Eddsworld x Troubled reader

Silence Speaks A Thousand Words- Tom

Tom x Mute! Reader, requested by xXLostBobcatXx 

(Y/n) POV

My name is (Y/n, and I can't speak.

As bold as it is, It really takes a toll on my life.

While I sit on the couch watching (tv show), I continue to sign the theme song when it plays. Everyone knows what i'm signing because the song is playing, but only Tom can understand what i'm saying all the time.

Tom once told me that because his parents couldn't speak, he learned sign language as his first language to be able to talk to them (pineapple and bowling ball have hands apparently). When I first met him in high school, he introduced me to his other friends Edd and Matt.

Now I live with them, and they still have no idea what i'm saying.

The theme song stops and I rest my hands on my lap. Tom leans over and whispers in my ear. "Yo,  know you can't speak, but can you hum?" Tom says, and I nod. He smiles wide. "Good. Now I want you to go into the kitchen, sneak up on Edd, and start humming a creepy tune." He says.

I start to laugh. "Fine, but only because i'll enjoy it too." I sign, and I begin to do as planned. While i'm about 2 inches away from him, I hum the tune of "Yo Girl" from the Heathers Musical. Edd jumps about five feet and lands on his ass, startled. I laugh really hard, and Edd frowns.

"Why?!" Edd yells, and I fall down from laughing. Tom can be heard laughing from the living room as well, and Edd's eyes widen. "TOM WHY?!" Edd shouts, and I hunch over laughing.

"Your reaction!" I sign between laughter, clutching my stomach from how much I'm laughing. Edd frowns.

"I don't understand." Edd says, standing up. I frown, knowing he doesn't know what I'm saying. Tom notices.

Tom rushes over to me, concern plastered on his face. "Hey, hey, hey. What's wrong?" He says, and I stare at him with half- lidded eyes and a frown.

"I don't like how I can't talk to Edd or Matt without writing it down or texting them." I sign again, and Tom makes a noise of understanding.  "I hate being the way I am." Tom intertwines his fingers with mine, squeezing them slightly and taking me to sit down on the couch.

Once we are seated, He holds me close to him. "You are perfect. You're way of speaking is no different from anybody else's, because language is a spectrum.

I speak English and signlanguage, Edd speaks English, Same with Matt, and Tord speaks Norwegian and English. The only thing that matters is that I understand you. It's their loss that they can't understand sign language and don't bother to learn." Tom reassures, hugging me tight while rubbing circles in my back.

I hug back, My affection shown through a simple act of movement.

That is my language, a language also on a spectrum. English, French, Norwegian, Spanish, etc., all have different movements to represent words we can't vocalize.

We stay sitting in silence. All I can ever get, but a nice kind of silence.

I want to hold him forever.

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A/n: So I have testing

Sorry I haven't been writing much, I have too much on my mind.

~Sail