A Silent Voice (on hold for 2 month)

VI

VI: Why? 

For the past five years, she's been ostracized by her peers. Her fate is about to change ...What will she say to Roseanne Park? 

Glimpses of Roseanne's Point of View

Jennie Ruby Jane Kim. I hated that girl. It seemed like she came by to ask for forgiveness for what she's done in the past. She was hoping she'd hear something, to make her feel better...

Third Person's Point of View

The blonde girl was too stunned to speak, so she turned around and ran away by the stairs. "Wait!!" shouted the brunette behind her, who immediately ran after her. "Roseanne!! Uh?? Don't you remember me?!", she started to panic in her mind ' I-If she runs away, I won't be able to say anything to her!' "I was in sixth grade with you! Jennie, remember me?" the cat-eyed girl tried again, still on the tracks of the blonde who ran pretty fast with her long legs.

"It's me, Jennie Kim! Wait-" As the brunette was talking, she tripped over nothing, falling to the ground, while the blonde had her escape and continued to run, leaving the cat-eyed girl on the floor. 'That's right...' thought the brunette, 'That's all I ever did to her. What was I expecting from her? For her to run away from me? For her to attack me?' she said in her mind as she was reminiscing all her memories of Roseanne. 'Well, there's my answer. I don't have any more chances. She gave me so many in the past...But every single time I had a chance to talk to her, I rejected it outright...' 

Jennie stayed on the floor, eyes closed, too ashamed to get up. She was completing to stand up when she felt a sudden soft touch in her palm. It's like someone was writing something in it. It was the case, she felt the letters W, H, and something that seemed to be a Y. 'Why...uh???' She quickly opened her eyes, only to meet the face of the blonde inches away from her face. "Ah..." the cat-eyed girl was too stunned to speak, Roseanne helped her up and she could only mutter the words thanks. 

The blonde kept her gaze on Jennie, waiting for a response. ' "Why?" Does she mean...why am I here?' thought the brunette. She went through her purse and took out an old notebook, all crumbled with some stain on its cover. "Here," she said as she handed the old communication textbook to the blonde. " Do you remember this notebook? It was yours in-" The cat-eyed girl stopped herself from talking more, realizing the girl in front of her could only understand less than half of what she was saying. "Oh...that's right, let's see..." Thinking of the next words she would say, she opted for a simpler way to express herself. " 

"You forgot this " she signed, but the blonde's reaction was not what Jennie thought it would be. The girl hid her surprised look by putting her hand before her mouth, but her eyebrows betrayed her. Seeing this, Jennie wondered if she had done anything wrong. "What? Did I sign it wrong?" "No, but...Why do you know...sign language?" Roseanne quickly signed back, making sure that her movements were clear to understand as she had the habit over time to sign fast. ' Oh, that's what it is about...' thought the brunette before explaining herself. 

"Oh...B-because I studied it. So I could give you a piece of my mind", she said as she pointed to the old communication notebook. "I went through a lot because I couldn't hear your voice." Roseanne slowly started to flip through the pages of the notebook, the more she turned the pages, the more Jennie was sweating and felt like she was about to faint. ' Doesn't this pisses you off?! C'mon, say something! ' she thought, trembling like a leaf remembering their past and how she was cruel to the blonde in front of her. The thought of it made her want to throw up everything, she felt disgusted by her past and present self, but even more by her past. 'Ahh... It's no use...it's still not enough... I haven't been punished enough...' She forgot for a moment where she was, and fell into the dark side of her unconsciousness, ' I haven't ...earned the right to die yet...' Snapping out herself of the trance she was, she yanked the notebook from the blonde's hands. " Y-you shouldn't look at this thing" she signed.