{"id":4390,"date":"2014-09-27T03:32:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T03:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/09\/27\/overlapping-lives-closed-aceomalley-2\/"},"modified":"2014-09-27T03:32:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T03:32:21","slug":"overlapping-lives-closed-aceomalley-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/09\/27\/overlapping-lives-closed-aceomalley-2\/","title":{"rendered":"overlapping lives | closed | aceomalley"},"content":{"rendered":"

ace-omalley<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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

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Summer nodded encouragingly, squeezing a little. Ducking her head, she tried to catch his eyes, but he kept pulling them away. She\u2019d never heard a more unconvincing \u2018I\u2019m fine\u2019 in her life. He seemed so prickly, and then it turned out there was this well of pain.<\/p>\n

“It has to be more than just lust,” she murmured. She drew in a deep breath, drawing back her hand. “Can you tell me what happened?” Curiosity was her besetting sin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It seemed like this tin man\u00a0did<\/em> have a heart.<\/p>\n

But the difference was, at times like this, he didn\u2019t want it.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t want to feel it tighten at the thought of\u00a0her<\/em>, how he let\u00a0her<\/em>\u00a0force down the walls he\u2019s built up for the better of his life, take what she wants, then leave.<\/p>\n

Especially not in front of Summer, the \u2018new girl\u2019 in his life, per se, because she is new, to him, and a girl.
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That he\u2019s currently trying to make heads or tails of his feelings towards her.<\/p>\n

“What\u2019s there to tell? You already know the score,” he said, lifting his gaze to meet hers for a moment or so before training them on the coffee table once more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What that really meant was ‘no’. ‘No, this hurts, stop.’ So she stopped, running the discarded necklace through her hands again. “Sorry,” she muttered. “I didn’t mean to bring that up for you.” They didn’t look at each other for a moment, avoiding gazes and pasts and thoughts, and then she cleared her throat\u00a0<\/p>\n

“So, uh, how long have you lived here?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ace-omalley: iamthefirechild: Summer nodded encouragingly, squeezing a little. Ducking her head, she tried to catch his eyes, but he kept pulling them away. She\u2019d never heard a more unconvincing \u2018I\u2019m fine\u2019 in her life. He seemed so prickly, and then it turned out there was this well of pain. “It has to be more than … Continue reading overlapping lives | closed | aceomalley<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,223,469],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390"}],"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=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}