{"id":10517,"date":"2014-05-08T22:20:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T22:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/05\/08\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-34\/"},"modified":"2014-05-08T22:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T22:20:44","slug":"skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/05\/08\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-34\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

skinnydefenselessheroism<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“\/Is\/ there an actual Ben & Jerry\u2019s store in this town?” Beth asks, idly. She doesn\u2019t get an answer, and shoos Summer out of the scoring computer seat when Stiles finishes his frame. “Go get some drinks. And nachos, I want nachos. Both of you, while I set up the next game.”<\/p>\n

Summer gives her a flat look, which Beth only returns with a lifted eyebrow. She\u2019s basically telling Summer to deal with it, the way one deals with a fear of bees \u2014 exposure. Summer sticks her tongue out\u00a0before shrugging her shoulders at Stiles. \u201cI guess we\u2019ve been told. I\u2019m going to need the extra hands anyway. Come on.\u201d<\/p>\n

She holds her head high, displaying as much \u201cdevil-may-care\u201d attitude as she can find, when she walks past Jesse. She doesn\u2019t actually look at him, though he\u2019s watching her, and when his gaze switches to Stiles it noticeably darkens.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Nah, we live in nowheresville.” Stiles says back to Beth, laconic as always, eyebrows raised. “You have to go to the mall in freaking Auburn to get an honest to God Ben and Jerry\u2019s store. Which is lame.”<\/p>\n

Of course, then he\u2019s being herded towards the concessions stand, and Stiles is all tripping over both of his feet, simultaneously, slouched back towards the shoving, until he gets a handle on his body and manages to propel it in the direction he wants it to go. \u201cOkay. Hopefully I won\u2019t actually drop the nachos on the way back. It\u2019s a hazard you\u2019re all taking with your melty cheese, I just want that stated now.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not nearly as recalcitrant as his words would make it seem. All in all, in fact, Stiles seems to be having a reasonably good time. Part of that time might be coming from\u00a0egging Jesse on<\/em>, because as he gets to passing the other boy by and he notices the darkened expression\u2014he blows a kiss.<\/p>\n

No one ever said he wasn\u2019t an instigator.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer is far too busy pretending she doesn\u2019t care to notice how provocative Stiles is being. It\u2019s hard; she wants so badly to talk to him, to ask why and understand. She\u2019s too used to being able to guess, predict, infer, from what people feel \u2014 not knowing is frustrating.<\/p>\n

Abstractedly, she orders, tapping her debit card against the counter while they wait. She keeps her gaze forward, which is why she doesn\u2019t notice Jesse coming up and trying to punch Stiles in the face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

skinnydefenselessheroism: iamthefirechild: “\/Is\/ there an actual Ben & Jerry\u2019s store in this town?” Beth asks, idly. She doesn\u2019t get an answer, and shoos Summer out of the scoring computer seat when Stiles finishes his frame. “Go get some drinks. And nachos, I want nachos. Both of you, while I set up the next game.” Summer … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,867,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}