Silence

Chapter 2

        After school, Emmett decided to come over. Also, Emmett is deaf and he knows ASL (American Sign Language.) In fact he's know it since he was around 7 and he taught me when we first met in 2nd grade. I guess that's why we're so alike, cause nobody understands either of us.
        Emmett also has red hair, freckles, and beautiful blue eyes. But I only like him as a friend. We don't have many other friends, just each other. And we're both fine with that.
       After school, Emmett and I head to my house, but Peyton had already arrived. I guess now's the time to explain Peyton. Ugh. Peyton has long brown hair, with slightly lighter brown highlights. She has green eyes and probably the whitest teeth on earth. She's about 5'4 tall, is captain of the cheer team, and dates the head quarterback of the football team, Travis. Travis is an okay guy but I don't know much about him. But back to Peyton. Peyton always wakes up 3 hours before school starts and screams at the sight of mud. And me in the morning.
As we arrive, I see Peyton heading upstairs, and the rest of the house empty. My parents both work all day, so we're home alone a lot. I close the door behind me and look over at Emmett.
"So what do you want to do?" I ask, while signing at the same time.
He just shrugs.
"Ah! I have an idea!" I sign. He looks at me with raised eyebrows, as we go to my room.
I grab my laptop and sit on m bed, with Emmett besides me.
As I open my laptop, it was set on my Facebook page. I quickly scroll through the comments and just sigh. Not one nice comment. But, I guess I'm used to it. Then, I see that someone messaged me, so I go to my messages.
As I read the message, I could feel my heart slowly breaking. It was my ex, Kolby.

The message read;
Max, I've been thinking and I want you back. I dumped Melody for you, and I just wanted to let you know that I'm flying back to Minnesota tonight.

Emmett then nudged my arm.
"You can stay at my place if you wa-" he started to sign, he stopped as a single tear strolled its way down my cheek and to my neck. He then wraps me into a warm hug. I nod, with my head on his shoulder. He then broke our embrace.
"Don't worry, I will protect you." He signed.
I smile.