Very Lovely

"The experience of being pushed into a swimming pool is a one that any average person is likely to have had and, if not, will have at some point in their life. First of all, there’s that quick, unwelcomed nudge around your lower back and your stance momentarily bends as your feet attempt to remain glued to the floor. Before you know it, your body gives way like an abandoned puppet, no longer entertaining its audience and in that moment, you know that there is not a single goddamned thing you can do until you hit the water, until your whole body is engulfed.

    Falling in love with Violet Lawson felt very much like being pushed into a swimming pool. As soon as you’d felt that initial nudge, you were plummeting into water and there was no going back. An awful lot of people have fallen into swimming pools, though. You can’t say the same about Violet Lawson. People only thought they had fallen in love with her, although you can’t blame them. If there was a human representation of “love at first sight”, this young lady was precisely that.

Her white-blonde hair was at shoulder length and fell naturally in waves down either side of her face, creating the frame to a beautifully raw, natural picture that you wouldn’t ever forget. Her eyes were a mystery in themselves, often misty and vacant but full of life all the same. The lips that formed her mouth laid gently, one on top of the other, the words that departed between them walking through you like a friendly ghost. She was captivating. She was the homiest prison cell any soul could find itself in and I, the one person who had sworn to never devote himself to another, had truly fallen in love with her."