Todos os capítulos de Soiled: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 5

I swirled my mug of hot date coffee slowly and slowly lifted the mug to take a sip. My mother has just dumped what she feels is a bombshell on me. "Afrah, you either bring someone to get married to or marry our choice. Wallah, you've stayed too long in this house. Two years is a long enough time to stay a divorced woman." She heaves as she has exerted herself by shouting. I have no response for her ranting. Instead, I blow my date coffee and take another healthy sip. My mother and my paternal grandmother 'Hajiya Mama' pushed me into my first marriage. Other women have issues with their mother in laws, my mother plots with hers. Now, it's my father and mother's turn to push me into marriage. I laugh internally. I knew when he entered the living room, he didn't see me at first, so he went upstairs to find me.Then he descended the stairs back and found me sitting on the rug in the living room and he walks to me. He doesn'

After the baby shower ended, as guests were leaving Ajìkè Dikko held my elbow firmly and walked with me to a small living room upstairs. "Sit." I did. I sat on a single jet black sofa facing her own love seat. "How are you doing, your eyes have looked so sad and tired all afternoon?" I realised that she must have watched me all afternoon to come to that realisation. A very right conclusion. I decide to answer her. "I've just had a lot weighing on my mind, a lot has been going on in my little life lately." I try to skim events to see if she'd stop prying. She eyes me amusedly, like a mother looking at her lying child."Afrah, Allah would not give a soul more burden than it can bear, but sometimes the pain becomes too much to bear alone and we must share our burden with someone or we'll be giving room for evil thoughts." I regard her slowly for a few seconds, her legs are curled underneath her abaya n