Blind: Unable to see because of injury, disease, or a con condition.

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Mute: (of a person) lacking the faculty of speech.

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Chanyeol can't read because he can't see.

Baekhyun can't reply because he can't speak.

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:TEASER:

Chanyeol was blind, that didn't come as news to anyone. Well, aside from all of the students that were enrolled in his school when the principal announced over the loudspeakers that Tuesday morning that starting next week a blind student would be joining classes with them. Many took this as a shock, why would someone that can't see enroll in an everyday high school rather than one accustomed to their needs? It was quite simple actually, Park Chanyeol, despite not being able to see, wanted to live out an average teenage life the best he could. There wasn't much he could do, aside from listening to teachers best he could. In order to do assignments either his friends or mother would have to help him by reading off the questions and writing down his verbal responses. He'd have to order special textbooks that were written in braille so that he was able to follow along as well.

A large portion of the students in the school were displeased with the information, there was already another "problem child" enrolled in the school. Why couldn't he just go to a specialized school for the blind and deaf? The rest of the students were neutral, not really caring seeing as one more student shouldn't make a difference to the school of already 1200 students. One boy, however, was overjoyed by the news. That boy was Byun Baekhyun, and Baekhyun was mute. He hadn't uttered a word since he had been at the age where he would have been able to speak. He hadn't even attempted, not once since day one. His parents didn't know why he didn't speak, whether it was hard for him, or he was simply unable to do so. Not even doctors knew, they had done several scans on his vocal cords and even his brain but nothing worthy of looking into came up. So, they had decided that Baekhyun was just a "special" child and that one day he would open up and hopefully start speaking. That, however, has yet to be proven true in his eighteen years of life.

Baekhyun had spent his years so far, communicating by writing in pads of paper and sending texts messages, though he did that rarely with anyone aside from his parents. He believed that since he himself didn't have a voice that he should communicate silently, after all, if he was supposed to communicate verbally he'd have his own voice, right? Baekhyun's joy died the day of the new student's arrival, there was no way for him to communicate with him, he was blind, which meant even if he wanted to he couldn't read Baekhyun's attempts at conversation. Baekhyun sighed silently as he sat down at his desk, and dug out a notebook from his bookbag. Upon looking up Baekhyun saw an awkwardly tall boy tightly holding the arm of the male he recognized to be Do Kyungsoo a close friend of Baekhyun's, in his free arm he held a small cane.