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Misfortunate Forty
"He's here!"Huda hissed at me as two cars pulled into the wide courtyard of the house I've occupied for the past few months. My heart beat erratically as I watched a man step out of the back seat, saluted by a mobile police officer, in a blue brocade textile peculiar to northern men. I watched him sigh and adjust his Hula hat with shaky hands, his hands shook as they bid as he ordered them, to adjust his hat.I blinked. He's probably on the edge too just like me but I didn't take another step, I stood rooted where I was standing under the eaves of the decorative thatch roof that covered me from the sun."You should go to him." I faced Huda with a glare and she made a motion of zipping her lips. I'm very scared, so I'd rather he came here than me going there. I am simply put, being a coward.Ma and Kaka are over at the family house in Ikoyi, waiting for my father to come over after seeing me, so I shut my eyes and wait. I hear footsteps and then it stops a few meters from me and I qui
Misfortunate Forty One
Youre not just a speck in the universe- Beyoncé"In ten," We began counting down as the video we'd spent hours and hours editing began to upload to YouTube.Seconds later, the whole video was up on the video viewing app and Huda and I cheered very hard. We hugged each other and turned off phones, we had uploaded pictures to Instagram too, laptops and television.The plan was this, allow Rabiah upload the pictures on her Instagram, tag me and perceptive people would go check it out, put up a vlog of my rehabilitation journey on YouTube and say a greeting with a picture of mine on Twitter. With my name as TheLabeebahBakura. All that is bound to keep people talking till at least a week from today, that was the plan."So, sleep till Magrib?" I nodded at Huda and got up, walked to my room and as I opened the door, the door hit the wheel chair I'd sat in and wheeled around in for over five months.I pulled the wheelchair into the closet and shut the door afterwards, dealing with how my ches
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"Iyamé, good morning, what's for breakfast?"I asked as I stepped out of my room in my beautiful Senegalese boubou with embroidery at the neck and some more beautiful embroidery at the sleeves and full hem. The beautiful blue fabric lifted my mood when I wore it earlier after taking my bath and I haven't looked back since."Pap and akara. Something to stabilize your stomach till lunch." I nodded and sat down at the dining table. Kaka and my uncles really splashed on this place, the furniture was Turkish, the marble Italian, the setup so beautiful and everything seemed so new everyday."Thank you Iyamé." I thanked her and muttered Bismillah before I began to eat, bearing in mind I have to get myself to the set of an internationally funded movie in about an hour. Iyamé left the dining room where she always waits for me to finish eating before asking the day time maid to take my plates away, so I followed her with my eyes.She reached the door and unlocked it, bringing in the smell of ra
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"She's on in five."I heard the gaffer come in to the trailer I shared with a supporting character to tell Zainab what I already know. It's one of the last scenes in the movie and I'm a bit nostalgic, also one of the hardest, most expensive since I have to get it all on one take.I looked through the page of the script on my lap again in trepidation, knowing that if I don't know my lines now or how to portray them, it will be a huge loss."Zainab, let's go." She nodded, got up, picked a small no internet phone and called the gaffer who came to call them earlier. He told them where they were needed and they began to walk over there. The area around Usman dam was soggy with water, but an area around it was very dry as though there was no source of water around it."Ah ma, this your leather jacket is something else oo, it shining in the sun as if they poured oil on it." I rolled my eyes and forced myself not to laugh out loud as she teased and praised me repeatedly. I suddenly stopped an
Misfortunate Forty Four
Just as I stuffed my praying mat into it's cylindrical hole in my closet and shut the door, my phone rang whee I'd placed it to charge last night. I took of my hijab and played with my shoulder length braids as I walked towards the phone.I picked it just as the last ring began, "Hello, Assalamualaikum." I greeted Sa'ad who said the full reply if my salam to me, I climbed back into bed and got under my duvet covers. It had rained heavily after Baaba dropped me off at my gate, it only stopped just before I woke for Subh prayers."How are you doing? How was the event you went yesterday?" I sighed and thought of what part to talk about that would not seem like complaint. The good food."I had fun, the food was good. Well catered event." He chuckled and the sound of it did something to my insides. I shook my head to clear the after effects of his chuckle, I don't know if people know that a person's voice can do several somethings to others. I'm just going to shut up and listen to his voic
Misfortunate Forty Five
"You get it completely. They don't know these clerics sometimes welcome people knowing they're moneybags. They twist out several types of information out if you to the point where you think they're telling you the absolute truth, when your only truth should be the Qur'an and your total and unequivocal trust in Almighty Allah." She shrugged and shook her head, putting her attention back on driving.She turned on her blinkers, wound the steering and faced the road. Rabiah and I have video called several times but we haven't met in the past two weeks, she's been busy with her shop opening, while I've been trying to sort out my schedule."So what did your husband say?" I brought back the discussion to her, she turned to me with a smile that brightened her entire face."Baby just smiled and said that if my succeeding means I'm suing his glory or whatever? Then I better keep using it because he's not due for promotion at work until next year." I burst into loud spluttering laughter. Huda's
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Sa'ad Lamido"Major major!" I laughed at Adnan who was saluting me and found my seat on the black mesh chair they had left for me."Major major!" Adnan hailed again and I felt a smidgen of irritation started to form in my lower belly, so I waved him off and picked up the menu. Putting it down a second later when I remembered with a jolt that I'm going out with Labeebah later and I can't be too full for it."Major? You're not eating?" I raised a brow at Muslim who had been watching me steadily since I came, not greeting nor saying a word. He and I haven't been seeing on the same wavelength since he beat his wife and I like it that way, if not for Adnan, I'd not be speaking to him ever again."I'm not. I'm going out with Labeebah later. I'm keeping my stomach empty so I'll be hungry later." I explained with a smile as the waiter left the drinks they'd ordered. Adnan was having something like a banana and strawberry smoothie, while Muslim was nursing a malt."Wow, you guys are serious?"
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"Check on the rice, ask them to serve it if it's ready." Bashir nodded, got up from where he was working on his laptop. He set it down on the dining table and I spied the drawing of a set of detached duplexes, I shook my head. Baba and Bilal are the same in the terms of work, they work until the very last minute. I've noticed the short time I've been here that Bashir's forms of entertainment are only designing houses and designing more houses."I've asked them to do as you said." He informed and picked up his MacBook that he had perched on the table beside me. He leaned into my side and dropped his laptop to pick up the Happy Birthday sticker I was cutting out the excess paper from. Munir, my second brother-its still a little confusing referring to him as that- designed it with paint, glitter and sticker paper.I looked at him, an exact copy of Baaba, complete with the straight as pin nose, dark skin and moderate sized forehead. He helped me cut carefully into a huge 'B' and laid it o
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