Greetings!
Aminat was like a bride to everyone on the street as she's well loved by everyone for her character and behaviour. In fact, I can boldly say she's brought up in the way a child should be brought up.
Her mother was a virtuous woman and for her to have that kind of a character, it's not something that's new to us as this didn't catch the majority of us unaware.
One day my mum called her and told her that she should not forsake her way of life for anything else. She replied and promised my mum by saying,
“Mummy, I promise you that I will not change my ways, just be praying for me.” My mum responded and said, “I'm already praying for you, don't worry.”
So, this is a testament to the fact that Aminat is a good girl that every parent would love to have as a daughter. Aside from this, parents are in the habit of advising their daughter to emulate the ways of Aminat who is considered as a virtuous lady in our community.
Even the mothers in our community would not but talk about Aminat to their sons, in fact, some would always advise their sons to have such a virtuous lady as their wives.
However, as time went by, Aminat got admitted into the university. When she got admitted into the university, everyone was happy for her as she was being praised for her kind of a person and gifts were being given to her from not all the household but majority of the household in our community.
When all these gifts were being given to her, her mother, Mrs. Aminu was so happy that she could not curtail her joy that she burst into tears of how people have showered their love on her daughter and she promised to take care of her more than ever.
So, not quite long, the resumption date for Aminat came and she left for school. But before then, people had called to advise her not to join a bad group in her school and she as always promised not to.
After she had entered the university, everything was well with her as nothing has changed about her. She was still who she was before she left home and whenever she comes home, people always welcome her with a warm welcome and whenever she's departing for school, she used to go back to school with loads of gifts as if she's the only person in the community.
However, when Aminat got to her second year in the university, everything changed and she was no longer the person whom we all know her to be, her mode of dressing changed and she also began to bleach her beautiful shining skin. In short, she's started misbehaving.
This wouldn't have been noticed of her had it been she didn't come home for the semester break which was like 3 weeks.
When she came to greet my mum, my mum was shocked on seeing her and the first question she asked her was,
“Aminat, what's gone wrong?” She replied saying, “nothing.” “But this is not your glowing dark skin anymore,” my mum asked. “Emm, Maybe it's the cream I'm using,” she said. “Okay, make sure you do something about it,” my mum said. “I will ma,” she replied.
So, after this conversation, Aminat left our house for other places and it's the same thing my mum told her that every other woman in the community told her and she promised to change.
Soon after she went back to school, her issue became the talk of the community and this was not surprising at all as people wouldn't have expected her to be turn the way she has turned to be.
However, instead of things to have got better with Aminat, the reverse was the case as the news of her getting pregnant to a married man spread across the street of our community. When the broke out, people couldn't believe their ears, but it's later confirmed by her mum who felt ashamed of her daughter's action.
Although, people were disappointed in her with her action, but they couldn't push her out for wolf to get rid off just because of the love everyone in the community has for her as she's ashamed of coming to the village.
So, when my mum saw that she's afraid of coming to the village after the pregancy has been denied by the so called man that impregnated her, she went down to her school and brought her home after her, Aminat had taken leave of absence from her institution of learning.
When they both came home, Aminat was not free with people around, but people didn't let her feel that way as they rally round her at her delivery and at the end she gave birth to a bouncing baby girl and then returned to her school. Thanks for the love shown to her by the villgers, had it been she wasn't shown that kind of love, we wouldn't know what would have happened to her.
Thanks for reading.
Pictures is Ai generated.
