UNTILL YOU WALK IN THEIR SHOES

CHAPTER ONE

Halima and I were best friends from secondary school, luckily for us we were offered admission into the same university, the prestigious bayaro university of kano state . my dad wanted me to study at a private university but I have always wanted to be independent and also free to mingle with my friends as well as stay away from home. I wanted to groom myself and stop being the daddy's girl everyone knows me to be....despite having a strong relationship with my dad , I know time will come and I would eventually be on my own , so I decided to start practicing my independence as soon as possible. Although the idea didn't sit well with him, as his favourite person, he couldn't say no to me.

The news of my admission brought so much joy to me, I called Halima who was also excited to be finally leaving the house as well, we made arrangements on our travelling plan and day to go for shopping. Few days after, we got to school and started our registration. Lectures started and we got very busy with classes, and presentations.

Halima and I were in the same faculty but different department. as time goes by she met few people and made lots of friends. she became very popular in the faculty and everyone has her name on their lips. that didn't bother me because I was an introvert and was okay with my friendship with he cause despite her popularity she made sure our friendship remained intact. the semester ended well and we went home .

Second semester came and we were to return to school, I booked my flight and called Halima to know what her plans were, she informed me to go ahead and she would meet me in school. few days after she was back to school and everything seems to be going normal until Halima became scare and i could barely see her, she started skipping classes and spending the weekends outside the school campus, not just that, I discovered her dressing pattern changed as well. I got to know about this when her course mate came to me asking me if I know her whereabout. she had missed a very important test schedule for Saturday morning. this really got me concerned and I decided to go to her room to ask her room mates about her since her line wasn't connecting. her roommates didn't hesitate to tell me what they know, they told me how she spend all her weekends outside campus and rumour has it that she goes to the club and into prostitution. I couldn't believe my ears , Halima was from a wealthy family, though her parents are late, they left loads of investments and wealth for her, she was the only child alive as both parents and her kid brother died in a plan crash...her uncle was also a senator and she was living with him b...so how....I just hissed and left the room, I wasn't going to let anyone defame my friend. I decided to call Halima to see if her line will connect , luckily for me it did, she picked and I asked her where she was, she told me her uncle's wife went to visit her, I felt relieved and ended the call. After drooping the call , I got a notification from the faculty WhatsApp group and I proceeded to check , it wasn't an update, but a video with plenty reactions ….I wanted to ignore but after seeing Halima was tagged by Albani our mutual friend, I decided to download it...what I saw got me tongue tied , I felt rage gushing through my spin , my heartbeat rapidly increased and my hands were visibly shaking...…