{"id":32695,"date":"2012-10-22T09:04:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T09:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/22\/chasing-cars-theironaudi-19\/"},"modified":"2012-10-22T09:04:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T09:04:20","slug":"chasing-cars-theironaudi-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/22\/chasing-cars-theironaudi-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Cars | @theironaudi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theironaudi.tumblr.com\/post\/34090267557\/chasing-cars-theironaudi\">theironaudi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/34090129219\/chasing-cars-theironaudi\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theironaudi.tumblr.com\/post\/34087103608\/chasing-cars-theironaudi\">theironaudi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/34085279088\/chasing-cars-theironaudi\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFriend of mine from college. It\u2019s his handle online. PCWizard, because he installed computers in cars.\u201d Her mouth curved in a soft smile. \u201cI haven\u2019t seen him in ages, or his wife.\u201d Summer leaned over a little bit and rested her head against Tony\u2019s arm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOh, right,\u201d Tony said, looking over at her. \u201cFriend of mine knows another \u2018Wizard\u2019. He\u2019s not such a great guy. Glad it\u2019s not the same guy.\u201d He laughed a little again, wondering how he\u2019d even begun to think it could have been the same guy. He looked over at her, sliding his hand on top of hers.<\/p>\n<p>A few moments later, their dishes were done cooking and they headed back to their table. \u201c<em>Bon appetit.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Summer barely waited until she sat down before she dug in, she was so hungry. A few minutes of silence followed before she was satiated enough to slow down and start paying attention to something other than food. She swallowed the mouthful she had and said, inconsequentially, \u201cI meant it, you know. When I said yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tony set down his fork and swallowed his mouthful. \u201cYou did? I\u2014 That\u2019s awesome,\u201d he said, reaching across the table to swipe his thumb over the back of her hand. \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure, I mean\u2026 There was a hesitation and\u2026\u201d he trailed off, looking down and smiling. \u201cBut you meant it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I was a bit in shock!&#8221; She turned her hand up to capture his. &#8220;Darlin&#8217;, you&#8217;re not known for relationships at all, you know. It wasn&#8217;t that I thought you were &#8230; how did you put it? forward, it was that we were both sitting there castigating ourselves for not being lovable, and then you stumbled your way through possibly the most awkward asking out I think I&#8217;ve ever heard.&#8221; Summer squeezed his hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theironaudi: iamthefirechild: theironaudi: iamthefirechild: \u201cFriend of mine from college. It\u2019s his handle online. PCWizard, because he installed computers in cars.\u201d Her mouth curved in a soft smile. \u201cI haven\u2019t seen him in ages, or his wife.\u201d Summer leaned over a little bit and rested her head against Tony\u2019s arm. \u201cOh, right,\u201d Tony said, looking over &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/22\/chasing-cars-theironaudi-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chasing Cars | @theironaudi<\/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":[10,4001,3898,3250,4000],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695"}],"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=32695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}