Her pain reaches my heart, while the tears which are flowing from her eyes are twisting my heart agonizingly. Wanting nothing but to take her pain away, I pour all my love into the kiss, hoping the warmth of my love will heal her wounded heart.

Her lips moving against mine tells me everything which she is unable to say. Her love for me warms my soul filling my heart with nothing but love.

She holds me like she is afraid that I will disappear any moment leaving her alone. But what she doesn't know that as long as I am alive I will never leave her alone. She will never have to go through the pain of being lonely again because I tend to fill her life with so much love that there will be no place for loneliness in her life.

Resting my forehead against her, I look into her eyes. A shy smile appears on her lips which were just pressed against mine. Unable to stop myself, I peck her lips a few times making her laugh.

Hearing her laugh for the first time, bring intense joy to my heart, and I am sure that I want to hear this laugh all my life.

"You look beautiful when you are laughing." I run my thumb over her jaw, as my hand cups her face. "I love the sound of your laugh."

"You are crazy." She rolls her eyes trying to stop the blush which is appearing on her cheeks.

"And you are stupid." I lightly tap her forehead with mine, "Why have you never told me that you love me?"

"When I have said that I love you?" She presses her lips together trying to hide her smile.

"Lina, I don't need words to understand what is in your heart because your silence speaks to me." I smile at her.

Even when I have met her for the first time, I never found any difficulty in understanding her. It seems like words were never necessary for us to understand each other. We both understand each other's unsaid words.

However, it feels weird that even though we know each other so well, but it took so much time for us to realize our love for each other.

"When did you realize that you love me?" I ask her feeling curious.

She groans and hides her face in my chest which makes me chuckles in amusement.

"Tell me." I tease her enjoying her flustered state.

"I don't know." She chews her lip, raising her eyes to mine, "Loving you just felt natural, because it is hard not to love you. Although it took me some time to accept my feelings to myself, somewhere I have been in love with you since the moment I truly get to know you."

I look at her in disbelief and awe. My flaws and insecurities didn't stop her from loving me. She loved me from that point in my life when I was not even able to love myself.

Swallowing, I attempt to get hold of my emotions which is difficult when I am looking into her eyes which hold so much love for me. The love which I thought I was incapable of having in my life.

"I love you, and nothing can stop me from loving you because nothing else matters to me when it comes to you." She smiles, her eyes showing the truth behind her words, "I don't care what you feel about yourself, because for me you are perfect just the way you are."

"I don't know what I have done to deserve you, but I am thankful for my stars for bringing you into my life." I bite inside my cheeks to stop the tears which are threatening to spill from my eyes, "I love you, and promise to love you for the rest of my life."

I seal the promise with a kiss, which she returns with the same amount of intensity making my heart swell with love and happiness.

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As soon as we step out of the car, Caleb runs towards us. He tackles Lina in a big hug, making her stumble into me.

"Woah, careful." I chuckle and hold Lina, stopping them from falling.

"I will not let you go." Caleb nearly chokes her with his tight grip on her, "You can stay in my room, I will kick Jason out from his room then I will shift into his room. I am not going to listen to anything, you are going to stay with us forever."

"Hey, what did you just?" I playfully glare at him, wrapping my arm around Lina's shoulders.

"Nothing." He signs, "I was just telling Lina how happy I am to see her and now she will have to stay with us."

"Really? Because I think I have heard you saying something about kicking me out of my room." I arch an eyebrow at him.

"I have never said-" he speaks then his eyes widen in shock when his slow mind registers my words.

"It means that you can hear now?" His mouth hangs open in surprise.

I have just managed to nod my head in yes when I fall on the ground as Caleb jumps at me.

"You can hear again." He keeps on repeating this as he hugs me fiercely.

I hug him back while my eyes water seeing his happiness and love for me.

"Yeah, buddy." I ruffle his hair, "I can hear everything now."

"I love you, Jason, even though you are dumb." He laughs and cleans his eyes with his sleeves as he stands up.

Getting on my feet, I smack his head then pull him again in a hug.

"I love you, too, twiggy."

"You know, I should be mad at you for hiding such a big thing from me, but I am too happy to be angry." Mom wipes her tears while smiling brightly.

"My baby boy." She hugs me when I walk towards, "My Jasey." Her nickname makes me groan in embarrassment which increases when I hear both Lina and Caleb laughing at me.

She pulls down my head and kisses my forehead as she again hugs me.

Sighing in content, I wrap my arms around her feeling content in her arms.

"I can't believe this fucker was able to hear everything throughout the party." Nick covers his mouth with his hand while looking surprised, "No wonder, he could understand what everyone was saying, but he kept pretending not to hear anything."

"I was so damn worried when I saw him driving the car, that at one point I thought to follow him. But then Arnold stopped me from going after him." He looks at dad, "I am sorry, but I thought you have gone out of your mind, for letting Jason drive the car. but now I know you both were making us fool." He laughs but quickly stops laughing when dad raises an unamused eyebrow at him.

