{"id":15564,"date":"2014-01-28T22:04:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/28\/secret-admirer\/"},"modified":"2014-01-28T22:04:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T22:04:06","slug":"secret-admirer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/28\/secret-admirer\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Admirer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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Summer slipped into the house, stepping carefully so she didn\u2019t brush him. She wasn\u2019t sure she wanted to know what she would sense if they touched. Not yet. \u201cThank you.\u201d She wanted a little of the mystery she\u2019d created for him to remain for both of them, right now.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was hard not to know certain things, though, now that she had opened up. Hard not to sense his unease, and understand that it wasn\u2019t her specifically.<\/p>\n

“A soda would be really nice.” It would give her hands something to do, so she didn\u2019t fidget. Maybe. Already one hand was behind her back, fingers sliding through her hair. Summer put the other hand back there, too, and stepped into the living room. A couch beckoned, and she perched on the edge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201dSure thing, just um, have a seat on the couch while I go grab it,\u201d he told her before turning on his heel and heading the opposite direction and into the kitchen. \u00a0When he reentered the room, he carried a can in each hand, the metal cold against his skin, but it didn\u2019t bother him at all.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201dOh shit, did you want a glass? I know some people don\u2019t like drinking straight from the can\u2014\u201d he paused, waited for her response and ready to go grab one from the cupboard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“It’s fine.” It was weird; the more his nerves showed, the less nervous she felt. She could still feel her pulse pounding in her chest, but she knew what to say, how to smile, to help him. “Relax. It’s fine.” She let the smile become self-deprecating. “I just dressed up to impress you.”<\/p>\n

Summer patted the couch next to her. “I promised you could ask me anything.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

thenameislahey: iamthefirechild: Summer slipped into the house, stepping carefully so she didn\u2019t brush him. She wasn\u2019t sure she wanted to know what she would sense if they touched. Not yet. \u201cThank you.\u201d She wanted a little of the mystery she\u2019d created for him to remain for both of them, right now. It was hard not … Continue reading Secret Admirer<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,1597,575,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15564"}],"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=15564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}