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First look: "We kiss like teenagers in the little streets with white houses"

2021-06-02T14:57:22.416Z


Couples tell us about the moment when it all begins. Married and parents of three children, Diane and Fabien first formed a long relationship.


The large living room left free for a weekend by Diane's parents is the perfect place to welcome friends, have a few drinks and face the first frost of the year 2000. “A friend asks me if he can. come with his friend Fabien whom I only knew by name, says the mother of three children then aged 19. His presence at this evening frankly does not mark me. I see him sitting on the sofa but I don't say much to myself. Physically, he doesn't attract me. He is short and blond and I only like tall browns. There must be around 20 people and we don't talk to each other very much ”.

Fabien keeps more memories of this first meeting.

“It was not an arranged plan but my friend told me that I had to meet his girlfriend Diane, that she had something that could please me.

It is true that she is super nice and open, not at all shy.

I am marked by his big blue eyes and his smile.

Between us it tilts well, we laugh a lot.

But this is not of particular interest.

I am coming out of a long relationship that lasted four years.

I follow the little stories but I don't want to hide.

With Diane, this evening especially marks the beginning of a great friendship ”.

“I live with my boyfriend.

Fabien doesn't like him at all ”

The duo quickly forms a beautiful association of party animals. For several years, they skim the evenings. Weekends, vacations and even friends' weddings, they are enjoying their early twenties. And also like to meet up for one-to-one lunches in a restaurant near Fabien's office. “You then bond a deeper relationship,” explains Diane. There is no ambiguity between us. He tells me his somewhat crappy stories with girls. For my part, I live with my boyfriend. Fabien doesn't like him at all. "

“She praises her merits to me, but I feel that something is wrong,” explains Fabien.

He's not good for her, doesn't put her in the spotlight.

She hides behind clothes that do not suit her when she is super beautiful.

I think he's a jerk.

But she defends him all the time.

However, this relationship does not undermine the link that unites us.

"

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This proximity nevertheless makes Fabien reflect.

"Sometimes I tell myself that she would be hot for me," he slips.

She soothes me, I can tell her anything.

We have a lot in common.

But I don't really want to admit it to myself.

She tells me that she is very happy in her marriage and I don't want to ruin this story.

So good… ”

Fabien is transferred to London. He goes back and forth and continues to see Diane regularly on weekends or during holidays. "Shortly before the summer of 2007, she comes to the English capital for work and asks me if I can accommodate her one night, so that we can spend the evening together," continues Fabien. I organize the tour of the Grand Dukes, we go through the pubs, a great restaurant and a club. We drink too much. We talk a lot. She tells me that I should stop my bullshit with girls and put myself down a bit. And without thinking, I let him go:

For that, I have to find a girl like you

. Immediately afterwards, I feel that she is bad… ”“ When he says that to me, I don't answer. I find it very strange and I feel very weird ”.

Back at the apartment, Fabien offers to sit on the sofa but Diane assures him that they can sleep in the same bed.

“She had to put on three tracksuits, rolled up in the duvet and put it in a corner.

I don't know how to behave at all.

You end up falling asleep ”.

The next day while she is in the Eurostar, Diane's number is displayed on her cell phone.

An SMS: “It has been a long time since I was treated like a princess.

I hope we do it again soon ”

.

Two sentences which resonate strangely in Fabien's mind: "I interpret her as something nascent but she is hidden, I'm in London, she in Paris so it's dead".

"He is going to ask me to marry him but I feel that I will refuse ..."

Summer is coming and Diane's plans are turned upside down. Her partner with whom she has just bought an apartment changes jobs and has to postpone her vacation. She decides to go straight to Greece with Fabien and some friends. “Just before leaving, I have a feeling that my boyfriend is about to ask me in marriage. This is the moment that I have been waiting for years but I don't feel at all horny the way I should be. As if this moment came too late… ”

Arrived in Mykonos, Diane finds the small band.

Asked about her sentimental situation, she lets go aloud: "He is going to ask me to marry him but I feel that I am going to refuse ..." A little sentence which does not escape Fabien.

"He swung he wouldn't be the witness of this marriage because this guy didn't make me happy."

It was a blow to me to have verbalized all this.

As if unconsciously, something was unlocked ... "

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That same evening, the party lasts part of the night. Diane is forced to help Fabien undress in the room they share. They end up falling asleep, entwined. The scenario is repeated the next day. And Diane tries to kiss him. “I have a bit of a violent reaction, I don't want it to happen like that. I break out of the bedroom. I'm freaking out. I feel something is going on. But nothing is clear ”.

Diane finds him, lying on a deckchair facing the sea. After a long conversation, they exchange their first kiss.

“It's an inner cataclysm, I'm in the fourth dimension.

I can see that something important is happening.

For four days, we act as if nothing had happened during the day and in the evening, we kiss like teenagers in the small streets with white houses ”.

“It's supernatural and magical, continues Fabien.

We're like an underground couple.

But when she leaves, I ask her not to leave everything for me.

I'm a bit of a coward.

I'm scared even though I know potentially it's the right one.

And I am convinced that she will leave him ”.

"Great stories start with little bubbles"

“On the plane back, I have the impression that my world is collapsing, says Diane. My boyfriend comes to pick me up at the airport, it's horrible. I don't want this life with him. I crack and unpack everything for him, without telling him about Fabien so as not to let him think that I am leaving him for him. And I warn Fabien ”. Also in Greece, the latter takes "a big slap". For several days, contact is broken apart from an incomplete birthday message. Until a dinner in one of Fabien's favorite restaurants.

“While waiting for him, I tell my story to the waitress whom I know well. Then I see Diane arrive. She is dressed as I have never seen her, hyperfeminine, very beautiful. I fall for direct but I give him a kiss… ”The waitress then deposits two glasses of pink champagne and lets go:“ Great stories start with little bubbles ”. Fabien is desperate by this scenario, Diane turns all red. “I tell myself he's doing too much even if he denies it, but I'm having a great evening. We end up kissing and since neither of them has an apartment in Paris, we go to the family country house near Paris of which I have the key. »The start of a sleepless night in front of a roaring fire. Their first night. "I no longer have any reservations, I have lifted all the fears," Fabien savors.“I don't really know what I'm getting myself into but everything is simple, fluid, joyful and benevolent, abounds Diane. Everything seems obvious to me ”. After seven years.

“Premier regard” is a meeting offered by Le Parisien in which couples tell the birth of their romance to our journalist Bertrand Métayer. If you also want to share your story, write to him at

bmetayer@leparisien.fr

.

Source: leparis

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