Fell On Deaf Ears Novels & Stories

Dust puffed into the air. I fell.

It lashed into my ear drums and just to prevent myself from turning deaf, I blocked my ears with my hands with my fingers quivering. I arched my brows in confusion as I stayed in there, waiting, watching and praying I made it out alive but just as I waited, I heard another ding and this time around, my ear drums gave out. The ground beneath my shoes started quivering as I fell to the elevator ground with the edges of my vision blurring into nothingness.

I could not stop a soft sound from slipping out. Josh's tone sharpened instantly. "Donald, who's with you?" The man behind me cursed under his breath, pulled my clothes back over my shoulders, then grabbed his phone and hurried out into the hallway. He left in such a rush that one earbud slipped off and stayed behind. A moment later, Donald's lazy, teasing voice came through. "Just an ad popping up on my phone." Josh's voice relaxed. "If your thing with hating women wasn't still acting up, I'd think you actually touched Yvette."

Even though I was mentally prepared, seeing it with my own eyes still sent a sharp, undeniable pain straight through my chest. As the last illusion between us shattered, all I hear was silence.

“Fourteen years. That earns you something. But Drew? He’s got people now. Real people. You start sniffing around, they’ll notice. And they won’t care who took the fall.” Meekey smirked. “Let ‘em notice.” “You trying to get revenge?” She shook her head. “Not revenge.” He looked at her a long moment. “Then what?” “Balance.”

Prologue Do you hear it? I hear it. The deafening ambulance’s sound that shatters my eardrums. I can hear voices from different people but I don't understand a word. Have you ever been under the water and you cannot hear everything vividly? That's exactly how it feels. It feels like I am under the water and my ears are filled with water that I don't understand what they were saying. The sky, I see the sky. It was bright—too bright that it blinds my eyes. I see unfamiliar faces staring at me, but I couldn't identify any of them. They were too blurred for me.

That was deafening. Until suddenly it wasn't.