So, because I felt like I owed an update, I decided to combine two chapters into one. Aren't you lucky? I also wanted to progress Cam & Maya's relationship a bit more. Here, they're getting closer. She kinda reveals a bit about herself to him and he does the same. She likes him and he likes her, you can tell. Not hard to miss. Sorry for giving it away, but yeah. This is long as shit, so I hope you enjoy it.
As for One More Night, I will update it soon. I just have two reasons for why I haven't updated it yet: my laptop sucks and I decided to go a completely direction with the pregnancy confession to Cam. So it may or may not be happening the next chapter. Just so you know.
As for the others, I'm working on them. It's just a slow process because I've been so busy with school.
I also want to explain a few things for this chapter. If it's bold like this then it's Cam texting her. If it's just italics, then it's her texting Cam. If it's italics with one quote around it, it means they're speaking in sign language. And if it's normal, then it's dialogue.
There's also a flashback and in that, Maya can hear fine and she can speak. See if you can guess who she's speaking to. If you guess right, I'll give you a shout out in the next chapter, because you're just fucking awesome and deserve it.
All of what happened to Maya will soon be revealed as will a bit of Cam, KC, Jenna's and everyone else's past. But mostly just those four. Trust me when I say, the drama will happen soon enough.
Alright, enough talking...or in this case, reading? I don't know. Sorry for any grammatical errors. I'm updating this at like two am. Anyway, I should really stop rambling on. Read and review!
"Hey."
'Hi.' She waved at him and smiled.
Cam sat down beside her on the bench. "So, I have practice in five minutes, but I wanted to come say hi." He looked at her notebook, curiously. "What are you writing?"
She quickly closed it and looked at him. She just blinked and stared at him.
He tried again.
"What are you writing?" She still stayed silent. She wasn't sure if he knew sign language or that she had trouble hearing. So instead of saying anything, she quickly gathered her things together and stood up. She then stretched to show she wasn't trying to hide anything, and then turned around without another word.
"Wait!" Cam called after her, and she stopped, slowly turning on her heel, she faced him. He quickly caught up to her. "Don't be scared."
Scared.
That was an interesting word.
She was scared all the time. Just because she and KC escaped didn't mean they were safe.
She looked at him, blinking her eyes.
He ran his fingers through his hair, "I don't know why you won't talk to me, but okay. I see you don't want to be bothered, so I'll just go." No, no. She didn't want him to think she didn't want to talk to him, so she held one finger up, and pulled her phone out. Quickly typing something, she held it up to him a moment later.
I do want to talk to you, I just can't. It's hard to explain.
He looked at her strangely, but nodded. "Alright, then. I'll see you tomorrow I guess?" She smiled and nodded. He smiled back at her, "Cool. Yeah, very cool." And with that, he walked down the hall, giving her a wave goodbye.
She waved back, and calmed down. Closing her eyes she thought of him, and how cute and adorable he was. He just took the time to talk to her (even though she couldn't really talk back) and risk being late for practice, which she heard was against the law in hockey or something (though that seemed like bullshit to her).
She turned around and walked down the hall to KC's locker, where she found him with his head inside it, and a blonde girl talking to him. She walked up to it, and smirked. Hitting it with her fist, he shot up, hitting the top of it, and held his head in his hands, glaring at her.
"Why, Maya. Why?" He groaned, rubbing his head as she and the blonde girl laughed.
"Nice job!" The blonde girl smiled at her, but was looking at KC. "Didn't think you that much of a klutz."
KC glared at Maya, "I'm not really. Thanks to my dear stepsister over here, I just come off that way."
Maya giggled, 'No problem, big bro.'
"You sign?" The blonde girl asked, and Maya nodded as KC went back to whatever it was he was doing before so they could talk.
'I'm partially deaf. I can't really talk much—' Actually she hadn't since the incident, but she wasn't going to tell her that. 'So I sign. Do you know sign language?'
