My Deaf Boyfriend Could Hear My BFF

My boyfriend, Ethan, has a severe hearing impairment in his left ear. He can barely hear anything on that side.

But whenever the three of us go out together, he always shields my best friend, Maya, on his right side. He would lean down, hanging on her every word, responding to everything she says.

Meanwhile, I, his actual girlfriend, am always pushed to his deaf left side.

For a long time, I thought he was just being nice to her because she was my friend.

Until we went to a theme park and got on a roller coaster that rose a hundred feet into the air.