AN: I am soooo sorry it's taken me so long to get this up. I have no excuse besides life got in the way and I had school. This chapter might not be that great so I'm sorry if it's not. I've started taking some Deaf Ed and Deaf culture classes so I'm hoping that helps give me inspiration for future chapters. I'm going to be explaining several signs in this one so I'm sorry if they don't make sense, I'm trying to word them the best I can. It's difficult with a visual language.

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Emily's POV

'You'll never just be a deaf girl to me'

Jesus this girl… I almost can't process how she is this perfect. Normally people only see my deafness. They tip toe around it and try not to make things uncomfortable for them, but Naomi looks past the fact that I can't hear. After dating Mandy, the horrible hearing girl, I told myself I'd never date anyone hearing ever again. It's safer to be with someone else deaf, they understand the struggles and we share the same language. I may have to re think this, do I want to try and have another hearing/deaf relationship? We're literally in two different worlds. There's so many 'what ifs' that keep popping up in my head that's making me doubt if I should continue this with her. What if she doesn't stick with the Sign Language when it starts to get really difficult? Will she be comfortable only signing with my deaf friends? What scares me the most is what if she gets tired of signing and wants me to use my voice? I think over time and I start trusting her more I might use my voice around her as long as she doesn't force me into it… From what Katie tells me, my voice isn't bad. I'm understandable but you can tell I'm deaf. I can only hope she sticks around for it to even get that far.

I figure this is the best time to test her to see if she really wants to learn sign. I grab the notebook and write,

'I have something for you'

I reach into my bag and hand her a book. She takes it and look at it, I can see her mouth the name of it, 'Signing Naturally'. It's a beginner book on learning how to sign. It explains vocabulary, grammar, and the syntax of ASL. A lot of people really don't understand that ASL isn't English. You don't sign how you would actually talk. For example you wouldn't sign words like 'is', or 'the'. If Naomi is serious about learning sign for me she'll actually use this book.

Naomi grabs the notebook and starts to write,

'Thank you so much, I can't wait to start learning more. I promise you I'll learn everything in this book'

How did I manage to find this girl? Besides Katie no one has ever been this eager to learn sign.

'I hope you do, I'm going to test you to make sure you're practicing. But when you learn everything in this book like you say you will, I have a second one for you. This use to be my sisters book, she used it when she was learning to sign so you don't have to give them back'

She smiles while taking the notebook back

'Thank you. Now that you bring up your sister I actually don't know about you family. Can you tell me about them?'

I really don't like to talk about my family but I will for her…

'Well I have an older sister called Katie, we're twins. I have a brother named James and he's a perverted little bastard, and my parents. There really isn't much to say about them. I started learning how to sign in secret and Katie started to learn later on. When we were little she didn't really have an interest in talking to me. James can sign a little bit but he only signs dirty things. My mum refuses to learn how to sign. She knows a few words but won't sign with me. She makes me use my voice and I hate it. When I was little she put me in speech classes so I could grow up to be 'normal'. She didn't want to draw attention to us if we were out because I would be signing. Because of that I never talk to her, I hate my voice'

I can see several different emotions on Naomi's face as she's reading what I wrote, but she seems to be mad more than anything.

'Holy shit you have a twin? That's so cool, and I'm not even going to ask why your brother is a perverted bastard. But are you serious about your mum? That's terrible. I'm so sorry about that. I mean some speech classes are okay because it wouldn't hurt to be able to talk some, but forcing you to use your voice? That is ridiculous. I'll be honest, I want to know what your voice sounds like but I'll never ask you to use it unless you want to'

I don't know why, but reading that made my heart start racing. She was honest about wanting to hear my voice, but she won't force me. She's letting me be in control how what's going to happen.

I just can't control myself anymore. I can't explain how amazing she is.

I quickly close the distance between us, I just can't stand it. I need to show her how thankful I am for this. It may seem like nothing, but to me it's a huge deal.

Naomi instantly responds. She moves her hand up to my cheek at first, and then slowly moves it to the back of my neck pulling me in closer. I can feel her fingers gently run though the back of my hair, causing me to moan very quietly. Before we can get too carried away I have to pull away from her. If we weren't in a park I would have straddled her and kissed her something fierce.

I can feel myself start to blush, "sorry" I mouth.

I grab the book I just gave Naomi and I open it up to the 5th page. In this book it has drawn people showing you how to do the signs and the motions you make. On this page it shows you two phrases that are the very basic that I personally think everyone should know, 'what's your name', and 'nice to meet you'. When you ask someone 'what's your name' in ASL you don't say those exact words. You would sign 'you (your) name what'. It's difficult to understand at first, especially for hearing people.

I lay the book down in the grass and point to the pictures showing her the phrase. I point to the first picture, a woman pointing her first straight ahead of her. I think it's pretty obvious that means 'you' but it's surprising how many people don't get that. The next picture is the woman using both hands. On both is her index and middle finger together while her ring, pinky, and thumb are held into a fist. Her hands are held so the index finger is on top and middle finger on bottom, palms facing toward you (basically making the letter 'N'). Her right hand is on top of the left, tapping her middle finger on top of the index finger on her left hand twice. If you're looking at it from above it looks like an 'X'; this sign means 'name'. The last picture is the sign for 'what'. You have both your hands open with your palms facing the sky; you gently move them towards each other, then away from each other.

