I Am Able - S01 E13

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I Am Able - S01 E13

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 13

Fatimah.

Today was literally Sunday, a day to our first semester examination. Like I had been doing ever since it began approaching, I dedicated my time to my books. You hardly see me doing other things apart from reading. Dr Marwan’s paper was the first and so I ought to give it my utmost best as it was a 4 credit unit course and very wide unlike Dr Lailah’s course and others.

While reading in my study island my phone began ringing, it was Adnan so I picked up and greeted him. He replied joyfully and asked me to come outside that he was by our gate. Actually, this wasn’t his first time of coming but he had never stepped his foot inside our gate…

“Toh, wait for me. Ga ni nan zuwa” I said and then cut the call. My hijab was on the bed so I picked it up and quickly wore it and then left.

There was no need for me to apply makeup, after all we were not dating each other. People used to think we were dating but seriously, that wasn’t true. He was just like a brother to me, nothing more and nothing less. But people would never really understand so far we were always seen together. Well, they should keep believing in what they wished to believe in.

As soon as I stepped out of our gate I saw him leaning by his car, a Porsche. I walked to him and he warmly welcomed me with a smile. “I am so sorry for disturbing your morning” He said bringing out some papers from his car.

“No, it’s okey” I said wearing a smile.

“Alright, here…” He extended the papers to me and continued. “I was reading in the library as usual yesterday when one of our lecturers saw me, he called and gave me these papers that…”

“Wow!” I cut in going through them. “A link?”

“Yes” He nodded with a smile. “Please keep it a secret between us, I don’t want to be exposed”

“Hmm” I heaved a sigh with different thoughts pacing deep in my mind. Most of the questions were so easy and that made me to doubt the source of the linkage… Now what should I do? Rejecting them because my mind wasn’t giving me might make Adnan angry and also think I didn’t trust him. So I snapped the papers and returned them back to him. “If you have your own copies already, take these ones to Yusuf”

“Yusuf??” He glared at me. “That boy is not serious at all. Could you believe he called me this morning and asked if we could meet in our usual gaming spot? He is so unserious!”

“Yes, that is exactly why I want him to get it too so that he shouldn’t fail his exams. Or do you want him to carryover his courses so that he can attend lectures with me next year?” I said. But deep inside me, that wasn’t the reason why I asked him to give them to Yusuf, I just cared about him that’s all and I also didn’t know why.

“Hmm, fine! I will call him to my house sai in bashi. But only because of you fa” Adnan said.

“Toh, nago…” I was thanking him when I spotted my father’s car from afar as it was approaching towards us. “Adnan, leave!”

“What? Is everything okey?” Adnan said.

“It’s my father, that’s one of his cars!” I said.

“Oh, alright but…” Adnan was saying when I began running towards the gate. “Okey, bye!”

I didn’t say anything to him, I just kept running until I was by the gate. Thus, I stormed in and ran into the mansion. Just as I was inside my room I leaned by the door and panted with fear. Not that my father cared about me that much but he had never seen me with a guy and so I didn’t know what his reaction would be. Remember I was 19 years old, still in my teens.

Minutes later, I was busy watching a tutorial on youtube based on the areas I didn’t really understand when my mother walked into my room with a Salaam. By the look on her face, I already knew what she came to talk about. So I slammed my laptop and heaved a deep sigh.

“Wa’alaykumus Salam” I gulped.

“Who was he?” She asked folding her arms across her chest. “Your boyfriend or what?”

“Mum, I don’t have a boyfriend” I protested.

“Okey then, waye shi?” She asked again.

“Hmm, he is Adnan” I gulped and continued. “Anty Umm Salmah’s nephew, the one she…”

“Wow!” She cut in. “So you even met him?”

“Yes, a day after she told me about him” I said.

“Wow, yayi kyau but why haven’t you introduce us to each other?” She asked.

“Mum, he’s shy” I smiled.

“Shy? Lallai ma, okey then!” She uttered about leaving when she halted. “Whenever he comes back, tell him to either come inside or just go. I don’t want you two to stay outside alone, ok?”

“Yes, mum!” I said saluting her like a soldier.

“Ji ta kawai” She rolled her eyes and left.

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