Letters📜🖊

Pen Pals?

(art of Dana Terrace)

(Amity's POV)

I woke up to the sounds of my siblings banging pots and pans together.

"WAKEY WAKEY MITTENS!" Edric yelled.

"YOUR GONNA BE LATE FOR SCHOOL!" Emira chimed in.

My eyes darted open as I shot up from my bed. I pushed my siblings out of my room and closed the door so I could start getting ready.

I dug through my clothes to find my school uniform. Once I did I threw it on and then raced to my vanity. There, I brushed my teeth and tied up my hair.

'Mother and Father would kill me if I was late! But here I am flying down the stairs to get to school on time.'

When I got down the stairs I ran to the kitchen to get some breakfast really quickly. Ed and Em were laughing their heads off but just decided to ignore them.

I just grabbed an apple, it's not like I could get anything more really anyway.

As I was just about to leave my curiosity got the best of me, what were Ed and Em laughing about?

"Hey! What in the world are you guys laughing about?!"

"Mittens-" Edric started wiping a fake tear away from his eye "We woke you up 30 minutes before you usually get up."

Just then I heard my alarm go off.

'Their so annoying but at least I have time to fix up my appearance.

I gave them both a death glare then ran up the stairs to get to my room.

'I already hate this day.'

( time skip to school) :))))

As I stumbled into school, I ran into Boscha.

She didn't say anything, she just looked at me then stared back at penstagram. I was kinda glad, the times I see Boscha and her group, they usually say something really obnoxious and I was not having it today.

I decided to get to class early because there was no reason for me to stay with them.

As I stumbled into class I unzipped my bag and took out 'The Good Witch Azura'. I knew it was risky, I mean I don't want anyone laughing at me because I still read "kids books" but I was so bored so I ultimately decided to just read it.

I opened up to the first chapter and started reading. (I stayed at this point in the story for like 5 minutes trying to figure out what to write but came up with nothing ,sorry)

I got up to chapter 3 before I heard a noise at the doorway. I slammed my book shut and hid it under my desk.

Just after that a group of "popular" kids walked in and sat down. They were so loud and annoying that if I was still reading, the laughing and yelling of them would be enough to make me lose my temper almost instantly. After a while, more and more kids started piling in the classroom, soon after, the teacher followed behind them.

"Good morning clas-" the teacher started.

"Hi-" a student started being interrupted by his heavy breathing "sorry I'm late" he finished giving the teacher a smile.

"You know what happens when your late don't you?" It was more rhetorical than an actual question.

"Yeahhh" he dragged out "but I was hoping to get a 'get a of detention free card'?

The teacher just glared at him before the 'detention guards' dragged him away.

Just seeing that happen sent shivers down my spine, knowing that could have been me if I actually was late this morning. Although the twins are annoying with their little pranks, they at least woke me up, I mean who knows if my alarm would have woken me up from my slumber.

The teacher continued doing his job until the bell rang for our next class. As everyone got up to leave the teacher stopped us.

"Oh just so you know the war is getting really hard for our soldiers at the moment, so the school has collectively decided, we help lift their spirits with you guys." the teachers grinned.

"But what do you mean? How will we help them?" a student called out.

"Are we gonna have to fight with them?" they continued.

A Lot of worried whispers rose to chatting, I heard a few of them.

"I don't wanna die young, I'm 15 for titans sake!"

"They can't just send us!"

"It's not our fault were losing"

"If their dying, it's their fault, i mean they did volunteer knowing they could die or be injured"

That was rude, I mean you can and most probably will, get trauma, injured or die just so we're safe. I decided to turn back to see who said that.

Not to my surprise it was Boscha and her little 'gang'.

Boscha saw me turn to face her and said in her irritating voice.

"Don't you think so, Amity?"

I was baffled, did she really think I was gonna side with her?

"No, I personally think it's really brave of them to go out of their way to protect us from harm's way, also I can smell your breath from here, and it doesn't smell good."

Boscha looked shocked while her little gremlins snickered at my comment.

The teacher fake coughed to get our attention, it quieted down almost immediately.. I mean you could get detention, He was a strict teacher.

"Now if you would let me continue, you won't be fighting in the war with our brave soldiers, you just will be there alongside them, raising their spirits to give them that extra push."

He paused for a moment, glancing at our faces.

"You will be pen pals, writing to them so they know they're not alone. And yes its the thing you did in the baby class."

He finished looking at our faces.

Some talked about it on their way out of the class, though I just wondered about it.

How would being in the war feel like for them?

Who would I be talking to?

Are they nice?

I ultimately decided to not think about it too much and leave that for when we're writing the letters.

Chapter 1 finished.

Thank you for reading :)))))