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She played the piano, the cello, violin, the recorder, and 

flute. She couldn't hear herself when she played. She 

couldn't understand what other understand. Zarina was 

different, but special. But lots of people did not take it the 

right way when teachers said she was deaf. They would try 

to make Zarina cry, but she would stand up strong. 

Sometimes she would go home and cry, but hardly anybody 

knew. Zarina couldn't talk about it. She would never show 

her feelings, but sometimes to her grandfather. When her 

grandfather left to go to China for work, Zarina had nobody 

to talk to. But before Zarina's grandfather went to China, he 

gave her a poster. When Zarina opened it, she smiled. For 

the first time in her life, she felt like she could talk, hear, and 

smile. 

SHOVE! Zarina fell to the ground. A girl about the same 

age as Zarina pushed her. The girl picked up the poster 

and ripped it up. This girl new she was deaf, so she used 

sign language. Zarina squinted her eyes. The girl who 

pushed Zarina was named Yuki. Yuki showed with sign 

language that she was going to the competition, so 

Zarina couldn't go. Zarina told her with sign language 

they could both go. Yuki rolled her eyes. "Let the best 

one win," she said out loud. Zarina didn't understand 

what she said since she was deaf, but she could tell it 

was.

Zarina wanted to pick one instrument to play in the 

competition. She thought she played the piano the best. 

She warmed up her digits, and cracked he scruff.  

Zarina made up a piece right on the spot. Though she 

could not hear it, she could feel it. How it felt? It felt 

amazing to her! Zarina wanted to press the key on the 

piano for the last time. Once she pressed it, she felt a 

ring in her ear. Could deaf people hear? Could the 

meaning of deaf be different? Could deaf people get 

their hearing back? All these questions went through her 

mind.  

Zarina wanted to ask these questions, but it was 

hard. When she asked questions to people at 

her school, they just said they were crazy 

things to ask. Zarina didn't want these questions 

to infect more of her life. How could she ask 

these dumb questions? Zarina looked at her 

father, then her mother. It was time to ask 

them to enter the competition, since it was next 

week. It was plenty of time for Zarina to 

practice, but hard. To Yuki it was little time for 

her to practice, but easy. 

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