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“Jesus Christ!” he shouts. “Where?” I ask as I turn the volume down. “Wait a minute…I thought you were blind. How’d you see him?”
“Okay, so you know when you’re walking through the mall and there’s this person that’s just…gorgeous. Like so gorgeous you just stare at them? But you’re like man, I shouldn’t stare so you end up doing like a double take? Yeah, you know what I mean. Like even if they’re of the gender you’re not attracted to, you just appreciate their beauty? I’m the person you run into because you’re so busy staring at them.” “So…you look like a trash can? Is that what I’m hearing?”
“Are we here?” he asks. “I swear to god, if we’re at a stop sign again and you tell me we are here like when we went to the pharmacy, I will beat you within an inch of your life.”
“Lane, you’re going to run into something, step to your right,” I say. Lane, trusting me like the good man he is, steps to the right and bumps into the counter. “Fuck,” he growls as I start laughing. “That’s what you get for being mean to me,” I say.
“Sorry, dogs have to be in a carrier bag,” the attendant says. “Alright. Do you have a Walmart bag? If you have four, I could put a foot in each,” I tell him.
“I’m not scared of being hurt…I’m scared of being alone,” I admit. I feel like I shouldn’t tell him. I feel like I’m giving him a part of myself that I can never get back. And if he doesn’t accept it, I don’t know how I will ever recover. “I’m scared you will leave me.”
Why is it that the first person to ever notice me is a man that can no longer see me?
“Can you tell me what they are?” Lane asks as he hovers over the safe. “There are some little pew pews and a couple of big pew pews,” I say. “You’re useless.”
“I hate this. I hate seeing people that I know,” he grumbles once we are out of earshot. “Well, it’s a good thing you’re blind then,” I say.
I sink into his warm, strong arms. I don’t want to go anywhere else. There is too much safety in these arms. “Lane, I love you, you know that, right?” “Of course. I love you too,” he says as he kisses me on the cheek.
