Love is Blind (A Tfios Fanfiction)

Love is Blind Chapter 4

  It took half an hour to get to the party at the town hall, which was already in full swing. The booming music hurt my sensitive ears. Someone tapped my shoulder, and I turned around.
"Help me," Whisper-Shouted Dakota. "It's crazy!"
"Then let's get crazy!" Screamed Ellie.
"Let's no-" Harry was cut off by Sebastian.
"Want to dance?" Harry agreed.
"I thought Seb was Kaitlyn's boyfriend?" I asked.
"Turns out, he's gay," A voice said from behind. "Kaitlyn was heart broken for the whole of 3 minutes. I'm her plus one"
I heard the sound of an oxygen machine, which had a distinctively Phillip-like sound.
"Hazel!" I shouted over the music. "I haven't seen you in weeks!"
"Been in and out of hospital! I'm dying, they told me!"
"Oh really?!"
"Then I told them we are all, slowly dying!"
"Isn't that a nice thought?!"
"I'm going to go sit and read until this whole thing is over! You coming?!" I said yes, and Hazel took me to the library at the back of the building.
I exhaled deeply.
"Oh hi," greeted Hazel. "What's your name? Don't you speak? Oh, okay."
"Unnamed Mute?" I asked.
"Apparently so," replied Hazel.
"Hey UM."
"He waved," Hazel told me. We sat in silence for a few minutes.
"Gus would've loved this. Loud music, lots of girls-" I started.
"And a whole lot of expensive champagne," finished Hazel.
Someone burst into the room.
"Hazel, darling!" Kaitlyn exclaimed. "Come party with us!"
"Nice to meet you Hazel!" Ellie shouted over the music, which was now leaking through the door.
"I kinda, you know, can't breathe properly."
"You'll be fine," said Kaitlyn. "Now, Dance!"
The girls left the room, leaving me and UM together.
"She seems nice."
"Her Boyfriend, my best friend, died a few months ago," I warned. "The love of her life," I emphasized.
"Oh, no, I didn't mean- I've sworn of girls." I pondered this for a moment.
"What about guys?" I asked, remembering something Harry said on my first day at Redwood.
"Hadn't really considered that option," UM said. Then, thinking I couldn't here him once again, he added, "Until I met you."
That shocked me into silence. I didn't speak for at least 15 minutes, when I heard quiet weeping.
"You heard?"
"I heard."
"I'm sorry."
"What for?"
"I don't know."
"Are you straight?"
"What? Yes... At least I thought so."
I thought about this. "Me too. Maybe you're an exception to the rule."
"What..." UM spoke so quietly, I could barely catch what he was saying.
Then we were kissing. I was kissing a guy I had known for 2 weeks, whose name I didn't even know. A guy, no less. After a few minutes, we broke apart.
I stood up, and walked to the door.
"So, UM, would you like to dance?" He took my hand and we walked into the hall. We danced for what seemed like forever, stopping for no-one.
We went outside at around 11pm, holding hands, sat on the wall. I felt UM's long, skinny fingers touch my face.
"My name is Leo."