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ethan walks into his favorite pizza place with his twin brother grayson. they order their pizza and sit in a both while they wait for it to be made. as they wait, ethan tells grayson to pose for a picture, snapping it and posting it on snapchat with he caption 'pizza date'
he scans the picture again, making sure that everything looked okay before adding it to his story. in the background of the picture, he sees a beautiful girl drawing in a book.
he looks up from his phone and sees the girl in the booth behind grayson, drawing away with a pencil in her hand.
"grayson, there's a cute girl behind you. what should i do?" ethan whispers
grayson looks behind him before looking back at ethan "dude, go talk to her"
ethan nods before standing up and walking to the girl.
"hi, i'm ethan" he says
she continues to draw, not acknowledging his presence
"hello?" he asks awkwardly
she continues to ignore him. ethan walks away and sits back in his seat, sighing.
"what happened?" grayson asks
"she ignored me" ethan whispers, embarrassed
"that sucks"
"yeah"
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y/n decided to draw a little while in her favorite pizza place. drawing always seemed to calm her. she sketched flowers all over the page, adding little detail here and there.
out of the corner of her eye, she sees a guy her age walking away from her and sitting in the booth next to hers.
she furrows her eyebrows as to what happened. she didn't see him try to talk to her, but she was also not paying attention
she sees him talking to the guy sitting in front of him
y/n reads his lips "she ignored me"
she now felt bad. she didn't mean to ignore him.
'i'll make it up to him' she thinks to herself
she quickly writes down a message on a new sheet of paper before getting up and walking to the two guys. she looks at the one who walked away from her, but he is staring at the table, now ignoring her. she looks at the other guy and he gives her an apologetic smile. she smiles back, lightly, before handing the paper to him.
the guy reads it and signs "nice to meet you. i'm grayson"
y/n's face lights up "it's nice to meet you too. i'm y/n" she signs
grayson smiles and points to the other guy "that's my brother, ethan" he signs
"is he mad at me?" she signs
"no, he just doesn't know" grayson signs
y/n nods her head and walks back to her booth, drawing again.
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"dude" grayson says
ethan looks at him "what?"
"read this you idiot" grayson says, shoving the paper into ethan's hands
ethan's eyes scan over the paper 'i'm sorry that i didn't see or hear you. i was distracted and i'm deaf"
ethan looks up with guilt and relief on his face. he was relieved that she wasn't ignoring him, but guilty for being mad at her when he didn't know.
ethan walked over to her booth and say across from her. he waved and caught her attention. she looked up and smiled
he gestured to her pencil and sketchbook, asking if he could borrow them. she nodded and gave them to him. he opened to a blank page and wrote
'hey, i'm ethan. sorry about earlier'
she read the message and took the pencil out of his hand
'hi, i'm y/n. and it's okay'
ethan read the message and smiled
'could i get your number. maybe we could hang out sometime?'
y/n read the message and nodded
ethan took his phone out of his pocket and handed it to her. y/n added her number and handed the phone back to him
grayson then joined them and helped translate between signing and talking. they spent the rest of their time, laughing, smiling, and getting to know each other better.
when y/n had to leave she hugged them goodbye and walked out of the pizza place, with a smile on her face. she couldn't wait to see ethan again.
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as y/n walked out of the pizza place, ethan smiled. he couldn't wait to see her again.
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