I woke up at dawn and immediately saw the gun in her hand. She was sweating so much that even her hair was wet. I was very nervous but, even so, I tried to be closer. However, she ran away and disappeared.

As I could remember exactly how her face was, I went to the police to report the incident. Surprisingly, the police told me that the woman I believed to have seen was supposed to be murdered many years ago in a Halloween´s night so, by then, I had started thinking either I was becoming crazy or it just could have been a nightmare.

But Christmas arrived and I couldn´t forget that woman, that magical woman… She was so pretty and somehow when I was with her I felt so good. On Christmas Eve while I was at home something strange happened…

Someone knocked at my door and as I opened it I got absolutely shocked! She was there, in front of me, staring at me and suddently burst into tears. Given the circumstances and without hesitating, I invited her to come in and when she calmed down she explained me how horrible her life had been all this years.

She was attacked mercilessly by a strange so she lost her conscience and almost died. Nevertheless, she was found and cured by an indigenous who knidnapped her when she was fully recovered. While she was forced to be in the Amazonian River with an indigenous population, she discovered a flower that would preserve her youth forever so she couldn´t resist the temptation and swallowed it. In contrast, despite being young and pretty, she was always deeply sad because she knew that she wasn´t going to find the real love in that place. She couldn´t put up with the indigenous culture, especially those unsopportive rituals and, what is more, she remembered with nostalgia how her life was before being attacked.

The night when she finally ran away she found my small town and decided to come to my house to ask for help. But when she looked through the window she fell in love with me at first sight so she felt the necessity of knowing me more than anything else in the world.
Because she didn´t trust anyone, she went inside my house still keeping the gun she had stolen from the indigenous population. She was completely sure that she wasn´t going to shot me so that, as I tried to be closer to touch her, she got extremely frightened and ran away. However, after some sleepless and troubled nights, she decided to come back to me and take the risk because deeply inside she knew that it would be worth it.

Completely amazed I explained her that I felt the same about her so we began a marvellous relationship and got married few months later. Moreover, in our honeymoon, we came back to the place where she was knidnapped and being hidden ourselves from the indigenous population we found another flower for me so, as soon as I swallowed it, I stopped getting old.

Nowadays we are still young and living a happy life together, the best I could ever imagen before I woke up at down after that mysterious night.


The end