The blonde girl nodded, 'Yeah, I learned when I was a kid. Before my mom passed away she would teach me. She thought it would be good for me to know later as I got older. I have to say, I love it.'
Maya looked at KC, noticing he was looking back at her a smile on his face. She clapped her hands excitedly.
'Yay! Now I know three people who can understand me.'
"Wait, how were you talking to that boy?" KC asked her. "Does he know sign language?"
'Wait, how did you know I was talking to a boy?' She signed, then put her hands on her hips, glaring at him.
"I saw you, it wasn't hard to miss, Maya." He told her like he was informing her of big news.
She glared at him more.
"Hey, don't be mad at him." The blonde girl said. "It's not his fault he's so protective of his sister." She affectionately squeezed his shoulder, and Maya's eyebrows went up once KC blushed, the blonde girl smiled.
Maya then smacked KC.
"Ow! What the hell was that for, Maya?"
'You never introduced me.' She motioned in between herself and the blonde girl.
"Oh, right." He motioned to Maya. "This is my stepsister, Maya. But you already know that." He gave Maya a look. "And this—" he motioned to the blonde girl, "is Jenna."
Maya smiled, 'I love your name! It's so pretty.'
'Thank you, yours is beautiful.'
Maya smiled, she turned to KC. 'I like her, please keep her around.'
Jenna and KC laughed. "I'll do my best, sis." He said, and then closed his locker as the bell rang. "You know, we've only been here about two days, and already, I'm sick of that bell."
Maya laughed, 'I'm lucky I guess. I can't really hear it.'
"Damn you." KC responded. 'You're very lucky.' He signed to her, and Maya nodded.
'I know.'
"Come on guys, get to class." They heard, and Maya looked up to see a teacher moving his arm around, trying to get the students to get to where they needed to be.
'Guess I'll see you both later.' Maya waved and walked off. She was on her way to her History class, when in the corner of her eye, she saw a guitar. Her eyes filled with tears as she thought of the last time she'd played it, and without really thinking about it, walked into the empty room and picked it up.
It was acoustic. The guitar she loved the play the most, though it was mostly because she didn't have to take more than just the guitar with her whenever she went somewhere.
She sat down and positioned the guitar where it needed to be, before placing her fingers on the strings. She was about to strum, when she stopped herself, her hands shaking, she gently put the guitar down and backed out of the room. She crashed into someone and looked up to see it was both Zig and Cam.
She opened her mouth to say something, but realized that she couldn't. She tried to sign something, but also found that impossible as well. Her body shaking, she closed her eyes and tried to calm down as she faintly heard them ask if she was okay.
Her eyes opened as she realized two things: Cam didn't know she wasn't able to talk or hear well; but Zig did.
Crap.
She hadn't realized it, but tears were streaming down her cheeks as the boys steadied her. She wasn't paying attention to what they were saying, but heard a few things.
"Why isn't she saying anything?"
"Because she can't talk."
"Why not?"
"She can't hear well."
And then she passed out.
She woke up, feeling groggy, her head hurting as she slowly and dizzily sat up. She felt slightly nauseous as her vision became clear and focused on the person in front of her.
Cam.
Shit.
She blinked at him, and he looked up from the game he was playing on his phone to smile at her.
"Hey, you hit your head pretty hard. Are you okay?"
Maya bit her lip, and nodded. It was awkward and silent as she couldn't really communicate with him, since she wasn't sure he knew sign language.
"Uh, Zig told me. About uhm, how you can't hear well, and that you communicate with sign language. I didn't know, so I'm sorry."
She blinked, and then looked around for her bag. Cam gave her an amused look and then handed it to her. She pulled out a notebook and a pen, and quickly wrote something down. He took it from her and read it.
We can communicate this way or by text if you don't know any sign language, if you want. Or I could teach you.
He looked up at her, and instead of saying anything, motioned for her to give him the pen. She slowly handed it to him, and he wrote something down, before handing it back to her.
