AN: Thank you for the awesome reviews! A few of the suggestions I received made me giggle, please keep giving me suggestions! I'm defiantly going to use a few of them.

Again I'm sorry if you guys are having a hard time visualizing the signs I'm trying to describe. There is a website you can go to so you can look them up and see what I'm trying, and probably failing at, to describe. I apparently can't put the website down so I'm not sure how I can tell you what it is... So if anyone knows how to do that please tell me haha. Also some words I won't be explaining how they're signed, mostly because I can't think of a way to explain them that I'm satisfied with. If any of you want to help me figure out a way to describe some signs that would be awesome. The more Naomi learns the more complex the signs will become and I'm probably going to need help wording it.

This has nothing to do with the story but I want to share this. The other day I played a fingerspelling game in my interpreting class and I had to spell the word 'antidisestablishmentarianism' because my teacher thought it would be hilarious. I thought I was going to have a stroke because I can't spell the word normally let alone fingerspell it.

Now that I shared that we can get on to the story!

Emily's POV

I feel this sense of peace with Naomi, but at the same time I feel unbelievably scared. I know that Naomi wouldn't ever hit me like Mandy, but I can't help but have that fear in the back of my mind that she's going to leave me when things get hard. Right now she seems so determined to learn ASL to make things easier for me but that isn't fair. If, and when she meets my deaf friends what will she do? They didn't like Mandy too well, mainly for how she treated me and how terrible she was but also because she was hearing. They don't hate hearing people but they think someone deaf should be with another deaf person. It just makes sense for us to be with someone who speaks our language.

What if I ever meet Naomi's friends? Most hearing people feel uncomfortable around me once they find out I'm deaf and I doubt Naomi will want to interpret for me the whole time when she starts learning more sign. It's not like her friends will learn how to sign just to talk to Naomi's girlfriend.

Girlfriend?

Jesus we aren't even dating and my mind is already calling her my girlfriend.

If I did meet her friends maybe Katie could interpret for me? I hate when she has to do that. It's not that she minds, I just hate asking for help. I want to do things on my own. I don't want to rely on anyone for communication.

I'm getting so ahead of myself. We've only been with each other in person a few times and I'm already planning on what to do if I meet her friends.

One day at a time… I just need to prepare myself. She may be too embarrassed by you because you won't talk to even introduce you to her friends, Mandy sure was…

Even with all those negative thoughts going through my mind I can feel myself start to blush. Naomi is looking at me so intently. She starts to smile so I know that when I told her how safe I felt with her didn't make her uncomfortable, I was just being honest.

Naomi writes in the notebook and slides it too me.

'I'm glad you feel that way. I promise I won't let anyone ever hurt you, not while I'm around'

I'm always surprised when she says something so sweet and caring. I'm starting to think hearing people aren't all bad; it may have just been Mandy.

'What happens when you're not around?'

When Naomi reads what I've written she looks at me thoughtfully, and then gives me a soft smile.

'I'll always be around'

I close my eyes and let out a sigh. I can feel my heart start to beat faster, why is she so sweet to me?

'Even if you get tired of me and don't want to sign anymore?'

'I won't get tired of signing, and I'll never get tired of you. I'm afraid you're stuck with me because I'm not leaving'

I almost want to cry. This is almost too much to take. Since Mandy I've not been able to trust anyone hearing and let them in. I'm afraid they'll get close then leave but I can't deny this. I've never been so drawn to someone before, not even with deaf girls.

I just look at Naomi and smile.

"OK" I sign.

Both my heart and mind wants me to trust her fully, and that's what I'm going to do. If I don't I think I'll miss out on something so spectacular, I have to try.

Naomi gives me a warm smile as she takes the notebook.

'Teach me another sign'

"What sign?" I mouth and sign at the same time.

Naomi sat there for a second thinking, but after a beat she starts fingerspelling.

"M…U…S…I…C"

It took her a few moments to spell it; she's still getting use to transitioning from one letter to the next.

"Music?" I mouth, just to make sure.

She just nods and smiles.

I take my left arm and hold it our straight in front of me with my elbow bent at a 90 degree angle. I take my right hand and move it to the middle of my left arm, and start moving it from left to right rotating my wrist slightly. It almost looks like you're conducting.

I watch Naomi as she slowly copies the sign. After a moment she gets a huge smile on her face.

"Oh I get it!" she mouths.

It looks like she gets why it's signed that way. I can't help but want to correct her though. She signed music correctly but she said the word 'oh'. I shake my head at her and grab the notebook and write.

'OH-I-SEE'

When Naomi looks back at me I point to my right hand, showing the sign I'm doing. I'm making the letter 'Y' with my hand and hold it with my palm down. I keep my wrist still and just move my arm up and down a little, almost making the same motion like I'm signing the word 'yes'.

I do the sign again and point to what I've written in the notebook, hoping she gets that's what the sign means.

"Ooooh" she mouths again.

As soon as Naomi finished saying that her eyes widen realizing her mistake. She makes the sign I just made and mouths 'OH-I-SEE'

"Good" I tell her. She's doing quite well for someone who just started learning yesterday.

