{"id":15805,"date":"2014-01-27T00:55:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T00:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/27\/secret-admirer-2\/"},"modified":"2014-01-27T00:55:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T00:55:18","slug":"secret-admirer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/27\/secret-admirer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Admirer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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Summer shook her head, slowly. \u201cNo. I go to the college. I\u2019m a sophomore.\u201d A little smile, secretive, curved her mouth. \u201cYou\u2019ve never seen me before. Not to notice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He tasted of nerves, now, and confusion, still sweetened with that hope underneath. She thought maybe he wasn\u2019t sure what to do with her. \u201cAsk me anything,\u201d she said, turning her hands palm up to him. \u201cI know you don\u2019t trust me yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201dOh, cool.\u201d Now she was hot\u00a0and<\/em> older \u2014 what did he do and how can he repeat it? \u201cUm,\u201d it went against his better judgement but he could tell she wasn\u2019t lying else her heart would\u2019ve skipped. She seemed genuine which worried him a bit. There had to be a catch.
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201dDid you want to come in? To talk, I mean,\u201d he stepped aside to allow room for her to walk across the threshold of the house. \u201cDo you want something to drink or\u2014?\u201d He trailed off and shoved his hands into his jean pockets to keep them from fidgeting. He had never actually had a girl over before because of whatever reason so he wasn\u2019t entirely sure how it was supposed to work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer slipped into the house, stepping carefully so she didn’t brush him. She wasn’t sure she wanted to know what she would sense if they touched. Not yet. “Thank you.” She wanted a little of the mystery she’d created for him to remain for both of them, right now.<\/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’t her specifically.<\/p>\n

“A soda would be really nice.” It would give her hands something to do, so she didn’t 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

thenameislahey: iamthefirechild: Summer shook her head, slowly. \u201cNo. I go to the college. I\u2019m a sophomore.\u201d A little smile, secretive, curved her mouth. \u201cYou\u2019ve never seen me before. Not to notice.\u201d He tasted of nerves, now, and confusion, still sweetened with that hope underneath. She thought maybe he wasn\u2019t sure what to do with her. … 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":[10,1619,1618,1597,575,1617,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805"}],"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=15805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}