I could learn sign language. It's always seemed interesting to me… and I've always wanted to learn.
She smiled.
No guy had ever said that to her before. Since the last one—she slowly shook her head, trying to forget about it. She didn't have a relationship with him and therefore didn't exist.
He was writing something else down, and being Maya, she got impatient. She tapped him on the shoulder and he looked up at her.
She signed something and he looked at her clearly very confused.
She pointed at the notebook, and he handed it to her, opening it to a new page, which she didn't pay much mind to at first.
Alphabet.
He nodded, "Okay. Show me." He smiled at her, causing her to feel more confident and less shy.
She signed the first letter, 'A'.
He copied her and she clapped excitedly.
'B'.
He did it and she started to clap again, before thinking better of it, and instead, put both hands in the air, rotating her wrists, her fingers spread apart, making an adorable face as she did, smiling a bit.
She took the notebook from him, applause. She wrote and he nodded in understanding. It's what deaf or hard of hearing people do instead of clapping.
"Ah, I understand now." He gave her another smile, and she felt her heart flutter and immediately wondered what it meant.
Hopefully not what she thought it did.
She waved her hand in his face to get his attention and he looked at her.
'C'. She signed and he copied her.
She continued to teach him the signs and were able to get up to R, when the door opened and someone who she assumed was the school nurse stuck her head inside the room.
"Maya are you okay? You took a pretty hard fall there. You should thank Campbell here, he rushed you right in. And from what I understand here in your file is that you've had quite of a few of those?"
Cam's head turned to her so fast, she was slightly frightened and feared for his neck.
"You've hit your head before?"
She shook her head, quickly grabbing the notebook, she wrote something down, I fall down a lot, it's really not that big of a deal.
"Yes it is!" Cam exclaimed, but then quieted down when the nurse gave him a look. "We're going to talk about this later." He told her, and she rolled her eyes.
"I'm just happy to see you're awake." The nurse told her pointedly, and Cam sighed.
"I am too… but isn't that already kind of obvious?" Despite feeling so much tension now, Maya smiled. He actually cared about her and didn't even know her a week yet.
The door opened again and KC ran in, looking around the room, before his eyes landed on hers.
"Are you okay?" He asked, clearly panicked.
'Yes, KC, I'm fine. Relax, okay? I just fell. No big deal.' She was getting really sick of people asking if she was alright. So she hit her head, whatever. It wasn't like it was a serious injury. She was okay, and that's what was important.
If only other people saw it that way as well.
"And you are?" The nurse asked KC, but he just waved her off.
"I'm her stepbrother." He said, "I heard from some guy named Zig what happened. He said this guy—" He pointed at Cam, "rushed you in here. Thanks dude, appreciate it."
"Yeah, no problem." Cam smiled at him, reassuringly.
"Alright, well since it's clear that you're fine. And you seem to be responding to their questions well, I'll let you go. There's one class left, think you can make it through okay?"
Maya's eyes widened. She was out that long?
"I believe we have that class together. Uh, English." Cam said, remembering he'd seen her there the day before. "I'll walk you, okay?"
She nodded and jumped off the table, bed, or whatever it was, putting the notebook back in her bag, she walked over to him. She looked at KC.
"You'll be okay?"
She nodded, 'I'll see you after school.'
He nodded, "Alright, see you then, sis." He said, kissing the top of her head before walking out the door with the nurse, leaving Maya and Cam alone again.
He didn't say anything to her, just opened the door and let her pass through before he followed her. They walked in silence all the way to the class, Cam about to enter, when Maya stopped him. He looked to her and noticed her eyes were filled with tears.
She started to pull the notebook out, but he stopped her, handing her his phone. Since they had the same one, she found the notepad and quickly typed something on it, before handing it back to him.
You don't hate me, do you?
He looked up at her, noticing how distraught she looked, her eyes tear filled, one tear slipping down her cheek.
