Percabeth One-Shots

Can You Sign Slower? Part 1

American Sign Language. Learn it. It's pretty cool. I'm learning ASL and its really fun. I can spell my name! I, personally, have no idea how a deaf person thinks, but I'll try to make sense of it.
Hope you enjoy.
Annabeth

I pulled on my shirt and shorts, looking out the window. The bird on the tree looked at me, and opened its beak.

Nothing. I sighed and went down stairs. I greeted my mom and grabbed an apple from the fridge.

You excited? She signed.

Kinda. I wonder how people will react, I signed back.

See, we'd just moved. I was going to a new school, which had ASL classes and ASL 'speaking' students. Deaf and non deaf.

Mom smiled. You better hurry, or you'll be late.

I nodded signing, Bye. See you later.

I ran to the bus stop, and climbed on when it arrived, taking a seat in the back. The bus was relatively full, and I assumed it was noisy. I don't know, since I'm deaf.

I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned to see a girl with black hair looking at me. Her mouth moved, and I gave her a confused face. I hated being confused.

Her blue eyes opened more and she nodded. Can I sit? She signed.

I nodded. Sure, go ahead.

I'm Thalia, she said, tapping me again.

Annabeth.

What grade? I'm in eleventh.

Same here. I'm the new girl and I'm kinda scared, I signed making faces to go along with my words.

Don't worry. The school's really nice. Except for the rats. (A/N: my school.) Anyways, everyone knows ASL. If you want, you can hang with me and my friends, she signed.

My friends and I, I corrected. She smiled and signed Sorry.

I asked her a question, Is it loud on the bus right now?

Yeah. Well this is awkward, she said smiling sheepishly.

I laughed, which I hope sounded good, Don't worry. I'm used to it.

How long have you been deaf for? She asked jumping the gun. I'm sorry! I don't mean to be pushy.

Don't worry about it. I've been deaf since I was ten, when I was in an accident. I replied. Her mouth dropped open and I assumed she gasped.

Oh god, I'm so sorry.

It's fine really. At first it was weird, but now I've gotten used to it, I signed, shrugging my shoulders. My mom learned ASL with me.

Thalia nodded. We're here.

I looked out the window and saw that we'd pulled up to a fairly large school. Everyone got up, and we exited the bus. Thalia pushed me in front of her, and steered me to a group of people. Her friends I guessed.