After having dinner we all are sitting around in the living room while dad tells everyone how during my doctor's visit when this time they tested the hearing aid on me I was able to hear some sounds which gave them hope. After testing different hearing aids and frequencies, finally I was able to hear again with the help of hearing devices.

I smile down at Lina when she holds my hand and kisses the back of my hand while her eyes shine with emotions.

"I love you," I whisper to her and watch her face brightens with a heartwarming smile.

"I love you, too." She mouths back causing me to lightly chuckle because even now sometimes she silently talks to me.

No one was surprised to see me and Lina together, as they said there is nothing surprising about something which was obvious.

I am not going to lie that I felt a little dejected that I didn't get the reaction that I was hoping for. I thought they will be shocked as apart from dad I assumed no one really had any idea about my feelings for her. But I guess, besides me and Lina, everyone else was already aware of our feelings for each other and knew we would end up together.

"Lina," Mom fondly looks at her, "Family is not about sharing the same blood, a real family is made by the bonds which are created by the heart. And we choose you as ours. You became part of our family the moment you straightened up my idiot son." She glances at me and laughs, while I feign hurt.

"Never think that you don't have anyone, because we are your family." Mom smiles at her while a few tears slip from her eyes, which she quickly wipes with her fingers.

"Mom, look what you did." I fake glare at mom when Lina silently sobs, "You made my girlfriend cry. What if she asks me to choose between you and her?"

"Shut up!" Lina slaps my chest and glares at me, "I love her more," She quickly says as she goes and hugs mom which makes us laugh.

"What about me don't you love me?" Caleb looks at her giving her puppy eyes.

"Is that even a question?" She places her hands on her hips as she glances at him, "You are my most favorite person in this whole world, so of course I love you."

Then her lips twist in a mischievous smile as she walks towards Caleb.

"But Caleb I think I am not your favorite person anymore." She raises her eyebrow with a knowing look, "As I have lost that position to some cute girl named Molly, right?"

Caleb's face turns red with embarrassment as soon as he hears Molly's name making me and Nick tease the hell out of him.

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"Where are we going?" She asks for the hundredth time making me exhale deeply.

"I don't remember you asking me this many questions when I used to take you anywhere earlier?" I don't tear my eyes away from the road while talking to her, because still there is a slight fear inside me that if I remove my eyes from the road something bad might happen.

"So, all this questioning comes with the status of being my girlfriend or it has something to do with my hearing?" I tease her.

"You are a jerk." She grumbles.

"And you are in love with this jerk," I smugly retort.

She huffs pretending to look annoyed, but the smile which is playing on her lips betray her.

However, when for a while I don't hear anything from her, a slight panic rises inside my chest that maybe again I have lost my hearing.

"Say something." My grip on the steering wheel tightens while I try to control my panic.

"I love you," she speaks while pulling my hand away from the wheel and locking our fingers together, her gesture brings a smile to my face.

A wave of calmness spread over me feeling her hand in mine as she continues to talk to me keeping my anxiety away.

"Jason..." She whispers completely in awe when I remove the blindfold from her eyes.

"Welcome to our home." I smile and caress her cheek.

This house was always my dream, and when that day I brought her to this house somewhere my heart wanted to live in this dream with her. At that moment, I know I can't imagine anyone other than her to be a part of this dream of mine.

"I..." She stammers while looking around then her eyes shift back to me, "This..." She looks at a loss of words.

"What happened?" I raise my eyebrows, jokingly, "Do you want me to change the curtains of the house or you don't like the color of the carpet?"

Keeping the note of everything which she had told me that day, I made all the additions to this house, hoping to turn it into something which she has envisioned.

Shaking her head she laughs, while swiping her finger underneath her eye to wipe her tears.

"This is perfect, everything is just perfect." A beautiful smile adorns her face as she looks around. "You are just perfect." Locking her hands with mine, she steps closer and rests her head on my chest.

Even though I am far from being perfect, however, every time she says I am perfect I feel like believing her.

"Lina." I let out a shaky laugh, "I know you might think that I am stupid or this is too early, but..." Clenching my eyes, I shake my head while nervousness bubbles inside me. "There is no hurry, you can take your time..." I run my hand in my hair feeling agitated and nervous both at the same time.

"Yes." She laughs, while tears flood in her eyes, "I want to spend the rest of my life with you."

My heart burst with happiness when she says the words which I was dying to hear since the moment I was able to hear again.

"How do you know what I wanted to ask?" I grin probably like an idiot, but I am too far happy to care about anything.

"Did you forget?" She raises her eyebrows questioningly.

"What?" I look at her in slight confusion.

Lifting her head she pecks my lips then she points between her and me with a smile, "Words not required."

Capturing her lips, I kiss her with every ounce of love which I have in my heart for her. Her lips moving against mine conveys her feelings directly to my heart. We don't need words to express ourselves as our silence speaks the language which only our heart can understand.

There was a time when I thought I lost everything... that I have lost the chance to be happy again. But now when I have her in my arms I know, life might have taken something big from me, but in return, it has gifted me my true happiness.

The silence which is filled in my life doesn't feel like a curse anymore, as finally, I have found my blessing.

The End.

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