"Why would I hate you?" He asked her, "I'm just worried about you that's all. Honestly, I don't think I could ever hate you." He looked down, embarrassed, but Maya just gave him a small smile.
She put her thumb on her chest, her other fingers spread apart and open, she wiggled them. He looked up and tilted his head.
She took his phone back, typed something, and then handed it back.
It means cool.
"Oh, well, then… cool." He said, laughing when she rolled her eyes. He looked behind him, "We should probably get to class though." She nodded and was about to go in, when he stopped her. She looked up and wasn't prepared for what happened next.
Cam hugged her.
Like, really hugged her. His arms wrapped around her protectively and he held her close to him. She wrapped her arms around him and rested her chin on his shoulder, hugging him back.
Then all too soon, it was broken and he stepped away.
"I'm sorry. I just… I'm really happy you're okay. That fall you had earlier… it wasn't pretty. But that's all I'm going to say about it."
She nodded understandingly, though she was dying to know what he meant by that, she knew she'd find out soon enough.
"Come on, Maya. It'll be fun. I promise."
She shook her head. Maya knew she was crazy; she just wasn't sure why she followed her every move like a puppy. It was almost pathetic.
"I can't. Do you know what dad would say? He'd kill us!"
Her sister rolled her eyes, "You're really not much of a daredevil, I can tell you that."
Maya narrowed her eyes, "Yeah, well you act like this badass all the time, but I can tell you're really not one." She shot back.
"Points for that." Her sister looked away. "Look, I know you and I are like strangers, but seriously. I want you in my life and I want to have fun with you." Her sister stepped closer, causing Maya to slowly back away. "And I don't mean that in a creepy, sadistic way, because gross, you're my sister."
"Half-sister." Maya corrected her, regretting it instantly.
"Same damn thing." She said, "We have the same dad, different mom's, big whoop. Doesn't make me less of a person than it makes you."
"I wasn't saying it did." Maya reminded her.
"Sure, sure." Her sister rolled her eyes. "Look, you're into music. I think that's cool. I'm just giving you a chance to play it in front of a crowd, that's all. Think you can do that?"
Maya blinked. Her sister was giving her a chance to play music? In front of a crowd? She could hardly believe it.
"Y-yeah. I'm totally down. Like, holy shit. Yeah. I want to and—" She stopped speaking as she realized she had started to ramble a bit. "I would love to!" She finally ended her rant and ran over to her sister, hugging her tight.
"Get off me!" Her sister pushed her away, but still had a smile on her face, so Maya knew she wasn't upset. Her sister wasn't exactly the hugging type.
After all, her hair was a mix of black, and hot pink and red on the tips. She wondered how on earth her mother let her leave the house like that.
"So, you're in?" Her sister asked a moment later, and this time, Maya rolled her eyes. Did she not just say she was?
"Yes, you dumbass. I'm totally in. Not like I said that a second before though or anything."
"Right." Her sister had a mischievous smile on her face. "Get ready for the night of your life, baby sis."
And that's exactly what Maya was afraid of.
Maya woke up, her heart beating fast as the dream she'd just had brought back too many memories. Especially the first night of one of the biggest mistake she'd ever made in her life.
She put her hands on her face and realized she'd been crying. Grabbing her sleeve she started to wipe them away, but they came faster and faster. She made a quick decision and ran down the hall. She quickly knocked on KC's bedroom door repeatedly until he opened it, looking disheveled and incredibly sleepy.
"Maya?" He yawned, "Why on earth are you awake right now?" He opened his eyes and noticed her tear-stained face. "Are you okay? What's wrong?"
'I had a nightmare. I don't want to go back to sleep. I'm scared.'
"Scared of what?" He asked her, looking at her curiously. She ran her fingers through her hair, then threw her hands up annoyed.
'Forget it. Go back to sleep. I'll just talk to you tomorrow.' She turned to leave, but KC grabbed her arm and pulled her with him into his room. Then she hugged her, holding her close, as she started to cry against him.
