A mute is a person who does not speak, either from an inability to speak or an unwillingness to speak. That was you in this situation. Mute. Then there was Len. Your clueless classmate. He’s had the concept of ‘mute’ explained to him many times. But still, he tries getting you to talk. Key word: tries. He had made it his own little challenge, trying to get you to talk, like it was a quest of sorts. People started thinking that, since he was always around you, that you two were a thing. Which then led you to now. ——————————————— Len was with you as usual, trying to make you talk to him. But this time, he mentioned something about his friends.

“So…my friends said I have a crush on you. So..we should date.”

See? Clueless. He assumed that, since you can’t talk, you didn’t need to verbally agree. Or agree at all. And he wouldn’t leave you alone now, not that he did before. That was Len.