Seventeen years...
That year, she turned five and, like others, started to have a father; she began to live in a normal family with both parents. It was also that year when she met the first boy in her life she was willing to get close to; that boy, from a childhood partner, had become her husband today.
But...
Seventeen years have passed, yet the image of her first encounter with the boy still lingers in her mind vividly—the awkward and quiet boy who could even cry. Back then acting like the Queen, she took the initiative to propose to him, "When I grow up, I will marry you and be your most beautiful bride, how about that?"
And today, exactly seventeen years later, she remembered that he simply furrowed his brows without any intention of agreeing.
Later on, the two of them naturally came together, probably because the adults talked about it so much, it became real. As time went by, she had forgotten she ever said such words, but surprisingly, he still remembered.
