Your Eyes are Golden

They met before the accident, they met after the surgery; they met when she was blind, and they met now that she can see—and the first thing the girl sees, are her golden eyes, as bright as the sun can be.


Chapter Two: Just be Patient

Waiting is something that she's never been very good at.

She tapped her foot and leaned back in the elegant-looking iron chair with a sigh, then muttered a soft, "Where is he?" under her breath while glancing through the large glass window of the shop.

As if those words were a type of spell, the bell above the entrance began to jingle. She quickly turned her gaze to the door and saw a flash of yellow. "Ser…gey…" Nina stood up to greet the man, but instead of her father, it was another blonde… no two blondes—Takashi and Erstin.

The older cousin held the door open to allow the blind female to go inside.

"Mm, smells like coffee. Where are we?" the smaller blonde questioned.

"Windbux café, they sell the best coffees in the area." Takashi replied and guided his cousin to a table.

Takashi, who was paying close attention to his cousin, coincidently chose the table which was right next to Nina's. After Erstin sat down, he took the seat that was across from her.

"Do you smell that?" Erstin startled Takashi with the sudden question.

"Smell what?"

"That."

"'That' what?"

"Don't you smell that?"

"What is it? Does it smell good?"

Erstin began sniffing around to find the source. "Yes, extremely. Almost like strawberries, mango, and..." she paused to take another sniff. "Something, I'm not quite sure, but its strawberries and mango, mixed with something."

"Oh." Takashi nodded slowly. He had grown used to comments like these. After all, the loss of a sense come the heightened abilities of the others. And just like her heightened sense of smell, Erstin was extremely sensitive to touch and sound; she never really commented on taste, so he wasn't exactly sure if that ability was greater than normal.

"It's funny because I smelled something like this before, a few days ago if I'm not mistaken." Erstin tapped her chin inquisitively, "I think it was over at the University… Oh!"

"Oh?"

"Yes, it was Nina-chan!" the younger blonde grinned and spun around toward the alluring smell.

"Nina?" Takashi hesitantly called the blunette's name.

The blunette jumped and slowly turned around. She had overheard their conversation and was hoping that they wouldn't notice her. Not that she was trying to ignore the blondes, it's just she was trying to wait patiently for Sergey to come; even if him coming there didn't exactly seem likely since he was nearly an hour late.

"Oh, hey Takashi! Hey Erstin!" Nina exclaimed, trying to act surprised.

"Hey Nina, what are you doing here?"

"The same thing you are," she held up her cup. "I came here to enjoy the coffee." She wasn't exactly lying—she was enjoying the coffee, but the real reason she was in the shop was the promised get-together with her father. Although she'd rather not let the two blondes know that bit of information.

"Yeah, of course." Takashi scratched his head sheepishly.

"Enjoying coffee does sound good right about now." Erstin hinted to Takashi.

"Whoops, sorry 'bout that, Ers-chan. I got a bit distracted." He reached across the table and touched her shoulder apologetically.

"It's okay; just make sure you get me something good!" She smiled.

"Hai hai!" the dirty-blonde made his way toward the counter of the shop.

While he was ordering, the two females sat in a comfortable silence. That is, until the blonde asked a question.

"So, what is it?"

"What is what?"

"It."

"'It' what?"

"You!"

Nina opened her mouth, closed it, and then opened it again before shutting it with a cute look of confusion.

"I mean…" Erstin blushed after realizing what she was saying didn't make sense. "What is the other scent?"

"Other… scent?" Nina questioned slowly.

"Uh huh, I can smell strawberries, mango and something else, but I just can't figure out what that 'something else' is."

"Oh." The blunette laughed. "Nina Ricci."

"You what?" Erstin tilted her head slightly to the side.

"No, no!" Nina shook her head and pulled an apple-shaped bottle out of her bag. "It's my perfume, I don't know anything about it but the fact it's called 'Nina Ricci'." She uncapped the bottle and said, "Here give me your hand."

Erstin complied, and her hand was sprayed with a tantalizing smell. "Wow that smells really good! But wait, where do the strawberries and mango come in?"

"My shampoo and conditioner, I know it's a weird combination but--"

"No," the blonde shook her head with a smile. "I like it."

Nina blushed, and as bad as it sounds, she was happy that Erstin was blind so that she wouldn't be able to see the pink hue that had come to her face.

Ba-ba-ba-beep. A soft tune began to fill the silence.

"What is that?"

"Oh, that's my phone, can you hold on? I'm going to be right back." The blonde nodded, and Nina gathered her things and went outside to answer the call.

