{"id":33218,"date":"2012-10-07T19:22:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T19:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/07\/theoldfashionedromantic-iamthefirechild\/"},"modified":"2012-10-07T19:22:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T19:22:49","slug":"theoldfashionedromantic-iamthefirechild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/07\/theoldfashionedromantic-iamthefirechild\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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\u201cWhat, like this?\u201d And just like that her free hand was lifted and among the fingers danced little flames that whirled higher and higher until there was a column of fire in her palm that winked out the moment she snapped her fingers closed. \u201cOr maybe I should do it the other way \u2026 \u201d Summer\u2019s green eyes went slightly unfocused. \u201cIt\u2019s not entirely a front, this cheerfulness. You\u2019ve lived it so long, it is real \u2026 but there\u2019s things under there you\u2019ve covered up, things nobody sees, hurts and slights and put-aside dreams \u2026 there\u2019s still that little voice back there whispering \u2026 \u201d Her gaze clicked back to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese days, if I\u2019m overlooked, it\u2019s because I want to be. I know my own worth. And now that I\u2019ve rummaged around in your soul, why don\u2019t we get something to drink?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tom watched the flame with an intense stare, and then watched the young woman. He had his concerns about her, and felt a wariness towards her stability but he also felt sad for her. Not pity, he never pitied anyone because that was a\u00a0terrible\u00a0thing to do but he felt sadness for her. \u201cWhen we hide who we are, even for others, we are living a lie. To fall into cheerfulness because you\u2019ve feigned it so much is like a child believing he is an astronaut because he\u2019s pretended he was one for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI will go to drink with you, but I can\u2019t stay long. My boyfriend is waiting for me at home, and he\u2019s not one who likes to be kept waiting.\u201d Tom smiles at her although he believes it is not his happiest smile. This girl has been hurt more than she should have been, and he wonders if she\u2019s ever let anyone help her before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer is torn between laughing and crying. He’s got so much of it right, for so many wrong reasons, it’s an effort not to correct him. But if he doesn’t want to see what she is … well, truly told, that’s not her concern. World like theirs, maybe it is easier to just wish away some of the strangeness.<\/p>\n

“Boyfriend, huh? A lot of girls’ hearts would be broken to know that. Better if I let you go, then? You’re a bit impatient to get back yourself.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

theoldfashionedromantic: iamthefirechild: \u201cWhat, like this?\u201d And just like that her free hand was lifted and among the fingers danced little flames that whirled higher and higher until there was a column of fire in her palm that winked out the moment she snapped her fingers closed. \u201cOr maybe I should do it the other way … 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":[10,140,3729],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33218"}],"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=33218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}