{"id":10997,"date":"2014-04-30T20:47:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/04\/30\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-47\/"},"modified":"2014-04-30T20:47:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T20:47:18","slug":"skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/04\/30\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-47\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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It\u2019s like the question is all the cue that\u2019s needed. Summer hovers by his elbow while he tells his shoe size and pays for the rental, before she says, \u201cI think I\u2019m not giving you a choice.\u201d She hugs him \u2014 well, more like glomps him, shoes and all. This is no A-line hug, it\u2019s a full-on full body press, and she winds it up with a swift peck to his mouth.<\/p>\n

“You\u2019re going to have to stop being heroic, or I\u2019m going to be contractually obligated to fall in love with you and that won\u2019t end well.” Even she\u2019s not sure how much of that is a tease, and all but bolts back to their lane, blushing hotly in the dimness and hoping he doesn\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Uh\u2014!” Poor Stiles. He was so ready to deal with Jesse, so suddenly fluid and confident in his motions\u2014but not here. Here, he freezes up, his whole body going stiff against the aforementioned full-body press. His eyebrows furrow and eyes widen at the kiss, like he literally\u00a0can\u2019t figure out<\/em> why anyone would\u00a0do\u00a0<\/em>that to him.<\/p>\n

And so he stammers instead. \u201cUh\u2026.I\u2019m\u2026I\u2019m not really a hero, but\u2026okay\u2026uh\u2026\u201d And there she goes. Stiles takes a few moments while he\u00a0finally<\/em> gets the bowling shoes he needs to play with the others. By the time he shuffles up towards the lane, he\u2019s\u00a0mostly<\/em> returned to a normal color instead of\u00a0bright<\/em> red.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer’s friends are clearly used to her behaviour, and simply introduce themselves to Stiles and add him to the board. There’s no one in the lane right next to them, and it seems almost pointed the way Summer is the one who ends up occupying one of the chairs at the ball return, and the pair of seats perpendicular seems to be constantly full of girl or stuff, leaving no space for Stiles to sit there.<\/p>\n

None of them are particularly spectacular bowlers, and it takes a game or so for Summer to get warmed up enough to stop putting the ball down one or the other gutter every third time she’s up. Beth clearly thinks she’s being helpful when she encourages Stiles to go help Summer improve her posture. It’s probably fortunate for all of them that Summer doesn’t hear her; she’s too busy swearing at the single pin left standing in the center of the lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

skinnydefenselessheroism: iamthefirechild: It\u2019s like the question is all the cue that\u2019s needed. Summer hovers by his elbow while he tells his shoe size and pays for the rental, before she says, \u201cI think I\u2019m not giving you a choice.\u201d She hugs him \u2014 well, more like glomps him, shoes and all. This is no A-line … 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\/10997"}],"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=10997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}