Unknown Betrayal

Chapter 14

Chapter 14

Aaleyah

“Just like that?“,aunty gasps as Aayan explains to her how Zaynab left a resignation letter in.

“Did you at least ask her why?“,mommy asks him.

“She didn’t talk to me. It looked like she was rushing somewhere because she just ran past me”.

“I even called her, I’ve been trying but her phone isn’t going through. Are we sure she’s okay? She’s been acting weird for the past month now”,aunty says.

“I called Abiodun too but even his number isn’t going through”,Eniola sits down beside aunty.

“Maybe they moved?“Idris shrugs

“Without telling anyone? That’s not like Zayn-“,Aayan shakes his head.

Aunt’s phone starts to ring cutting Aayan off. Aunty looks at it then she shoots up with shock and smiles before accepting the call.

"Zaynab. Where are you? You quit your job? Where have you been?”she literally screamed through the phone with frustration.

After a while a gasp escapes her mouth.

"Is she okay? Do you want us over? Ah okay you should’ve told us. We were worried that something was wrong with you and your husband. Greet him for me, and take care. Keep in touch yeah?”

Aunty hangs up then sighs and rubs her face with relief.

“Is she okay?“uncle asks her.

“Abiodun’s sister had an accident. She lost her baby and her husband died in the accident. They moved there last night as soon as they heard. They’re going to be staying there for a while”,she explains.

“Oh wow. Is Olamide okay?“,mommy asks.

“She lost her husband and her child. I doubt it”,aunt shakes her head.

“They did the right thing then. I pray everything works out. I was scared for a minute there”,uncle sighs.

“I don’t know. That seems shady”Aayan mumbles.

“Aayan. She’s okay. Go home to your wife”,aunt chuckles.

“Yeah yeah okay. Call if you hear anything else”he tells her as he gives her a hug and a kiss.

“I will”m. You and your wife take care”,she smiles and kisses his head then Aamanee who smiles and greets us all before leaving with Aayan.

I look at Fawaz who stands up.

“We should get going too. Take care yeah”he hugs aunt who smiles and nods. I hug her too then my parents and Aayan’s parents then wave at Idris and Aremu.

“Can I come over? Am bored at home”,Aremu asks me.

“Not today man. Your sister needs rest. I’ll bring you in tomorrow”Fawaz tells Aremu who looks at me then at my baby bump and smiles.

“Okay”.

He’s probably the most excited one here. He can’t wait until his nephew gets here. And frankly speaking, me too. I can’t wait till I get him out. Fawaz definitely can’t wait for his son, he’s always talking to him, rubbing my stomach, and just doing the most. He’s always talking about things he’s going to do with our son, teach him how to play basketball, get girls, I swear this man is stupid but he’s amazingly stupid.

Fawaz holds my hand and shoulder helping me up the stairs.

“You look like a penguin gone wrong”he tells me which made me laugh then push him away. He laughs and skips on the spot as usual. Like I said he’s stupid.

“Let your son come and see if I don’t tell him of how to abuse his mother”, I warn him which made him instantly stop laughing. His reaction made ME burst out with laughter.

“Man shush. Don’t bring my baby into this”, he lightly smacks my head.

“Fawaz don’t make m-”

“Are y’all going to sleep there or actually go home?“, Eniola calls out to us from inside making us both turn around only to find all our parents looking at us with amusement.

“Continue, it’s a beautiful sight mashAllah”,Ayaan’s mom says with a smile on her face.

I look at Fawaz who smiles showing his teeth.

“Nigga you ain’t even all that”, I roll my eyes.

“Really? You wasn’t saying all that when I was all up on you this morning”, he whispers in my ear. My cheeks instantly heat up as I try to avoid his gaze while also trying to escape the smiling faces of my parents and the rest.

“Aight, let’s go. Anyways see y’all soon”, Fawaz waves.

“Bye ma, i’ll call you”, he smiles at his mother who chuckles and blows a kiss towards her spoilt child who instantly responds to her by smacking the flying kiss into his chest and pretends to faint which made everyone, including me, burst out with laughter.

“Your a joke”, I whisper to him.

“Don’t get jealous, my love for you is for life too”, he winks at me. I just roll my eyes at him while the rest ‘aww’ at his ‘lovely’ gesture.

“Aight get in”, Fawaz helps me into the car carefully as always. Once I was seated and belted, he closes the door then jogs towards the drivers side. He opens the door and hops in then shuts the door, puts on his seatbelt, fixes the mirror, ruffles his hair AS ALWAYS, starts the car then reverses out of our parked position.

I look into the mirror and apply some Vaseline on my dry ass lips. My face actually looks pretty fresh and moisturized, it must be all those face masks Fatima has me using. I tried the turmeric face mask and it actually seems to be working. I look goooood without make up anyways but damn girl. I look fineeee with nothing on right now. My face legit looks flawless.

“I want to get my nose pierced”, I tell Fawaz while continuing to check myself out. I could feel his eyes watching me from the side of my eye then he chuckles and shakes his head but doesn’t say anything.

I turn to him with confusion when he doesn’t reply. Maybe he’s not in support of it.

“Why are you laughing? You didn’t answer my question”.

“That was a question? That sounded more like a statement than a question babe”, he replies with yet another chuckle.

“Yeah well you should’ve known what I was tryna say. Anywaaaays what do you think of it then and why did you chuckle?“, I ask him.

***

“I just pictured you with an ear and nose piercing and you looked like an absolute bad ass BUUUUUUUT then you smiled and that just erased the whole bad ass vibe and replaced it with an innocent, bubbly and goody two shoes one and that’s just funny to me”, he explains and laughs a little as he finishes.

“In a weird way, I can picture it too”, I shake my head then chuckle.

“Hey! I think you should. You already look good without it but you’d look sexy with it. I’d love it honestly”, he smiles.

“In that case, I will”.

“Yeah? when are you planning on getting it done?”

“In a few days, whenever your free and can drive me”.

“Are you tired?”

“Not really”.

“Wanna go now?”

“Sure”.

“Wait but won’t it hurt? I don’t want you to be in extra pain, you know your due to deliver at any moment now”

“Don’t worry i’ll be fine. I wanna get it done now. I know I won’t later with taking care of our son so I’ll do it now”.

“I do-”

“Babe am fine seriously. Pleaaaaseeee”, I smile innocently which he ALWAYS falls for. I love it, he’d say no, then I would smile all innocent like and he’d just simply give into WHATEVER I want. I love it because it’s not just because am pregnant, he’s been like this way before I even got pregnant.

“Fine but it’s on you”.

“Okay. Thanking youuuuuu”.

“Mrs grammarian”, he jokes which we both laugh at.

“I love you”, I tell him. He looks over and smiles.

“I love you too”.