Choices(Judy) The young ladies chatted at length.
Who could fault Amina for the choice she had made to get married. All the buzz then amongst them was getting married an angry, radical, loud mouthed girl had been gingering certain girls to make that choice.
One afternoon when all the girls sat together chatting, Annie the loud mouthed girl joined in.
"Really what's your bane of getting married. For me its totally about finding a guy who can handle my attitude." She said.
Mary said, "my parents want me to get a degree, besides I dream of marrying a man who would never yell at me."
"I dream of marrying a man who will think my stretch marks are sexy." Ann said
They laughed. "You will never find him."
"Maybe? Dumb brains I don't have stretch marks! I meant she won't find a man who won't yell at her."
"Really?" Amina asked.
"Common Amina we are just joking, anyway for a doll like you, you have nothing to worry about."
"Common what's going on every girl is on this thing about this slow snail's beauty common she is not that pretty!"
She came in a month later. "I have found a guy and am getting married. I am scared, I am just a young girl!"
"Don't be you are not alone, go girl! Remember to be the best you can be."
Ann got to a new school where she was curbed after a threat of expulsion she became as quiet as a mice.
Her friend however got married.
Mary went on years later to get a degree but failed. She started drinking and keeping bad company. She wished she had not obeyed her parents. She met Ann who had been expelled from a university she went to get a degree from for fighting.
"Life is a sack of beans."
They met another girl Alicia.
"Hey girls, I just graduated but no job."
"I guess you will still get one."
"I got one, they pay crap. God is this too much to ask, a nice house with enough rooms for all my son and daughter, and relatives and friends who come along, two nice cars and enough money in my account for sound education and all my expenses. What the heck do I get. Thirty thousand naira. Where do I start from with that. Anyway I am twenty five without a boyfriend, obviously emotionally frustrated and exhausted. But yet girls I don't envy Amina!"
"Why?"
"She has these really rude, smart ass inlaws, countless relatives of her rich husband, he talks to her like she is a maid. Men all that trash life is throwing at us seems there's no way to avoid it."
Ann laughed "well is she now the one who is not emotionally exhausted, imagine being treated like that by a man supposed to be your husband. Do me get me here."
"Really?" Mary asked."I had a choice to be a mother later in my late teens but my parents urged me to complete my education and I am not such a doll you know there was no man."
"What about Amina who everyone thinks is so pretty can't you see what happened to her." She said.
Ann beat her chest. "No man can ever treat me bad, trust me. I am too much to handle"
Alicia winked to Mary and laughed at her and hissed. "Ann, ann as usual. Look this is not school where you say anything you like as you like, am going to tell you as it is. I like women like you. In your dreams. Except ofcourse you mean to become a kickboxer" Alicia said.
"See its just about being lucky to find a good man, though no one is perfect and things happen."
Amina was seated with her kids when Yakubu came in.
He had been bugging her for a while.
"Madam, please listen to me, you are so pretty, they don't have beautiful women like you on tv even. You rot her treated anyhow, money is not everything. Do you know who your father is? The true daughter of whom you are taking all these insults. Please hear me out."
"Okay..." She was tired of being pressured.
Her husband noticed she had become close to Yakubu and fired him before things would get serious.
She felt bad but she had already made a choice and there was no going back.

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