Anna

Anna met Aaron on a nice day of summer time in 1938 nearby the village river bank. She was only 9 and he was 11. Anna came from another city to this village with her family. They used to play nearby the river bank most of the days, since they met. They rowed boats together, they swam together. They became good friends eventually. When they became youngsters, they fell in love.  They loved each other very much.

But Anna’s family didn’t like Aaron, since his parents were only farmers. It is because Anna’s family was the wealthiest family in the village, and they had good money too. Anna’s father John wanted, her to  marry to a wealthy man who lived in the city.  Anna couldn’t do anything about that, since she is just a girl. Although Anna asked Aaron to take her for somewhere and marry her, without proper job Aaron didn’t like to do so.

Things were going wrong. Anna married to a rich guy who lived in the city, it happened only for her father’s desire. Anna never liked that guy. After marriage, she had to go to His husband's house for living. Aaron disappointed too and he left the country forever. 

But Anna never lived happily. She was always thinking about Aaron and her past love.  Sometime Anna imagined they are rowing boats and playing nearby the river bank. So always those past memories were haunting in her mind. Further, Anna was never a good wife to her husband due to these past memories. So most of the time Anna’s husband asked the reason for her abnormal behavior. But Anna never gave a good answer for that. Eventually Anna’s husband became a drunker, some days he didn’t come home, and instead he clubbed and womanized for all the day. But Anna didn’t care about it .

Anna got pregnant at 23. It was 1952. One day Anna’s husband came drunk. And he had a quarrel with Anna. After few arguments, Anna’s husband Michel pushed Anna away really hard. Anna fell down on the floor and hit her head on a door, and she fainted. Then she was hospitalized. She fell in to a coma in there. After two weeks of coma she got up, but she didn’t remind anything.  She lost her memory. She lost her baby too. Then Michel went to jail for 5 years.  Doctors moved Anna to a mental hospital.

In the mental hospital Anna got a young talented doctor named, Leonard for her treatments. He tried to recover Anna in many ways. Finally he realized that Anna wants only love and care for recovery of her brain. So in few years of treatments and mental therapies, Anna was recovering from her abnormal behaviors. But her memory didn’t come back as previous. Meanwhile Anna’s doctor began to love Anna for real. Anna’s mind eventually felt the love and care. Then she began to recover as a new life. Very rarely, Anna addressed Leonard, as “Aaron”. So Leonard responded that name and he was pretending as Aaron. 

In a fine morning Anna’s doctors decided, that Anna may go home now. So Anna came for her old home again. By that time Anna’s father has died. She had only mother and one servant in the home. Meanwhile, Leonard Proposed to her. So… she said “yes” to him. By then, Anna didn’t have any memories of Aaron or her childhood.

One evening Anna and Leonard went to river bank where Anna and Aaron used to play as kids. At first site of the river Anna felt something strange and then she shocked. So they came quickly home again. Anna got a severe headache and fever throughout that night. Then the following day everything seemed to be fine. So… days passed normally for another 6 months. Leonard planed the wedding in few weeks. 

It was year 1956.One evening Anna went to the river bank with the servant. For a few minutes Servant left Anna, for home to get Anna’s Scarf.  So Anna was walking along the river bank and saw a little boy who was playing around. So Anna heard that boy is whispering  to her…

“Anna… say you are my friend forever?”

“Yes Aaron…I always your best friend. But tell me... you never leave me?”

“I never leave you Anna, no matter what, I never leave you, I promise”.

“Yes…I promise too, not to leave you ever”.

“Anna shall we row the boat, today’s river is fine, isn’t it?”

“Yes Aaron…today is the most beautiful day of the river, lets we row the boat”.

Few days later Anna’s body was found down by the river with the wreckage of very old wooden boat.

P.S – Aaron was never being to another country. He wanted to have a good job and marry Anna one day. Anna’s father john, asked many times to leave his daughter. But Aaron denied, and then John hired a man to kill Aaron. After Aaron’s death Aaron’s father escaped to another region for protect his family from John. So…John pretended to Anna, that Aaron left the country. So…Anna never knew about Aaron’s death.

Few months later one villager who was fishing, saw two kids were playing along the river bank and he heard they are whispering …

“Anna… say you are my friend forever?”

“Yes Aaron…I always your best friend. But tell me... you never leave me?”

“I never leave you Anna, no matter what, I never leave you, I promise”.

“Yes…I promise too, not to leave you ever, no matter what”.

“Anna shall we row the boat… today’s river is fine, isn’t it?”.

“Yes Aaron…today is the most beautiful day of the river, lets we row the boat”.