It was a warm afternoon in the summer, and I was just graduated from arts faculty. In the beginning of my graduation, I was very happy, but after a while it was very boring to me. I need a real variety in my life.

I started thinking about my future. I was thinking that, what should I do for myself. One night after eating dinner, I went my bed, and started thinking about my destiny.

That night when I slept, I dreamed a very marvelous dream. My dream was in this way, I saw myself in an amazing place that I had never seen before. I was standing against a very beautiful girl with blue eyes that was sitting on a small rock, and she was playing with some butterflies. In the bottom of the rock something was written like (Mysterious Vale) when I saw that name immediately I memorized it.

Tomorrow of that night when I woke up I started to draw my dream. I finished the painting of my dream in three days, and I named that painting (lovely dream). That painting was valuable for me, and I carried that painting everywhere with myself.

I met my close friend (Hamid), and explained whole of my dream to him. On that time Hamid was 22 years old. He was my classmate, and my close friend too. We counseled together, about everything and every problems. When I explained my dream to Hamid, he said to me that he knows the place by the name of Mysterious Vale. He added that he had gone there with his parents about eight years ago. When he said, that he knows that place, I surprised.

Very soon we decided to go there, and also my cousins decided to go there with us. My cousins were Habib and Javid. Habib was 19 years old, and Javid was 20 years, and both of them graduated from high school. I explained to Habib and Javid just about my trip to Mysterious Vale, but nothing about my dream. Anyway we prepared to go there as soon as possible.

After a few days, we started our trip toward Mysterious Vale, where I thought it can change my destiny.

It was 10 o’clock in the morning, when we started our trip by the car that Hamid prepared for us. In the way we laughed a lot, and explained about our interesting memories.

When we arrived to the entrance of vale, it was about 2:20 in the afternoon, and the weather was very lovely. We were became very tired, so we need a complete rest at least for a day. Honestly it was the best place I had ever seen in whole of my life. “About 7 or 8 minutes left to arrive to the center of Mysterious Vale”, Hamid said. I replied to him “go faster and faster”.

We entered to the Vale. We were speaking together, that once one of the wheels of car broken down. We took off from car. It was our bad luck, but fortunately an old wooden house seemed there near to the river.

When we arrived to that house, it seemed no one live there. However we knocked many times to the door, but no one answered. We started to enter to the house. When we entered to the house, we heard a weak old man sound. The old man said: “just take off your shoes”. Immediately we took off our shoes, and we said to him hello, but he did not replayed us. Then we started to speak with him about the rent of house for one week, but he was silent and watched us. After a while he went to a room, and left us alone.

That house had three rooms. The first room treated to the old man, the second room was locked, and the third room was for us. It was not so comfortable, but it was ok.

It was six o’clock in the evening, when we located to that room. We seemed very tired, in this case we had to ate something and rest until tomorrow morning.

We started eating our food, but suddenly I remembered about the old man. I took some food to give to him. I knocked the door of old man’s room, but I did not hear any answer form him, thus I opened the door. He sat on a wooden chair. I did not say anything, and put the food on the wooden table. When I wanted to leave his room, he said “do not near to that locked room after twelve o’clock in the midnight”. “Ok” I replayed to him .I returned to our room, and I started to draw the face of the old man, because he had an interesting face. When I finished the painting, I slept.

Morning of that night we woke up early, and we prepared for seeing beautiful places. Hamid took us and carried toward beautiful places. The first place was not very beautiful, in this case we ignored that place. The second place was very amazing, because that place was in my dream. All the things were there except the beautiful girl with her blue eyes. I sat down there, and started to draw a painting form that beautiful view. Hamid and my cousins left me alone to see other places.

It was four o’clock in the afternoon. I left there to wash my face in small river, that located near to my place. I saw that beautiful girl with her blue eyes, when I come back to my place. I thought that I am in a dream, therefore I shake my head many times, but it was not a dream. Absolutely that was real. The beautiful girl with her blue eyes was watching my valuable painting (lovely dream), and she was in wonder.

I said to her “can I help you young girl.”

