{"id":2023,"date":"2014-11-29T05:53:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T05:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/11\/29\/whisper-4\/"},"modified":"2014-11-29T05:53:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T05:53:58","slug":"whisper-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/11\/29\/whisper-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Whisper~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/phantomoftheserenity.tumblr.com\/post\/103866664191\/whisper\">phantomoftheserenity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It really wasn\u2019t proving to be a good night so far for Devin.<\/p>\n<p>He tried to console himself by pointing out that things could have gone far, far worse.\u00a0 His thoughts weren\u2019t wandering into that familiar numbness which never ended well, and he\u2019d been able to snag some wine with relative ease, considering he didn\u2019t really belong in this sort of high-class gathering.\u00a0 He supposed that it was common enough for teens at this sort of thing, though Devin didn\u2019t really know.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No, that wasn\u2019t the part that had Devin testing his theory that nobody cared how drunk he got and snaking wine glasses all evening.\u00a0 That would be the fact that, even though he and Hakuba had arrived together, the detective had been spending the evening flirting with several women.\u00a0 Fairly attractive women too, if Devin was any judge.<\/p>\n<p>Devin kept emptying wine glasses, hoping that eventually he\u2019d come to his senses and forget the reasons why Hakuba would even pay attention to him.\u00a0 And remind himself that he really should ignore his crush on his <em>straight<\/em> best friend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what he was telling himself when he was leaning against a marble column, draining yet another wine glass, as Devin watched Hakuba slip out of sight with a giggling girl following right behind him.\u00a0 \u201cYou\u2019re perfect,\u201d he whispered.\u00a0 \u201cSo much better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>phantomoftheserenity: It really wasn\u2019t proving to be a good night so far for Devin. He tried to console himself by pointing out that things could have gone far, far worse.\u00a0 His thoughts weren\u2019t wandering into that familiar numbness which never ended well, and he\u2019d been able to snag some wine with relative ease, considering he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1334,1261,294,334,1604],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-keeping","tag-phantomoftheserenity","tag-rebagelling-for-keepsies","tag-sob","tag-you-jerk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}