Silent Beauty

Chapter 2: Get-A-Buddy Time!

Author's POV:

"Are you ready to go Al?" Antonio asked, knocking on the door of the blonde alpha's dorm.

Alfred groaned at his desk. "Can't I stay here?"

"Don't you remember what the headmaster said? Get up! Matthew's already waiting for you downstairs!"

The alpha groaned again and got ready to go to the other academy. That one was actually quite close to theirs, which may have been another factor as to why they were paired up, and so any student whose classes ended early could go get a buddy before anyone else. Alfred and his group of friends were some of those lucky students, which made the alpha angry and annoyed. He didn't want to go, he didn't want to get paired up with anyone, and he didn't want to do this stupid academy volunteering stuff!

"Dude hurry up! We're all waiting for you!" Antonio yelled and banged on the door.

"I'm coming!" Alfred snapped, grabbing his backpack and putting it on. He can never escape homework, no matter how hard he tries.

He put his key in his pocket, happy that he remembered his phone and ear buds in there too, and opened the door just as Antonio was going to bang on it again.

"Finally! Now c'mon, we're getting paired up today amigo! I wanna know who I'm gonna get!"

Alfred and the rest of his friends from the academy stood outside of the main building's entrance. Alfred looked over to his left and saw a young boy peering from a door, then rush inside.

"There's kids here?" Alfred asked.

"Ja. Kids with disabilities like blindness, autism, mutism, deafness, stuff like that come here and learn how to do things and communicate despite the disability. Some are born with it, other get it from a life experience. There are even some amputee kids here who were in accidents and since then have been deaf or mute and were sent here to be able to communicate again." Ludwig nodded. "As for the case of my brother, he was born with it."

"Ohhh." Everyone looked at the door as the headmaster came out. He looked at the group and smiled.

"Welcome everyone to my academy created for the disabled. Oh, Ludwig, I see you're here too. Perhaps you can help with the tour?"

"Ja, I can do that." Ludwig nodded. His eyes looked around and the headmaster chuckled.

"Gilbert was still in his room last time I checked. I will ask for someone to get him. Now come along students, I will show you my academy."

Alfred looked around the campus as they took the tour and listened to the headmaster ramble on about when it was built and what each building was for (he was bored out of his mind already). He raised an eyebrow as a pair of older, similar looking alphas passed by, doing something with their hands.

"Gregory, Jonah!" The two alphas looked at their headmaster and smiled. They walked over to the headmaster and did a salute. The headmaster did it in return.

"Everyone, these are Gregory and Jonah. They are some of the oldest students here at age 26. They were in an accident which caused them to lose their vocal cords and some of their hearing. They are also some of our assistant teachers for sign language. If you would like practice with sign language, come to one of these men and they will show you."

They all nodded, while Ludwig did the salute to them.

"Hello Greg, Jon. Nice to see you again." Ludwig spoke as he signed with his hands.

'Hello Lu' They signed back. Instead of signing the whole name, most of the time they just sign parts of the name or the initials. They found it was faster to communicate that way.