*Innarum:* "Shame, I swear to God if ALLAH wills, I’ll go to your mother’s house. I don’t want any quarrel. I don’t want my husband in this house as long as Hina is here."

*Auntie Sanyaya Munubiya:* "Let go of 'my Innanru'. I know you’re used to being rude to people, and you don’t respect anyone, but you and Marwan’s father, don’t let his father’s house get involved because of you. Innarum, by God and ALLAH, I swear we’ve never made coffee and asked for sugar, but this time if he says anything, I swear by my father that I won’t let it pass."

*Malicam:* "This girl is really bringing shame to us. You should see how Labbata, the elder’s wife, is talking. Munubiya said that it’s a woman’s mouth that brings trouble. 'I won’t let my husband’s house be disgraced because of you.'"

*Harara:* "This mother, 'if it wasn’t for God, she would have been beaten until her ribs broke, and her patience is really being tested.'"

*Munubiya:* "It’s the children’s fault. What kind of upbringing is this? They don’t have manners, and they’re rude."

*Wayar Innarmu:* "I don’t want any quarrel, just leave me. I don’t want any answers." She threw the laundry basket down.

*Innarum:* "To Aljanar, the one who used to wash before Koromin, is she still alive?"

*"Yes Innarum, please, since Aisha Yushau isn’t here, we have to go to mother’s house. ALLAH willing, we’ll go and do the mother’s cooking this time."*

*"If it weren’t for ALLAH, this child would have made me say things I shouldn’t say."*

*Balgicce:* "So what’s going on now, what’s going on with your husband?"

*Innarum:* "There’s no news at all about my husband’s coming." She said in a voice choked with tears. From that day on, ALLAH knows what happened to her. She was crying while sweeping and mopping.

*After that, she got dressed, packed her things and left, leaving behind her suffering and pain.* She said, "I won’t stay in this house of yours."

*Three minutes after Innarum left, Maman Safara started making a scene.* Hameed had actually bought everything — meat, oil, spices — and put them all in one place. Hameed had also already taken care of the house. Rahama was crying. Then Hameed said, "These children are always fighting."

*"Leave her," said Jamo to his breakfast "because she started the wrestling first."*

*That same afternoon, Dariya’s mother came and said:* "Grandmother, look at the trouble." Then Innarmu started crying. "Sauri, go and check if Abbannu is home, so we can go and greet mother and say salam to Na Gaidashi."

*"Yace, Munubiya, is my mother home?"*

*"Abba is at home, my dear."*

*"Ma to muryarsa ce? Isn’t that the sound of my Rakei?"*

*K'ayfa:* "Her voice isn’t even as sweet as Munubiya’s. She has a hoarse voice like Hans Free. She’s here, she just came in and sat with her mouth open, 'Abba Mama Ce, mother of Safara’s husband.'"

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*Tsaki:* "Did you see that for God? Is mother the one talking?"

*"Amin Abba, Innarmu came on Wednesday, said my father."*

*"Haba Nan, did you see what that dirty girl did to me?"*

*"To Abba bye"*

*Yace:* "Ok dear bye." Sanyaya waved.

*Ina yankee Munubiya to calm her down. I tried to laugh "don’t hit me on the mouth with a slap of gashiya."*

*"You know, Akaiya, my mother said that if Allura had the power to beat my stomach, she would hit me with Abba’s big walking stick."*

*"Tab, to K'are, if this is how you’re going to be, the one who suffers is yourself."*

*"Kina ciki kenan tunda keman dangin kine ai."*

"You’re pregnant, and you’re with your people."

*"Dariya, I knew Nida Munubiya."*

*"_woshe gari_"*

*Tafiyar mu gidan maras Rabi bai yuwuba, saboda dawowar Abbannu, da Innamu na tanaa masa a awaya. Munje can muka'arasa Hutu, sai yaron da muci hakuri mu zama, Dan akwai haki na da'akiya k'arshen sati (weekend), kuma yanason dukkan yaran mukasance muna nan.*

"Our trip to Rabi’s father-in-law’s house didn’t work out because Abbannu came back, and Innamu was calling him on the phone. We went and missed Hutu, and the child and we had to be patient and stay. Because there’s Friday holiday at the end of the week, and he wants all the children to be here with us."

*Innarum said that.*

*Wannan dailline ya hanamu tafiya Hutu, dama ni ba so naike, Munubiya ce zekwed ta fiyar.*

"This delay stopped us from going for Hutu. I didn’t even want to go, it was Munubiya who insisted on traveling.