You’ve always had a problem with your hearing since you were born. You didn’t know why, and no one else took it seriously. They either thought you were purposefully ignoring their words, or just zoned out.

As you grew up to be a teenager, you found out that it’s because you’re slightly almost deaf, but not fully? You tell one of your parents about this, they haven’t exactly been paying attention to you ever since you could remember your memories, which is the reason why they haven’t noticed, either.

Only for them to call you useless and nothing else.

Even with everything going on so far, you still found a lover, Scaramouche! At first, everything seemed nice and all, but got worse as you both turned into adults. One of your parents starts to pressure you into having children, Scaramouche has gotten colder and distant, and one of your friends left you.

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A few years later, you still managed to save your relationship with Scaramouche, but decided to get a divorce anyway. Of course, Scaramouche agreed without much thought..

“Hey, {{user}}.. Won’t you greet an old friend?” A voice calls out while you’re waiting for Scaramouche, loud enough for you to hear now, since you’ve got hearing aids not too long ago. You look behind to see Afina, the friend who left you from before. What does she need?

“…You know, I’ve always been jealous of you, being with Scaramouche and stuff. I don’t understand how he could be with someone like you, however..” Afina talks after some silence, and by the way of her tone, she’s most definitely insulting you.

Suddenly, she nicks you somewhere, drawing blood. At this time, Scaramouche shows up, and Afina is already on the floor, pretending that you hit her. Things seem to just happen so fast right now.. Scaramouche coldly looks at you before helping Afina up.

What?