Anna was sitting on a white wooden bench on the veranda skyped through Smartphone with her mother in Hongkong and waiting for her husband to come in for lunch. Her new home was a bungalow with dark red bricks and with ground floor windows. At the entrance with a colourful rose-garden framed with box trees-balls a boy with red freckles on his face got off his bike and walked by the bungalow very slowly and glanced at her curiously. She noticed this was the boy she had met this morning. She stood up and just followed the direction of the boy. She was wearing a short slim mini skirt with a wide belt and a red silk shirt. She could not believe her eyes and she was surprised and looked breathtakingly at the flat boundless grassland, as if she entered a fairyland, as far as her eyes could see, closely under the blue sky with a lot of happy horses which posed for pictures. On a sudden she heard the loud singing of a bird, mellifluous and rich; and for an instant, with a catch at her heart, she never expected such an idyllic beauty in a village in northern Germany.
Then she was called, awaked and saw her husband was coming from the gravel path behind the bungalow, the path that led to his own clinic for general medicine. She ran to him and hugged and kissed him. He smiled and greeted her and his eyes dropped on her breasts which were straining the soft fabric. She put her one arm on his hip and they came into the dining-room and his eyes lit up with pleasure as she sat on his lap.
"Hey hey Anna, hungry?"
"Very."
"It'll only take me a minute to have washed my hands and change my clothes, and then I'm ready."
"Be quick," she smiled.
Patrick had a housekeeper, who came only for cooking lunch everyday and every 14 days for cleaning the house.
He disappeared into the bedroom and she heard him whistling cheerily while, with the carelessness with which she was always remonstrating, he tore off his clothes and flung them on the floor. He was 39, but he was still like a school-boy. That's why she had fallen in love with him, nobody could understand that. He was a tall strong man with dark brown short hair, wearing a pair of frameless glasses and with blue eyes. Anna had examined him carefully and told him often that he was actually not her type at all.
"I never said I was a beauty, I can't help."
Once she unarmed around his neck and whispered to him:
"You are a big fat man, Patrick, but you've got charm. I can't help loving you."
But of course she knew perfectly well what she just wanted, and he made her a barrel of laughs. He had a charming smile. He was just simply sweet, and she felt comfortable with him and spiritually he was not far away from her.
It was hard to realize that ten months ago they met online. She was a librarian at Hongkong University. He asked her to marry him after they had spent a month holiday together on the island of Ruegen in Germany. The holiday on the coast of the Baltic Sea took place six months after they lived together online. He later told her he would never forget when he was waiting at the hotel gate and caught the first sight of a black high-heels lap-length boot moving out from a taxi and her aubergine colour suitcase, after which appeared a slim tall attractive lady with black glasses. All that had made him randy like a breeding stallion, he said. Anna still remembered the moment when she saw the man with whom she had lived online for more than six months suddenly standing before her. She was sure that was him. She felt an instant rush of blood to her whole body and smiled and took her glasses off. He came to her, and they stood there face to face for a while, she restrained herself for a moment, and she didn't know whether she could give him a hand or a big kiss.
They hugged, and he gave her two sweet cheek kisses. They walked shoulder to shoulder together into the lobby so closely; their bodies were quicker than their minds. It took almost three days to compensate all the online lacking parts, and then they began normally to talk and to live. They felt they knew each other almost everything, but they felt everything was new. She didn't ask so many questions as she had done online. She just stuck to his body as if they changed into one body with two heads. They were head over heels in love. She said in Chinese: "ζηΌειζ₯ηΈδΌ!" It means that if two people are predestined to meet each other, they will (unknowingly) do it even if they have to travel for a thousand miles.
"Ah, it might be destiny or obsession." He laughed.
She wasn't very responsive, when she heard the word "obsession".
She thought, if he asked to go with him to Germany, she would have to refuse him. She was her widowed mother's only child, and she could not go so far away from her mother. But she was carried off with her unexpected emotion, especially after they physically had met each other and after she had accepted him. They got married as quickly as possible. The church ceremony took place in a typical northern red brick church. Her mother flew in for it from Hongkong. Now, three months later, they had settled down. She was very happy with Patrick, and she had already made up her mind to develop as an online Asian modern children's literature distributor. Anna had a heart and a good hand for children. She always gave a hand to her girlfriends for taking care of their children, when they needed help. It was her passion to play with children, and she very much liked telling them stories. The children liked Anna very much, although she had never been a mother.
Now she heard Patrick going to the toilet and heard him tilting back the window and saying some words with muted voice in German, but she could not understand it. It seemed he was talking to somebody angrily and the other voice rose. It was a boy's voice. She heard the window was just closed and water was running and Patrick came to the lunch table.
"Who were you talking to?" she asked.
"A naughty boy from the village, I didn't understand what he wanted."
"I saw a boy today two times, who had gazed at me so long, I didn't understand why."
"A freckled face?"
"Yes, exactly."
Patrick suddenly turned pale.
"Oh forget it, Anna." He smiled only with his mouth and turned to another topic.
"What have you been doing this morning?"
"I took a walk around and met this boy together with a woman with a baby in her arm." Again she remembered the scene. The woman was slim, wearing a pair of brown folded trousers and a blouse with small patterned flowers and flat shoes.
"Did you talk to her?"
"I spoke with her, but I understood almost nothing."
"Oh! It is not a baby; she is already three years old. The woman is Heidi"
"How do you know?"
"Don't forget, I'm the only doctor in this village. Heidi is a single mother with three children, a boy and a girl; they are three year old twins. The boy lives with her mother."
"So you also know the father, don't you?"
"Yes, the father left Heidi and pays for the children."
"Heidi looks unhappy and nervous."
"No, I don't think so. Today there are single mothers everywhere."
"I'm happy they are not your children", Anna joked.
"Oh no, no", he said with a burst voice, and his eyes looked at his plate.
"I'm very lucky to have caught you so young. Honestly it would upset me dreadfully, if I were told that you had to leave your three children for me."
His eyes felt softly and tender and asked, "Are you happy here, darling?"
"Desperately."
She still had the prettiness of youth, her brown eyes were fine; she was tall and had an attractive figure, and a pleasing frankness of expression, she gave you the impression a girl of spirit, and one could feel that she was competent in her formal job.
