CHAPTER 53

Enjoy your day guys!!

Ashar's father was in the living room at the main one, laying on the coach, uses pillow to support his head and with his walking stick beside him and raising the handle up so that it could be easy for him to take it when he wanted to get up.

He was busy watching his favourite programme on the TV and loud it so that he could be hearing what they were saying clearly and smiling, the programme always uses to be fun and that was why he was smiling as he was watching it.

Ashar got to the corridor and climbing the staircase down to the living room, the beautiful native cloth that he was putting on really fit him and it was like he was born with it. Ashar loves native clothes and always uses to wear it and the same to his father as well.

"Good morning Sir!" He greeted his father as he got there to the living and bend little.

"How are you my son? Are you going to work?" His father asked.

"No Dad! I am going to Raheem's place, and I am good as can see Dad" took his car key on the table at the front of his father.

"You and this your programme Dad" Shukuran had gone to school, she had a test so she left so early. It was a multimillion naira university in Lagos Nigeria that she was going to and that was where Ashar too finished from.

"It's a very interesting programme and that is why I must not miss it in a day"

"Okay oh! Enjoy your day and will take my leave now" Ashar said with smiles and wanted to be leaving.

"Wow! Nice wristwatch, very lovely and like it" Ashar was so happy for the comment that his father gave the wristwatch and faced back with smiles.

"It's a birthday gift from Somia, I love it as well" He uses to tell his father everything that involve Somia but not to his mother, she was the only one that didn't uses to show that she likes Somia and it was because of matchmaking that they planned, didn't want Ashar to end up with anybody but her friend's daughter Iqmat.

"Wow! Very nice, so greet Raheem for me" He said with low voice and faced his programme back.

"Okay Sir! I will" Ashar opened the door and closed it as he came out. He got down to the compound met the driver washing the other cars and replied to his greeting as the driver greeted him. He unlocked his car with the remote, opened door at the driver side and entered. He on the car, waited for few minutes for the engine to warm and turning in the compound, the gateman had opened the gate widely for him and Ashar drove out after few seconds.

Turns to his left hand side as he came out and out from the estate.

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Semirat came out from corridor of Audit department and going to the CEO's office to spend a little time with Somia, she was wearing a shirt and a smart trouser and walking very smart with the heel shoes that she was putting and beating on the floor.

Somia was on seat and working serious on the laptop and ginger herself with songs, since she had arrived in the morning it was work that she had been busy with. She held the down volume of her phone and low the song a little as she was hearing a sound of a heel walking closer to her, the door opened as she was waiting for the person and Semirat entered.

"I have been hearing that sound of the heel from far distance, how are you?" Somia said as Semirat closed the door and walking more closer inside.

"I am good but very busy, just sending all those mails like rain" She said and sat down on a chair at the front of Somia, stretched her legs and sitting like a pregnant woman.

"And that is why you are sitting like this, want to show that you are tired right" Somia said with loud voice and laughs.

"Yes! The work is too much just busy since" Said with low voice.

"I have known that this is how it will be, when all of us gives ourselves two days off because CEO is doing birthday so let us face the consequences now" Somia said with smiles.

"The consequences is not good at all. Where is the food that Mother sent to me? Let me eat it and go back to work. Is it the one that is here?" Somia drawn the lunch bag back as Semirat wanted to carry it.

"Are! Are you okay! Who told you that the food is yours" Somia said with loud voice.

"Don't give me that because mommy had called me, said I cook for you and your friend but you are the main reason why I cooked it"

"Oh! Well done, mummy had called you. You should have said that is why you are here"

"Yes now! What else will bring me here if it's not mummy's food. Give me the food jor and let me eat" Somia shocked her head and smiles.

"Wait jor! You have to wait still I finished with what I am doing"

"Eh! Upon the food that mother good for me" Semirat said with smiles.

"She should have call you to come and take it by yourself then, why did she gave me"

"Okay ma Sir, we are waiting for you" Semirat said with smile and two of laugh loudly. Somia started raiding up with what she was doing on the laptop.

"You are trying only you in this office, it's very silent. As I said that I don't like that my office that it's family house not like this one so silent" Semirat said.

"I am telling you. That is why I always use to be happy if Ashar said we are working from home, I know that there Shukuran is there and if she goes to school, their father is always at home and him too always use to be only so we will chart, play game and watch movie"

"Wow! Ashar's father really likes you as well" Somia just giggles and didn't say anything. She closed the laptop, moved it to a side and moved the lunch bag closer.

