{"id":15813,"date":"2014-01-26T23:05:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T23:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/26\/secret-admirer-3\/"},"modified":"2014-01-26T23:05:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T23:05:33","slug":"secret-admirer-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/26\/secret-admirer-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Admirer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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Summer wanted to cheat. She wanted to cheat so badly. What was he feeling? Was he nervous too? Was that why he held himself so still, why he kept swallowing?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (don\u2019t watch his throat, don\u2019t watch his neck)<\/p>\n

Or was he just giving her time to dig herself in deeper before cutting her to shreds with words?<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (no one can love you,\u00a0ma ch\u00e8re, no one can ever love you)<\/p>\n

How did other girls do<\/em>\u00a0this? How did they open themselves up, cracked open like a geode, and deliberately show someone what was inside, knowing how easily you could be shattered? A breeze kicked up, and she shivered. She had to know, couldn\u2019t stand not knowing \u2014<\/p>\n

the bitterness of chopped onion<\/em> (fear) \/\u00a0lemon and sugar <\/em>(hope)<\/p>\n

Summer found herself smiling. Gently, so gently, she said, \u201cYou said that already. Issac. I\u2019m Summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0He spotted the shiver and debated letting her inside but for the moment, they\u2019d have to talk outside. At least until he knew she wasn\u2019t crazy or worse \u2014 lying. With all that had been happening in Beacon Hills as of late, he wasn\u2019t really quick to trust. Besides, she had to be at least a little unhinged if she liked\u00a0him<\/em>.\u00a0Surely a girl that good looking would go for someone more\u00a0her league<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201dRight, yeah, nice to meet you, Summer.\u201d He paused, being a little lost for words. He hadn\u2019t really expected her to just turn up at his doorstep. \u201cDo you,\u201d he cleared his throat, \u201cdo you go to Beacon Hills?\u201d He meant the high school of course. If she did, she wasn\u2019t in any of his classes \u2014 he\u2019d remember a face like hers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer shook her head, slowly. “No. I go to the college. I’m a sophomore.” A little smile, secretive, curved her mouth. “You’ve never seen me before. Not to notice.”<\/p>\n

He tasted of nerves, now, and confusion, still sweetened with that hope underneath. She thought maybe he wasn’t sure what to do with her. “Ask me anything,” she said, turning her hands palm up to him. “I know you don’t trust me yet.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

thenameislahey: iamthefirechild: Summer wanted to cheat. She wanted to cheat so badly. What was he feeling? Was he nervous too? Was that why he held himself so still, why he kept swallowing? \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (don\u2019t watch his throat, don\u2019t watch his neck) Or was he just giving her time to dig herself in deeper … 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\/15813"}],"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=15813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}