Love At First Sight

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I had to wait for Abdulrazaq to go to his room before I followed him.
I enter immediately after him.

He smiles awkwardly "You've been smiling all day, you didn't get pissed when Muktar kept that glass on your table without a coaster. What happened?"

I hold his hand and pull him to the bed.
I wanted him to be seated when I tell him.

"Khairat, what's happening?"
"Remember when I told you I haven't been feeling so good and you said we'd go to the hospital when you get back?"

"Oh" he nods "We can just go tomorrow"

I shake my head "I had to go last Friday because it was getting serious"
"So? Did they give you the medication? Are you feeling better? Or it's still the same? Then we'll go back tomorrow"

"I'm pregnant"
He stares at me, too shocked to say a thing.

"Are you serious?"
I nod "Very serious. I was waiting for you to get back so we'll go to the first ultrasound together".

He hugs me "That's the greatest news I've heard all year"
I can't explain this moment in words, I've imagined this moment with so many different scenarios but the moment I found out, scenarios didn't matter, all I wanted was to tell him and see his reaction.

He pulls back "Thanks for making me the happiest man, I love you"
"I love you too"

He kisses me.

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Iqram's POV.

For some reason Abdul insisted on all of us having dinner together on the dining table.

He rocks Lina in her arms with her feeding bottle in her mouth.
"Hamma, what's going on?" Safina asks.

"Now that we're all eating I want to make an announcement"

Khairat smiles and I can't help but suspect she knows what this is about.

"What's actually going on here?" Safina asks looking just as confused as I am.

"Well, I'm going to be a mother soon"

Safina and I gasp.
She jumps excitedly and hugs Khairat.

Their voices become muffled, barely audible to me.

Suddenly a dose of reality hit me.
She's going to be a mother soon.
She's going to have Abdul's baby too.
I won't be the mother of his child.
She'll also be the mother of his child.
It won't always be about my Lina anymore.

I watch him as he still rocks her in his arms, staring lovingly at his wife.

What's going to happen now?
We're going to be the same to him?
He'll be giving her a lot more attention?
Will my baby and I even exist to him?

"Iqram!"
I get back to reality.

They all stare at me worriedly "You good" he asks.
I nod.
"I need to change her" I say collecting Lina and walking out.

I sit in my bedroom couch staring out the window.
Even Lina was judging me but I've always been the type who couldn't hide her emotions and I can't lie that I'm happy for them when I'm not.

She probably did all this intentionally, rope me in and make everything hers but I was stupid.

The door opens, Abdul walks in and closes it behind him.
"What happened back there?" He asks straight forward.

I raise my eyebrows playing dumb "You just left the dinning room without so much as a word"

I turn, looking out the window "I told you, I need to change her diaper"
"And you're still on the couch, not changing it"

I shake my head "I will"
"Her diaper is fine!"

I stay quiet.
"What's wrong with you? Did you have to make her feel bad?"
"What do you mean?"

"Not even a congratulations or a prayer?"
I roll my eyes "Your excitement is more than enough to cloud my presence and opinion".

"When you got pregnant everyone was happy for you, everyone celebrated but you don't want the same for her?"
"I'm your wife and the mother of your child and now she will be too".

"Yes because if you hadn't stuck to me like gum you wouldn't but she still would have been"

I stay quiet.
It hurt to hear him say that.
"So you're with me because I refused to leave your Side"
He nods "Yes, I kinda felt responsible"

He huffs "I don't have time for this".
He walks out, slamming the door on his way out.

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Ya Muhammed called me this morning.
Apparently something is up.

I sit next to Khameelah as Ya Muktar sat across us. He looked serious and nervous, very nervous it got me wondering what this man did.

"Where is he?" I ask about the person who called for me "I have to get back to work before Mimi notices I didn't go to our furniture store".

"He'll be out soon, where's Lina?"
"She's with Safina at home, what's this gathering about?"

She points to Muktar "He called after his arrival, I'm not sure what's going on".

I huff.
She taps me "What about that new movie coming out in cinemas? My friends tell me it's fire and I remember Khairat is translating some parts of the movie"

"I don't know, it's not like we're friends"
She looks at me confused but says nothing anyway.

Ya Muhammed comes in and sits next to Ya Muktar, both men looked so tensed.

"So? What's going on?" I ask impatiently.

"Yusrah is pregnant"
I roll my eyes. So? My relationship with my brother went down the drain because of her, am I supposed to celebrate? Did they call me out for this dumbass reason?

I just stare at him "I have no reason to celebrate".
Muhammed looks at me looking particularly uninterested "Would I call you here if it's anything to celebrate?"

He turns to Muktar "Speak up"
"There's a possibility it's mine"

Khameelah and I gasp.
"What?"

He nods.
"I went to see Ya Nazeer but somehow it turned out that way"
"Somehow?" I ask.

Muhammed huffs "Yes, apparently somehow he slept with her"
I shake my head "It could be his child"

He shakes his head "She's three weeks pregnant and three weeks ago Nazeer was still in Abuja solving an issue he had"

I was too shocked to say a word.

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