We'd just arrived the airport for check-in. The airport was as usual, very busy. Some were returning back to the country and some were flying out of the country. We followed the long queue at the check-in counter. Maa was already tired from standing too much so i made her sit on a nearby bench until it was our turn on the queue.
By the time it was our turn, the lady at the counter didn't take long to verify everything and check us in.

"Let's take the lift instead," Khalid said probably because of Maa. He collected Maa's hand luggage from her and held it together with his and his backpack.
We then proceeded to the lounge area to wait for our flight to be announced.
In order for Maa to be comfortable, Khalid requested for the VIP lounge. It had an antique design to it with brown wood everywhere and glass doors. The brown leather chairs were so comfortable. There was a bedroom to the right hand-side of the lounge where we took Maa to rest since our flight was in exactly an hour.

Khalid switched on the TV to watch something as i was on my phone going through my emails.

Just then, Khalid took my phone away from me.

"What's that? Give it back to me...I'm going through my emails, weren't you watching TV?" I gestured to the TV with a creased forehead.

"Yes but there's nothing to watch and i want you now," He smirked. He turned to face me completely and kept his knuckles on the side of his head. I was just staring at him with my mouth open.

He started to unbutton my abaya and snaked his fingers in as he raised his eyebrows at me.

"Khalid stop...we're at an airport, there could be cameras and Maa could be out any minute," I tried to reason with him but he just wasn't resisting. He just shook his head, refusing to listen to me. 
Just as he'd gone deeper into my abaya, we heard Maa's voice.

"Asiya haven't they announced the flight yet?" She called out from the wide corridor.

He quickly withdrew his hands and i buttoned up my abaya back...we looked like someone was about to shoot us both.

"Why do you both look frightened, did we miss our flight?" She asked as she sat on the opposite chair.

"Yess!" Khalid jerked and i glared at him. "I mean no, well—" Then the announcement came which cut him off. I could not have been happier.

We quickly packed our hand luggages and went to the lift which took us to Gate 3.

About 20 minutes later, we boarded our flight and we were comfortably sitting on our sits.

"Good morning dear passengers, I'm Alex Richmond, and i am your pilot for today. You are welcome on board to flight AK616 British Airways from Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja to Heathrow international Airport, London. Have a wonderful time on board," Came the pilot's voice.

Maa whose sit was in front of ours, i could hear her reciting her dua's as the plane took off. I and Khalid did the same too.

I didn't know when I'd fallen asleep on Khalid's shoulder but I'm guessing i had a long sleep because when i woke up, it took me a few seconds to a couple of minutes to get my head clear.

"You up?" He asked, he was also asleep i guess because he's voice was deep and sleepy.

"Mm...how many hours left?" I asked as i rubbed my eyes, then the announcement came that we were getting ready to land.

I was so happy that i didn't have to sit my butt for any longer. Mama turned around to us...she was also awake by now.

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The ride to our apartment was very chatty. The uber driver kept showing us places until we reached our apartment in the heart of Central London. He helped us take our boxes upstairs before he left.

The apartment was really modern, beautiful and spacious. The interior was absolutely beautiful. It had a small hallway from the main door which had a laundry room and garage door, to the left of the living space was the kitchen, directly in the middle was the large living room and to the right was the stairs that led to three bedrooms and three baths. There was an extra room and bathroom downstairs also with a guest half bathroom. The living room had an amazing view from the decent sized balcony. The master bedroom also had a balcony and an even better view.

The house was so beautiful and already furnished except we needed to get some few decorative stuff and utility items.

We went to our respective rooms, maa was in the room downstairs as it'd be hard for her to saunter up and down.
We freshened up, said our missed salaats. It was already almost 7pm and we were so hungry. We ended up ordering some pizza for me and Khalid and fresh green salad for Maa.

"Mm i love this so much," Maa said as se licked the salad dressing.

"Can i taste?" I asked.

"Taste what? Is it not junk food that you want," she said, moving her salad bowl away.

"Haba mana Maa," I whined which made Khalid giggle.

"You're laughing." I said with a stern, angry face.

"No...no..." he couldn't help it but continued to giggle.

"No problem...I'll have my pizza," I said ignoring them pretending to be upset. Just then, Maa put a spoonful of her salad in my mouth and I couldn't be happier.

After dinner, we decided to call home and say hello to everyone and let them know we'd arrived safely. After a few minutes of chatting, we retired to bed as we had a long day tomorrow...we had to go shopping for a lot of things.

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"No Khalid let's take this white and grey instead," I said as i pointed to the throw blanket in front of me.
We'd come into Marshalls to do some home shopping for some decorative items as the apartment was already furnished. We literally got almost everything from Marshalls but decided to go to Ikea to check them out too were we got some more items and kitchen items. We headed over to a grocery store to do some food shopping and to Walmart to buy utility stuff for the home as well.

Immediately we got home, we ordered some food as we were starving. We said our Asr salah after eating and got to work.

We built all the Small decorative furnitures like shelves and whatnot. Placed frames were they needed to, arranged the living room how we wanted it to be before we went to do Maa's room.

We got her a grey sheet set some frames and decorative items and a black rug to go with her room.

In our bedroom, we went all white, white linen sheet and throw pillows with two small navy blue ones to break the whiteness a little bit. We got a fluffy white rug too and a large frame to insert our wedding photo above our bed.

By night time, i mean around 2am everything was done, Maa was already asleep so we did everything on our own.

"Ya Allah, I'm exhausted! But Alhamdulillah we've finished everything." Khalid said as he yawned and pulled the covers over himself.

"Same here...tomorrow we can kickstart our lives proper in London," I said as i moved closer to him and rested my head on his chest.

"Yes you're right...oh and tomorrow i have to go register my name at the agency I'm doing my course at and Maa has to go to her first doctor's appointment,"

"Oh you need to leave early. Yeah I'll take her while you're there," I said.

"No you can wait for me here, I won't be long...it's just to register, then we can go together."

"Alright, as you say. Goodnight babe," I said smiling.

"Goodnight my personal Queen," He kissed my forehead and I shut my eyes.

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Maa, Khalid and Asiya are adapting to London life quite well aren't they ?
Let's see what London has in store for them.
Juicy chapters coming soon, watch out!!

Asmaa out💗