The memories were there, real and raw, almost like they had happened just the day before. She knew they weren't going to go away anytime soon, but the consequences of what happened, she knew would be with her forever.
Looking up at her stepbrother, she just sighed and closed her eyes again.
Sometimes leaving in a dream world was just easier. At least there, you could pretend there were no problems.
Everything was exactly the way you wanted it to be.
…
"Hey, good morning!" Cam smiled brightly at a very tired looking Maya, who just looked at him, yawning a moment later. His bright attitude soon changed. "You look like you've seen better days."
She brought her hand up and nodded her fist. He learned from her the day before that that meant, "yes".
"Well, anything I can do to help?"
She pulled out her notebook and pen. Give me a hug? After handing it to him, she looked up at him hopefully and he smiled at her.
"You don't have to ask for that, silly." He told her and wrapped his arms around her hugging her close and rubbing her back. "I'm always around to give you free hugs. Though I think you might be forgetting that you owe me one."
She cocked her head to the side, confused.
"Remember? The first day we met, I saved you from Luke. You told me I had to work for it. Now I've given you hugs, don't you think it's time you gave me one?"
She pulled away and quickly wrote something down, ripping the paper out, she handed it to him, before smiling and walking away, a smile on her face.
"That's not an answer! Maya! Maya!" He called after her, but she kept going. "Ah, fine." He muttered, and opened the piece of paper, a smile soon spread across his face as he read what she wrote.
I know I owe you a hug, but I think you've worked for something much more than that. Here's my number, Superstar. You've more than earned it at this point.
Smart. I like the way you think. You're note made me realize a few things.
Maya read over the message, a bit confused. The number was unknown, so she didn't have a clue who it was.
I'm sorry?
Remember, you owed me a hug. I think this is much better. But I still want that hug at some point.
Oh, right. She'd forgotten she'd given Cam her number as she'd hadn't seen him all day since he had hockey practice and then school ended and she went home with KC.
I forgot, silly me.
You have the memory of a goldfish.
I know and I take pride in it. What are you up to right now?
Not much. Just finished hockey practice. How about you?
Nothing. Kind of bored. Want to learn some more sign language? I have nothing better to do.
Glad to see I'm your second choice.
She laughed, you're actually first over homework. Feel special?
Oh, so very special, M. Thanks for that.
No problem. So, about that lesson. You in? Or are you too tired from hockey practice?
I'm so in. Where do you want to meet? Or do you just want to come over? I'll send you the address and everything to my house if you'd like.
Okay. Perfect.
A moment later, she got the text with his address and stood up, she walked down the hall and into KC's room where he sat at his desk, Jenna on his bed, flipping through a magazine.
"Hey." Jenna smiled at her, "What's up?"
She looked at KC. 'I need a ride.'
"Okay, where?"
'To this address.' She showed him the text. 'I'm going to teach him sign language.'
"Who's house is this?" KC asked her and she rolled her eyes at his protectiveness.
'Cam's. You know, the guy who helped me the other day and took me to the nurse after I passed out.'
KC nodded, "Ah, well, I don't think you should go."
Her mouth dropped open. She looked helplessly at Jenna who just glared at KC.
"Come on, KC. Let her go. She made a friend, isn't that a good thing? I'm sure all they're going to do is study or learn sign language. I hardly think that's an invitation for sex if that's what you're thinking."
Maya's eyes grew wide. She quickly shook her head, waving her hands in the air.
'No, no sex.' She signed, visibly shuddering at the thought. 'I just want to teach him sign language, I swear. He's really interested in learning it, plus it's a way to communicate without having to constantly text or write things down in a notebook.'
"See? No sex. Nothing to worry about." Jenna informed KC, who just sighed, clearly frustrated. He looked in between Jenna and his stepsister before making his decision.
"Fine, I'll take you, as long as you swear nothing else is going to happen."
