Ever since Idris proposed to me, we had been so close to each other like family. Amani would at times spend a day or two with me in Hajiya Siyyamah's house, she liked being around me and guess what? I had heard that Rumaisah was whom she regarded as her mother but things changed the moment I came into her life. A day wouldn't pass without us seeing each other, I became her mother in short...

"But when are you going to tell your parents about us?" Idris said through the phone. It was night and we were having a very long conversation about our future together.

"I am still...