Deaf City

Chapter Four

There. On a line of notebook paper had one word. The word said:

Hello

In nice neat handwriting by Maka. Everyone was shocked like they just saw a talking dog. I mean it's not like a big deal or anything. It's just a sixteen year old student writing on a piece of paper. What's wrong with that?

"Wow, did she understand what we were talking about or something?" Liz asked.

"I don't know. She probably took a guess. I mean would you write on paper if it was just lying there like that?" Kidd asked.

"No." (Soul)

"You're not helping." (Kidd)

"Since when do I ever help?" (Soul)

"He's got a point." (Tsubaki)

Kidd just sighed in defeat. Patty and Black Star are on the other side of the table having a staring contest. Liz grabbed the paper and wrote a response to what Maka wrote.

Hi, I'm Liz

Then Liz passed it around the table for the rest of the group to write down their names. After everyone was introduced, the bell rang which means next class is going to start in a couple of minutes. Students left the cafeteria to get to class. Maka went to her locker while Kidd trailing behind her.

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"Why does my beautiful Kim keep ignoring me?" Ox Ford depressingly asked his best friend Harvar D. Éclair. Kim Diehl is the most beautiful girl that's ever walked the earth – or that's what Ox believes – he's been trying to get her attention for a while. But whenever he approaches her, she just flat out ignores him. The more he's tried the more of a routine it's become.

"I'm sure she doesn't mean to ignore you." Harvar said, trying to cheer him up from his gloomy self.

"If she doesn't mean to, then why does she do it? I mean what's wrong with me? Sure I got the looks, the personality, and the charm, but yet she still ignores me. What am I doing wrong?" Ox asks his best friend for advice.

"Maybe you should forget about Kim and look for someone else. I'm sure there are a bunch of girls that would love to go out with this." Harvar said while waving his hands gesturing to Ox.

"That's easy for you to say. You can just go up to any girl, ask them out, and always get a response of 'YES!' or 'Here's my phone number call me whenever you like!' I honestly don't get how you can do that" Ox said.

"It just takes practice and knowing where their weak points are." Harvar started explaining to Ox the different ways of getting a girl to say yes. The two friends rounded the corner and Harvar saw Maka putting her books away. "Great. Now that you know everything you need to know about woman, it's time to sprint into action." Harvar said looking at Ox, then back to Maka. "See that girl over there?" Harvar asked pointing to the ashy pigtails girl, only to get a nod from Ox. "Why don't you go over there and try asking her out? If she says yes, then Kim is as good as yours. If she declines, then you just need more practice. Nothing to sweat about, you'll do fine. Remember this is just a practice test, and being you, you never fail a test. Now go get her!" Harvar shouted as if he was a general or something. But it work on Ox, seeing how he ran to the other side of the hallway, then slowed his pace down, until he was just walking.

Ox walked up to Maka, thoughts going through his head on how exactly he was going to do.

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Maka got to her locker in the almost empty hallway. She guessed that students here didn't want to be late or they already ditched. She opened her locker to put her books away and grabbed different ones for her next class. Kidd was walking with her until her spotted a painting leaning more to the right, so he went to fix it, leaving Maka by herself for the second time that day.

Once she grabbed everything that she needed for her next class, she closed her locker and turned to her right, only to see a pair of glasses looking straight back her. Maka froze complete on the fact that he was inside her personal bubble.

"Hello there beautiful. You must be new around here, because I have never seen anything so gorgeous as you around here." Ox said leaning against the lockers and placing one foot against as well. Great, not only is she not without Kidd, but there is another creep trying to hit on her too.

When she didn't respond he tried a different approach. "Hey, those books look heavy do you need any help with that sexy?" Ox asked, and still got no response. He started to get more and more nervous on what to do.

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"Finally, it's perfectly symmetrical." Kidd stated after fixing the picture on the wall to make it symmetrical. "Now off to find Maka." He mumbled to himself to find the emerald eyed teen.

Kidd went off to the direction of where Maka's locker was located. He was about to turn the corner when he heard someone laughing slightly. Kidd turned his head to the source of the laughter and found Harvar trying to surpass his laugh by covering his mouth with his hand. Curiosity got the best of him and Kidd found himself walking up to Harvar. He looked at the dark brown haired teen and decided to ask what has gotten him so worked up.

"Hey Harvar, what's so funny?" Kidd asked his friend, even though they don't talk too much to each other. The boy finally stopped laughing long enough to explain to Kidd of what was so funny. Then he pointed to the Ox who was still trying to a reaction from her.

"You don't know that she can't hear a word Ox's is saying, right?"

"Of course not, she's ignoring him. But I got to admit that she's a hard shell to crack. No one girl has been able to resist all the compliments he's been giving her without a single blush. Maybe the pick-up lines are getting too old."

"Or maybe it's the fact that she's deaf and literary can't hear a word he's saying." Kidd said in a matter-in-fact tone.

"I'm sorry, come again. I thought you said that she's deaf."

"I did. So whatever Ox is trying to doing she's not going to listen because she can't."

"That's great, just great. Now I have to go over there and get him."

"Better hurry, class is about to start, in three . . . two . . . one . . ."

DING DONG

"That's wonderful, now were late for class." Harvar said walking over to Ox with Kidd following not far behind.

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"S-so, what's your f-favorite movie?" Ox was now losing it. Everything that he could have come up with to make this girl talk wasn't working out too well. She hasn't even shown a single emotion throughout the whole entire time.

DING DONG

"Favorite color?" Nothing. "Favorite music?" Still nothing. "Favorite anything?" Again, no reply. Ox was starting to get annoyed rather than nervous.

'She's just completely ignoring me.' Ox thought. Then another thought hit him. 'She's ignoring me just like Kim does.'

Ox was becoming sad, until a hand landed on his shoulder. He looked around and saw Harvar standing behind him.

"Come on dude, lets' go to class before we get in more than what we already are in." Harvar said.

"But I couldn't even crack a single emotion from her. How am I supposed to get Kim now?" Ox asked with his head down in shame.

"Com' on there are a lot more girls you can practice with. Who knows maybe you'll find someone better than Kim."

"What?! No on it better than Kim. She's a goddess." Ox said with a dreamy look on his face.

"Now you sound like Black Star when he thinks of Tsubaki." Kidd informed. Then, he turned to Maka and sign language her 'Are you ready?' She nodded and Kidd led the way to her next class.

"What just happened?" Ox asked.

"She's deaf, that's why she didn't reply to you because she couldn't hear a single word you said." Harvar informed.

"Oh, I feel bad now because I asked her what her favorite music was." Ox said feeling sad for the poor girl.

A/N: I am back! Sorry for the "really" long wait, but high school sucks. I have absolutely no time to do anything. But I will try and up load chapters on weekends (if I can). This idea was giving to me by 'Have a Nice Dream'. Okay, this turned out a lot different than what I originally thought, but here is the fourth chapter. If there are readers out there who is reading "Welcome to the Band" and is waiting for the next chapter, don't worry about that. The chapter will soon come, I promise. Thank you for yours and everyone else review. I will try and update sooner. But who knows. Things can change. This is a farewell for now. Bye!~ :D