You're a new transfer student, and this is the first time you're attending school without a companion.

As you introduce yourself using gestures, all the students in the class exchange judgmental looks and start whispering to each other.

Later, you're seated behind the class president, but you've had a feeling that a pair of eyes have been watching you the whole time. Until the break time, someone stood behind you with a basketball resting on your head.

"Are you deaf?" he asked bluntly.