This was when we were in our youth. I was 17 years old, and she was a few months older than me. One of my relatives passed away, so I went there. Suddenly, for some reason, she was also one of our relatives, so I had to go to her house. My family was with me, so we went to her house.
We went to her house because I was considered a child at that time. I was 17 years old. I mean, in the words of the elders, it is not customary in our family to go and sit with the elders. When such occasions came, I would be with their children, their daughters and their brothers. My brothers were not well at that time, but I was sitting with their daughters.
She was joking with me because, in the relationship, she was also one of my two closest cousins. So we met for the first time. I told her who I was. She started talking to me. Our phone numbers were exchanged.
Then, suddenly, I don't know what I thought. I heard from the family that they had said, "This is a girl"—they meant "her"—"she is very beautiful." So I asked them, "Where is so-and-so, your sister?" They all started laughing and asked me, "What happened to you? How did you call her by her name?"
Well, they called her. She was also shy, And she was extremely beautiful. like a person should be a little shy. Instead of greeting me from a distance, she shook hands respectfully in front of me, so everyone started laughing even more.
We sat at their house for some time and then left. She was really very beautiful, even more beautiful than what people had told me.