Childhood Hearts
Ted had a faraway look in his eyes as he watched the entry point for arrivals. He was expectant but as he watched he couldn't help his thoughts drifting a bit. Of course those drifting thoughts still hovered around Anna. She was his world, the one part of him he couldn't let go of. He remembered every bit of how she had looked and smelt the morning she had left. Her flowered blue dress, the dusty looking shoes she loved, the flowers on her hair, and her constant golden smile; they were all etched onto his memory. He smiled a bit as he recalled her words of assurance that day.
"Don't you worry, it'll only be a week" she had said. Then she had whispered mischeviously in his ears; "Mum despises hot weather, and I've heard that Africa is quite the oven". And she had winked at him. He smiled again, such confidence from a fourteen year old.
Then a week later the call had come; there had been a tragedy and Anna had lost her mum. Her dad was now planning on assuming the world health organization role full time too. There was also some talk of closure and other big words but Ted didn't want or need to hear all of that. The message he had gotten was clear; Anna wasn't coming back, not anytime soon anyway. And he had cried his heart out. His mum had tried with great efforts to console him to no effect. Anna was his best friend, his only playmate, and he wasn't going to see her again. No one could even begin to understand.
But it was his dad's words that day that had eventually got to him.
"You could wish her back", his dad had said.
"But wishes don't come true" had been his tear filled response. Then his dad had sat down on the floor next to him, and had uttered those words which were to become his creed in the years to come; "Son, the nearest star to us is 4.25 light years away, that's why wishes take at least nine years to come true, but they do come true eventually. You could wish her back son, but you would have to be patient."
All that was nine years ago now, and Ted had been patient. Very soon now he was going to see his Anna again, and until then, he would be at this train station every other day at 2pm, watching the arrivals...
THE END
Written for the Fact to fiction writing contest by @anikekirsten. Find link below...
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