The first time I met him

Byala

Byala Beach 
Before I moved to Bulgaria for good, I had owned an apartment in the same Black Sea Coastal town of Byala for 10 years which was like a home from home to me. With all my personal effects and clothes permanently there, it was no effort at all to even pop over for a long weekend but usually once there a long weekend would result in me staying a few weeks, a month and on one occassion 6 months..
My apartment 

It was on this occassion, 5 years before I moved there, I first met Valeri. It was also on this occassion I first saw the villa I came to buy advertised for sale.
Although I do remember the time I met him  now, this was only after he  jogged my memory by reciting it in graphic detail at a later date. However it was of no real significance to me at the time. So insignificant, in fact, that I had even forgotten his name when I came to see him again.
 It was of great significance to him however as I would later find out. Even being able to recall with immense detail,  what I was wearing, how my hair was styled as well as remembering every word I said, even when I smiled! Claiming that the first time he saw me he knew I was going to be his wife.. at first, I was flattered to have made such an impact.  It now clearly was a meeting that triggered an obsession in an already mentally ill man that manifested into a full blown delusion.  Now a meeting of high significance by being the catalyst for the horrors yet to come ...
So let me now relay how we met;

Valeri and his friend Georgi were young local lads. I knew them by sight as for as long as I had been there that summer, every evening at the same time they would walk past my apartment building on their way to work at the Tango complex which was practically opposite.
Usually I would be on my balcony at that time and so it was no surprise when they started to wave as they went by which I would acknowledge by waving back. A wave naturally progressed to a hello and then a little small talk if I saw them in the street or on the beach.
The first time I did run into them face to face I do recall thinking how handsome they were, especially Valeri who was not as chatty or outgoing as Georgi but nevertheless had more presence . He hardly spoke at all claiming to not speak English as well as Georgi. I  thought that he was a little arrogant and bound to be  a player as he was so incredibly  handsome, I could see he would have women throwing themselves at him.
To me they were just young  lads in their Mid 20's with me 15 years or so older. For that reason alone, I did not see it in anyway other than being friendly from my side and theirs. In fact Valeri did not really give the impression he was being that friendly even.
There was something about him that I could not put my finger on that made me feel a little dubious of him and the forming of an opinion he could be a real bastard with girls. A use and abuse them type which I had come across many times when younger and avoided for self preservation but secretly wanted them to notice me.
Not giving it any more sentiment than a passing thought as it being the way it was with extremely handsome young guys who are the one every girl dreams to be the one  he falls in love with. The tall, dark and handsome mysterious man portrayed in the Mills and Boon romantic live happily ever after fantasies as the bad boy who could  have any girl but its you he wants.
As time went by I got to know Georgi a little better and had given up making an effort with Valeri as on a few occassions I had been pleasant by asking how he was, he would give a one word answer or not answer at all and walk away..
There was something about him that made me feel uneasy. So uneasy, in fact, that one afternoon I was on the beach at the very end where it was so seluded it was not unusual for you not to see a single person all day. Therefore a place where I felt no worries going topless. That day however Valeri appeared out of the blue and although I did not engage in conversation and even pretended not to see him as he passed by, he chose a spot less than 50 metres away to get naked and stand full frontal to face me, with a piercing stare so intense it unnerved me but not in a good way.
I was as baffled as you as to my reaction. The most handsome, young and fit man I had ever seen was naked on a secluded beach with me being the one he was exposing himself to but instead of the girl in the Mills and Boon fantasy who had been the one to win the heart, it filled me with an uneasy and unsettling uncomfortability.  So much so I felt the need to pack up and leave the beach.
I decided that I did not like him much and although ran into again over the coming months we never exchanged more than a hello.
Georgi I spoke to more regularly as he would often be on the beach and would stop for a chat as he did with many people.
The villa was slightly out of reach for me at that time however a few years later, I had managed to purchase it. I had seen Georgi and kept in touch but was not to meet Valeri again until after I had made the move to Bulgaria permanent...

Valeri





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I am an English lady who lived in Bulgaria for 18 months which sadly did not turn out as I had hoped. I was not new to Bulgaria'...