Stars Align✅

CHAPTER 24: TIED

~ABUJA, NIGERIA~

Jannah stared at the outside world as she stood at the balcony. Her gaze settled on the busy streets of Abuja while her lips are set into a tight line. Though she is staring at that her mind is nowhere near there.

She's dreamt of this day countless times before. She dreamt of the gown she'd put on—which brand it will be from, the makeup artist she'd hire, how many events she'd have, and how it will be the happiest day of her life.

Funny how life turns out to be. The saying is true, "You plan, I plan but Allah is the best of planners"

Never had she imagined that she'd get married two days after losing both her parents. Never had she imagined herself dressed up in a casual grey hoodie and a black jeans while she is being tied to a man she lost hope of ever having.

Sounds ideal right?

The wedding fatiha is nothing fancy or extravagant. It's more like a small gathering that consists of 20 people at most—according to what Kamal told her. Also, from what he said, they're trying to round it up quickly since they have to attend to the people coming to pay their condolences.

Jannah didn't care about that honestly. Neither did she care that she's about to marry Suhad—someone she had wanted to marry so badly in her life at a time but also had so many reasons to turn him down. It didn't matter though. What matters is that in less than five minutes from now she'll be his wife.

Jannah didn't want to think of the consequence that will follow. She's already going through so much. There's the pain of losing both parents, blaming herself for their death, getting betrayed by her own uncle, getting married to a man that's getting married again the following week, being a daughter in law to a woman that hates her whole existence and being co-wife to a girl that's perfect in everything while she is a failure.

Sure sounds like life is fair to her don't it?

But the thing is Jannah didn't care about anything. She had felt so many intense emotions in the past two days that she had shut down everything that will stress her. She had detached herself from everything social.

"Jannah?" Daihaah's voice snapped Jannah out of her thoughts, but she didn't turn around.

She heard Daihaah's footsteps as the pregnant woman made her way to where her best friend stood. She stopped once she was next to her before turning to face her, "How are you feeling?" she asked in a worried tone. She didn't need to ask to know that Jannah's going through a lot considering she too was a PTSD patient. One thing though is that she can't ever compare her post traumatic stress disorder to that of Jannah's since the girl lost both her parents.

Jannah shrugged, unable to open her sealed lips and utter something.

Daihaah sighed and placed her hand on Jannah's shoulder. It's times like this that one who knows the two so much will think they are related considering they have a few things in common. But, that might just be as a result of sharing a lifetime of friendship. Maybe.

Daihaah's phone pinged just as she is about to open her mouth and say something. Dropping her hand from Jannah's shoulder she brought the phone out and swiped across the screen. The corners of her lip tilted up slightly as she raised her head to look at Jannah, placing the phone back where it was, "It is official. You're tied to Suhad for life"

Jannah suck in a breath and closed her eyes letting Daihaah's words play over and over in there.

She's now Suhad's wife. There's no going back.

Reaching her hand out she clutched the rail when she feared her legs will give up on her. The thought of her life being completely changed made her head dizzy. She wanted nothing more than to find a place to sit and gather her thoughts that is now all over the place.