12 Roses

39 | The Beauty of Failures

You went downstairs, again seeing Gojo with his face pressed up against the glass door.

"You're going to get sick from that," you told him before opening the door.

"Are you signing up for the Goodwill Event? They posted the sign up form on the bulletin."

"I'll probably volunteer again."

"In that case, you should volunteer with Shoko! You're pretty good at the sciences so it'd be good practice."

You shrugged. "I'll think about it."

Gojo opened the door for you and you moved inside, waving to Megumi once again. It was a shame that Tsumiki's school started an hour later than yours. Then you would have seen her everyday.

•••

"There's the bulletin," Yuta pointed out as you roamed through the halls.

You walked up in front of it, noticing a familiar name between the lines. "Megumi signed up for it."

"Is that going to convince you to?" Panda asked before picking up the pen hanging by a string and writing his own name.

"I was going to anyway... Gojo told me that Nurse Ieri's taking volunteers to help her with first aid and stuff."

"You'd be good at that," Toge stated. "I think I might participate this year."

"I'm just hoping she knows sign language..."

"She's the nurse at a school that offers education to deaf people," Maki said. "It'd be weird if she didn't."

The problem was that the school was such an elite school that you were the only deaf student that got in years. At that point, the program that uses sign is only really for people trying to study it.

"I'll ask Gojo." You sighed your name under the volunteers helping Shoko, with your name being the only one written even by the time the forms were taken down.

•••

Two weeks later, when the Goodwill Event arrived, you separated from the others and joined Nurse Ieri under her first aid tent.

"Looks like you're the only one that signed—" She paused when she turned, seeing your familiar face. "Ah... you're the one Gojo told me about."

She recalled the conversation with her old school friend.

"She's deaf, you see, but she's, like, the smartest person I've ever met!" Gojo had said. "I directed her to you since I'm pretty sure she wants to be a doctor. She knows all these plants and remedies already!"

When she stared at you, however, it felt like she had seen you before, a lab coat over your shoulders and that friendly face at someone's bedside. Perhaps I'm a seer.

She scratched the back of her neck. Let's see if I remember my sign language.

"Hey, you're Y/N, right?"

You nodded.

"Gojo told me about you. He said you already have some experience in first aid?"