Silent Beauty

Chapter 2: Get-A-Buddy Time!

"We should be on our way. We have finished the tour, now let's go back to the main office where you will be paired."

"Yipee." Alfred muttered sarcastically under his breath.

Francis (who happened to be Alfred and Matthew's omega cousin from France, who also, despite being older than them by a year, was in their grade) heard and smacked him.

"Be nice Alfred." The omega hissed quietly so the headmaster, who was speaking as he led the group away, didn't hear.

"Whatever." The alpha rolled his eyes. 'I bet my partner is going to be someone I can barely stand. That'll give me something more to complain about.'

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"Arthur! The volunteers are here!" A voice squealed as they entered the main building's library. The academy had two libraries, the main one which was much larger and filled with so many more books, and a room consisting of a bookshelf, a fireplace, and a few couches in the main building where some of the classes were held. Arthur loved visiting both spots on the campus. The person who spoke however, was not a student at the academy. She was a volunteer there actually, but the beta was someone who went to regular school. She mainly started visiting because her blind brother went to the academy. Her name was Michelle.

And for some odd reason, she had declared herself Arthur's best friend and would hang out with him when her brother went his classes. Like now for instance.

"What's this about volunteers? I thought you were the only one." Alister groaned. He was taking a nap on one of the couches so he could be close to Arthur in case Arthur had one of his...moments.

"No, the school from up the road is volunteering here remember? Well they're here and the headmaster wants us downstairs to pair you guys up with your buddy."

Arthur slowly nodded, putting his book down and getting up from his seat. He managed to catch Alister before he rolled off the couch and helped him to his feet, giving him his walking stick.

It was odd, how green his eyes were, similar to Arthur's, yet they could see nothing. Most of the time he had them closed and sometimes even blind folded, anything so he could feel like the darkness was caused by that and nothing else, like the accident never happened.

Arthur took his hand and led his brother down the stairs, straight into the living room of sorts in the main building were parents waited to see their child when they visited. It surprised Arthur to see a moderately large group of people that looked around his age there instead of adults. After looking at a few people, he made eye contact with one of them.

One he knew very well.

Ludwig.

Arthur smiled and signed 'Hello' to him. Ludwig smiled and signed back. He looked around and saw Feliciano, who was "speaking" to Feliks, a Polish omega who was also deaf. Arthur looked back to Ludwig and nodded over to the Italian omega with his head. Ludwig looked in the direction and smiled.

The headmaster noticed Ludwig communicating with someone and finished his speech prematurely. "Ahem, everyone, these are some of our students here at the academy." The headmaster turned to the students, all of whom looked up at him and did the salute (except the blind ones, they just waved). Feliciano saw Ludwig and couldn't hold his excitement, running over to him and hugging him.

Ludwig smiled and when they released, they started signing to each other.

The headmaster let them and instead talked about some of the students, signing at the same time so the deaf ones knew what he was saying. "This here is Arthur. He is one of our best music composers. Don't expect to be given a performance by him anytime soon though. He's not one for crowds."