"Hello, Nina?" a deep voice asked.

"Otousama!" she smiled after hearing her father's voice. "Wait, where are you?" her smile slowly changed into a frown. 'This can't be good. Calls usually mean--'

"Nina, I'm sorry…"

'No please don't, not again!'

"I can't make it; Papa is in a very important meeting with the council of--"

'Again, I knew it.'

"It's fine," she grinned trying to sound cheerful. "I know you're busy! I'll just see you at the end of the month."

'Just three more weeks.'

"Next time I come into town, I'll see you. I promise!"

Nina could tell that Sergay was sorry, but it still hurt that he had broken yet another promise.

"Bye, Otousama."

"Stay safe, Nina."

"I will." As the blunette hung up, a lone tear fell from her eyes and she angrily wiped it away with the back of her hand.

Nina walked back into the café and sat back in her previous seat. 'He's busy and I'd just keep him from his work.' She sighed. 'Still that makes the sixth promise he broke this year… and it's only May.'

"Nina!"

"Huh?" the blunette was confused.

"I swear," Takashi shook his head. "You can be deafer than Erstin sometimes."

Two statements came out at the same time: "Isn't she blind?" and "I can hear way better than you!"

Takashi waved off the remarks and continued, "I asked you if you wanted to sit with us since you were there by yourself."

Nina looked over at the empty seat across from her and nodded. "Sure, it's not like I'm waiting for anyone."

"Great!" the older blonde grinned patted the chair between him and Erstin.

"Yeah, just great." Nina smiled back.

--

"That was fun; thanks for letting me sit with you guys." Nina started to walk backwards. "I guess I'll see you later then." She waved at the two cousins before turning and walking away.

"Bye Nina." The blondes said in unison.

"Hey, Takashi…" Erstin whispered.

"Yeah, Ers-chan?" he grinned down at his cousin.

"Didn't you say something about asking Nina-chan something?" Nina hinted with a nudge of her elbow.

"Wh-what are you talking about?"

"Oh, you know…" she winked. "You better catch up to her before it's too late."

"H-how do you even know?" he glanced at the retreating form of the blunette. "You can't even see…"

"Just go!" Erstin pushed Takashi the disappearing Nina.

"Ers… Ers-chan, wait!"

"Go, go, go!"

"But we aren't even going in the same direction she is!" the dirty-blonde stood steadfast near the middle of the empty street.

"Oh, oops! Sorry."

"It's okay." Takashi led the younger blonde back to the safety of the sidewalk. "Now wait here." He sighed. "I'm gonna go ask Nina ou… a question."

"M'kay!" Erstin grinned.

"Be right back!" Takashi called back to his cousin as he ran toward the girl in the distance.

--

Erstin sighed and listened to all the sounds around her. She had a deep look of concentration on her face as she tried to hear her cousin's signature step.

Step step scuff step scuff step step.

Erstin grinned and waited for the male to get closer. "Took you long enough!"

"Wha? How'd you know I was here?!"

"Magic?"

"Whatever." Takashi shook his head and pulled the younger girl closer to ruffle her hair.

"Hey, don't mess up the hair!"

"Sorry, sorry, I'm just so excited!"

"Oh, did she say yes?"

"Um, actually I didn't ask her yet." The male scratched the back of his head. "But I asked her to meet me at the café on Friday, and she said yes!"

"Oh… oh really?" 'Why don't I sound excited..?'

"It's great isn't it?!" the dirty-blonde exclaimed.

"Are you going to be ready for tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow…?" Takashi raised an eyebrow.

"Well yeah, tomorrow's Friday." Erstin explained.

"You have got to be kidding me! I thought today was Wednesday!"

Erstin shook her head, "I was wondering why you said 'Friday' instead of 'tomorrow.'"

"Ugh." Takashi sunk his shoulders. "Ers-chan, help me!" he whined.

"Fine then, c'mon." the blind female replied with a sigh. She proceeded to grab the older man's arm and drag him away.

"Um, Ers-chan…?"

"What?"

"You think I could lead? You're kind of goin' the wrong way…."

"Whatever!" Erstin threw her hands up exasperatedly and held out her hand for her cousin to grab.

"Thanks Ers-chan."


A/N: Well that was pretty darn boring, but I guess I just needed to get the story going. Hopefully I'll update my other stories soon. That'll be a while though. So I hope you somewhat enjoyed this chapter, and review, but that's not needed.

peace, yo!
-naomi