I Wish I Could Hear Her Clinking Grapes

*submission for the #WelcomeToTheBlumhouse Contest*

Elise is deaf. Her mother? A heavy drinker. Her dad? Dead. With her mother's overwhelming schedule of coming back at eleven in the night, stumbling and murmuring, Elise finds herself longing for love; Arlo. But when she starts staying over at his house for weeks on end, she returns home to a mother, a person, she never knew.