*Fuskarta* looked at him again with the nurse uniform, then gave him a look like "what kind of person is this?"
*"Do you look like someone who can’t even dress your mother?"*
She just kept staring and laughing, then got close to Nana and, with the help of her phone light, started checking her.
*"God, you scared me,"* she said, while Lukman’s mom was still holding her chest.
When she finished checking her, Lukman didn’t say anything. He just turned his face away, sad and angry.
She turned to face Lukman but he turned his face away again.
She went out, but before she left she covered Nana’s body and said *"Call me if you need anything, auntie."*
*"You nurses are all the same"*
*I swear, you’re all the same.*
*Even my mother here is sick and there’s no nurse to look after her.*
*We even had to call someone to come.*
*I didn’t even know when an ambulance came and took her to the hospital.*
*When I got there in the morning, I saw her lying there and the doctor told me to go and bring something.*
*When I came back, she was already sitting and Lukman was next to her.*
*My heart broke and I just stood there crying.*
It’s like what they say, *"a child is a burden."*
Sometimes in the restaurant my dad would call me to come and help him.
Lukman would come and sit with me and buy me food and a drink.
But now I know he never really loved me, it was all lies.
Since then I stopped going to the mosque for Zuhr prayers.
I had no one except to entrust it to Allah and pray for good health.
*ALIYU POV.*
While he was driving, he said *"God, I’m scared."*
He was in the car alone, driving slowly and looking at everyone.
He saw Doc Asiya. When he honked twice, she came out.
He honked again, then pressed the horn and got out to open the gate.
He was standing right by the gatekeeper’s place when the gatekeeper came down, and his motorcyclist called him with news that broke his heart and his rank.
*"Don’t you agree that since you blew the horn, I should open the gate for you?"*
*"Oh God, my father, Wallahi I’m in a hurry"*
The gatekeeper told him while sitting.
*"Did I tell you to come and be in a hurry?"*
*"I mean to go in."*
*"You’re embarrassing me. I’m telling you, next time you won’t do this."*
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*"In-Sha-Allah, don’t worry. I’m fine, and thank God."*
Urfan left the mosque and was about to enter his car when his phone rang.
He answered and heard his brother saying he was coming into the compound.
Khaleesat and Hauwa came out to meet him.
Whoever it was, they took his luggage.
He hugged his family and they looked at him as if they hadn’t seen him in a long time.
Mom and Daddy greeted him again and asked about his trip.
Everyone’s faces lit up with joy and laughter.
They were all happy.