Speaking of music…

'What type of music do you like?'

I don't think she was expecting that question. As soon as she read it she looked a little nervous.

'It's okay; you can talk about music with me. Like a said before even though I can't hear it I can still feel it so it doesn't make it rude for you to talk about with me'

I added that quickly, I figured that's why she looked so nervous.

'My taste in music changes with my mood. Normally I prefer acoustic stuff, but if I'm angry or upset I like to listen to something heavier. What about you?'

'I love music. I love going to clubs and concerts so I love anything with a good drum beat and has a lot of bass. There are actually a few deaf musicians I really enjoy'

Naomi looks back at me shocked. Some deaf people would actually be offended by her reaction. Just because they're deaf doesn't mean they can enjoy music or be a musician, but I'm not offended by this at all. It's actually kind of cute seeing her react this way.

'There are a few deaf rappers out there; my favorites are Sean Forbes and Signmark. They all sign their songs, some will use their voice and sign the lyrics but others will have someone else voice it for them. All of their songs have a lot of bass so the deaf audience can feel it. There's also an all deaf band called Beethoven's Nightmare. I've seen them live before and they're really fucking loud'

'Wow really? I didn't think there were any deaf musicians. That's really fucking cool; I'd love to listen to them'

Since we're on the topic of music this seems like the best time to ask her out again.

'What are you doing later tonight?'

'Nothing, why?'

'I want to go to a club tonight and I want you to come with me'

That must have made her a little nervous because she seems a little hesitant.

'I'm not sure. Don't get me wrong I would love to go with you, but I can't really dance and I'm ridiculously awkward in those situations'

This will be interesting.

'A deaf girl just asked you to go to a club and you're more worried about you being awkward? Trust me, it doesn't matter if you look awkward or can't dance. All that matters is that you're having a good time with me, and I promise you will. This will also be a great place for you to practice signing. We won't have our notebook with us so you'll have to rely on signing'

Naomi bites her bottom lip and looks like she's debating on what to do.

'Alright I'll go with you. I'm assuming that the best way to learn to sign yourself is to put yourself in situations where you have to sign. This will also be the first time I've gone out since I've moved here so it will be nice'

I can't help but get excited and grin at her. This is going to be great. I get to spend more time with her and I also have an excuse to get up and close with her. The place I want to take Naomi is where my deaf friends and I go a lot. I don't want them to meet just yet, but there's a good chance we'll run into each other. I'm just going to let whatever happens happen. They're going to meet eventually so fuck it.

'Thank you. I'm glad you'll go with me. I need to warn you though; we may run into a few of my deaf friends. They tend to go to this place almost every weekend'

'What do I do if they try to talk to me? Jesus that sounds terrible… I only know a handful of signs, so what will I do?'

'Don't worry. I'll tell them that you're learning and they will sign slower for you. One of them uses her voice and they're pretty good at reading lips. It will be okay; the worst that will happen is that you won't understand each other. If you want to talk to them you'll have to write whatever it is down on your phone and show it to them'

Naomi bites her lip and looks at me. God she's gorgeous.

'Okay then, is there any signs I should know? Just to make things a little easier for when were there'

That's actually smart thinking. It would be helpful for her to know a few more signs before I put her in an environment where she has to use only my language, but I'm going to test her to see how creative she can get when we get there.

'I'll teach you one sign. I think you'll be okay with what you know. Trust me we won't be talking much while we're there. But the sign I'm going show you is 'dance''

I take my left hand and hold it out with my palm facing up. My right hand makes the letter 'V', but I hold it upside down over top my left palm and move it left and right. The upside down 'V' looks like legs, and by moving it left and right makes it look like their dancing. It's an easy sign to remember because of that.

"Oh I see" Naomi signs. She copies me trying out the new sign, doing it correctly.

It amazes me how quickly she's catching on to signing. She's learned a lot of signs since we first met up this morning and she hasn't forgotten any of them yet. When people first start learning they tend to forget some signs after a little while just because it's so much to take in. Knowing this I'm going to get a little more intense with how much I teach in the time we're with each other.

Out of my peripheral I can see the flash on my phone going on and off next to me on the table.

Since I have an iPhone I have the flash alert setting on, so every time I get a notification the flash will go on and off letting me know.

I look at my phone to see I have a text from Katie.

We seriously need to talk, when ur done with blondie come home – K

I knew this was coming but I expected this text sooner, I should be thankful.

I give Naomi an apologetic smile, and grab the notebook.

'I'm sorry but I need to leave, Katie needs me for something. I don't want to go but if I don't Katie will come back here and literally drag me out. I'll text you in a little bit about tonight though, okay?'

Naomi gives me a cute little frown sticking her bottom lip out.

'Okay, I'll look forward to your text. I'm excited for tonight, it will be interesting'

"Yes it will". I sign and mouth at the same time.

We both get up from the table and leave the coffee shop and stand on the sidewalk.

"See you later", I mouth

I leaned up and give her a soft kiss and waved goodbye. I forced myself not to get to into the kiss because I knew I wouldn't be able to leave.

I walk up to my flat and just stand in front of the door giving myself a few moments. I need to just go in and get this over with.

