CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
After lunch, the afternoon dragged. Mrs. Campbell reviewed the things we had practiced that morning.
Thankfully, class finally ended at precisely 3:30. In ASL, they don’t say finally, they say, PAH! Which is like Phew! Finally! Capital P, capital F! To do this, I twirled both index fingers once around by my temples, and ended the sign with the fingers pointing up and outward. I rolled my eyes, exaggerating the emphasis. When I signed this, I could see Mrs. Campbell laugh.
You did great, she signed.
I thought I’d done all right, but I knew there’d be more to learn tomorrow, and the next day and the day after that and the year after that.
Outside, the campus baked silently in the warm September sun. I saw backpacks under trees, and books on picnic tables. Some kids w
