4I do not know a great deal about being deaf (only what I have read on the internet) so all this may not be 100% accurate.
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Tripping up the stairs into school I adjust my uniform so I don't get a detention on the first day back. It's been the summer holidays, and everyone is glum and bored after having to get up early after 6 weeks of laying in bed until 12. I am relieved however to be back, the holidays to me mean 36 days of being bored.
Don't get me wrong I am not a nerd or anything but I don't really go out that much, sure people talk to me at school but they make me nervous and I find it hard to get involved when we hang out not in the school environment. I tend to just chill at home reading, doing any homework I have and going for runs when I am not at school. So as I walk through the school halls it feels like I am finally coming home, like that feeling you get when you go on holiday and you get back into your own bed.
Walking into my form class I scan for an open seat, oh no, my seat for the rest of the year is to be next to Josh Davis. Josh is an idiot, he feels the need to be the centre of everything all the time, if he was a half decent person I am sure the seat next to him would be filled and I wouldn't have this problem. Why wasn't I early to school?
Moving forward slowly I sit next to him already feeling his eyes staring at the side of my face, and then it happened, he opened his damn mouth. I don't mind talking with people but when Josh talks it's just well, terrible, he talked for the whole fifteen minutes about the dead pigeon he saw on the way to school and even offered to show me a picture of it. Needless to say as soon at Mr Barns gave me my time table for the year I bolted out of class.
At lunch I sat with the closest people I could call friends, we are fairly similar and so it made sense for us to sit together. There is always conversation going but never anything other than school. Alex sits in front of me with Robbie to his right and Lilly sits next to me, we have sat in this formation since we first began here at high school. We brought out our timetables and saw that we only shared a couple of classes with each other which really did disappoint me, although we may not be very close it's nice to be able to sit next to someone you know.
Robbie is tall with red hair, freckles and dark brown eyes. We sat down next to each other in our only shared class and began to complete the artwork in silence.
"Millie, can I ask of you a favour?" I hear Robbie whisper just before the end of the class; I turn my head slightly and nod to him still focusing on my painting.
"Could you tell Lilly I can't meet her after school? I was meant to meet her but I forgot I was supposed to be home early tonight. I would do it myself but I know you are together next lesson"
I sat in shock are Lilly and Robbie together? Thinking back I do remember seeing them walking around the corridors earlier, but can I really be that oblivious?
"Yeah sure Robbie." No more was said but my mind was going over this information over and over again.
I feel more alone than before and I didn't even think that was possible. I delivered the message to Lilly and it was completely evident that her and Robbie were indeed going out. She looked so disappointed and heartbroken, until I told her about him having to get home early. It made perfect sense for them to be together, after all they both love the same things, and they are really nice people. I should be really happy for them, but I can't help but feel a little pang of jealousy that they can like each other so much and I can't seem to like anyone.
The final lesson was maths, my least favorite subject. I sat down in the back left hand corner, as far away from everyone else as I could possibly get. The teachers generally knew to leave me alone and let me get on with the work alone, I was a good student and did the work, there was no need for them to ask me questions or ask me to read from the textbook. Just as the lesson started the door opened and in walked a tall boy, he must be new as I don't recognize him. Mr Clarke points to the seat next to be and the boy quickly gets into his chair, slipping down it slightly to avoid the 30 pairs of eyes which are currently focused on him.
I look at him for a minute in shock, he is gorgeous. Not in the obvious way, his eyes are dark brown and his brown hair is untidy and sticking up in random places, but I find it incredibly endearing. I look away knowing he is trying to shy away from everyones eyes and I don't want to make him feel uncomfortable.
I never feel attracted to people, ever. So this little fluttering of butterflys in my stomach is definitely alarming.
I begin working when Mr Clarke walks over to our table and places a piece of paper with notes of everything he had just told us in front of the boy. Confused I watch the boy next to me write in messy handwriting at the top.
Thomas Foster 1st lesson.
Later Mr Clarke tells us to stop what we are doing and listen to him as he explains some more equations, I notice Thomas next to me doesn't stop and carries on writing until looking up and noticing everyone else has stopped and shyly puts his pen down. I look intently at him (out of the corner of my eye) for the rest of the lesson, I know there is something I am missing here but I can't work it out and its driving me crazy.
I am positive he knows I am looking at him and several times looks up to meet my gaze. When the teacher explains the homework I look over at Thomas who is focused on the Mr Clarke before waiting for the piece of paper to come to him with the homework written down.
Then like a jigsaw it all clicks, he is deaf. I can't believe I didn't notice before now, my grandmother is deaf so a few years ago so I learned sign language.
Still feeling the pull to Thomas I reach across and touch his arm; he looks towards me before frowning. Then before I can convince myself not to do it I sign.
Hi I'm Millie.
He looks shocked for a moment before smiling a huge grin.
Hi I'm Thomas, nice to meet you.
For the first time in for as long as I can remember, I communicated with someone not because it was necessary but because I wanted to.
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