I remember when I met Vanessa, it all happened in 2001, we met for the first time in a cafeteria in a shopping mall, in the city of Cumaná. Everything happened in the afternoon, I arrived at the mall and proceeded to go to the cafeteria to buy an espresso, and then go to the back of the mall to smoke a cigarette, while they were preparing my coffee, I noticed a girl who was looking at me and when I looked at her for a short time our gazes were crossed and she smiled charmingly, when suddenly the one who was serving me spoke to me to deliver the order, which by the way I had already paid moments before.
A minute later, I grabbed the espresso coffee I had ordered to go, when I was leaving, I decide to pass by her side and when I was about to do it, she looks up, she stares at me and I at her. I say goodbye and the beautiful girl responds in the same way, but with a charming and captivating smile, I continue walking and while I was walking I remember that I felt the need to turn to see her one more time, but I thought "Pablo, don't turn around! But imagine how a young man of 18 years, can resist not to turn to see a beautiful girl with cinnamon skin, honey-colored eyes, straight black hair, beautiful figure and hypnotizing look, that even a man of steel would melt at the sight of her.
It's been a week since I saw her for the first time and to be honest I feel the need to look at her again, I don't know if it was love at first sight.
The following week I managed to go again to the cafeteria to see if I could see her, but I could not see her, and when the week was about to end, it was Thursday when I went back to the cafeteria and decided to have coffee at one of the tables, then she arrived and not only that, but she approached my table asking me: "Can I sit here with you? I inwardly, dead nervous, answered "Sure, you can; by the way, my name is Pablo". She with a charming smile sits down and says: "Thank you, my name is Vanessa! We talked for about 2 or 3 hours and at the end we exchanged numbers.
Then we talked on the phone for several days, we went out several times and little by little we began to feel mutual attraction, at all times we wrote and called each other, until in an outing we had I asked her to be my girlfriend, Vanessa accepted.
Vanessa and I would travel to other cities whenever we had the opportunity, we would usually travel to other towns, we would only spend 2 days, but just to enjoy new experiences together and that's what I loved about her, that we could have new experiences together. And to summarize the story a little, in 2008 I do not know what happened to me, the truth is that I became more intense and that was killing Vanessa's love for me and in 2009 in the middle of September, we ended the relationship.
After we broke up I spent a whole year, under a state of depression and even attempted suicide and a friend was who helped me out of that situation in which I found myself, it was not the first time I fell in love and that was the second time, but with the difference that Vanessa was the person who helped me change many aspects of my life and although we had finished in 2009 and have had other partners more, I stopped loving her just in 2019 and today I thank God and life for having allowed me to have that experience and now I know that I should not be intense, thanks to Vanessa I learned that women are given love, respect, understanding, support in all aspects, loyalty among other things, I support feminism and I am currently single, because I have in mind to improve myself even more as a person, now I can say with peace of mind that I am freer in the way of thinking.
That is why I had said it is from a person who is important to me, as Vanessa made me a better person than I already was.
I think there are times when we need to feel a little push from someone to improve some personal and social aspect of our life and I had my push, although I need to improve even more, I always want to have an improvement in my life and when I write a story I feel that part of me is written in each of the lines I draw with the pencil and with my computer, I know I am not a professional and that my writing is free, but I want to continue improving my stories, until I become a professional writer.
I thank you, @agmoore because this little story and I had not had the opportunity to talk about it with someone and actually after having written part of what happened, I feel stronger mentally, and I firmly believe that it helped me a lot, accept the non-fiction challenge. I am totally grateful to you @agmoore and The ink well community for this kind of challenge or experiment as you want to call it, I appreciate it.
