Summer heat has a way of getting to you. Everything is so sticky, sweaty, so suffocating. It's almost impossible to go 5 minutes without the fan. The heat brings about irritation, frustration, and an incapacitation - it's too hot to do anything. Fortunately, Nature has brought about a balance during summer - a few delicacies which neutralize the heat, if only for a while. The best one, no doubt, is the watermelon. Hard as a coconut, flesh so light, it seems hollow, and that impossible, impossible green - a rain-forest tree's leaf-green. These are the key features of summer's best-loved fruit. Yet, even the exquisite exterior is nothing compared to what lies inside. A flash of a long, silver knife, and you are exposed to the best part of the fruit. Slices are made semi-circular, thin, but large. Every bite into the diluted red flesh is bliss. It's like being surrounded by water. Sweet, sticky, and cool, the red liquid floods your mouth with every bite and the flesh disintegrates immediately. There's never enough watermelon in the world, to satisfy our cravings during summer. After eating (well, it's more liking scraping clean, honestly) away the juicy insides, we are left with a smile-shaped shell, one, that honestly, only widens our own.
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