Mia Sheridan

there's no you, nothing else matters.

and continued to call to Phoebe who apparently thought I could kiss her little doggie ass as much as she was listening to me.

After a minute, he held the pad up:
I DIDN'T TELL YOU I WAS DEAF.
I paused. "No, you didn't," I said softly. "But you can't speak?"
He looked at me and then brought the pad up and wrote for half a minute and then turned it toward me:
I CAN SPEAK. I JUST LIKE TO SHOW OFF MY NICE PENMANSHIP.