Fadimatuu was sleeping peacefully on her bed when sunlight peeked through the curtains directly at her face making her to turn to the other side and used pillow to cover her face.
"Now was the perfect time that the sunlight decided to interrupt my beautiful sleep" Fadimatuu muttered under her breath.
Immediately she remembered Ummi was coming to visit them, with her daughter Ameerah and her son Imran, her face turned into a wide smile.
Ummi was Hajiya Hadiza, her biological mother's younger sister and she have two children.
Ameerah who was one year younger than Fadimatuu and Imran who's eight years old.
Ummi was staying in Kano State with her Rich husband and children too.
So that's why she visited Fadimatuu frequently and Fadimatuu also visited her.
She went inside the bathroom to freshen up and when she comes out she heard Ammi yelling her name.
She hurries up and went to her smiling.
"Hey why are you smiling like a loon?" Ammi asked her scrutinizing her face.
Fadimatuu just put her head down.
"Oh it is because that trash and her children were coming huh?" Ammi said looking at Fadimatuu.
This is not the first time that Ammi is calling Ummi trash
"Yes Ammi but she is not a trash she is my Ummi" Fadimatuu said ready to face Ammi's anger.
"Seriously?" Ammi said clapping her hands and standing up.
"So now you even have the gut to talk back at me right?" Ammi said and at the same time giving Fadimatuu a hot slap.
Fadimatuu yelped in pain as her face had completely turned red because of the slap.
Ammi raised her hand to give Fadimatuu another slap when a pair of hand stopped her.
She followed her hands to see who stopped her.
Immediately she saw the person her eyes went wide like saucers and her body started shaking out of fear of the person.
It is Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar who return home to pick his bag after he had forgotten to picked it because he was in a hurry.
When Fadimatuu saw her father she went and engulfed him in a hug crying her eyes out.
Immediately he started consoling his beautiful daughter.
He gave Ammi one deadly look.
"So is this how you are treating my daughter when am not around right?" He said to Ammi, you can detect anger in his voice.
He knew Ammi was treating his daughter poorly but he never imagined that she had started hitting her too.
He really need to keep an eye on her if he don't want her to harm his daughter.
"No Alhaji it's not like that, this girl insult me and called me names" She said shedding crocodiles tears.
"Abba I swear I never tried to insult Ammi, she is the one that used to insult me everyday and even beat me. She called Ummi trash, just because I told her my Ummi is not trash, she slapped me." Fadimatuu depend herself crying profusely.
"I know princess you can never insult her, you took after your mother's habit" he said with emotion remembering his late wife.
"And you Hafsatu this would be the last time you raised a hand to my daughter or even raised your voice at her. Because the next time I would not spare you." He warned Ammi who nod at him feeling happy that he didn't take action because she knew had it been he took action she wouldn't like it.
"Yes Alhaji In sha Allah it would never happened again I promised" Ammi said to him.
"Princess you should stop crying, you knew your Abba doesn't like your tears" He said wiping her face with his handkerchief.
"Okay Abba I stop crying" Fadimatuu said.
"That's my princess, now let's go and buy you chocolates and ice cream" Abba said trying to lighten his princess mood.
"Yee chocolates and ice cream" Fadimatuu said feeling happy because she has got to eat ice cream and chocolates which she haven't eat in a long time.
And she had got time to spend time with her father too.
Although they're not rich, her father always try to cater for her needs which made her love him more.
He is the best dad in the whole world, she always said that.
"Hafsatu we're going to buy ice cream and chocolate for princess" Abba told Ammi.
"Okay Alhaji, may you return safe"Ammi replied Abba.
"My princess you should go and wear your veil then we can go" Abba said to Fadimatuu.
He always calls her his princess.
"Okay Abba I'll be back in a jiffy" she said as she walks to her bedroom.
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After they returned from buying ice cream and chocolate, Abba went to the market.
Fadimatuu was washing her hands in the compound after she finished doing the dishes when she heard voice of people saying salam
When her eyes mate that of Ummi's, instantly her face turned into a wide smile.
She ran quickly and hugged her tightly like her life depended on her.
"Welcome Ummi" Fadimatuu said cheerfully.
"Thanks dear, have you missed me that much that you hugged me like this?" Ummi asked her laughing making Fadimatuu to pout.
Before she replied Ummi someone interrupted their conversation.
"So just because you saw Ummi, you completely forgotten that we were together with her abi?" Ameerah said trying to fake anger which she failed at doing so by starting to laugh.
It's then that she even noticed Ameerah and Imran standing and laughing at her.
She don't know what she can do about this two, they are trouble makers.
"Yes I forgot about you, what can you do? Don't forget it's my Ummi you're talking about"
Fadimatuu said flipping her hair.
Before she knew it Ameerah engulfed her in a hug causing both of them to fall on the ground.
"Ahhh" Fadimatuu yelped as she hurts the most because Ameerah falls on top of her.
"Ameerah when are you going to grow up? See how you hurt your sister" Ummi scold her.
"Yes Ummi she always acts childish like one small girl" Imran said sticking his tongue at Ameerah who glared back at him.
"Ummi I'm sorry, I'll never do it again" Ameerah apologized to Ummi ignoring Imran laughing at her.
"You should say sorry to Fadimatuu not me and you should get up from her body" Ummi said to her.
"Sorry sisi" Ameerah apologized to Fadimatuu holding her ears.
"No problem lil sis" Fadimatuu replied her smiling, who also smile back.
"Who are busy shouting in MY house?" Ammi said stressing at MY as she comes in to the compound.