I wonder if Summer is ok with me being a non-combatant boyfriend? She never said anything and her first one was one of her own teammates. She loves weapons… Maybe I could take her for her own weapon? She had never decided on what she wanted but she isn't big on guns. I wonder what I should do?

Roman hadn't even touched his food. His dinner was getting colder by the minute but his mind was too busy to allow him to eat. His stomach was growling but he ignored it. It had been a week since their hot date night. He didn't want to seem too clingy but he couldn't help but message her every time she was at breakfast, lunch and dinner with whatever down time she had.

Roman snapped out of his thoughts and looked up to see Neo staring at him intensely. He avoided her eyes and started on his food. She had stayed for almost a week and all she has done is stare at him. Roman felt extremely uncomfortable because he couldn't understand anything she said with her hands and that his friend seemed pretty attached to her even though they were friends with benefits.

Neo looked over at Brunneis.

[What is wrong with him?]

Brunneis looked at Roman then shoved food into his mouth.

[He's not a people person]

[He has a girlfriend]

[Her, I and Jinex are his social life]

[Oh]

[Don't feel bad. Music is always going to be his best friend first]

Neo smiled and looked at Roman.

"Why is she staring at me?" Roman asked forcing a small smile.

"She feels bad you have no friends."

Roman glared at him.

"She didn't say it that way."

"Ugh."

Roman got up and headed his way to his room.

He hardly slept in the actual bedroom for him but he would tonight. Roman closed the door behind him. He looked around the room and it was clean thanks to Jinex even if Roman never occupied it. He walked over to the bed and sat down sinking into the soft sheets. He let out a sigh then flopped himself to the middle of the bed.

Before Roman knew it, he fell asleep.

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Neo pushed the door to Roman's study open and walked in. She took a deep breath. There was the lingering smell of roses in the room. She scratched her head seeing his vase was empty. She actually searched the room for the smell but the source of it wasn't there.

Neo ran her fingers on top of the piano. It was a pretty piano but it wasn't as elegant as the sound that came from it. She pulled off the silk sky blue sheet and looked at it some more. It was taken care of quite well, almost looking brand new.

Her heart skipped a beat as she touched the keys.

It's been a long time... I wonder if he'll get mad?

Neo ran down on the bench. She was pretty confident he wouldn't get up since Roman had went to his room two hours ago.

Neo had grown up with her siblings who could talk and laugh. Neo had gotten hit in the throat with baseball bat. Her wind pipe had broken, almost shattering her voice box. Afterwards it took a lot of effort to produce sound so she just learned sign language or wrote on paper.

Her heart was pounding in her chest as she slid her fingers over the keys. She remembered crying a lot and it hurt but she could never stop. One day, the music teacher saw her and he decided to help her to get her voice. Soon, she was playing songs of all kinds. Light, dark and dramatic, whatever you could name.

When it came time for them to decide what they wanted to do, Neo wanted to enter the world of music but they denied her because she couldn't talk. She decided on Signal and they didn't want her either. She belonged nowhere at all. She had studied so hard for Signal and the Vale Musical Academy but it wasn't good enough. She just wanted to belong somewhere like her siblings.

Neo began pressing the keys bringing out a low, soft sound. She remembered the song because she played in beautifully and it was her first song: Lonely Darkness is a Friend. She played the extended version for good ten minutes before she decided to stop. She let out a quiet sigh and looked up to see Roman staring at her with angry green eyes.

"What the fuck are you doing in here?" he hissed.

She waved her hands in front of her frantically.

[I mean no harm!] she signed quickly and realized he didn't understand.

"I don't understand the flapping you're making."

Neo frowned and signed again. [You're a rude asshole]

"I still don't understand."

Neo scooted over and patted the seat beside of her. She wanted him to sit next to her.

"How old are you?" Roman asked with a frown.

Neo held up one finger and then six. She was sixteen.

"Sixteen? Why is Brunneis messing with a sixteen year old girl?"

Neo stood up and grabbed his scroll out of his front pocket.

[Because in a few months I will be seventeen. I got permission from my parents and so did he]

"Isn't he sleeping with a few other people?" Roman asked and Neo blushed furiously.

[He decided to wait until I was seventeen before we did anything.]

"Well it doesn't matter. Get out of my room."

Neo patted the seat again.

[Won't you play with me? We can do the duet Dancing Waters of Atlas?]

Roman heard of the song but he had never played it.

"I haven't played that one."

[I can look it up hold on]

"I do not care little girl. Leave my room."

Neo looked down at the piano with a sad look in her eyes.

[Why are you dating a girl who can fight and you can't?]

Roman's face turned dark red with angry and embarrassment.

"Why is it any of your business?" Roman growled and Neo looked up at him.

Both her eyes were brown and sad.

"Damn go play with him."

Neo frowned. [He has someone over]

Roman's frown softened, "Why are you with someone when they're sleeping with everyone?"

[Because who else will love someone who can't talk? He learned sign language for me]

X

X

Neo had finally passed out on Roman's couch and Roman sat in the doorway to the outside waiting for Brunneis' company to leave. The doctor left giving Roman a wave and he waved back wanting not to be rude. He got up and walked up the stairs to Brunneis' room. It was one of the few rooms with double doors so it wasn't hard to find. Roman pounded on the door until his friend opened it.

"What's wrong?" he asked looking scared and a little annoyed.

"What is your deal?" Roman asked angrily, "That quiet girl down there likes you and you're sleeping with other people?!"

Brunneis looked surprised.

"Wait what-

"Is it true what she told me? Because she's underage?!"

"Why are you so mad?" he asked walking back into his room.

"Because she likes you!"

Brunneis sat down on his bed, "I know she does. I learned sign language for her, didn't I?"

"Why is she here if you don't like her?" Roman snapped.

"Her parents kicked her out."

Roman looked shocked.

"What?"

"She couldn't make it into any school at all because she can't talk and they see her as a nuisance so I took her in. I told her I was gonna do what I wanted because she should do what she wants and no one should stop her from her dreams. So, she decided on Beacon and she is gonna disguise herself to look different because she is too shy to show her true self."

"Huh?"

Brunneis laughed, "She has a special semblance. It's quite interesting to see honestly, but she's cute just as her little ice cream self."

X

X

Roman sat at his piano staring at the sleeping girl. He was angry. How could anyone not want their child? It seemed he lived in a world of his own not realizing how horrible people were. First it was Summer then this little girl? He laid his head on the keys thinking about how horrible the world really was. How shallow people really were.

I hate this world. Why are people so evil?

It seemed people were more evil than the Grimm that walked the planet.