{"id":24260,"date":"2013-09-30T23:50:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T23:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/30\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-10\/"},"modified":"2015-02-21T02:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T02:29:00","slug":"redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/30\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-10\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24260 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/30\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-10\/attachment\/24261\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mttl1jAJM61sn7rsqo1_400-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/redmetalandgold.tumblr.com\/post\/62758901489\/iamthefirechild-redmetalandgold\">redmetalandgold<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/62758250781\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/redmetalandgold.tumblr.com\/post\/62757515603\/iamthefirechild-redmetalandgold\">redmetalandgold<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/62747405117\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>The breath rushes out of her in a whoosh. It doesn\u2019t help the way her stomach is turning over, especially now, and she\u2019s so closed up and tense there\u2019s no way she could have known without him saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8221; \u2026 Toni, for fuck\u2019s sake.&#8221; Summer leans her forehead on his shoulder.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I take it you can\u2019t take jokes all too well anymore?&#8221; he chuckles, trailing a careful hand through her hair, before pulling back slightly to look her over. &#8220;You know, I get the feeling that you don\u2019t trust me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, I trust you to be entirely yourself, Toni.&#8221; Summer shakes her head, slightly. &#8220;It\u2019s me I don\u2019t trust. You\u2019re \/you\/, darling, and \u2014 oh, how do I even explain this?&#8221; She looks at him, and presses her lips together. &#8220;That particular joke \u2014 it\u2019s not a joke to me, it\u2019s \u2014 I\u2019m not gorgeous, Toni, I\u2019m short and skinny and sharp-tongued, and to be quite honest I\u2019m over thirty years old and no one has ever asked me out on a date before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;My first relationship was with an abusive prick,&#8221; he shrugs, scratching his nose when he felt a swell of quick panic. &#8220;I babble too much, I talk too loud, I like to flail my arms a lot and I\u2019m from 1994. Believe me, you\u2019re going to work harder at trying to drive me away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know that,&#8221; she says softly. &#8220;Okay. Okay. I&#8217;m here, and obviously I&#8217;m dressed okay, and we&#8217;re both nervous.&#8221; She chuckles briefly. &#8220;Let&#8217;s just pretend I didn&#8217;t say any of those stupid things, and you tell me where you&#8217;re taking me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>redmetalandgold: iamthefirechild: redmetalandgold: iamthefirechild: The breath rushes out of her in a whoosh. It doesn\u2019t help the way her stomach is turning over, especially now, and she\u2019s so closed up and tense there\u2019s no way she could have known without him saying. &#8221; \u2026 Toni, for fuck\u2019s sake.&#8221; Summer leans her forehead on his shoulder. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/30\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/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":"gallery","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\/24260"}],"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=24260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24262,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24260\/revisions\/24262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}