima and I share. I didn't have any plans for today but then again I almost never ever have any plan for any other day. I'm always indoor but even though I rarely go outside i still have vast friends or should I say people I'm acquinted with? That sounds right.

"Zee come with me." Fatima ordered.

I don't move at all. She doesn't get to order me around.

"Where to?" My curiosity made me ask.

"God! you are always asking questions." She sighed. "Fine Yusuf asked me to bring you to his room."

I can't believe this girl. She wants to take me to a man's room doesn't she learn her lesson. I just forgave her for one now she wants to take me to another man. I glared at her.

"No we are all chilling in his room and he asked me to call you so you can join us, his mom is also there we are playing a game." She explained carefully.

Even if I have forgiven her it doesn't mean I haven't forgotten that her naivety was the reason I was abducted by Adam so I couldn't trust her fully yet and she knows it. I am not going to a  non mehram room my mother has warned me about boys and past experience also did.

"I'm not going anywhere. Tell them I'm sleeping please."

"Adam scarred you for life didn't he." Fatima muttered but I heard her anyway.

She left me alone and probably went back to Yusuf's room. Seriously though why do they even want me there it's not as if they can't play whatever game they are playing without me.

I took out my phone and played the movie '4th Republic' a Nigerian movie about politics and election. I was halfway through the movie when someone knocked at the door. I paused my movie picked a green hijab that belongs to Fatima and put it on before I opened the door for whoever it is.

Immediately I opened the door Yusuf barge in without my invitation. Who does he think he is.

"I thought you were sleeping?" He asked eyeing me suspiciously.

"Uhm.. yes I was sleeping your knocking woke me up. What are you doing here."

"You don't look like someone that was sleeping." He murmured.

I let out a yawn and it's not a fake one maybe I'm really sleepy and tired now.

"I asked Fatima to call you but she said you were sleeping so I decided to wake you up myself."

"Why?"

"My friend Anita wants to talk to you."  He informed me making himself comfortable on the bed.