A/N: I wrote this as a Valentine's Day (Single's Awareness Day) present for my 'Valentine' (Single Buddy) Abby. She loves Iggy, and I come up with this one day. So yeah. The flock don't know it's V-day, and me and Abby were hanging out in the story.
Iggy was lost. Now, usually, the blind boy was with someone else, but then again, Gazzy didn't usually ditch him with out warning.
Well, anyway, most people know that when you're lost, you stay where you are and you'll be found. Iggy was not most people.
He was wandering blindly – both literally and figuratively – and getting more lost with each step. He occasionally walked into people and random objects but he wasn't fazed.
But then he saw something that made him stop in his tracks.
Abby was walking around town running errands. She hummed along to her iPod, oblivious to the world. Then she crashed into someone.
"Oh sorry, I didn't see you," she said to the boy. He didn't respond. She couldn't help it; she had to laugh.
His face resembled that of a startled deer, like it was the shock of his life just to bump into her.
"You look like you've seen a ghost," Abby laughed.
"You could say that," the boy responded shakily, the initial shock not fading. Now Abby was getting concerned.
"What's wrong? You look seriously freaked out," she asked. He sighed and ran a hand through his blonde hair.
"Okay, this is going to sound a lot like a pick-up line, but I'm actually blind. Can't see a thing. But now I can. Weird," he replied, his eyes flickering around, taking in his surroundings almost hungrily.
"It'd be a pick-up line if you said it was because of me and looked only at me," Abby replied, enticing a laugh out of the boy.
"Well I'm sorry. I don't mean to ignore a pretty girl's looks," he smirked at her blush, resting his eyes on her. "I just want to enjoy everything I see."
"I'm starting to think this is a pick-up line," she replied, her blush refusing to budge.
"It's not. I swear," he chuckled. "I'm Iggy, by the way. You don't have to introduce yourself if you think I'm hitting on you."
"I'm Abby," she laughed. "So what brings you to Chicago?"
"My little sisters wanted to go shopping in the Windy City," Iggy rolled his eyes. "Me and my two brothers said no, but our older sister overruled us. Democratic family, my toe," he snorted.
"Toe?" his phrase had Abby puzzled.
"I don't swear," was his reply.
"Same her," Abby grinned. "Crap! I have to go! I just remembered I have to meet my friend Jessica!" she exclaimed. "Bye Iggy! Maybe I'll see you around!"
Unfortunately, because she ran off, she didn't hear Iggy's sad remark.
"Oh. It's dark again," he sighed. "Maybe she was the reason."
Iggy had eventually been found by an irate Max. Now the six bird-kids and talking dog sat in a random cafe. Total was disguised as a seeing-eye dog in order to be allowed in, once again.
"What's the matter, Figgy?" Fang asked. Iggy sat dejectedly, his blank stare seemingly fixed on his now empty plate.
"I met a girl today, when I was lost," the blind bird-kid mumbled quietly. Yet, apparently, he had not been quiet enough, because the others still heard him.
"Iggy's got a crush!" Abby jumped as a voice exclaimed from a table about ten feet away. Looking up, she saw a blushing Iggy yell at a young blonde boy.
"Shut up! It's not like that!" he yelled. "I could see around her. I don't know why. Then she left and I was blind again."
It was then that Abby noticed the seeing-eye dog at his feet. "So he really was blind," she murmured.
"What?" her friend, Jessica, asked.
"Nothing," Abby responded. Then she made a snap decision and got up.
Iggy grinned when his sight once again flickered back to life. He looked up as she sat down across from him.
"Hey Abby," he smiled and then laughed at the looks on the flock's faces.
"Hey. So, care to introduce me?" she laughed with him.
They both agreed; he had the best pick-up lines. Ever.
Happy Single's Awareness Day! AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA, SIMONE, AND JUAN. BUT MOSTLY LAURA. :)