Jeremy Andrews was quite a reckless chemistry student. To him Caution was an imaginary word, to him danger was an imaginary thing and to him the odds of getting impaired or hurt were 1000 to 1.

           When the teacher Mr. Dawes stood in front of the class teaching and talking, Jeremy would sleep. When Mr. Dawes educated his students about proper laboratory safety, Jeremy would drift off in his thoughts and think about the fun things he would do when he got home. After all what would he have to worry about? All he had to do was sit at a desk and look interested so he could fill out a paper and walk away from the classroom. Maybe Jeremy would pour a chemical on a powder here, or light a match there but heck why would that matter?

        Then the day finally came, the first laboratory project to be done in the lab area. The experiment involved pouring a chemical onto a burning candle and observing how the flame would react to it. Jeremy did not even look at the safety glasses cabinet as he passed it, while all the students were crowding around it. Next to the safety glasses cabinet was a small poster with a small rhyme on it.

” Johnny was a Scientist”

” Johnny is no more”

“What he thought was H20″

” Was H2S04″

               Jeremy was given a partner, Andrea. So as they both walked to the lab area, Andrea asked Jeremy to get the required chemical liquid. Now if Jeremy had paid attention he would know that the required chemical liquid was in a specifically labeled cabinet named “A”, yet even though Cabinet A was crowded with people randomly coming to get their lab materials Jeremy went to Cabinet C and got a random chemical from there, assuming it was

” all the same shit”

       Jeremy returned to Andrea, she had acquired the candle and she had already lit the flame, for Andrea was a good student, and being assigned to a slob like Jeremy was an insult to her. So out of spite she gave Jeremy the task of pouring the chemical fluid onto the candle.

         Jeremy decided to cooperate, the sooner the fluid got poured, the sooner the results will be filled out, and the sooner the results were filled out the sooner he and the bitch could separate until the teacher assigned them together again.

          Jeremy just picked up the bottle and screwed off the cap, then without any caution or forethought he poured it over the candle looking straight down at it. Now at this time the other candles in the room were turning into a greenish sort of color this was the observation that was meant to be studied. However as soon as the fluid mixed with the flame, it began to create a gas that began to spread around the room.

          The gas was capable of damaging the organs of the eye, if allowed into the eye it would turn someone completely blind, with no chance of surgical repair.

           However the good students of Mr. Dawes were prepared, they wore their safety goggles, this gas would not destroy their eye sockets, well all of them besides Jeremy Andrews. Suddenly he began to scream

” I’m blind, I’m Blind!”

Then when the teacher realized he used the wrong chemical, he moved all the students and Jeremy out of the room. However it was no use

Jeremy Andrews lived his childhood and early teenage years as a perfect seeing, hearing human being. However he would go through his adulthood and into his death as a Blind Fool.