(Saturday the 3rd of October)
Today was yet another long and boring day, it was not only close to December, and Nigeria and their belief about the 'ember mouths' is something to be scared of your self. I don't know, but I fell as if something is not right, but how do I know.
"Salamualykum (peace be unto you)" I said as I picked my mom's phone call
"Walykumusalam ya Hammed (and peace be unto you, O Ham mad)" my mom said with a small tone but clear voice
"So how is the United Kingdom?" I asked mom with a low tone as I had literally nothing to say to her.
"MANA nan azaman lafiya fa, ai ka sa ni tuntazun muna acikin USA fa, yanzu be mun tashi fa (we are still heard safe and health O, you know since we left the country we have been in the USA, it's not long ago we left)" Mom said as she stopped talking for a while
"Ma, I don't understand Hausa, how many times do I have to say that?" I shouted at Mom as she only just tried to make me fell better.
"Mitchew, stupid boy you will never learn" she said as she hissed and cut the call
What did she mean by 'you will never change', I did try my best didn't I, I did come back home even if I promised my self a million times that I wouldn't and yet all I get is this type of treatment, I am tired and stressed out what should I do?
"Hi" Stella said as she came into the parlor to sit down
"Hey" I replied as I did not have anything to say or do to her
"So, I wanted you to help Habiba and I with something" she said as she lowers her head down
"Okay, and what that be?" I asked as I was shocked by this statement of hers today.
"Well Maryam is dead and, and Habiba is just taking the blame on her self, I just thought if you told her your self it would make her fell really better" she said as she walked down to sit on a couch
"Okay" I said as I turned and continued with my phone, but honestly I don't know why I am being put in this girly issues because if the Maryam of a girl is dead, no matter how long it takes her to accept it, she still has to. And besides how did she know about Maryam if she does not remember anyone from her past?, something is fishy to hear, and I still can't tell what exactly, but I will soon enough.
"Muhammad I know you think it's not a good idea but trust me I am a hundred percent sure about this, and I know you doubt this, but her doctor says it's good for her" she said with a large smile on her face like it's the most obvious thing in the word, she is so sure of her self her privilege to tell me to do and don't in my own house again
"Sure, but how do you know her doctor?" I asked a pretty obvious question and to be honest how did she know the doctor, is it not Stella we meet not up to a month ago, so how did she know Habiba's doctor was something that I needed to know the answer to.
"Well, it's a pretty long story I believe that's for another day" she said as she tried to walk out on me slowly
"Stella, is there something you are not telling me?" I asked her as she began to walk faster towards the stairs, she paused for a moment to reply my question.
"No there is nothing Muhammad all that needs to be said and done has been said" she said as she continued to walk but this time she was running up the stairs
"Bye" I said slowly as I watched her go up the stairs completely
Okay, so what was she hiding from both me and Habiba, I don't know who she is, it's just like one day she is a complete stranger and the next she is part of the family, but the only problem was everything that happened really an accident or was all this planned, because not until Stella came everything was A_okay, but after she came bom the world is on fire, and we have to put it out, seriously tho.
And if she did tell me how she got into the wrong hands, but she has never told me about how she got out, does it mean that she has always been a bad person, but it can't be, can it?, Stella can not just be a bad person can she?, wait a second let me check in with Habiba.
It was not something hard for me to go up to her room to ask her this question, but I did wonder how she was going to take it, after all she was a child, and she needed to be treated like one even in the midst of all this madness happening around her.
"Knock knock" I knocked on the door of Habiba and Stella's room
"Come in" I heard Habiba said as I opened the door and entered the room
"Haaaaa" I heard her scream as I stepped into the room "I said coming" she said as she carried her Vail and tried it around her head gently
"Sorry I heard 'come in'" I said as I sat down on the floor with her
"No problem I guess" she said as she smiled lightly showing her dimple, this was the first time I was seeing her smile this hard
"So, Stella said Maryam was dead, I came to confirm" I said as I looked at her deeply in her born beautiful eyes
"Ha" she smiled again as she looked at me and lightly blushing "Muhammad a dead girl is dead whether I confirm it or not, besides Stella is the second person that I am hearing that from, even if I do wonder how I knew Stella again but still she confirmed it and I had to agree with her and my parents, a bit just because I agree with her doesn't mean I should be live what she said, and if maybe Maryam is dead I still don't believe that she died in a car accident and if she did well that's bad news for everyone but the fact that no one can provide me a grave is what Marcels me the most, how can someone crash in a car beyond recognition" she paused as she smacked her lips together, she continued "sorry I know I talk too much, but I still do believe that whatever happens and even if I knew her in the past life was not a guarantee that I am going to know her in my future life again" she said as she laughed hilariously at nothing, but I did believe may e she told an inside joke that made her react the way she did towards me, or maybe she is just a really happy person and nothing in this world can steal that happiness from her.
"How did you leave your parents house and why?" He asked as he looked confused at me.
"Well for beginners my parents do have a bad reputation, so I was told, and divine made us run, no it was actually Stella's idea for us to run and poor divine did not object to it at all" she said as the emotions in her face changed completely
"It was her choice, and you all followed her?" I asked as I did want to know why they followed her blindly.
"Well she just taped on an emotion that was there all along, I felt something fishy about my parents and I guess she sensed it and built her thoughts on that emotion" she paused to clean the few drops of tears coming down from her eyes "and besides I did not see my self living in my parents house anymore, and that night was just wired if we had not run with her, who knows what will be left of us in the morning as nobody slept in that house that night" she said as she tried to pit a smile on her face but failed to do so
"I am sorry about divine" I said as I tried to console her
"To be honest I never really got to know her, but the little I did I love her, besides it's not your fault that she died it was her destiny and there was nothing we can do for her now just to pray for her to go to heaven that's all we can do for her" she said as she whipped down tears from her eyes down as he tried to get up and leave the room
"Oh, Stella" she said as she opened the door and saw Stella standing right in front of the door
"You guys were busy?" She said with a confused face as she stepped into the room as I left.