{"id":22932,"date":"2013-10-24T01:17:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T01:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/24\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin-4\/"},"modified":"2013-10-24T01:17:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T01:17:19","slug":"summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/24\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer peers around the door, looking for Merlin. &#8220;Merlin, can I sit with you?&#8221; Her eyes are a little red; she seems tired."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wordlesswarlock.tumblr.com\/post\/64915446487\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin\">wordlesswarlock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/64914085678\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wordlesswarlock.tumblr.com\/post\/64912684116\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin\">wordlesswarlock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/64911823666\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wordlesswarlock.tumblr.com\/post\/64905802961\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin\">wordlesswarlock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Merlin shoves his spell book under his pillow in a panic and relaxes as he sees Summer in the doorway. He nods and gestures for her to come in.\u00a0<em>Are you alright? You seem a bit\u2026 off.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She blinks at him, puzzled. \u201cOther w \u2014&#160;?\u201d Then she shakes her head, dismissing it. Looking down at her hands, she swallows hard, and says, \u201cI\u2019m \u2014 I think I\u2019m in love with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Nevermind,\u00a0<\/em>he waves it off, making a mental note to explain some other day.\u00a0<em>Okay. Do you know if he feels the same way about you or not?\u00a0<\/em>he asks softly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Twisting her hands together, shoulders hunched around her ears, she nods. \u201cHe said it, and I \u2014 oh god \u2014 I didn\u2019t know what to say, I just stared at him, because I just \u2014 I couldn\u2019t believe it. I mean, I knew it, I knew he meant it, but I \u2014 and then he just \u2026 he said his feelings weren\u2019t returned and walked away and I \u2026 \u201d Her voice chokes off, and she sniffs. \u201cI don\u2019t know what to do,\u201d she says, very small.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>I think you need to find him and tell him how you feel.\u00a0<\/em>He moves to sit beside her and wraps his arm around her shoulders.\u00a0<em>It sounds like this is just a misunderstanding. It can be easily fixed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She shakes her head, convulsively. &#8220;I can&#8217;t. I can&#8217;t do that. I sent &#8212; I sent to ask if he, if I could see him this morning, and he &#8212; there was no answer. Nothing at all. I can&#8217;t &#8212; maybe &#8230; would you &#8212;&#160;?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wordlesswarlock: iamthefirechild: wordlesswarlock: iamthefirechild: wordlesswarlock: Merlin shoves his spell book under his pillow in a panic and relaxes as he sees Summer in the doorway. He nods and gestures for her to come in.\u00a0Are you alright? You seem a bit\u2026 off.\u00a0 She blinks at him, puzzled. \u201cOther w \u2014&#160;?\u201d Then she shakes her head, dismissing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/24\/summer-peers-around-the-door-looking-for-merlin-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer peers around the door, looking for Merlin. &#8220;Merlin, can I sit with you?&#8221; Her eyes are a little red; she seems tired.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[10,2351,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22932"}],"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=22932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}