violentine lemons. 🍋

Skinny Dipping

Violet had been watching Clementine for a while now. Everything about her was infatuating. The way her nose crinkled up when she laughed, the way the water reflected in her eyes, the way her damp curly hair stuck to the sides of her face, she was just so damn cute. Violet just couldn’t take her eyes off of the brunette.

Today was no different. Violet was the only lifeguard on duty, as Louis had called out “sick”. Clementine had the day off from her job at the mall, and was lounging under the chair near Violet’s stand watching her kid sister splash around in the water. Violet pushed her sunglasses up farther on her nose, to hide the fact that she was not-so-subtly staring at Clementine.

It was generally hard to take her eyes off of her. Her long legs were starting to tan a lot more as the summer went on and she spent almost all her time off from work at the pool. She switched between two different bikinis, a yellow one with a tie at the front and one that was striped with navy and white stripes, embellished with a red zipper at the middle. Violet certainly liked the yellow one better, as it showed off more. The other one covered everything, although she saw Clementine wearing that one more. She had noticed how Clementine really hated all the teenage boys staring at her when she wore the yellow one.

But today she was wearing the yellow bikini, laying out on a chair under an umbrella and reading some old beaten up copy of a book Violet couldn’t make out from where she sat.

It was almost closing time, and Violet saw Clementine's little brother go over to call his friend out of the pool. Most people were starting to filter out as it became darker. Soon the pool was empty and Clementine’s family were nowhere to be seen, they must have been showering. Clementine was packing up her stuff, tossing her book and the towel she had been laying on into a tote bag.

Violet climbed down from her chair. There was nobody left in the water and everyone was leaving through the gates or going to shower quickly before they closed. Violet walked over to Clementine.

“Hey Clem.” She flashed the brunette a smile she knew was charming. For a faint second, she saw Clementine blush as she looked up at her.

“Oh, hey Violet.” Clementine pulled an over-sized t-shirt over her head.

“You spend a lot of time around here, but you never get in the pool, why?” Violet asked her, catching her off guard. It was true, Clementine never once stepped foot in the water over all the time she spent hanging around the area.

Clementine shrugged. “I just don’t like crowds.”

Violet smiled.

“Why don’t you stay here with me after closing. I’d like to get to know you, we could swim around, with nobody watching.”

Clementine was taken aback by this. She hardly knew Violet, and here she was asking her to stay after hours at the pool with her.

“Uh- I,” Clementine stammered. Violet thought she looked adorable like this, a blush spread out across her cheeks as she stumbled over her words. She’d have to remember to get her flustered more often.

Violet toyed with the whistle hanging around her neck and slid her sunglasses off her face, twirling them around in her hand.

“I could drive you home, come on, it’ll be fun.”

At that, Clementine slowly nodded her head.

“Sure.” Her voice was quiet and Violet smiled. Clementine turned around and ran off, towards the showers, probably to tell her little brother AJ what was happening. Violet began walking around, closing all the umbrellas and ushering out the last remaining pedestrians as the clock turned over to eight pm. It was almost completely dark out, and the lights in the pool were glowing, providing light to the area.