When she saw me, she ignored me. She said “how is it possible?”, and said “how did you draw this painting”.

I answered to her “I imagined and drew this painting”. I did not tell her anything about my dream.

Suddenly she said “can I have this painting for myself?”

I surprised, because that painting was the most important thing in my life, on another hand, I fell in love with that girl. I did not know, what should I do with the request of beautiful girl. I did not want to lose her. Finally I decided to accept her request.

I answered very naturally to her “Yes you are welcome”. She became very happy.

She said “I will come here at four o’clock tomorrow”, and then she took the painting and left me.

It was sunset, and I came back to the house. After a while, Hamid and my cousins arrived to the house. We all were tired, and we started eating food. When I put the food of old man on the table, I started asking about the girl.

The old man said “she is alone in this vale, and she lost her parents during the war”.

I asked about her name.

Then he answered to me “her name is Ziba”.

When I left the old man, he repeated “do not near to that locked door after twelve o’clock in the midnight”.

On that night, I could not sleep, and I always thought about the girl and her eyes. The time was going to pass the twelve, that I heard the sound of that locked door. I wanted to know “what is happening with that locked door, but I remembered about the sentence of the old man. I could not control myself. I came out from my room to see what is happening there. I went toward the locked door, and I opened it. When I opened the door, actually that was not a room, that was a very nice garden.

The old man saw me, and said to me “I am waiting for you, come in”.

I was afraid, and I had to accept his request, so I entered to that nice garden. He said to me “did you have any ambitions or wishes in the past?”

I replayed “yes why not”, because it is natural that every person has lots of wishes in his or her life.

Then he said to me “tell me your most important wishes that you could not achieved it”.

I continued to him “once I fell in love with my neighbor’s daughter. Her name was Nazanin. On that time she was nineteen years old. She was very kind and so beautiful. When I saw her, I felt that I found my partner of my life, but one day I understood that I lost her forever. In fact she engaged with another boy. That action made me crazy. About three or four months, I did not know what is going on around me”.

When the old man heard my story, he laughed to my story. Then he said “who knows, what the best is!”. His action made me angry. Then he said “come and sit in front of me!”

I went and sat in front of him. Then he said “join your hand with my hand!”. When I joined my hand with his hand, suddenly everything changed for me, and I could able to see everything in the past. I saw myself with Nazanin. Our joint life just continued about two years.  I saw that we separate from each other after two years (divorced). Then the old man shake my shoulder and continued “now you understand”.

On that time, I was very happy, and I shouted “ yes, yes, yes”.

After that the old man said to me “now tell me your wish”.

I told to the old man “I just wished to engage with Ziba”,

After a while the old man start telling to me “if you want to marry with Ziba. You have to draw another painting like (lovely dream), and you should not show that painting for her. When you want to request for marriage from Ziba, the painting should be with you, then she will accept your request”.

Immediate I kiss his hand, and left the nice garden. It was around two o’clock in the midnight. I started the painting of another (lovely dream). I finished that painting with sunrise of the morning, because I memorized all part of that painting in my mind.

My friends left me to see nice places. It was ten o’clock in the morning, and I was alone. I went to that nice place, and I was waiting for Ziba. She arrived there very early. After greeting, I said her “I really love you Ziba”. She was quite, and she shamed. After that I said very emotionally “can I marry with you Ziba please!”.

She said “yes” and left me.

Very soon we decided to leave the Mysterious Vale with Ziba. When we were leaving that house, we could not see the old man. Ziba asked me about the old man. Immediate I showed the painting of the old man, she became wondered and sad. I asked her “what is wrong with this painting?”

I wondered, and I thought I am in a dream, but that was real. Anyway we left that Mysterious Vale.

It is five years that we stared our joint life together. Now I think I am the happiest man in the world, in addition we have a son by the name of Sadeq. He is three years old. Sadeq is very clever. My wife (Ziba) learnt drawing better than me in first two years of our joint life. We visit Mysterious vale once in a year with my wife. I really satisfy from my destiny with Ziba. She is my real partner in my life, and she will be…!