I was sitting in class minding my own business before my teacher slammed a paper on my table. I snapped out of my daydream and looked at the title of it, my 'eyes' widened at what I saw. "Pen pals!" The teacher chirped. I groaned along with the rest of the class. I didn't understand the point of pen pals. Was it to improve writing skills?Or was it just a cheesy thing to make friends? Hell if I know. The only person in the class who didn't want to kill themselves on the spot was my friend Edd. "Why are you so happy?" "Because maybe it's gonna end up like those love stories you read in books!" "Oh please, that only happens in fairy tales..." "Stop being rude! You never know..." I slumped in my chair and stuck my tongue out. Silly Edd, always seeing the glass half full when there isn't any water even there. "Luckily, the pen pals were assigned for you at a school in Norway so you all you have to do is reply." The teacher reassured. I patiently raised my hand to ask a question but I was ignored by the teacher. "Well fuck you too." I mumbled under my breath, but of course the teacher heard that and not my hand raise. "Thompson, shut up." She snapped. I growled and looked at the assignment and all it told me was how to write a letter, which we learned in 3rd grade might I add. I raised my hand again and finally got called on. "Do we have to write in Norwegian?" "Nope! This is for them to learn English and for us to learn how to write." Thank fuck. I noticed a paperclip attached to the piece of paper and looked on the back of it. The letter was in a neat envelope with the name "Tord" written on the front in cursive. I looked at Edd who was looking at his letter too. "Who'd you get?" I whispered. "Look." He handed me the note which had the name "Matt" written on it in sloppy print. I handed him mind and he gawked at the name. "What kind of name is Tord?" Edd snickered. "I don't have a clue!" I scoffed. "It better be a girls name..." Edd rolled his eyes and went back to being the good noodle he was while I was itching to open the letter. I started shaking my leg while waiting for the stupid teacher to let us read the letters, until after 5 painful minutes, she let us. "You have the next 15 minutes to read the letter and writing back is homework." She announced. "Alright!" I whisper-shouted. I don't know why I was so excited to read a dumb letter, but I still tore it open anticipating the unknown.
The letter read:
Dear Tom. Hi, my name is tord. I enjoy guns, communism, and hentai. Don't search that last one.... I do not speak your language well. I not pay attention to English class a lot honestly, so please exclude my grammar. I've never this thing before, but the pen friends seems very fun! I don't really know what to say and my friend will not let me use his questions, so I just want to ask, what is your life at school? My ... not very good, but I don't think you would care too much to read. in fact, don't only say the school, give me a detailed description of all your day. Ah, I know I will like to read about it. Also, here's the required picture of me. Sorry the bad color, my dads don't want me using a lot of ink.
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