Through my younger years I had a number of short term relationships and a couple of long term. However, when I met and got to know Oxana it felt like I had been searching for her most of my life and I was given a chance to win her heart.
In 2009 I was living in London in a 1 bedroom flat that my friend had rented to me, and worked for an Information Services company called Markit as a Network Engineer. Throughout this time I was working hard to develop skills and to advance as much as possible. However, even though having a good job the rest of my life was not so complete. Even though going out with my friends and meeting Girls on nights out I had never met "The One" and even doubted that she existed... that people would just say it to you in order to bring positivity to your life. However in September the same year I went on a 2 week holiday to Naama Bay in Sharm El Sheikh with my friend. Throughout this time we had fun in the Sun but he had to cut the holiday short by 1 week due to work reasons and offered to pay for me to fly back with him. However, I declined and decided to stay at the resort on my own for a week to relax before going back to work. After a couple of days by the Beach and nights in the Hotel Bar i got chatting to a Russian guy who was drinking there. Fortunately he spoke good English. We spoke about our time in Sharm and how and people that we had met (the usual guy chit-chat). He explained that he was leaving that night but he had two friends that he wanted to introduce me to. Little did I know that he was about to introduce me to Oxana and her friend Svetlana. Neither of them spoke hardly any English and my Russian was even worse, which was none at all. Once provided with the introduction we were able to get to know each other better by using the mutual friend as an intermediary. However, this was short lived as he was going that night. When he left us we stayed and had a number of drinks together and were quite "merry". This helped to break down barriers and I think no one cared that we didn't really understand exactly what each other was talking about.
Although Svetlana was attractive I was captivated by Oxana. While I didn't or perhaps wasn't able to convey this in words our eyes had met and we had an occasional smile. However, at the time I was thinking more about at the most a holiday romance rather than a long term relationship. Over time we all spent more and more days together until I'm convinced her friend purposely left us at a Shisha Bar that we were all relaxing at one night, making an excuse that she was tired and needed to go to bed.
From this point Oxana and i were quite awkward with each other and I guess the nervousness of the situation took hold. Eventually using some flavored Egyptian tobacco and rounds of Cocktails as an intermediary we began to relax, enjoy each other's company while watching some local entertainment. At this point I was thinking there was a friendship and not too much else, with the smiles witnessed being more of nervousness than anything else. Next is the situation for how we fell on love. There were a number of local Egyptians working in the Hotel and they provided various services while you were outside such as Shisha, drinks, food and photos. Now when one of the guys came over to us he thought we were together as a couple. He explained that he wanted to take our picture. So we walked over to where he was pointing, and happened to be next to one of the flood lit Lagoon pools. So in terms of an attractive back drop to a potentially good looking picture you had it. So we struck our poses together and thought that was the end of it. Next thing I know he was saying "Ok you kiss, yes kiss!" I was pretty stunned as this was an extremely awkward situation with a rather confused looking Oxana starring back at me. Then the guy comes over moves us into position and again says "You Kiss, picture!" and proceeded to kiss his own hand. We both then looked at each other and started giggling like a pair of teenagers. Then he repeated again. We shrugged our shoulders and I leant in to kiss Oxana. From this point on it seems there was no turning back. If there was ever one moment that would inadvertently change your life it was this, one kiss. For whatever happened in this snippet in time we ultimately fell in love.
We spent every hour we could together in the remaining days left & were happy just staring into each other's eyes, lazing by the beach and being affectionate. I knew that there was something about this girl that was very special and the way that I felt was unlike any relationship that i had ever had. The problem for me at this point is that I am a realist and had been hurt in my life so as a protective mechanism tried to rationalise about the situation. I thought objectively and placed myself in the position of one of my friends, who i convinced myself would tell me that I'm crazy to say that Ifell in love with someone in less than a week. So for me I left Sharm with my heart filled with love but my head performing a good blocking move on the whole situation. Upon leaving Sharm my plane was delayed and I ended up having to stay at another hotel for a night in Sharks Bay. Obviously from Oxana's perspective I had already left and was on my way back home to England. However, little did she know the first thing I did when getting to the new Hotel was get a taxi to Naama Bay in the hope that I would bump into her.
I made my way back to the Hotel and to her and Svetlana's room to leave her a message. I waited for a couple of hours and started to think that they may not be back. So I went to the Hotel bar which overlooked the entrance and started to drown my sorrows. When staring into the bottom of the glass i heard a familiar voice and turned around and it was Svetlana. I rushed over and gave her a hug and tried to ask where Oxana was. She just about managed to convey to me in very bad English that Oxana was looking for me and was trying to call me. We then met together and spent my last night curled up in each other's arms. At this moment I felt like there was nowhere on Earth I would rather be.
