Forever mine

by Mariia Rudenko (Ukraine)

I didn't expect to find Bulgaria

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It was 2014, Bulgaria, small and unforgettable city Balchik. I was 14 and I got there with broken heart, and obviously I had no intention of falling in love. Things has changed after I saw him. It was our 5th day there and me, my family and our friends decided to eat out. We went to our favorite restaurant. We chose out favorite table on the terrace. I was looking through the menu, when I looked up and saw him far away from me. It was definitely love at first sight! Not very tall, but he was still a bit taller than me, brown eyes, dark hair. You ask me how I managed to see all that? I didn’t, I felt it! He was talking to our waiter and staring at me the way I was staring at him. I didn’t remember much from those divine seconds but I truly realized that every butterfly inside me would always ask only for him. We had a great time at that restaurant and tasty dinner as well, but I didn’t manage to say even a single word to him. We went away a few hours after and I was sure I’d never see him again. I had been thinking of him for approximately 5 days without telling anybody about my feelings. But I ended up telling my parents about him because I couldn’t cope with that storm of emotions inside alone. My father said he was going to ask about him, but I begged him not to do that. We went there for dinner once again. Imagine my surprise when my farther kept the promise! I was just sitting awkwardly and did not know what to say. I helped my father with questions - he looked about 16 years old, probably part-time job as a barman in the summer. The smile on my face disappeared when the waiter said that he had no one in mind and walked away. When we were about to leave, the waiter approached us and said that there was a guy actually, but he was 19 and he was the son of the owner. My parents asked if it was possible to see him, but the waiter just shook his head and said he wasn’t there, and what was more important, he had a girlfriend. My world collapsed, tears filled my eyes. But I held on. Our penultimate day had come, but the last one for visiting the restaurant. Everybody agreed to have dinner there. I did understand we weren’t supposed to see each other again, even if we were, that would still make no sense. Сould a guy who had a girlfriend look at me that way or it all just seemed to me? The weather was so hot, the only thing I wanted was to get there as soon as possible and drink a glass of a cold fresh juice. Before I got into the place where my heart broke just yesterday, the waiter’d grabbed my hand and said that that guy wanted to get to know me, and dragged away with him. My heart started to beat so fast that even if I wanted to count the number of beats per minute, I wouldn’t able to! To cut a long story short, we were talking while he was making cocktails for the visitors. We took a picture of us being happy. I also found him on Facebook and Instagram, and we started chatting. While we were talking at that restaurant, he said he didn’t remember his Skype password, so unlikely we’d be able to chat there, but he texted me on Skype the same day we met. It meant I was important to him, and I wasn’t the only one who felt the connection. Maybe we weren’t meant to be together, we never met after that, we don’t even talk anymore. I grew up and found another goal, but he’ll always be mine in my heart. Such feelings unforgettable. You could say he had a lot of girls like me, but even now, 6 years after and through all my experience, I knew he didn’t. Neither did I.