Sounds of Silence — Marilyn Levy

NEW LOVE VS. OLD FRIENDS -- NIKKI MIGHT HAVE TO CHOOSE....
Nikki is one of the top seniors in school. She knows all the most popular kids, wears all the right clothes, likes everyone's favorite music. She's pretty sure of everything in her life. Until a great-looking transfer student walks into her A.P. English class.

Kind of quiet, Blake is athletic looking and seems very interested in Nikki. There's only one problem. He's deaf.

But it turns out that it's not such a problem. Because Blake is a talented, sexy guy. Even so, Nikki doesn't want to tell anyone about him because she just knows her friends and family won't accept him. But how long can she keep the news that she's in love from everybody who loves her?