Chapter 81: Chapter 81

The road was so clumsy and there was little traffic holding the cars, and making them to be moving slowly. An ash car turned at the T-junction, faced it right hand side and continued driving along the street with an average speed.

The man who was a driver that was driving the car stopped at the front of a big complex, and a big gas station beside it and very closed to it. The street was full of shops not even a house there, that place was built as market place.

Somia too her hand bag on the second the seat and with her phone in her hand; she opened the door and got down from the car. She closed the back, greeted the driver with low voice and going inside the complex.

With all the stress that they went through before at company before they solve the issue, and Yusufar that she saw made her to be so tired and weak. Instead of going to restaurant, she asked for leaving so she left work, came to her mother’s shop to rest and tell her what happened and also to realize there before going home.

Somia was climbing the staircase to the second floor which was her mother’s place, facing her front, holding the holder in the staircase and walking slowly. As she was walking and thinking, she heard her phone started ringing. She turned the screen up, looked at who was calling and saw Ashar, she picked the call and stopped walking for a while.

“Hello Sir!” Somia said with low voice.

“Hello Somia! How are you? And are you fine?” Ashar was in his office, sitting on the chair and he had packed his bag ready to go home as well.

“I am good Sir, I am fine! I can take care of myself Sir” Somia replied.

“Be fine before tomorrow okay, and take care of yourself very well. Since you didn’t let us go to restaurant again or allowed me to get something to eat, hope you have eaten?” Ashar said with low voice and trying to check on Somia to make sure she is fine.

“No! But I am fine, and I think I can take care of myself so nobody should be care”

“No! I have to care about you Somia, and make sure you are good” Somia was not in the mood for this, she was just looking and silent.

“Maybe you should take tomorrow off from work, and resume back on Monday so that you can rest and put yourself together” Ashar said.

“No! No!! Not need, I will come and I am fine, nothing happened to me so I am fine” Somia replied back with loud voice.

“I incited that you should resume back on Monday, even I am not thing of coming to work tomorrow so you too should rest” Ashar said with low voice.

“Alright Sir! If you said so!” Ashar giggles from the phone.

“Just said I should check on you before leaving the office. I am about to leave now, I will call you when I get home”

“Alright Sir, thank you!” She continued climbing the staircase and holding the phone with her right hand.

“So bye for now and make sure to take care of yourself!” Said with romantic smile on his face.

“I will!” Somia said with low voice and hanged up from the call, held the phone and climbed on the last staircase at the entrance.

She opened the door, entered into the shop and closed it. She faced back and going inside the shop to the small office that her mother uses to be, it was all the baby things that her mother was selling and that was the only thing she trade on. Selling baby’s cloth, new born packages and different playing toys for baby and children.

Somia’s mother was attending to a customer when she got there, she greeted two of them with low voice and sat down on a chair there. Her mother was busy attending to the customer, making payment and discussing on the items as the woman was picking them. Somia’s mother packed the items inside a big nylon and gave it to the woman, she collected money from the woman, counted it and showed her appreciation.

“Thank you for the patronage, I will be expecting you next time!” The woman smiles and going out. Somia’s mother walked to her table after the customer had left, she sat down on the second chair and facing Somia.

“Hope no problem my daughter, see you here and by this time?” Her mother asked.

“Work is very stressful today consigned the issue that I told you, thank God! We have solved it, so Ashar told me to going home so that I can rest and gave me tomorrow too as well” She said with low voice.

“Okay! So how are you now?” Her mother put the money inside the bag and zipping the bag.

“I am fine, came here to realize and when you have closed, we will be going home together” Her mother sat down properly and faced Somia.

“You should have go home then, so that you can eat and sleep” Somia didn’t say anything just looking.

“Do you want to tell me? I can see it in your eye, can you tell me?” Her mother had known that something was wrong with her and she was not happy.

“I met Yusufar today at a mall that I followed Ashar too to get some items” She said with low voice.

“Yusufar is in Nigeria?” Her mother asked with low voice.

“Yes! I knew when he arrived to the country, that guy who was our formal laundry man has a friend there and he was the one that told me that he is coming to Nigeria and also told me when he arrived. He even wanted us to kidnap him on his way so that I can collected our father’s property from him but I stopped him!” Somia said silently to her mother.

“I didn’t tell you because there is nothing concern us with his family, so decided not to say anything about him” Her mother breathe in.

“So what happened between two of you?” Her mother asked with low voice.

“He started talking that he has been looking for I and my siblings since he had arrived to the country, visiting different mall and searching for us on social media, that since his parent refused to talk about us and his mother always keeps silent and didn’t say anything”

“He was happy to see me, talking and shouting. But I told him that I didn’t who he is and I decided to deny him. Someone that could do that to us and didn’t care about us, so why will I be talking to the son of that person. So I let him know that I didn’t know him” Somia’s mother was just silent and didn’t utter a word.

“He even thought maybe I have memory lost because of how we are closed when we are in London but I lets him know that I don’t, just don’t want him close to me or to us”

“Did he come to that mall to get something and two of you met there or how?” Her mother asked.

“I don’t think he came there to get something, it was like it’s someone that called him because he look so unkempt and like he was called emergency. From what he said, he said that he has been looking for me everywhere so I thought maybe he had told one of the security guard and he was the one that called him” Somia said.

“We don’t supposed to have anything against his family, his wife is my best friend but we have to be very careful because your uncle is deadly. So what you did is great, just lets them be because as your uncle is he can kill or injured Yusufar himself if he doesn’t mind his business, so that is good my daughter” Her mother said with low voice.

“Hmm! But it’s like none of the Uncle’s children known about what he did to us, because Yusufar was so surprised that how can I have a boss with the biggest company that my father has, and I supposed to be the CEO. But I told him to go and check his father that question” Somia said with loud voice.

“Since they are not in Nigeria, you can’t expect them to know anything about it. I know he won’t be in support with his father, so if you meet again or he came to you and tells you to do anything, don’t support him. I don’t want anything to happen to you or your siblings, I am happy as I am seeing you guys alive. Even Yusufar should be very careful because his father is so deadly and terrible” Somia looked at her mother.

“I heard you Mom! I too have decided that if I want to do anything not with Yusufar, just want to stay far from his family” She said with low voice.

“That is it my daughter, because the man is deadly” Her mother said with low voice.

“I and Yusufar are so closed even than Ibrahim and Nibia, we are like friends and always want to do the same thing or did same thing. I am not happy with the way I reacted to him today, since five years that we have seen each other last” Her mother held her hand and trying to calm her down, that was the reason she was moody.

“Everything is going to be fine my daughter, I understand” Her mother said with low voice and released her hands.

“But why could father took that his brother so close to him like that, did he don’t know who he is and how deadly he is. He took him closed to him, even made him his next of kin.

Did father don’t study him and see the kind of behavior that he has, he doesn’t hiding it, so how did father don’t know who he is?” Somia asked with loud voice.

“You don’t lives with your father, so you don’t know who he is, his own behaviors as well and his personality! You know nothing about your father” Somia’s mother said with loud voice and trying to correct her, and also telling her that she knows nothing about her father as well.

“What did you mean Mom?” Somia asked with low voice.

“Let forget about that, lets me get you a chill soft drink and biscuit” Her mother got up with a smile on her face and going to a small room inside the shop.

‘You don’t know who he is, his own behaviors and his personality’ Somia recalled what her mother said and starring at the table and looking with a look on her face.

“Is father the same as his brother?” Somia asked herself.