Maya nodded, 'I'm pretty sure his family will be there. Besides, I'm not interested in him like that. You know I just want to be friends with guys right now.'
Jenna looked curiously in between them, but didn't say anything. Maya narrowed her eyes, her hands on her hips as KC stood up. He grabbed his keys and motioned for Maya to follow him for which she just jumped excitedly and kissed his cheek. He turned to look at Jenna as Maya sent Cam a message telling him she was on her way.
"You comin'?"
Jenna grinned, "You kidding me? I wouldn't miss this for the world."
"Okay, I'm coming back in a couple hours. Like I said, no funny business. Understand?"
Maya nodded, rolling her eyes as she got out of the car. She signed a thank you and then walked up the stone pathway to the front door. She rang the doorbell and it opened the reveal Cam, a bright and happy smile on his face.
"Hey, you made it!"
She smiled, and he stepped aside to let her in.
She pulled out her phone, and typed something, sending him a message, his phone went off a moment later and he looked at it.
Where do you want to learn?
"Oh, we can go in the living room if you want." She nodded and he led her there, sitting on the couch next to her. He turned to her.
His phone went off. Do you remember how to sign the alphabet?
He nodded, "Yeah, I've been practicing, see?" He did it for her and she applauded him.
She picked up her phone and typed something. He looked at his phone.
There are many ways to communicate, one is finger spelling,which is what you do with the alphabet, another is gesturing and also, pointing at something. You could also draw, write, or text, but basically finger spelling is a good start for you. So spell something out for me. It can be anything you want.
He nodded, "Uhm, okay." He lifted his hand and spelled out his name. 'C-A-M-P-B-E-L-L.' He put his hand down. "How was that?"
'P-E-R-F-E-C-T.' She spelled back. And laughed, when he clapped adorably and excitedly, like a child. She pointed at him and then spelled out, 'C-U-T-E.'
"I'm cute?"
She bit her lip and nodded. Despite what she promised KC and herself, she realized that Cam wasn't a bad person. He wouldn't hurt her, she was sure of it.
She felt like she could trust him.
He smiled at her and then spelled something out, 'A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E,' He looked at her, "I think that word describes you best."
She rolled her eyes and then still smiling, spelled out, 'C-H-E-E-S-Y.' she pointed at him and he laughed.
"I'm cheesy?"
She nodded. Then typed something on her phone, before sending it off. He picked up his a moment later.
It's your nickname. Other than Superstar.
He looked at her, "That I think I can live with."
Do you have any nicknames for me?
He looked up at her and thought about it for a moment.
"I don't know if I can come up with anything original. But uh, well, I called you M once before. And I feel like a lot of people call you My, right?" She nodded. "Well, how about, something totally unrealated to your name?"
She looked at him curiously.
"Like… a codename sort of. Like you call me, Cheesy, I could call you… Milky?" His voice cracked at the last word in embarrassment and she laughed.
I like it.
"Yeah." He said, moving closer to her, he put his arm around her, and leaned back on the couch, she did the same. "Me too."
Looks like we're not going to be learning much sign language are we?
He rolled his eyes, "Alright, teach me something else."
She put both her index fingers and thumbs in the shape of a circle, her other fingers spread apart. She moved them until her pinkies touched.
'F-A-M-I-L-Y'. She finger-spelled a moment later.
"Family?" She nodded. He sighed looking away. Shrugging his shoulders, "I don't have much of a family."
Me either.
He raised his eyebrows at the last message. "What do you mean?"
She sighed. I mean that all I have now is my stepbrother. Well and my dad and stepmom, but they're hardly ever around anyways.
"And your mom?"
Maya blinked back tears, feeling them pool at the bottom of her eyes.
She died. And so did my sister.
"I'm so sorry Maya," He whispered and hugged her as she just stayed there, tears falling down her cheeks. "I didn't know." She stayed silent so he continued, figuring if she was that honest with him, he could be honest with her as well. "My mom and sister are twelve hours away. I live with a host family." She lifted her head up, "I miss them like crazy everyday, but I know I'll see them someday." He shrugged. "To be honest though, they're not really my real family." She blinked confused. "I'm a foster child."
