{"id":32883,"date":"2012-10-18T07:39:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T07:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/18\/theironaudi-6\/"},"modified":"2012-10-18T07:39:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T07:39:39","slug":"theironaudi-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/18\/theironaudi-6\/","title":{"rendered":"@theironaudi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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\u201cI\u2019ve talked until I\u2019m dizzy, and mostly what I hear is \u2018why is it such a problem for you to be normal? why can\u2019t you just do what they want?\u2019 But it\u2019s \u2026 you know, eventually, you do what\u2019s wanted of you enough times and that\u2019s all you are, you lose what you have for yourself. I don\u2019t want to lose myself. \/This\/ is the person I choose to be, even though it cuts me off from everybody.\u201d She sighed, hands coming up to scrub against her eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cJust for once it would be nice to find somebody who loves me the way I am, not the way they want be to be.\u201d Summer gave a stiff, one-shouldered shrug, like shaking off an unseen grip, and looked back at Tony. \u201cI\u2019m really sorry. I\u2019m standing here talking like my problems are anything like compared to yours, and filling your ears with my nonsense, when I should just be letting you work and getting out from underfoot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tony listened intently, letting her get everything out in the open. He stood when she started back\u00a0pedaling. \u201cHey, it\u2019s fine. Really,\u201d he said, hoping he sounded as convincing as he was trying to. \u201cI honestly don\u2019t get society\u2019s obsession with trying to\u00a0fix\u00a0<\/em>people. People that don\u2019t need fixing,\u201d he continued, a slight mix of anger and fatigue washing over his face and body language. He touched her shoulder gently, not knowing what else to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing yourself, in the long run, matters most. You\u2019re stuck with you<\/em>\u2026 Everyone else can come and go but at the end of the day\u2026\u201d He shrugged.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Look at us both. Wound up in the way other people see us.” Summer’s laugh was a little broken. She laid her own hand atop Tony’s, squeezing a little.<\/p>\n

“Well, I don’t know about you, but I really want to stop thinking about all this. Can I drag you out for some food somewhere? Maybe go down the harborside and just walk for a while? We’ve rummaged around in each other’s emotions all unintentionally; maybe we could find out what the other one is like aside from all that.” A blush crept up her cheeks. “That is, if you want to spend time with a shattered character like me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

theironaudi: iamthefirechild: \u201cI\u2019ve talked until I\u2019m dizzy, and mostly what I hear is \u2018why is it such a problem for you to be normal? why can\u2019t you just do what they want?\u2019 But it\u2019s \u2026 you know, eventually, you do what\u2019s wanted of you enough times and that\u2019s all you are, you lose what you … Continue reading @theironaudi<\/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":[10,3898,3250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32883"}],"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=32883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}