{"id":4474,"date":"2014-09-24T02:17:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T02:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/09\/24\/overlapping-lives-closed-aceomalley-3\/"},"modified":"2014-09-24T02:17:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T02:17:35","slug":"overlapping-lives-closed-aceomalley-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/09\/24\/overlapping-lives-closed-aceomalley-3\/","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 looked up at Ace as his tone intensified, eyes widening a little. Apparently she\u2019d accidentally ripped open a well of pain, and she put the necklace down to reach out a hand and put it on his knee. \u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d she offered. She looked down, and back up at him. \u201cDo you want to talk about it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Her own memories didn\u2019t matter in the face of this. Yeah, Jesse had hurt her, expecting a kind of perfection she was never going to attain, but this \u2014 if they\u2019d known each other longer than an hour she would have offered to hug him.<\/p>\n

In exchange for his words, she said, \u201cThat person \u2014 that I was with, before \u2014 he \u2026 believed if you really loved each other you wouldn\u2019t fight. And I\u2019m \u2026 kind of a temperamental person.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When her hand closed around Ace\u2019s knee the first time, he stiffened, being snapped out of his own stupor by the simplest, most tender touch he\u2019s ever been rewarded, a platonic action laden with something a lot deeper.<\/p>\n

He swallowed, gaze lowering to the necklace she set on the table before them, and tried to meet Summer\u2019s eyes, instead fixating on the curl of her lips.<\/p>\n

“M\u2019fine,” he muttered, his stare wavering as he fought to gain control of himself once again, because, of course, the\u00a0eyes were\u00a0indeed<\/em> the window to the soul.<\/p>\n

“See, they say opposites attract,” he started in a low voice, jaw set, “but\u00a0I<\/em> believe there has to be some type of common ground, if so. Something to make it all worth-while since they\u2019re so god damn different from each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer nodded encouragingly, squeezing a little. Ducking her head, she tried to catch his eyes, but he kept pulling them away. She’d never heard a more unconvincing ‘I’m fine’ 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ace-omalley: iamthefirechild: Summer looked up at Ace as his tone intensified, eyes widening a little. Apparently she\u2019d accidentally ripped open a well of pain, and she put the necklace down to reach out a hand and put it on his knee. \u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d she offered. She looked down, and back up at him. \u201cDo you … 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":[10,223,469,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474"}],"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=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}