"Assalamu alaikum sorry I left you waiting..." Abba started talking but kept mute when his eyes mate with that person.
"Muhammad" Baba said standing up heading towards Abba crying.
"Salman" Abba said with emotion and he head towards Baba too.
They hugged each other crying their eyes out.
Everyone just kept looking at them amazely.
After they broke out of the hug, Baba look at his friend or would I say his brother, happiness dwelling from his face.
"I can't believe it's you I'm seeing standing in front of me, God has finally answered my prayers of seeing you again" Baba shed tears of happiness.
"Yes it is me brother, God had finally answered my prayers too, you don't know how much I missed you. You're always in my mind everyday. And today Allah has granted me my biggest wish of seeing you again" Abba said with happiness.
"Yes Muhammad our wish of seeing each other again had being granted and all is thanks to Allah and your beautiful daughter Fadimatuu" Baba said smiling and all of them looked at Fadimatuu.
She just smiled and put her head down.
"Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah I'm really happy that the two of you had being reunited, May Allah keep you together forever Ameen." Mama said and all of them chorused with ameen.
"And I think you should offer Salatul shukr to thank Allah of reuniting you two" Mama said again.
"Yeah you're right Ayesha let's go and pray" Baba said.
"Yeah let's go" Abba ushered him towards the bathroom.
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After they offered the prayer of thanking God, they settled at the living room.
"I'm seeing like am dreaming, like it's not you in front of me" Baba smiled at Abba.
"You're not dreaming brother it's me you're seeing, or you want me to pinch you?" Abba
laughed with happiness.
"Oh no don't even try that, do you remember when Zaynab was born and I said similar thing, about like I'm dreaming holding my daughter and then you pinched me so that I can come back to reality." When Baba finished saying, he and Abba broke into fits of laugher.
Everyone who saw them at that moment would be amazed because it's a beautiful moment to watch.
The two of them had not being fully happy since when they were separated from each other, but now that they are reunited their happiness had returned to them.
The rest of the family members watch them amazely and smiling at them.
"I think we should let the two of you be" Mama said smiling.
"Oh no Ayesha you should stay, there's something I want to talk to you about" Abba smiled.
"Okay then we can stay" Mama said.
"Alhaji please tell me who they're, you left me in the dark, I only know Zaynab as Fadimatuu's friend nothing more.
I don't know you're related to them" Ammi chirped in, she is really in the dark because since when Abba and Baba saw each other, she was just looking at them and going with the flow.
"Hafsatu don't worry I'll explain to you later " Abba replied her.
"No Muhammad let me explain to her" Baba said.
" You see Muhammad had being my brother since when we're babies, because our parents were best friend and we grew up together and acts like brothers because we are.
"And everyone knew us as that, because when we're kids and had grown up not everyone would think we're not brothers.
"Sometimes people are calling us twins because we act like one, wearing the same type of clothes, always together, our habits was also the same, the way we speak too though Muhammad is talkative than me.
"I'm older at Muhammad with one month and that's why we bond because we're age mates.
"So one day we just got separated because both us were heartbroken, all of us losing our wives, him his wife, Zaynab is dead and my wife left me.
"I should blame myself for our separation, I've being a coward, instead of being there for you my brother, I ran off and left you heal alone even though I know I'm your back bone but no I went away" Baba finished saying crying.
"No brother it's not your fault, it's no one's fault if not I should blame myself too of not standing by your side and following you to England when you said we should go together" Abba shed his tears too.
"Okay we shouldn't blame ourselves" Baba smiled and Abba nod smiling too.
Fadimatuu, Zaynab, Aaminah and Imran were just watching them silently without talking.
"So Ayesha when did you stole my brother's heart?" Abba asked Mama making all of them laughing.
"You're still with your teasing huh" Baba raised one of his eyebrow at Abba and he laughed.
"Let me tell you when we went to England, Zaynab's grandmother send Ayesha to us so that she can take care of them since their mother, Aasma left them. And you know Ayesha is Aasma's sister"
"So you see when she arrived at our house and I see what a kind-hearted soul she was and how she took care of my children and even me, and I think she stole my heart and I just have to marry her you know" Baba laughed.
Mama hide her face in shyness.
"You don't supposed to say that in front of the kids" Mama said shyly.
It's now they even remember they're still with them.
"I thought they're not here" Baba laughed.
"You didn't tell me about your wife" Baba asked Abba.
"Oh Hafsatu is my cousin, so after Zaynab's dead, and how lost I become our parents negotiated to marry her to me so that she can take care of me and Fadimatuu." Abba replied him.
"That's nice to hear, thank you Hafsatu for taking good care of my younger brother" Baba smiled.
"No need to thank me because is my duty" Ammi said smiling like a good woman.
"I think we've to head back home, it's already late" Baba said trying to stand up.
"No brother you're not going anywhere, you should spend the night here please, and you see we're not done talking." Abba said.
Baba looked at Mama and she nod.
"Okay we can stay then" Baba smiled.
"See Zaynab was all grown up now, the last time I saw her is when she was a baby" Abba said admiringly and Zaynab smiled in return.