Chapter 28: Chapter 28
Hauwa tried her best to make the atmosphere feels good and refreshing but no avail. Kimberly was busy sending dagger to Fauziya and Fauziya was fiddling with the hem of her blouse.
"What's wrong with you? Why are you like this? Why are you looking hard like a stone?" Hauwa whispered.
"Nothing. I just need a little water before the event. If you could get me my soda water please, I would be forever thankful" came kimberly's hoarse voice.
She had cried her eyes out, that was why her voice changed and became hoarse just like a male teenager going through adolescent.
She bottled her feelings for Yusuf since the day she followed him on Instagram, though she was chatting with hauwa. His pictures and his charisma
Hauwa left to her the soda water she requested. Kimberly decided to put her feelings and hatred at the back of her mind. It is not going to help her in situation right now. " Thank you for coming. We really appreciate it" She thanked her and that took Fauziya by surprise.
She thought she hates her or it is adolescent that is disturbing her. She nodded silently giving her a coy smile. "It was nothing" she replied and the place returned to the way it was, silent and stuffy.
"Here, give the soda water then we will prepare to go out. We are given ten minutes to meet the rest of the brides, the event is almost starting"Hauwa informed holding the Alkabba kimberly is going to wear.
Fauziya helped in getting Kimberly ready. They moved her to where the rest of the brides are situated with their grooms. Kazeem was missing, she searched the whole room but she didn't see him so she didn't to offer her self a sit close to Hauwa. "Ain't you supposed to sit with your so called husband? Seems to me he is not even here? Is that even a competent husband?" Hauwa whisper asked only enough for Kimberly to hear.
"How do I know? You can ask annoying questions wallah tallahi hauwa" Kimberly replied and they both laughed it out.
Some minutes before the starting of the event, kazeem made his entrance looking so hazard with a lady behind him. She was dressed in the same ankara as the bridesmaids and she wore a heavy make up that shouts crazy. Kazeem sat close to Kimberly with the lady trailing behind him, she smiled to everyone like a found puppy.
"Wifey, meet my first wife and my everything. Get ready to live in a hell, because the fire work is getting started soon" he said shrinking. Hauwa heard him loud and clear, she was furious. How would he bring a prostitute to the wedding, most he disgrace Kimberly to the core?
Kimberly held her back when she saw hauwa was very furious and was on the edge to tell him off but Kimberly doesn't want that. She wants everything to be good and look great before she would be blamed for everything that has happened or will happen.
Kimberly swallowed a loop of saliva. She was angry and still is. Kazeem doest have to do this to her, she knows they don't want to be together or rather she doesn't want to be with him, but then why does he have to do that to her? She doesn't deserve it on a truth talk, she deserves better than that, better than kazeem and someone like yusuf. That is what she deserves, she is princess in her kingdom and a princess deserves a prince that would take good care of her even if his life depends on it.
They moved to the area where the kamu is taking place, the place was filled with visitors. Kimberly got a cut on Yusuf, he was situated at the edge of the table with Fauziya. Should she run away from here? From everything and assume she won't have yusuf to herself? Or should she end everything when they think she has forgotten about it?
But ending everything means she has to die, is she willing to commit suicide or kill kazeem? This is a tough mission that she wants to embark, and she is eighty four percent sure she can't commit suicide or kill a live, she would rather lose everything than she kills.
She abandoned the thought and made herself to concentrate on the event. Kazeem's mother and some other people came to enravel the veil on her and then Hauwa and some girls stood in their ways and asked them to pay before the get to see my face.
Hauwa as the chief bridesmaids demanded for a million, hajiya Iya was enraged. "Where did she get that lousy girl from? How could she try to change our culture" Hajiya Iya had asked her assistant.
"She happens to be uncle Ammar's daughter and hmm.. that is what happens this days. The friends of the bride request money from the groom's family" The assistant answered nervously.
"Oh, is that so? I guess it is okay but I need to talk to Ammar about disciplining her. She needs that" Hajiya Iya announced.
The event went smooth with lots of fun, the MC made sure he made everyone laughed his eyes out. It was indeed a wedding of a life time, the way everyone enjoyed him/her self, you know Hajiya Iya did her best to make the wedding perfect, though all she did was pass out orders to people while she sit and sip a chai tea pushing it down with wheat biscuits.
Around ten in the evening, all the brides where taken to there matrimonial home, they are going to live in the same area, infact the same lane and their houses are facing each other. It would not be hard for them to visit each other, it is a matter of three to four step, and then they will be in each other's company.
Though kazeem hated the idea, he had to go with it In order not make things look suspicious.