As soon as I stepped through the door Katie was in my face.

"What the fuck Emily I thought you weren't going to date any hearing girls?"

Ugh here we go. I know she means well but Jesus at least let me get through the door.

"Please Katie just calm down. I'm not dating her, we're just talking."

"Oh for fucks sake" Katie mouths.

She's about to let me have it. Katie only signs to me, but if she's really mad or upset she'll cuss using her voice.

"I don't care if you're just talking Emily, she's hearing. I won't let another hearing girl fuck you up. You even told me that you wouldn't even think about being with someone hearing again."

I roll my eyes at this, "I know what I said Katie. I didn't even plan on it getting this far, it just kind of happened.

"How did it happen then? How did you two meet?"

"I was at work and looked out my office window and saw her looking at me from the building across mine."

Katie raised an eyebrow and continued looking at me, knowing there's more to the story.

"I caught her looking at me a few times, so I wrote 'take a picture' on some paper and held it up to the window so she could read it. I was only joking but she thought I was serious, so I held up another paper that said I was kidding, which I was. Then she started writing back, and we just talked that way all week."

Katie slowly started moving her hands in front of her, getting ready to sign; probably thinking of what she's going to ask next.

"Okay, but how did you two meet, like in person?"

I look at Katie and just sigh; she's probably going to get mad over this because of how impulsive it was.

"When I got my promotion they moved me to a better office. Thankfully my new office was only two floors higher, but we weren't across from each other. When I looked out the window I saw her just sitting there looking so dejected. I grabbed a mirror from my bag and made the sun reflect off of it and shine into her eyes; I needed to get her attention somehow. When I told her I got a promotion she said we should celebrate, then she asked if we wanted to meet. I told her yes and the next thing I know she jumps out of her chair and stairs running to go outside. We met in the crosswalk between our two buildings, but when she tried to speak I wouldn't let her talk.. So I took her to a café down the street and told her I was deaf"

Katie just stood there and looked at me for a moment and started to laugh.

"Why are you laughing? I sign

Katie mouths sorry and starts to sigh.

"Sorry, it's not funny but come on. You two hold up notes to each other at your office windows then run into the middle of the street to meet in person? That sounds like that would be in a short film or something. Anyway, what did Naomi say when you told her you're deaf?"

"She told me I'm still beautiful. After that she said she wants to learn ASL because it's my natural language, and she wants to see what my voice looks like."

Katie looked at me gob smacked.

"She really said that?"

I just nod

"Well fuck me sideways. Mandy refused to learn any signs and now this girl you just met wants to learn ASL for you. Has she asked you about using your voice?"

I just roll my eyes at her. I really hate it when Katie signs 'fuck me sideways'. She signs it in English and it just looks graphic. This is a visual language so it looks just how it sounds…

"Stop signing that! No, she didn't ask me to use my voice but she asked if I ever used it. I told her I only feel comfortable using it with you. She said she would never force me to use my voice and I don't need to use it around her."

Even though I can't hear it I know Katie scoffed.

"Fine I won't sign it anymore…You really like her don't you?"

I nod and sign "I really do"

Katie gives me a warm smile and gives me a tight hug. When we let go of each other she steps back a little giving her more signing space.

"If she hurts you I'll beat the shit out of her. I'm not going to let another hearing girl fuck you up again, but from what you told me she seems genuine. Also, thank fucking Christ she's English. I miss hearing that accent."

You'd think I would get mad at her talking about things she misses hearing to her deaf sister but I don't. I don't remember hearing so I could honestly care less.

I can honestly say I'm a little shocked how well Katie took this. I was expecting this huge row or having her threaten to talk to Naomi, and probably tell her to leave and never see me again. I know it sounds terrible but that's just how Katie is. I love her though, she means well.

"Naomi and I are going to a club tonight. You're welcome to join us if you want."

"I think I'll pass. I don't want to be stuck with you two lezzas all night."

Katie winks at me then walks away.

I just smile and make my way to my bedroom.

As soon as I walk into my room I go and sit on my bed and grab my phone to text Naomi.

Hey, still want to go out with me tonight? – E

I didn't have to wait long for a response.

Yes I do! I'm actually really excited to get out, and I can't wait to see you again. – N

I can't wait to see you too :) Is it alright if I pick you up at 10? – E

Yeah that sounds good! I'll be practicing my signs until then :) – N

Why can't all hearing people be like her…

You are am incredibly sweet and amazing person for doing this. I'll find a way to show you how much this means to me – E

I look forward to it ;) - N

I honestly don't know if there is a way to show her how much this really means to me, but for her I'll find a way.

AN: Okay, since Naomi and Emily are going to a club I need some songs to give me inspiration for the next chapter. I don't really listen to music that would be in club or anymore that's popular for that matter. I would greatly appreciate it if you guys would suggest a few songs for me to listen to that have a lot of bass in for the next chapter.

Also those deaf artists are really great. I suggest you look them up on YouTube, it's pretty cool. 'Watch These Hands' by Sean Forbes and 'Against the Wall' by Signmark are my favorite songs by these two.

Please leave a review letting me know what you think or if you have any suggestions for future chapters!