{"id":30747,"date":"2013-01-27T05:34:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T05:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/01\/27\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-that-2\/"},"modified":"2013-01-27T05:34:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T05:34:24","slug":"gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-that-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/01\/27\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-that-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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\u201cThat doesn\u2019t make it better.\u201d Even in the light she couldn\u2019t get warm. \u201cI just wanted to \u2026 make things better. For you. Him. Us! I thought, if we were friends, even if,\u201d she flushed, \u201ceven if, he never loved me back, then it would be better. He would understand. I don\u2019t even know what I did wro\u2014well, okay, burning the door down was a little much.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tony snorted a wry, humorless laugh, one hand raising to pinch the bridge of his nose.\u00a0 \u201cYa think?\u201d\u00a0 His head fell forward, face in his hand.\u00a0 \u201cWhy couldn\u2019t you have just waited until I gave you the go ahead?\u201d he asked after a moment of tense silence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer hesitated a long time before answering. “It started to feel like I was lying to him. Like … if we didn’t know each other, it was false. I’m not saying this right.” She looked down into her hands, desperately trying to find the right words. “Did you know, he didn’t know I was the other person until after he’d threatened to kill himself and run away from me? When I first started talking to him, he didn’t even know it was me, and he still — he,” she shook her head, “wanted to ignore my very existence. And I can’t — I couldn’t — I’m not made that way. To pretend everything is alright. I wanted — I was selfish, I thought I could win him over and we could be a real trio.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

gadgeteerphilanthropist: iamthefirechild: \u201cThat doesn\u2019t make it better.\u201d Even in the light she couldn\u2019t get warm. \u201cI just wanted to \u2026 make things better. For you. Him. Us! I thought, if we were friends, even if,\u201d she flushed, \u201ceven if, he never loved me back, then it would be better. He would understand. I don\u2019t even … 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":[10,199,3607],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30747"}],"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=30747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}