One Minute: Hausa Love Story

OM 39

On the authority of Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said:

Verily Allah has pardoned for me my ummah: their mistakes, their forgetfulness, and that which they have been forced to do under duress.

[Ibn Majah]

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She walked down the podium with her eyes casted downwards trying not look at the crowd gathered as she concentrated on her steps so she wouldn't walk and trip on her 6 inch heel. The crowd's cheer was deafening and she could vaguely hear her family's own with it.

She turned back one last time to where her family were seated and she raised up her certificate with a big smile, the hollering from the twins went up a beat and the clapping too. She watched how proud they were of her before she made her way back to her seat. She felt accomplished having finished with a 2nd class upper, all the troubles she had gone through finally looked to be worth it.

Because of how happy she was, she had managed not to yawn throughout all the boring speeches that were delivered. She was sitting next to one of her closest classmate and they kept entertaining each other by taking funny Snapchat videos.

She saw a Snapchat notification from Fahad and she quickly clicked on it and it was a video, the wifi was very slow in loading everything because of how many people were connected to it.

The video played and Fahad was making funny kissy faces on the camera before turning the back camera to where she was seated although her face wasn't shown as she was backing him, so they could only see her back view, he captioned the video with 'see my heart right there 😭😌❤️'.

A blush came to her face and before replying the snap she turned her face back to see him and it was like he had been looking at her all along trying to see her expression. He threw her a flying kiss and she scrunched her face looking at the rest of her family members who were seated next to him to see if anyone noticed what he had done but they all either had their attention on the podium where another boring speech was being made or on their phones.

She raised an eyebrow chuckling before turning back to type out a reply. He kept sending her funny videos with cute captions to which she kept laughing and blushing at that her friend had to ask her what was she watching. She shook her head saying nothing.

'Why is ya Fahad acting like an electrocuted fish and why are you busy laughing as if someone is pressing your mumu buttons?' Hadiza sent her a message, she threw her head back laughing before turning back again to look at her, she too was laughing.

'Oh damn! Didn't think we were that obvious 😂💔' She typed back a reply to her before deciding to focus back on, thankfully, the last speech of the day.

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Hadiza's body slammed into hers before she could realize or do anything and she barely managed to stay firm on the ground before hugging her back.

"Congrats bestfriend" she said after they had finished hugging both having a matching grin on their faces.

"Thank you"

Hadiza gave Hafsat too a hug only that with her she was being more careful even though she had since been discharged from the hospital and was now okay everyone around treated her as if she was fragile.