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maybe we got lost in translation. by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
06 Feb 2024
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Before Coryo could repeat his words louder, Mrs. Plinth lightly tapped Sejanus on the shoulder. He turned abruptly, looking at her with wide eyes, and then turned to Coryo, seeing his extended hand. Sejanus smiled kindly and finally shook his hand but said nothing. He opened the backpack on his lap, took out a notebook and a pen. Coriolanus frowned. What the hell...? The boy seemed focused as he wrote in the notebook before finally turning it to Coryo.
Or: there's a new boy in class and Coriolanus is responsible for him. The first problem is that the boy is District. The second one is that he's deaf.
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Very sweet.
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It wasn't Coriolanus' fault that Sejanus was simply the easiest prey he had ever encountered in his entire life.
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Sejanus handed him the notebook. Coryo frowned as he read.
‘WHY ARE THEY LAUGHING AT ME?’
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He felt so ashamed that he couldn't even describe it. And above all, he felt an irrational anger towards Sejanus Plinth. Coriolanus took the notebook from his hand and wrote with a stern face:
‘THEY ARE NOT LAUGHING AT YOU.
IGNORE THEM.’
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Sejanus seemed to have confused that with friendship, or so it seemed. He followed Coryo up and down, to every corner, like a little puppy. He didn't know how to join in the conversations that Coriolanus had with his own friends, but he always stayed there in the corners, swaying from one foot to the other, watching with big brown eyes as if he could understand something.
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"What do you want me to say?! He's weird! I have a little brother who’s deaf, and I can't understand anything Plinth tries to say. Not even the translator understands. As if being from the District wasn't enough.”
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But now he was stuck with Sejanus Plinth, the damn District boy, and some of his peers laughed at him when Coryo walked down the hallway, laughed at him when he had to copy the material twice to pass one for Sejanus, and laughed at him when Sejanus pulled him by the shirt for information, and when Coriolanus had to hold the boy's hand to guide him in Physical Education class. Coriolanus gritted his teeth.
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Coriolanus mumbled curses to himself as he scribbled on Sejanus's desk:
‘SINCE THIS IS THE ONLY WAY YOU UNDERSTAND:
GO BACK TO THE HOLE YOU CAME FROM’
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‘I'M TIRED.
THEY DO THIS ALL THE TIME.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I DID.’
The only thing Sejanus had done was to be a District boy. That's it.
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And then, as if nothing had happened, Sejanus leaned forward and kissed Coryo on the cheek. It was all so fast, and as if nothing had happened, Sejanus left the room, leaving Coriolanus red and the food bowl there.
Stupid boy. Weird boy.
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He started cleaning the scribbles on Sejanus's desk, took Sejanus to the infirmary when they were too cruel to him, and also wiped away his tears while grumbling and complaining. And the next day, Sejanus always came back with a bowl full of sweets, various foods, and smiled at Coryo with that same big, silly, and goofy smile, giving him a kiss on the cheek.
Always when no one was looking.
Coryo also blushed when no one was looking.
He wouldn't admit it, never would, his pride prevented him from doing so, but maybe, just maybe, Sejanus Plinth wasn't so bad after all.
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There was no problem, that's what he thought, watching as they hid Sejanus's belongings, threw his notebook into the water, and threw dirt at him during the break. Sejanus always came back to Coryo's side with that same silly smile, the same silly big eyes, the same silly wave, and all Coryo could do was smile back and hope none of his classmates noticed that Sejanus was holding his hand.
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Sejanus let out an agonized scream.
There was blood running down his ear.
That couldn't be hidden from his parents.
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Coryo wasn't sure, he could be deducing things, but in that moment, he thought he might have finally identified what this sign meant:
‘Thank you.’
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He wrote in large letters so that Sejanus could see, and watched as his face went from confusion to surprise, then to a mix of happiness and gratitude. Sejanus got up from the table and hugged Coriolanus with a strength that almost lifted his feet off the ground.
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In the notebook left on the table, it was written in bold letters:
‘I WILL TEACH YOU THE SIGN LANGUAGE OF PANEM STARTING TODAY.
THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS DO.’
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