She made her hand into a fist and moved it against her chest, circling it. 'S-O-R-R-Y'." She finger-spelled a moment later. He nodded, laying his head beside hers.
"Our families are so fucked up, huh?"
She nodded, biting her lip. She picked up her phone, and typed through her blurry vision.
You have no idea.
"Don't cry…" He whispered, wiping her tears away with his thumb. "It's okay."
She shook her head. She signed something and then realized, he wouldn't have been able to understand it. Frustrated, she picked up her phone and typed it quickly, probably spelling things wrong and not making any sense.
Not really. I ran away from my insecurities and fears. That's why I'm at Degrassi. For a new start.
He looked at her, "What do you mean?"
She buried her face in her hands; her body shaking as she tried to block the memories, but it was too difficult.
After a few minutes, she calmed down and typed something before throwing her phone to the side and looking at him. She waited for him to read the message and then look at her.
No one knows who I am here, I can be whoever I want to be. And trust me, this crying mess you see right now, is not it.
"I don't blame you." He whispered, cupping her face in his hands. "I don't know what you went through and I hope someday you tell me, but uhm, yeah. I don't blame you for getting upset."
She brought her hand to her chin and moved it forward. 'Thank you.' She mouthed, since she seemed to understand that the day they met.
His eyes searched hers for a moment, and hers did the same back. She then wrapped her arms around him and hugged him close. He smiled and hugged her back.
Picking up his phone she typed in something, before giving it to him.
There's the hug I owe you. And trust me, there's plenty more where that came from.
He smiled at her and she smiled back, hugging him again, she closed her eyes and just let him hold her, content and happy to stay where she was.
'So, tell me. How did it go?' Jenna asked her as soon as they walked in the house a few hours later.
Maya gave her a smile. 'Perfect.' And with that, she went upstairs to get ready for bed. She felt her phone vibrate in her pocket and pulled it out to see a text from Cam.
Miss you, Milky.
She laughed.
Miss you too, Cheesy.
"Someone's happy."
Maya looked up from writing in her notebook to see Tori looking at her. She sat down beside her, Zig on her other side.
"So, why the happy face?"
Maya signed something and Zig watched her, translating. "She just said she's really happy. And wanted to know if that was a crime."
Tori laughed, "Not at all, sweetie."
Maya grinned, she signed thank you and Zig translated for her. "She said thank you."
Maya laughed.
"Well, I'm happy you're happy. And so is Zig. There's just so much happiness in the air right now."
Maya's phone vibrated obnoxiously, and Tori sighed, looking at it at longingly. No one was really allowed to have phone's in class, but Maya could because of her hearing and that not many people were able to communicate with her unless she typed or wrote it down. Maya picked it up and noticed the name on the screen, smiling.
"Ooh, who is it?" Zig asked her.
Maya didn't answer him, she just looked behind her to see Cam smiling at her and waved his phone in the air. She turned back around and typed something back.
My friends are super excited.
About what?
I'm really not sure, lol. But I'm sure I'll figure it out soon.
Well, good luck. They seem… interesting. Anyway, do you want to maybe come with me to my hockey practice after school today? If you're not doing anything, I mean. We could hang out afterwards and you could teach me some sign language.
Maya felt her cheeks turn pink. Tori noticed this, and pointed it out.
"Oh my god, Maya!" She whispered excitedly. "Who's making you this happy?"
She just smiled at her, before typing something back.
I would love to.
And with that, the teacher walked in and she was forced to pay attention.
But throughout the entire class, she couldn't keep the smile off her face.
And she was pretty sure she knew Cam couldn't either.
Giggling to herself, she started to write down the notes. She suddenly couldn't wait until it was after school and she was at Cam's hockey practice.