Different (ON HOLD)

Chapter 2

*by the way rayella, nate, and sam are all 17 so they have two years of highschool left*

I woke up and checked my phone, no texts. I get out of my bed and take a shower. After that I get out throw on clean pajamas and the up my hair.
I go downstairs and no one was awake. I always woke up early, around 8. And everyone else woke up around 10.
I put on spongebob on the tv with the captions on.
My phone buzzed and I looked down at it.
Nate- not sure if you're a morning person but hi if you're reading this right now.
R- I am😂
N- well good me too😏
I turn on the tv in my room and text nate back
R- so what's up?
Casper walks in my room.
"Why are you up?" I sign
"Your TV is turned up" he signs back turning it down.
"Oh sorry I didn't realize"
"I know" he laughs and leaves.
N- laying in y bed watching sign language videos
R- oh fun😏
N- I know thanks, please, sorry, and my name
R- and I know everything else!
N- show off😒
R- haha
I lock my phone and get out of my bed and go downstairs.
I get a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch aka my fav food in the whole world.
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I finished breakfast and was still talking to nate.
N- we should hang out sometime?
R- yeah:)
N- how about later today?:) you can teach me some signs
R- sounds good.
I was actually very nervous to hang out with him though. I've never actually hung out with a hearing person. Besides my family but they all knew how to sign.
I had one other friend, her name is Connie, she's hard of hearing but not fully deaf. She's the only other person in my home town that knew sign language, again besides my family.
We didn't hang out all the time, but occasionally.
N- cool so pick you up around 12??
R- okay:)
I sat watching the nature channel, I liked doing this to imagine. Imagine what sounds the animals made and what rain sounded like. My mom always tried to explain it to me but I never really understood. I don't know what sound is.
I was caught up in my imagination until casper barged in my door.
"So what are you doing today little sister?" He signs
"Hanging out with nate" i sign
"No" he says
"What?"
"No, he's hearing and he's probably a douche, you won't even be able to talk to him!" He signs quickly.
"So what if he's hearing? My whole family is hearing! And he wants to learn sign language and until then I can use my phone to talk!" I sign aggravated at his words.
"Whatever" he signs and leaves.
I rolled my eyes and got ready for the day.
I went downstairs and everyone was awake.
"So we hear you made a new friend?" My mom signs
"Yeah his name is nate" I smile
"Is he deaf?" She asks
"No, why does that matter?" I ask
"I just might be a little more difficult that's all" she says
"My whole life is a little more difficult, if I can handle going out to stores and malls I can handle being with one person." I sign and get a text.
"He's here I have to go" I sign and leave.
"Hey!" He says when I get in his car.
"What's the sign for nice to see you?" He asks and I do it and he does it back.
"You too" I sign.
"See I know that one I'm getting better already!" He laughs driving out of our driveway.
He drives up to a medium sized grey and blue house.
"This is me" he says and we get out.
We go inside and It was gorgeous. A little messy, but he is a boy.
"It's really big" I sign.
"Big?" He asks and I nod.
"Yeah well my normal job pays quite a bit, Rolly is just my grandpa so he wanted me to fill in until he could get another guy at the pizza place" he says and I take out my phone
:: what's your normal job?::
"I rap With my friend sam, we aren't like famous, but kinda I guess" he says and my eyes go wide.
::that's really cool, I wish I could hear it::
"Me too" he signs.
"Very good" I sign.
"What's that?" He laughs and I type it out for him.
"Oh well thank you" he signs.
::so what's it like being a 'not really famous' rapper? Just say it I can read your lips::
"Well we started with kinda just posting our songs and they started getting a lot of views. And I don't really know how it happened but we got so many fans we started touring, we're not on tour right now though." He says
::that's really cool! So who's sam?::
"This is him" he says fiddling with him phone and showing me a picture of a boy with extremely light hair, and amazing eyes.
"He's cute" I sign.
"What does that mean?" Nate asks
:: it means cool::
"Oh okay but yeah this is us with some of our fans" he says and then shows me some photos.
"Cool" I sign and he knew what it meant.
I got a text and looked at it.
Casper: everything going okay?
R- yeah I'm good:)
::if you're touring how do you go to school?::
"We actually do just go to normal school, we just take a week off once in a while to go do some shows" he says
"That's cool" I sign.
"What's the sign for show?" He asks and I show him.
"Well we have a show coming up in a month" he says and looks up behind me and says something but I couldn't really read his lips.
I turn around and About have a heart attack when someone is standing right there, I recognized him from the pictures. It was sam.
He came around and sat by nate.
"I'm sam" he signs his name. "I took a little bit of sign language classes last year at my school so i can sign a little" he says signing half of the words he says
"Awesome" I sign.
"Where do you go to school?" Sam signs.
"I home school" I sign
"Really?" Sam asks
"What'd she say?" Nate asks sam clearly getting frustrated that sam could take to me but he couldn't.
"She home schools" Sam says.
"I have to" I sign
"You know you can go to a normal school and get an interpreter right?" Nate asks
"I don't know, high school seems pretty scary" I sign and sam translates.
"It's really not" nate says.
"Yeah because you guys are famous" I sign and Sam gives me a weird look.
"Us being famous makes it a lot harder, because there's girls and people in general who only hang around us for the fame" he signs
"That's awful"
"It is" he signs.
"Okay I'm lost" nate says and I pat him on the back
"You're doing good" I sign.
"Doesn't home schooling get lonely?" Sam asks
"Yeah but I mean it's better than getting bullied" I sign
"Well there's actually another deaf girl in our school, she's a sophomore and has a lot of friends, she doesn't get bullied that I know of" Sam says signing as much as he knew.
"What are you getting at here sam?" I ask
"I'm just saying, the school year just begun, maybe you could try a normal school" he signs.
"I'll think about it" I sign and he smiles
"Good" he says and nate rolls his eyes. I felt terrible because he was the one who invited me over but I was only talking to sam, it's just so much easier though..
My phone vibrated and I looked down.
Casper: still going good?
R- YES CASPER
"My brother is terrified that I'm going to get murdered" I sign.
Sam translated to nate.
"He's very over protective" nate says.
"Yeah" I sign.
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After a while I went home. I wanted to talk to my mom and dad about nate and sams school.
"Mom, dad can I talk to you?" I ask and they nod and we sit on the couch.
"What's up?" My mom asks (when I say that they ask it still means their signing)
"So, you know how I hung out with that nate guy, well I also met his friend sam, and he knows a lot of sign language and he's really nice, well, they were telling me about their school and how theirs another deaf girl there that loves it, and there's a few people there that can sign because they have classes for it and I kind of wanted to see what you guys would think if I wanted to get a tour or something? Check it out?" I sign
"That sounds awesome!" My dad signs
"Really?" I ask
"Yeah I mean it'd be great for you to be able to get out there! If you feel as if you can handle it" he signs
"I think we should just start with a tour" my mom says and I nod.
"Sounds good, I'll call the school first thing in the morning and set up an appointment" she signs.