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

"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

"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

"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

A month later"Where's she now?"I put my phone to my ear and asked Iyamé as the phone placed against my ear rang, calling the other end. The call was not picked and I sighed, Baaba must be busy. So I put my phone down and bent down to fasten the black boots I had worn earlier."Call her and ask her to come out now. If she doesn't, I'll leave her. I hate to be late." Iyamé nodded and motioned for the maid cleaning the dining table to tell Falmata to hasten up.Today is the premiere of the superhero movie I acted in some months ago and it's about to come out in the cinemas all over the world in four days. For me, I'm still in shock. I used to think my greatest achievement would be maybe a Cameo in a Hollywood movie set in Los Angeles and that would be all. But, a Hollywood set had come right to my doorstep here in Abuja and I'd acted in the lead role.If I had to choose, if i had to guess, I would plan to have this happen to me in about five years. Now that it's happening to me, I'm be