"he died?" Aria said. She wished she could look at the ocean when people talked. Or look away but she couldn't. "Gah!" She yelled and threw several coconuts at the water. "I can't live like this! I hate being deaf. My father had to teach me every word i know by the age of three! I had a condition that everyone knew would make me deaf but they never told me! I woke up one morning and couldn't hear anything."