Whimsical beauty ✔️

Chapter 10

Here are some of the translations you may require. Thanks.

Lefe: whenever a girl is getting married, it is a traditional rite for the groom to buy clothes (blouses, atampa, laces, underwear and whatnot) and his relatives will take them to the bride's parent's home. It's another one of the wedding proceedings.

Yar bakin ciki: it's like telling someone that they are envious of you.

Bari kedai: just leave it.

Wallahi Anisa ba ruwanki: By Allah Anisa! It's none of your business.

Itace ma First Lady: it's a sarcastic way of telling people that they are kidding themselves. In this case, First Lady is variable.

Gyaran jiki: it's a traditional version of spa treatment

Damfara: cunning in a way that would hurt someone.

Ashawo: prostitute

*Wedding*

Things are progressing too fast. The wedding is drawing closer. I was very pleased when Abba did not shy away from his duty. Perhaps Anti's influence is better than I originally thought. Abba is currently coming home at least twice in a week. He would even sleep over even if he left very early in the morning.

Abba went to meet with his siblings and told them about my marriage to Saif. Even though Abba has no good relationship with any of them, blood was hard to resist. And maybe they were glad he gave them face because they all gathered here in our compound. A feat we have never even saw coming. Alhaji Ibraheem Alkali came to seek for my hand on behalf of his grandson together with four others.

Khalid said that Abba behaved himself with the utmost dignity and everything happened in the most sophisticated manner. Khalid was so proud that the Alkali seems to like the match as well. That his sister will marry into a family that likes her.

Anti is beside herself from joy. She seems to treat us all like her junior sisters. She said that she is sorry but she cannot be the mother since I had filled in the role admirably. And that she herself is very young at heart, she cannot endure it if we looked upon her like that. It was as normal as we can get as a family.

Despite all the glee, I felt the uneasiness growing in the house as the wedding date grew nearer. No one said anything. So I just let them dream of the wedding proceedings.

Three weeks to the wedding, we were told that the lefe^ will be brought. Anti invited all her relatives, including Abba's relatives. Even Marka's relatives were invited for my sisters sake. I'm sure anti is to be thanked for all her thoughtfulness.

The house was so full, I got a bit dizzy. Especially because everyone wants to speak to me since I'm the bride. I can't run away to Iya's house since the lefe will be brought from her house. So I locked myself up in my room and ignored everyone.

After the lefe^ was bought, everyone gathered around the boxes as they dissected it all from all angles. Some people were disappointed that it was just six boxes. That he made twelve for Maree and twelve for pretty. That it was not as expected. But Most of them are just waiting to leave so they can tell others it is what I deserve. I'm sure they believe the lefe defines what the groom thought of his bride.

Maybe this is why I never was able to really warm up to most people. Most them judge you before they have a chance to know you. I guess it has now become their problem. They can say whatever they wished, it is a free country afterall.