The world was always dark. I wanted to see. My greed over my salvation… How logical. I always sounded perverted just because I wanted to see girls. I saw only guys before my sight went away. I always wondered what girls looked like and I knew the only girls in my life were pretty. Fang told me. He had his mark on Max and I… I don't have anyone and I was searching for one. The perfect one. My offers were only perverted and Max called me a sexist pig. I was, I admit. For one reason, to find the perfect one. So it was the middle of the night when I decided that I would go to the School and find my eyes back. To get my sight back. They had welcomed me with open arms. I relaxed after two hours of hospitality, sure it still smelled bad , but I was here for a reason.
"I'm here to get my sight back, sir."
"Ah. Yes. You know there will be a price to pay," the guy said with a… a British accent.
"I am aware of that." No duh. I felt himself nod and he gently maneuvered me to a room, I touched the wall. It was white, typical. I felt him laying me down on to a metal table and I felt him insert a needle into me. The world was getting dizzy and I slipped into unconsciousness.
The bright light pained me. AGH! I lifted my hands up to block it out. The shadow appeared. I opened my eyelids. The light was bright. I could see. I smiled. Of course, it worked, but I remembered the words, you have a price to pay. I flew out, free. The white coats watched me, but no one moved to stop me. I looked around. The green of the trees were refreshing, the white twinkles in the sky was burning bright against the not-so-black-but-dark-blue sky. The moon had a yellow tinge against the white. The twinkling multi-colored lights below were beautiful. I never saw anything more fascinating. Every single particle of dirt, every wrinkle in the barks of the trees, the craters in the moon, the fascinating cracks in the buildings sweeping by, I saw myself reflected in the dark windows of the old red buildings. I was pale, not café, brown like Nudge, not tanned like Max, not olive like Fang, not rosy like Angle, not dirty white like Gazzy, I was my own color. My hair was a rusty red color more orange, my own color. My eyes were vibrant blue, my own color. I was tall, I knew that before. I admit I looked… Vanilla. I like vanilla and vanilla has colors too, so I'm proud to have my colors. I swept across the night sky until I reached the flocks cave. I hate to admit, but I had to close my eyes to find the way. I looked at every single flock members with great detail. Angel was the first girl, Nudge my first pre-teen, Max my first teen. I looked at Fang and Gazzy too. Gazzy, my pyro was going to be surprised. How could I sleep, when I could see? I couldn't bear closing my eyes, back to darkness, but I had to. In order to surprise the flock, I had to sleep, so after minutes of debating, I fell asleep.
The first morning light woke me up. I opened my eyes wide and closed my eyes so I could pretend I was blind. It was easy, navigating around. I felt a tear roll down my cheek. It was red. Were tears red? When I started feeling colors, blood was red and tears were clear. Wait a minute… Blood was red?! I was crying blood! What was wrong with the surgery?! Had something gone wrong! I racked my brain. Oh. Right. There was a price to pay
and it was my tears of blood! This is it! What was I thinking?!
"Iggy are you okay? You're crying red stuff. Is it blood? What happened to you? Oh my gosh! You're eyes they're blue! They're blue! I mean it was always blue, but this time it's vibrant blue! Oh my gosh! Can you see? Can you see? Why are you crying red stuff!" I watched in fascination as Nudge's chocolate lips moved. It was fast. With the loud noise emitting from her mouth, eventually the whole flock surrounded me. Max was crying with joy, Gazzy was inspecting my eye thoroughly, Fang was smiling gently. He was smiling! Okay, this must be a big deal. Angel was standing there, mouth open. Shoot. I forgot. She read minds. What am I going to do? What am I going to do? Ugh!
"Everyone, step back."
Everyone froze and they stepped back as Angel commanded them. Angel came forward and inspected my eyes like a doctor. I could see every single freckle on her face. She stepped back and her eyes widened. Fang stiffened as Max's face contorted from a smile to a frown and Nudge gasped and Gazzy… He looked broken, staring at me with eyes that mirrored his hurt. Yes, you guessed it. Angel told the story, everything to them. The secret I was trying to keep, but lost. I shrunk as much as I could and I cried. I cried. My tears were red and I could see them through the blurry vision. I was losing blood and fast. I never thought about what those scientists wanted, they wanted my life. They wanted my life by making me cry and lose blood. The longer I cried, the longer the flock stood frozen, the dizzier I got. I was blacking out and losing me sight. Nudge and Gazzy unfroze. They ran over to me. They started yelling at me to stop crying. Max realizing what was happening, ran over to me and started to wipe away my tears and started to sob, not wanting a flock member to die, even it was a broken one. I could see why Fang liked her. She was strong. Angel and Fang moved slowly towards me and tried to stop me from crying too. I couldn't. My blood supply ran out and I fell limp in the arms of my loved ones I betrayed. I knew I would stay forever in hell crying my river of blood.