She opened it, brought out the cooler and two spoons that her mother had put it inside it.

"Ah! Yesterday, at ten in the evening I just a call from Ali" Semirat said as she stared eating.

"Ali! How does he get your number?" Somia asked with surprise.

"I don't known because as I relocated to that my house, I changed everything about me and he can't go to my mother because she doesn't likes him so I don't know. He called bagging and saying his life is not safe because the man is ready to kill him if he doesn't pay"

"He can't get your number if you don't give him or collected it from someone"

"I am thinking of something, that yesterday in the morning. I met a guy and he asked for my number, I see that him too want to try his luck and I gave him but the call I would receive was from Ali and the man never call"

"It clear now, it's that Ali that planted him and that is why someone should always be careful with the kind of person you will give your number"

"And that man dress decent and speaks well"

"Ali too is educated now as you told me, he is a graduate of mechanical engineering now even that person can be one of his friends"

"That is what I am saying, he always use to finds a way to get what he want" Semirat said with low voice and keeps eating.

"Anyways he is planning, he will meet us there" Somia dropped the spoon and got up, carried a big bottle and going to the water dispenser to get water.

"Don't eat the meat oh! Let me quickly get water" Somia said loudly as she was leaving the place and Semirat laughed.

Somia quickly went to the dispenser and getting water inside the bottle. She closed it and returns back, she sat down on the chair and they continued eating and talking.

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Ashar just arrived to Raheem's house, packed at a corner everywhere it wouldn't block any car that wanted to come in or go out. He opened the door and got down. He threw a hand to the gateman as he was greeting him and going inside.

He put his hand on the handle of the door as he got to the entrance and opened the door, entered into the living room and closed the door.

Raheem was coming down from upstairs when he saw Ashar entering, wearing a armless vest and with a short trouser.

"Eh! Yesterday birthday boy is here" Raheem said with smile and walking closed to each other. Two of them started putting their right hands over each other, doing their slags. Joined their hands together after few minute and hugged each other.

"How are you doing? I have known that it's Somia's wristwatch you will use" Raheem said as Ashar sat down.

"Hmm! I love it, it very beautiful" Said with smile.

"What will you say lover boy, why don't you use Iqmat's own? Not wristwatch she too bought" Raheem was talking and going to the dinning to get a non-alcoholic wine for Ashar.

"Iqmat has gave me many wristwatch but this is new because this is first Somia's gift to me" Raheem giggles, holding a wine and taking two cups from the bar house.

"There is something I heard on that day and want to tell you because I don't understand even still now" Raheem said and coming down to the living room back.

"And what is that? Let we help us with wisdom and experience" Ashar said loudly.

"Who are we here? I beg how is dad and mummy?" opened the wine and pouring it inside the two cup and on the table at the front of where Ashar was sitting.

"Mummy is there with the wedding planning and father too is fine" Took a wine and Raheem sat down beside him facing the TV.

"Mom! Just take this wedding very serious" Raheem laughed.

"I am telling you. So what is that thing you heard on my birthday?" Raheem folded his right legs very on the coach and sitting well.

"I was in the toilet cleaning up myself when I started hearing Iqmat's voice talking to someone and later I heard Somia's voice as well. She first apologies for the nuisance that Funbi committed a day before that day"

"You mean it's Iqmat and Somia that are talking, Iqmat called Somia to that place"

"Yes! She now said that it's obvious or something that Ashar like her. And after that she now said, don't worry after the wedding you will be happy referring to Somia. And said Ashar will be happy and I too will surely be happy, that mean herself. And that is what I don't understand still now"

"After the wedding Somia will be happy, I will be happy and her too will be happy" Ashar said twice and thinking about it.

"Yes that is what she said, but I don't understand even Somia too didn't because Semirat asked her as Iqmat left and that is the last statement Iqmat said and left the toilet"

"Or she means that I and her will be happy after the wedding, maybe love can grow after the wedding" Ashar said and him too didn't understand.

"What now concern Somia and why is it that it's Somia she told not you? She involves Somia and that is where the confusion is" Ashar breathe in.

"I don't understand as well" Ashar said with low voice.

"This is a very interesting movie, let be waiting for what will happen after the wedding" Raheem said with smile.

"It's our own life you are calling a movie" Ashar said with loud voice.

"And you think all this are not dramas, guys let keep watching. Hmm! Interesting"

"Any drama that will happen, my own is just that I should end up with Somia and two of us should be family's friends" Raheem looks at Ashar and busted into a loud laugh.