IN TWENTY ONE DAYS

19; EXTINGUISHED.

ABUJA, NIGERIA.

"How do you feel about this wedding?" Murad asked from the driver's seat, his hands clasped on the steering wheel anxiously awaiting his sister's rants.

They haven't gotten the chance to talk about the whole wedding and her husband marrying another woman. She always manage to evade the question as much as she can but it seems like her brothers are also just giving her time to think things though. Just twenty one days ago, she heard about her husband getting married, it's not easy for her to just get used to the idea so easily. That is a huge change which will change their lives forever.

They know her weakness quite well but she wish they won't try gouging out that weakness then, she don't need to say a sappy story that will make her depressed when she vowed to take the spotlight away from it's owner. If she dares go in there looking like she just ran away from a mental asylum after regaining her sappy memory and cried her eyes out, she won't have the control she wants over her co-wife. She needs that control in her hands through thick or thin, by hook or by crook.

And one thing she can't resist is talking out her mind when her brothers are involved. Even if she doesn't want to smile, they always manage to make her do so and so do they when she has bottled up a lot. They have always been her best friends right from younger age, she has no best friend. Whenever they'd call her when they were in military, they spend a lot of time talking till they are asked to keep it down.

She became devastated when they left, she couldn't let them go just like that and when they came back, she had to get married. They've spent some time together catching up, they always come to her home to spend the day if they are free. She will cook their favorite spaghetti and meatballs, they'd launch in her kitchen while filling each other in. She's loved them like she loved her parents, even more sometimes.

Being the baby of the house and also the last born, there is nothing she lacks. They are always there at her beck and call, always there to wipe away her tears, to clean her wounds while feeding her chocolate. Some might think having three possessive brothers is no fun but to her, there is no more fun than having brothers. Maybe it is because she doesn't have any other person apart from them, her parents been busy.

Some went to the extent of saying she feels her brothers are everything and that is because she doesn't have a sister. Yes, she once yearned for a sister but then thought that brothers are more fun. She might wake up one day and start feeling jealous of her own sister since women tend to do that to themselves. That is just what happens nowadays with girls' hearts, you can't even stop it even if you want to. They get jealous of each other over pettiest issues, it scares her shitless. Now think about her getting a real co-wife.

"In all honesty, I don't even know what to say. I'm dead afraid of what will happen now that I have another woman I have to look out for. There is something about Zara that I don't like, she is already feeling victorious just because she's married to my husband. She was way too confident even before they got married, I hate her for that. Everything about her screams trouble and danger, I don't like the idea of her coming into to ruin our happiness. She is nothing but a home wrecker.

"Then talk about Maan, I don't know about him. He is a man, she can easily lure him to her lair without me even noticing. Women can be so cunning, their moves are unpredictable. I am one that is why I'm saying what I feel. Though he loves me and hopefully, will always love me more, I still will be afraid of what she could do to change that. He might love me more than he does her in future, but she can still root her own love for him.