"Don't worry, because, from now on I'll be your eyes 'kay?" That voice, although I can no longer see, that voice I knew who it belonged to straight away, always cheerful, always laughing, and the songs that came from it, were simply beautiful. Then again, the owner, was beautiful anyway, I remember when we first met, we had started off, indifferent, not really getting along, but then, it changed. Almost striaght away.
It was about a month ago, when I met and fell in love, with the small blond, yes, at the time I could see, before my disease caught up with me. I had just been to my doctor, because of the slight pain in my eyes, only to be told I'd got some disease that would slowly make me go blind.
We bumped into each other while on my way home, "Watch it, jackass!" I remember looking down at the smaller male I had just knocked to the ground, "Sorry there blondie," The blond gave me a glare, "Don'. t call me blondie, I have a name!" I raised an eyebrow, hinting to him to tell me his name. "It's Roxas," "Axel," I wasn't in the mood for my little catch phrase, one Reno, my brother, says is stupid, then again, he has a habit of saying 'Yo' at the end of sentences.
"You ok there red?" Roxas' voice brought me out of my conversation with myself. I nodded, then looked at my feet. As though he could sense I wasn't really fine. He crossed his arms, "Liar, somethings bothering you, but hey I'm not gonna push it," And he walked off.
Afew days later, I'd decided, to go and drink at my favourite club, the one I always went to, with my brother like best friend and his boytoy, Demyx, and his boyfriend Zexion, had been together at least two years, and had decided to help me get over my bad news, "Relax Axe, blindness wont decrease your cool mojo, actually, it'll be really popular with the gay guys who love a good sob story," I knew Dem was only trying to cheer me up. But I was not feeling it.
About half an hour later, the clubs owner, started saying that they had a new band playing a few of their songs, I rolled my eyes, but turned to the stage anyway. Imagine my surprise when I see blondie from a few days before take to the mike, along with a brunet I could only assume was his twin, who picked up the bass giutar, a silverette taking the keyboard, a black haired girl who took the drums, and a blond girl, also asumming was Roxas sibling, take the other mike.
There was no introductions, no 'Hi were (insert band name here)' crap, they just started playing. And Demyx seemed to enjoy them. He sat rocking and head banging along with the rest of the club.
The first song, was amazing, a little depressing for my liking, but damn could that blond boy sing.
I smiled slightly, and joined in with the rocking out, Zexion just sat there watching his boyfriend make a fool of himself as he took the head banging a little too far.
After the band had finished, Roxas got off stage, and headed over to the bar, not far from where me, Dem and Zex were. He spotted me almost instantly. "SO, red you come her just for little ol' me?" A smirk on his face, I shook my head, "Actually, no, I'm here enjoying my last few days of..." I stopped, my last few days of what? Sight? Ugh, I felt like crap. "Last few days of what?" Blondie asked, While I refused to Tell him, Demyx, Who I think had a little too much to drink, decided to blurt it out, "Axel here is enjoying what little sight he has left!" He gave a goofy drunken grin, "I mean, hey enjoy it while it lasts right?" If it weren't for the fact he was, A: drunk, and B: my best friend, I'd have punched square in the face.
Roxas looked at me, but I turned my head, No way was I gonna take pity from anyone, that was the last thing I needed. "I don't want pity, or any 'I'm so sorry for you' crap okay?" I growled, making sure to let Roxas know of my anger, I'd already received that from both my parents, and my so called ass hat brother. I don't need it off strangers too.

I heard a chuckle, making me turn to face the blond laughing. "I don't pity you, actually, I think it's cool," I frown confused, "That you don't want any of that, most people are like, 'oh boo hoo woe is me' gets annoying, and makes you wanna punch them," I smiled a little, okay, so maybe Roxas wasn't gonna be the pity type, that I could handle.
"Yeah, it does, I've already hit my brother for it," Roxas immediately decided he wanted to know what happened when I told Reno I was slowly going blind. So I did, about how when I got home, and how when I told my parents they started fussing about me needing a damn guide dog, and how Reno thought it'd be funny to imitate a blind man, earning him a black eye and broken nose.
Listening to Roxas laugh about Renos new face decoration and nose shift. It made me smile a bit, I took in every detail of his features, a dark blond but not too dark, eyes that put the sea and sky to shame with how blue they were, and damn, those lips looked like the softest ever. If I were to go blind, there's no way I'm forgetting just how beautiful this blond was.
I wanted it burned into my memory.
We talked practically the whole night, becoming fast friends despite the bad start when I knocked him over a few days before. After me Dem and Zex lefted, Demyx, puking up into a trashcan thanks to all the alcohol he consumed, and Zexion, supporting his really drunk boyfriend, and me, thinking about the blond I'd spoken to, we ended up going our separate ways home.
I lay awake that night, kinda wondering how life would be without sight. Would it be difficult? When my sight did go, would it be painful? I didn't think I'd get much sleep that night.
The next day I headed to the small book store I worked at, (Owned by Zexion, hey the guy likes books, when I got there, I found Roxas, standing outside, he was looking at the 'help wanted' sign Zexion had stuck in the window, despite being a bookstore, we were quite popular. Two people alone couldn't handle the customers we got. I walked over, "Hey Roxy, keep standing there and you'll burn a hole in the window," I said grinning, he turned to face me, and grinned back, "I was looking for a job, since the band is just recreational," I shrugged, "Zex, is okay, so long as you do a good job," Roxas nodded, "So you work here?" It was my turn to nod. We stood talking for a few minutes more, before walking inside.
Zexion, was busy dealing with the new shipment of books we had delivered the day before, I pointed him out to Roxas, and he walked over. While I went to deal with the fiction books that had found their way to the non-fiction section, 'Time to deal with these then,' I thought. I rubbed my eyes, they had been aching a lot more recently, an obvious sign that my disease was getting worse. Damn. I was glad I memorized Roxas' face before I went blind completely.
Throughout the whole day, Roxas tried to make a good impression on my boss/friend, while I sat sorting books, and rubbing my eyes raw. Naturally, the rubbing of my eyeballs, didn't go unnoticed, as the little blond walked over to ask me what was wrong, "Nothing, just an aching in the old sockets, " I said jokingly, he flicked my forehead, "It's painful, isn't it?" I nodded, "But it's fine Roxy, honest, it's been happening for a while now so I'm used to it," He sighed, before sitting down next to me, "You shouldn't be, okay yeah I suck at the whole comforting crap, but seriously, if it hurts you shouldn't suffer from it," I blinked, he was actually cheering me up.
"Your doctor give you anything for it?" I shake my head, "Nope, but it's fine," "Your doctors shit," Roxas muttered, he dug into his pocket, pulling out painkillers, "Here, I carry them around with me for emergencies, and let me tell you," he grinned, "The hangover from last night, deffinately was an emergency," I laughed, and gratefully took one, hoping that the pain would subside, if only a little. That was the day i think I first started falling for the foul mouthed blond...