Silent Love: A Love Live Sunshine Fanfiction

Another Try

“Italicized” = Signed

“Regular” = Spoken

Italicized = Yō typing

Bold = Someone else typing

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Yō’s POV:

We had been working a lot to try and get ready for this competition. Before we knew it, it was upon us. We had just checked into the place. They wanted us to all arrive quite early for some reason. So, now we were just lazing about and waiting.

A certain two people came over to see us. Looks like Saint Snow was chosen for this event as well. They’re lucky that they got on the list already. At least, I’m assuming they weren’t also a backup group.

They were talking to the others. I was just awkwardly watching. This is the hardest part about all these competitions. None of the other groups know sign language. I can’t communicate with anyone else effectively. Using my phone takes a while and it deters most from wanting to talk to me. It sucks.

It seems like they’ll be hanging out with us for a while. They both sat down with us. Sarah was talking with Chika. It looks like Leah’s ended up talking to the first years.

I don’t know what to do. It feels a little awkward. Everyone else was occupied with other people. I was all alone. No one seems to want to talk to me right now. I still wonder if they really like that I’m here with them.

Chika tapped me on the shoulder. I looked at her. What does she want? Chika nodded to Sarah. I’m guessing she wants to talk to me then.

“How are you doing?”

I was frozen in shock. She… she had signed… That meant she’s been learning. But why? Why is she bothering? It’s not like we’d even see each other much. But, it made me feel happy. She was trying to communicate better with me.

“I’m alright. You’ve been learning to sign?” I still couldn’t really believe this was happening. It felt like a dream. No one outside of Aqours has ever signed to me before.

Sarah nodded, “I figured we would meet again so it might be a good idea to learn sign language.”

It’s so strange. I don’t know how to react. I’ve never considered this happening before. I don’t know what to respond with. I want to tell her I’m really happy she’d do that, but I don’t know how to phrase it. I’m worried I’ll mess this up and sign something that she takes the wrong way.

“But why bother? No one else makes any effort to do it.”

Chika pouted at me now, “You should stop thinking about the negatives! Think about the positive stuff.”

“Half the time you guys don’t sign unless you’re talking to me or as a group. Why shouldn’t I think negatively?” I shot back. This probably wasn’t the right time to argue about it, though.

Chika frowned, “Why didn’t you mention it sooner then? We could’ve easily fixed that.”

“Why should I have had to? I expected I’d get included already.” I shot back again, a bit more aggressively than I want to admit.

Sarah interrupted our fight, “Calm down. This isn’t something that needs fighting to solve. Talking it out… calmly… is better.”

She hesitated when signing ‘calmly’. I guess there’s some words she wishes she knew. It’s to be expected. She probably learned it all online. Not like the others didn’t mainly do that either.