{"id":5399,"date":"2014-08-26T02:19:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T02:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/26\/fate-is-cruel\/"},"modified":"2014-08-26T02:19:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T02:19:11","slug":"fate-is-cruel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/26\/fate-is-cruel\/","title":{"rendered":"fate is cruel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thenameislahey.tumblr.com\/post\/95479287656\/fate-is-cruel\">thenameislahey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><small><strong>[<\/strong>\u00a0<a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/95252069434\/fate-is-cruel\">summer rainault<\/a>\u00a0<strong>]<\/strong><\/small><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><small>Summer dropped back down into the seat, put her head down on the table, and just gave up. There was a piece of ice melting under her ass, she could feel it; she was wet in random spots; and she\u2019d just managed to look a complete fool in front of someone who still hated her.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>&#8220;Can you laugh at me or something?&#8221; she mumbled. &#8220;I don\u2019t even know how to \/be\/ around you or anything.&#8221; She lifted her head up to look at him, and a trickle of cold water ran down her nose. It took about two seconds of crossing her eyes upward to discover that a piece of ice had frozen itself to her hair.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><small><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201dThat isn\u2019t really the type of thing I\u2019d laugh at.<br \/><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 We were friends for a decent stretch of time,<br \/><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 don\u2019t tell me you\u2019ve forgotten about my sense<br \/><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 of humour already?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span><span><span><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It was plain to see how uncomfortable she was so he did<br \/><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0his best to put her more at ease \u2014 though only slightly.<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She wrapped her hand around the ice, hissing at the cold fire of it against her skin, until it melted enough to come out of her hair. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t forget &#8212; I didn&#8217;t &#8212; &#8221; She blew out a breath. &#8220;Maybe your sense of humour changes for people you hate.&#8221; She dropped the ice in the cup and shook her hand before looking up at him. &#8220;I was going to avoid you,&#8221; she said quietly. &#8220;You made it clear you didn&#8217;t ever want anything to do with me ever again. I&#8217;ve been trying to forget, because remembering hurts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thenameislahey: [\u00a0summer rainault\u00a0] Summer dropped back down into the seat, put her head down on the table, and just gave up. There was a piece of ice melting under her ass, she could feel it; she was wet in random spots; and she\u2019d just managed to look a complete fool in front of someone who &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/26\/fate-is-cruel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">fate is cruel<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[10,576,575,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399"}],"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=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}