Naomi is looking at the pictures intently. I can't help but smile, for me it's three of the easiest signs but to her it's so foreign and new. She slowly moves her hands up attempting the signs. With her eyes still on the pictures she point's to me, and then slowly makes two 'N' shapes with both hands and tapping them together. Finally she looks up at me and locks those breathtaking blue eyes with mine, and moves her hands to sign 'what'. I wasn't looking at her hands when she signed the last word. I don't need too; I already knew she would do it correctly. But those eyes, they just burned into me and I don't think I'll ever recover from the mark they have just left.

Before I can get stuck even more into her eyes I move my hand up to my chin, touching it with my finger tips and lower it down, signing 'good' while I mouthed it.

Before I can do anything else Naomi grabs the notebook.

'I thought that was the sign for thank you?'

I'm surprised she remembered that.

'It means both thank you and good. Some signs have more than one word; it all just depends on the context'

She tried to take the notebook back but I shook my head.

'You signed that correctly, but I need to explain something before we move to the next phrase. When you sign 'what' your eyebrows need to be down. You do this for all 'WH' words. Who, what, when, and where. Try signing it again but remember to lower your eyebrows when you sign 'what''

To prove my point I showed her pictures at the bottom of the page of a woman signing 'who', 'what', and 'where'. All of them have their eyebrows down. Naomi just nodded her head and looked at the pictures again. After a moment she looked away from the book and looked at me the whole time, she signed it a little faster than last time, and when she signed 'what' she remembered to lower her eyebrows. I move and give her a quick peck on the lips, then lean back and with both hands I touch the tip of my thumb with my index finger, forming the letter 'F', and with my right hand higher than my left I push both hands in the air slightly forward and mouth "perfect".

After an hour we decided to take a break from the book. I'm actually really surprised how quickly Naomi is catching on. Every time I would teach her a new sign I would make her go back and show me all the other signs she's learned to see what she's remembers. After we got to 15 I figured it was enough for one day.

For the first time since I was little I wished I could hear, just for a few seconds. I was showing Naomi how to sign 'nice to meet you'. If you aren't careful a new signer can mess up the sign for 'meet'. When you sign 'meet' you put both hands into a fist but you have your index fingers pointing in the air. You then have you palms facing each other and push them together. Your index fingers kind of represent people. So when you push them together it's like a person meeting another person. But Naomi, whom I secretly hoped would make this mistake, put both her index and middle finger in the air and pushed her hands together. This sign does not mean you're meeting two people, that sign actually mean 'fornication'. Once she finally signed it wrong I couldn't contain it anymore, I literally fell backwards into the grass laughing. It's one of my favorite words to watch new signers mess up, but when Naomi did it, it was even better. She has this nervous look on her face, she knew she signed it wrong but wasn't expecting it to be a different word. When I wrote down what she actually signed her face turned almost as red and my hair, which made me laugh even harder and fall back to the ground.

Normally when I laugh I make sure you can't hear my voice except when I'm around Katie. I'm pretty good at laughing quietly but again, for some reason around Naomi I just let go of everything. As soon as I realize I used my voice Naomi was leaning over top of me. She has such an intense look on her face which made me stop laughing instantly. I looked into her eyes and noticed they were darker, and full of want.

"What's wrong?" I mouth.

She just continued to stare at me. I started to get a little nervous because she wasn't saying anything. Before I could ask her again she moved her hand and pointed at me, then she placed her hand in front of her, with her palm towards her face. She slowly moved her hand slightly in an anticlockwise motion; all while bending her fingers until they all were touching the tip of her thumb, almost making the letter 'O'.

You're beautiful

I don't even get a chance to respond; she leaned down and started kissing me.

My mind has gone blank. The only thing I can process is Naomi. Just feeling her soft lips on mine makes me go crazy. I couldn't help but move both my hands up to cup her face and deepen the kiss, making it more open mouthed. Right now I really couldn't give a fuck that we're in the middle of a park. I need more of her I can't stand it.

Naomi pulls back a little to angle her head to change the position, but when she leans back down and tried to kiss me I lift my head up to lean in with her, but at the last second move back slightly, letting me have the perfect opportunity to lightly touch her bottom lip with the tip of my tongue. She must have enjoyed that, because when she leaned again, the kiss was now full of so much want. I ran my tongue on the bottom of her lip asking for entry. As soon as her tongue met mine I honestly thought I died. I couldn't help be moan a little, just feeling this part of her. I know she heard me but thankfully didn't make a big deal about it, the only thing she did was kiss me harder, making everything more intense.

A few minutes later we broke away gasping for air. Naomi is staring into my eyes and I swear she can see me. All of my fears and how scared I am to get close to her. She grabs my hands and pulls me up so were both sitting and facing each other, then she leans in and gives me a soft tender kiss. I can't help but close my eyes, the sensation of her lips are too much. When she moves away from me I open my eyes and just look at her. She's just smiling at me. She then takes both her hands and touches her index finger to the tip of her thumb with the rest of her fingers in the air, the right slightly higher than the left and pushes them quickly but gently in front of her.

Perfect.

AN: I know Emily's chapters are supposed to be longer and I'm sooooo sorry that this one is so short. At the moment I have no time because of school and homework. I promise They'll get longer and won't be as boring. I'm trying to set up the trust between them. Deaf people have a harder time 'trusting' hearing people because of how they were treated in the past. And Emily had a bad relationship with a hearing girl so it's going to take a little longer to progress things. Please be patient with me.

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