{"id":23196,"date":"2013-10-21T02:09:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T02:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/21\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-4\/"},"modified":"2013-10-21T02:09:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T02:09:19","slug":"redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/21\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-4\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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

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Toni can feel the blood rise to his cheeks and he coughs into the hand she doesn\u2019t have a hold on. \u201cI \u2026uh \u2026\u201d he swallows. \u201cI just \u2026I know how it feels to be drunk in a place that\u2019s not \u2026familiar \u2026 so, yeah, you know, it wasn\u2019t a big \u2026deal.\u201d Open mouth, insert foot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“I think I could have managed,” she laughed, squeezing again. “But it was a big deal to me; you said all the right things, and you didn\u2019t let me do anything stupid.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Toni blushes again, making a turn on 5th. \u201cYou\u2019re important to me,\u201d he mumbles, turning his wide blue eyes on her again. \u201cI don\u2019t want anything to happen to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Very quietly, she says, “When did that happen? I’ve been trying … not to … I’ve liked you since we met, but I didn’t think. I mean.” Summer sighs a little, twisting her hands in her lap. “I don’t think of myself as being someone likable, or important, so I don’t understand. And I’ve been trying \/not\/ to come on to you, or anything like that. That’s what I meant about that one night — I know I was being horrible, I get flirty when I’m drunk, and you didn’t let me do anything stupid.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

redmetalandgold: iamthefirechild: redmetalandgold: Toni can feel the blood rise to his cheeks and he coughs into the hand she doesn\u2019t have a hold on. \u201cI \u2026uh \u2026\u201d he swallows. \u201cI just \u2026I know how it feels to be drunk in a place that\u2019s not \u2026familiar \u2026 so, yeah, you know, it wasn\u2019t a big \u2026deal.\u201d … Continue reading <\/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":[10,2291,2744],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23196"}],"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=23196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}