Literary Lion: They Never Did Fall

A 400 word response to Laura’s prompt.

Literary Lion: Fall

Harry waited at the party for his wife, she was running late today. She always runs late these days. He doesn’t mind, in fact he is rather proud of the fact that she is so hard-working.

Georgia is someone he has always admired and more he got to know her the more he fell for her. No, he stopped himself from using that word. He didn’t FALL for her, he instead got elevated. Yes elevated was the proper word here, nothing other than that.

A Girl who deserved better than what she was getting at the time he met her, the fact that she wasn’t scared of chasing what she wanted. She never complained about being in a misogynistic society and neither did she blamed it on her sex for being down the corporate ladder. She knew what she wanted and she chased it.

In his life he never expected a girl to ever settle down, girlfriends came and broke him and left. She had a worse streak with her boyfriends. A year into their relationship she confided the trauma one of her ex boyfriend had inflicted on her. Enraged, Harry was ready to beat the man to a pulp, Georgia with a shy smile on her face said “You can’t, that man is already in prison for what he did.”

It was that point he knew he has to marry her, he has found his partner, he knew Georgia also had the same plans. He loved her and all the baggage that came along with her. She loved him and his baggage. They settled their disputes easily, they never got bored with each and both of them were ready to go head over heels for other. 

She was better professionally, he was better personally. He is not ashamed of making dinner for her, for pouring her a glass of wine to relax her. She spurned his imagination to an extent that he is already published an acclaimed trilogy. She is his muse, he is her support.

Ingenious couples ask them what’s their secret? they say figure it out. They lead by example rather than by words. They revel in their friends achievements and support failures. They do their best to keep up with others, they actually keep up with each other’s lives.

If anyone asks when did they figure out they had fallen for each other, they would laugh.

His train of thoughts was interrupted by her arrival, she had come directly from work. Hair a little disorderly, face a little tired but Georgia did her best to smile. That was what he loved, what she knew he loved, the natural attempts.

They hadn’t fallen, their lives had gotten better.

Let’s see what others have written:

1. https://thecoolbookworm.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/fall-literary-lion/
2. https://bencnicholson.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/the-fall-a-response-to-laura-feaseys-literary-lion/
3. https://thecoolbookworm.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/fall-literary-lion/
4. https://mandibelle16.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/literary-lion-the-fall-of-uriel/
5. https://tuckedintoacorner.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/fall/
6. http://ismithwords.com/2015/09/17/literary-lion-tumble/#comment-3361
7. https://livehomeandaway.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/pride-and-falls/
8. https://deliriousantidotes.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/fracture/
9. https://seriesofadjustments.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/the-descent/
10. https://deliriousantidotes.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/fracture/
11. https://livehomeandaway.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/pride-and-falls/
12. http://viewsfromtheridge.com/2015/09/25/fall/
13. https://thisismyironlung.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/her-fall/
14. http://dralimanonlife.com/2015/09/26/literary-lion-after-the-fall/
15. http://grahamisjustmyname.com/2015/09/28/the-fall-literary-lion/
16. http://finallyawriter.com/2015/09/27/falling-literary-lion-prompt/