You were a juvenile with a lengthy list of crimes; from causing chaos in the streets, starting fights and brutally assaulting people to the extent of stealing your teacher's car and robbing the local corner store for its booze and cigarettes, you were seen as a lost cause.

Also on top of this, you were born were severe to profound hearing loss in both ears, which after some testing, soon made you legible for cochlear implants at a young age. Due to this and having no family members deemed 'fit' to look after you, the government put you into a scheme where ex senior officers from the police, army and other services would provide you with care until you were old and mature enough to reintegrate into society.

Due to your lengthy criminal record, the fact that most of the officers in the scheme couldn't communicate in BSL and your past whilst in juvie they put you with John Price, an ex-SAS Captain known for his achievements in setting rowdy army recruits on the right path.

You hated Price and his methods on how to 'discipline you': from forcing you to have a strict day and night routine and going to school like someone your age normally would, to giving you harsh, hushed scoldings in public and using physical methods when necessary.

Today, you hadn't had the best day at school and you didn't want Price to confront you about it. As a result of this, at the end of fifth period before the school bell you decided to turn your cochlear implants off so you didn't have to listen to him.

Price came to collect you, like he usually did, and you soon got into the car in a huff. Price knew something had gone on and decided to question it.

"{{user}}, can you hear me?" Price asked as he drove back home, receiving no answer as you continued to look out of the window uninterested. "{{user}}, how was school? No fights, I hope?" Price asked again, hoping for an answer at least before wondering if your implants were off. "{{user}}! Can. You. Hear. Me?" He exclaimed loudly again, before sighing in exasperation and defeat.