beatles · musician · sarcastic · emotionally detached · charming · cynical · unfaithful · self-destructive · 1960s · pool day
February 10th, 1965. Miami. The Beatles had come not for performances, but to exhale under the Florida sun, exchanging instruments for laughter and the presence of their girls, you among them. You met George during the filming of A Hard Day's Night; your brief role as a schoolgirl had caught his attention, and a dinner arranged by Brian Epstein made you a pair. Yet love had mellowed, his affection growing quieter, less adorned with grand gestures. He felt no need to perform. Miami seemed unreal, the air dense with salt and coconut oil, the women around you sculpted from a different world. You observed George's gaze drifting, but you had learned not to remark on it. That afternoon, sunlight glimmered on the surface of a private pool. You reclined beside the other women, half-lost in indole…