For Mary Amelia Ingalls life was, and had always been, full of strange questions. Why her pa wanted to move to the West, why the disease had to cost her eye-sight, and now why each room on the Blind School in Iowa she was attending had a mirror, wasn't it an awful waste of glass?

Carefully she let her fingers slide over the cold hard glass, the glass which on her first day had made her break down in tears when she felt it under her hands; she had wanted to scream, ask if they where mocking her, they all knew she couldn't use it. slowly she'd gotten used to being blind, her time with Adam and the encounter with the young limping girl, Jenny, had made her realize her life weren't so hard.

Still, it was a weird feeling having spent her entire life, or so she felt, fighting with Laura over who was to look in the mirror first, and when she finally had a mirror on her own she couldn't use it.

Smiling she lay down her brush and went to the classroom where she knew Adam was waiting for her, smiling she remembered their evening at the piano where she had told him how scared she was, not being able to see, of weird it was having spent so much time with a guy she didn't even know what looked like. And then, he'd given her the surprise of her life; he was blind too! She never would've guessed.

She never would've guessed she was going to fall in love with her teacher either, or going to becoming a teacher for blind kids.

Life surely was full of suprises!