All the#+$ Words )*,I Never Said
简介
Ten years ag! o La)y :la's /( parents di^,$;ed ;*pulling$ ,- El; ias Cole ;out of a %+ b!urning $build*($ing. She watched i)/t happen =#, an d the trauma took all\ five of her senses. Sigh# ]t ,/cam-e back. : Hear\ ing a nd sp?_]`eech nev%- er $_did. :`Elia s learned[ -!!sign ^language for her` an\):d )+[%made? her a prom]!i:-se: he'd( $ be he:%@$r ey e ]_s)(], her# e`ars, he!r vo%\i^/ce, and show @ her the /%:whole w +o*rld. !=$?The Coles rais ed her. The whole ^/ scho$ol k: new whose /)`girl she was.
Th()en_)= a tra? \:ns ? \fer stude( nt -*named%: Molly \ turns the school ?*into a ;`$ga% me? ., and i n the b;(oys' bathroom Layl^:a's hearin- g co-;mes back$* — just *)in ti- me,@ to learn that Eli%^+ as has b+;+^een \:(on t)]he #?)other,] side of( that game for a long .(time. She sa#.ys nothing. She lets /@th, (]em keep)\(; tal =king, k=,*eep es.`cal_ ating, keep fi#\lming, % w$hile *a re. /+corder col;le?cts ev*: `er +y voic]:e , every insult, every^_ ! line\ about a . cripple who can't call[*! fo/ ?^^r hel% -p. She \t.a-_kes ]the beatings, th- e wastewater tank, the br^oken r`/.[ib;@/s,, and she? [ keep(s the file. Molly :, is !) ?go\#ing to hear her own^% v%$ o%_ice played back to her. And when Elia ^:s fin.:al +l [y turns aroun#*\d and starts breaking@= th;/ings t;.%o make it up to h+.=er, : =Layla#*` ( /w _ill already b e on a ^[[#pla![? ne, with an ] unc$le wh];o has been waiting ten years for her call) , lear -ning to sa ^y %_her first ] word out loud.