We both walked into the restaurant. The whole place got quiet except for some music being played from somewhere. Someone walked up to me.
"What do you want?" She said to me in a hostile tone.
"Food and I"m paying for hers as well."
"Fine." She said.
"You wouldn't mind leading me to a table, would you?" I ask Gilda.
"Ya no prob bud." She says to me as she grabs the end of my stick and leads me through the restaurant. She sets my stick down on something." I put your cane on a chair."
"Thanks Gilda."
Someone came up to our table.
"What 'll y’all have?" says a kinda grouchy female voice.
"I don't know, what do you have?" I ask her.
She snickers. "What human? Can’t read?" she asks me in a condescending tone.
I gave an evil smirk and responded. "Only some brail I'm afraid."
"Oh looks like we got a tough one." She said.
"Only if you count tough as someone who went through massive amounts of pain for over a year and is actually so used to it that it doesn't bother them enough to be a problem anymore."
"Oh and what could have happened to you to cause such pain with humans having such cushy lives." She said once again in a condescending tone.
At this I smirk again and remove my glasses. I hear at least two gasps and one scream from the female waitress.
“Whoa you have no eyes!” Gilda shouts.
“Yep, my old job was really dangerous. So dangerous that I lost both my eyes and my left hand was ripped apart, they obviously fixed that but, still. Anyway, what do you have to eat?”
“W-w-we have some r-roast chicken?” Says the waitress.
I smiled and replaced my glasses. “That sounds good to me thank you and I apologize for having shown you that.”
She then pats my arm. “It’s a-alright Ah shouldn’t have insulted y’alls intelligence.”
I stuck out my hand. “It’s alright, are we cool?”
She put her talon in my hand and shook it. “Ya we’re cool.”
“What are you having Gilda?” I ask her.
“OH!....uh…. I’ll have the chicken too.” Says Gilda.
“Alright, Ah’ll bring’em out in a few minutes.” The waitress says to us.
The waitress leaves somewhere. We just sat quietly for a few minutes. Things were getting awkward.
“BOOGA BOOGA!!!” I exclaimed.
I heard someone jump and scurry away.
“What the heck was that about?” Asked Gilda
I gave a week chuckle. “There was an awkward silence…. I tried to make it funny instead. I guess it didn’t work.”
“Well, I guess it was kinda funny that you scared the owner away when you did that.”
“HAHAHAAHEEEEW wow that’s hehe really funny.” I couldn’t stop laughing.
Gilda started giggling with me then after a little bit she started full on laughing and it sounded beautiful….wait a minute did I just think of a different species as beautiful?
“Well now that the awkward is gone, what do you want to talk about?”
“How about how you lost your eyes?” She says to me.
“That’s a little much for the first date isn’t it?” I ask her trying to be funny.
“WHOA, HAY, WHAT!?” She asked raising her voice in surprise.
“Hey take it easy, I was joking.” Then I thought for a minute and frowned. “Is there something wrong with me? Am I not good enough to date?” I asked starting to lower my head continuing my joke.
“What NoNO nonono, It’s nothing like that! I w-was just meaning it, it, I…..” She was freaking out now.
“HAHAHAAA, you shoulda heard you. You heard me say I was only joking…..or do you actually want to go on a date with me?” I say a bit more seriously.
She doesn’t say anything for about a minute. Oh gosh she really does want to go out with me. I think to myself.
I clear my throat. “Well, want to date me?” I ask her bluntly.
“Yeah.” She replies equally blunt.
I give a grin. “Okay we’re dating now. SO, I suppose I could tell you about my eyes.”
I go on to tell her I was watching some Eagles out in the mountains of Terra. How I lost sight of one of them. Then how I was on my back and one of them was pecking and clawing out my eyes. How for a few weeks I only saw red and after that only darkness. I told her how they had to reconstruct my hand with surgery and how lucky I was that the Eagle didn’t fly off with the pieces of my hand and that my best friend from college, Cloud Smasher, was there to get me away from the Eagle and get me help. I then told her that I was in the hospital for 8 months. Then in rehab and taking classes for blindness for two months. After that I got a job with the colleges of the United States sending me to Equestria to teach classes about Terran birds. Which leads us to now.
“Wow cool, I found a guy with a job.” She says in a joking way.
We both started laughing. Our food had arrived when I was in the middle of my story. I now went to take a bite of my chicken and it was warm feeling but had a nice crispy seasoned skin. The inside was tender and juicy. We eventually finished our meal. I paid the place and we both left. I told her where I was staying and that if she wanted to tomorrow that we could hang out again. We gave each other a quick hug and parted ways.
I am now in my bed and setting my alarm for tomorrow, thinking about my first day here. Yeah it’s nice here I think I’m going to like it.