"Why are you looking at my lips like that?" I decided to be straight forward and ask him. He were still swaying back and forth at the soft music.
"So I can understand what you're saying" his voice was raspy, his face dazzed. He came closer rubbing his forehead to mine.
"But I'm not talking"
Everything went upside down when Josephine Langford moved to London fore her serior year in high school. From the first day eyes were stuck on her as well as a name: "rebel"
By cutting her long private school skirt on the first day of school standing up for her rights another name stuck to her: "slut"
She lived by those names, not caring if people knew that they weren't true. She knew who she was and that was enough.
But when she met Hero, a mysterious quiet kid, who only read books, had always his headphones on and was obssessed with waves, another name stuck to her: "The deaf kid's protector"
And that time she decided to pay attention to that name and actually act on it.
THIS IS A SHORT STORY AROUND 10 CHAPTERS LONG.
THE WHOLE BOOK COMES OUT NEXT WEEK! STAY TUNED!