"So I was just a pawn in your game."
"Why did you choose politics over me and mummy?"
"Aisha that's not true."
"Then what's true? Tell me what is true! The only truth here is that you've been feeding me lies all my life! I thought you loved me, turns out it's all politics."
"I do."
"I see. That's why you got me married based on lies, separated me from my maternal family based on lies and took Abulkhair in, based on lies."
*
Politics is a dirty game, but you won't know that this is true until you're in the center of it all, until you're a pawn in its wicked game, until you're the queen in its crazy twisted game of chess.
Eesh didn't believe the saying, heck she didn't even know the saying existed, until she was surrounded by it, until she became the queen in her father's wicked game of chess, until she realized that her whole life was a sick game of politics, a sick lie!
*
Politics is a game full of secrets. Secrets can't be kept hidden without the use of political tactics, and politics can't be done without having dirty secrets.
Alhaji Muhammad knew that, which was why he fed his daughter lies, why he kept everything a secret from her, why he pushed her into a marriage she wasn't supposed to be in.
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Politics, lies, deciet, secrets, love, heartbreak and more politics, all for the CLASSICAL MUSLIMAH.
STARTED: 1st December, 2020.
COMPLETED: 27th March, 2023
#3 watt9ja 15th December, 2020.
#1 watt9ja 17th August, 2021
I really want to say that I cried because of how he humiliated me in front of the king. But no, I knew the truth. I liked him and somewhere deep down, I thought that there was a tiny chance he liked me too.
That he was making me do all these things to keep me busy so, that he did not see me all the time because I was a distraction? I don't know really, but some part of me wanted to believe that there was a chance, even if it was small. But with what happened today, I knew that, that was a lie. He hated my guts. And that truth hurt.
That was why I cried.
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*started: 7th October 2020
* finished: 12th February 2021
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Rankings 17/10/2020
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# 48 findingyourself
# 19 hiddenidentity
# 60 melanin
# 1 powerfulfemalelead
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