Kapitel 13: Chapter 13

Dedicated to moi one and only soul sis Idris Hauwa Mahmud #sassy _heeva

Mustapha's p.o.v

It is not easy to be rich oooh, it is not as if hafizah had a building she wanted to use for the i_center but within a month everything has been set up, all the gadget has been brought and we are opening the i_center officially tomorrow. Na this kyn tinx nai we de call money speaks and bullshit talks. She is always like 'a second is too precious to be wasted especially doing nothing.' I decided to talk to the guys about tomorrow. 'guyx how fr na, how tomorrow matter go be na?? With the kyn business partner wei we get like so we suppose do something abii how una take see am?? I said and got their attention as planned. 'Choi Pepe your head de bring light wella, we suppose throw small bash.' Sadiq the party lover said. 'Abeg make we just arrange better thing chop make we no throw any bash before the girl go think say na her money na em we don de waste so.' Mubarak said sensibly to which myself and Haliru agreed to. We opened a group chat on WhatsApp and the group name was i_center, we were just five in the group which means five of us owns i_center, the aim of the group was to drag everyone along about the business, any progress, complain or misunderstanding will be discussed there so everyone knows whats going on and how the business is fairing, especially Hafizah since she is out of the country and don't know how things are moving here.

Ma sha Allah every thing has been moving smoothly and i was happy about that, i had only two things bugging me, the first one was how will Mubarak cope when we all go home for holiday? I live in Lagos while Haliru and Sadiq lives in kwara and Mubarak is the only one that lives in Katsina, i don't know if the work will be too much on him. The second thing that kept on bugging me was why Hafizah decided to add me up privately and chat with me, i opened the group chat so as to be on a safe side and not chat with her privately, but she added me up and it would be rude to ignore her, i even saw a notification this morning that she is following me on Instagram and also added me up on Snapchat. I just hope i am safe.

Na'im's p.o.v

I last went to kpachita after my primary 6, it was indeed fun because all i did was play with Maimuna, since we where children we had no work to do except for Maimuna that had to go and fetch water from the river which i always accompanied her. I am the last born of the family and had no sister nor younger one to play with, i have always wished and prayed for any of the above and meeting Maimuna made me carve more for a partner, a younger one or a sister at least. The way she treats her younger siblings and the way they treated her also made me so jealous of them. I can remember going to meet my mum and asking her to bring Maimuna along when we are going back to Lagos, so i can always play with her and have a sister also instead of always researching about things that are way over my age and thinking. Mum promised to try and make her my sister but she failed because Nndagi Afa was totally against it. I cried the whole journey back to Lagos.

One faithful morning a month ago mum told me Maimuna will be spending her jss3 holiday here in lagos, oh My God i was so overwhelmed and my joy knew no bounds, she might not really remember the times we spent together because her life is not boring unlike mine but i immediately promised myself to make this holiday one of the best things in her life. I went to my friends; Ibrahim and Kassim's house in the morning before mum came back, they are brothers and the only friends i have, don't get me wrong i have friends but not as close as Ibrahim and Kassim, they are the only one's i visit and they are the only one's that visits me, i envy them and atimes think they are foolish because they have a younger sister Fatima Zarah presently in primary 6,instead of them to appreciate her and always play with her all they do is complain always about how annoying she is. Ever since mum told me Maimuna was coming i made sure they didn't hear the end of it, i always full their ears with how i am going to treat her like my twin and all. I checked the time and it was past 1pm already. 'hae guys, i have to go now, mum is coming back today with my twin sister, if i can't be there to welcome her then i should make sure i am there to help her settle in. Goodbye and take care of Zarah stop acting all too strict on her and believe me you guys will love her.' I said getting up and getting my other stuffs scattered around the parlor. 'Aha it true oooh someone can't wait for the love of his life to arrive huun.' Kassim said smirking. 'Our twin sister is arriving, you really should go help her settle down and you have said not to be strict on Zarah a thousand times already and we try not to yet she isn't changing a bit.' ibrahim said switching off the video game we where playing. 'what ever makes you sleep at night, but remember she is my age mate and i love her as i would have loved my twin if i had any and there is nothing more, and as for you Ibrahim she is my twin sister not "our" twin sister, regarding Zarah maybe you guys need to really be soft on her and not try to be less strick.' I said making my way out of their comfy parlor. 'There is love in sharing dude and send our regards to her.' I heard Ibrahim saying, i just shook my head and laughed, my friends are crazy but they are still the best.