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iamvictor-roth<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Summer shrugged. \u201cSure. Ask me anything.\u201d She picked up the fork and started playing with her eggs, pushing them around. It felt like Victor wasn\u2019t taking her seriously. \u201cI\u2019ve always been weird,\u201d she began, quietly, not looking at him. \u201cI read too much, I think too much, I\u2019m too outspoken. No tact, that\u2019s how my mother puts it. I don\u2019t dress right.\u201d She sighed. \u201cImagine how you felt when you were a teenager. Then double it, triple it, a thousand times \u2014 that was my growing up. Because of what I am. I was shy, and introverted, and not enough like most of my classmates.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Victor looked at her intently, not even touching his food as he listened. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, Summer. It\u2019s not right that you were treated like that. Honestly, I think you had it worse than I did, having to deal with teenage politics sounds terrible. At least with me I knew what I had to do, the path was straight cut, black and white, but for you, it must\u2019ve been hard.\u201d His eyes had gone from the hazel they were last night to a much more green colour. They warmed while he was talking to her, going from their playful light to something much more serious. \u201cDo you mind if I ask what you are exactly Summer?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“I’m an empath. I’m not sure there’s a name for the other part of it. I just say firechild.” She got up from the table, picking up a candle jar off the counter. “Watch.” Holding the jar by the bottom, she just … looked at it, and it was lit. Summer put it on the table and sat back down. “I transform the energy of the emotions I take in to fire. If I don’t make that transmutation, the extra energy stays in me, and I have convulsions.” She paused. “I was ten when my empathy showed. We didn’t know what it was, just that I was depressed. I tried to kill myself.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

iamvictor-roth: Summer shrugged. \u201cSure. Ask me anything.\u201d She picked up the fork and started playing with her eggs, pushing them around. It felt like Victor wasn\u2019t taking her seriously. \u201cI\u2019ve always been weird,\u201d she began, quietly, not looking at him. \u201cI read too much, I think too much, I\u2019m too outspoken. No tact, that\u2019s how … 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":[10,1052,3789],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31648"}],"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=31648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}