As they reach the hospital, Sa'eed walks out, tailing behind the driver who is to show him the way to his mother's room. It sounds absurd, even to Sa'eed's ears. How can it be that it's a mere driver that's showing him his own mother's room? That alone speaks volumes of how much of a good son he is.  The driver stops abruptly and shows Sa'eed the room. Thankfully, Sa'eed nods and enters the room. Thank goodness there's no one there. He's not ready to deal with any body's drama right now. As he sits beside her, the call to Zuhr prayer is made.  "Ammi, I'm very sorry. I've failed you and Abba. Can you believe that I raped Halima? And she was under treatment. So if she doesn't get to give birth now it's all my fault. And Halima loves babies so much. I'm such a disgrace to both you and Abba. All of my siblings are so perfect at what they do but not me. I'm sorry I did this. I'm the cause of your situation." Tears fall out of Sa'eed's e

Innayo twitches her fingers. They feel weak and extremely heavy to her. Her nose and mouth are covered with what feels like a cup. She attempts to raise her hand and remove the cup like thingy, but she can't. She doesn't know why but she just can't.  Finally gathering enough energy, she raises her hand as high as she can, only for it to go limp and fall on the bedside cabinet, slapping a cup down and waking up the other occupants of the room.  Amal who's the swiftest of them all rushes to Innayo' s side and holds the hand she's still attempting to raise. Afnan quickly presses the red button by the bed and within seconds, the nurse on night duty comes rushing with drowsy eyes.  "What's the problem?" She says annoyed. No one would blame her though. She was woken up from her beauty sleep in the dead of the night by the worst thing possible, a loud blare.  "She's moving. Get the docto

"Hip hip, hurray!!" all the women and ladies, about one hundred of them, throw their caps up in the sky and catch them.  Halima is all smiles and grin. She has graduated with second position in the whole class and she can't be more proud of herself.  The competition is coming up in the next two hours and Halima has the perfect award winning recipe, it's a dish she saw online but with a little tweaks here and there.  She walks to the car and drops her certificate in the backseat. She's startled by a voice and she jumps a bit before closing her eyes to calm her heart.  "Hi, Halima. Congratulations." the voice says. Not wanting to answer but nit having any choice, Halima turns to the voice. There stands a man, very tall such that she has to crane her neck before she can see his head. He's fair, huge and very muscular. He's just the perfect definition of intimidating bouncer. 

Halima hugs her mother and her father before they enter the car. She doesn't even look outside because she doesn't miss Nigeria, not one bit. She only misses her family and friends. Who's she kidding? She hardly has any friends but she's going to change all that now. She has already made a friend back at France, she's a Nigerian and she lives in Abuja too. They even exchanged contacts.  They drive directly to the Abba Sulayman house as per Halima's nagging that she wants to see her Ammi, Teemah, Amalie and Afnan. Innayo was discharged two weeks ago and she's actually getting very better now.  The Abba Sulaymans want to even start planning Amal's wedding. It's just Halima they were waiting for and according to what Fatima said in the morning, Hamza's parents are coming for the sa rana next week.  They arrive at the house and Halima doesn't even wait for her parents. She just enters the house like she does a

"Daddy, Abba, please talk to Mummy. Wallahi I don't want to go back to that house, please." Halima is full verge on crying. The two men turn their faces to the side, showing Halima their napes. Their wives have told them to stay out of it and from the way they said it, they know there's more to it so they have to stay out. Halima wails and turns on her knees to Hajjo and Innayo.  "Ammi please help me. I will die if i go back there. You've always told me you love me, please show me that love now." Halima holds unto Innayo's skirt and sorrowfully, she turns away from Halima. She knows about Halima's pregnancy and she'd be damned if she's the reason why her grandchild doesn't get to experience the love of both of his or her parents. Even if Halima and Sa'eed won't reconcile, they should attempt to, so that whatever happens with the child in the future, would be both their faults alone and no one else's. Having no other choice, Halima turns to her mother.