A Different Time and Place - A Collection of WoSo one shots.

Dear Tobin (Press/Heath)

"Alright, everyone settle down and take your seats, please. It's time for our creative writing assignment for this week. Normally, I encourage you to write poems, short stories or even comics but today I thought we could do something a little different. We are going to each write a letter to someone we look up to. Now, most of you are probably thinking that you can just write a letter to you Mom or Dad, but not this time. The assignment is to write a letter to a celebrity and tell them why you are a fan of theirs. It could be to a singer, actor, or even a professional athlete. Once they are written we are going to locate addresses and send the letters to them, and we'll see if we get any responses from them. Does everyone understand?"

The children nod their heads and begin excitedly discussing who they are planning on writing their letters to.

"Casey, who are you going to write to?"

"Only the best player in the NWSL, Tobin Heath, she's so awesome!"

"I think, I'm going to write to Justin Bieber."

"Cool, he's a pretty good singer, but I like Pink better."

Casey Press sits at her desk trying to figure out what she wants to say to her soccer idol.

Dear Tobin,

My name is Casey, I'm 10 and I think you are a really good soccer player. You are my favourite player and when I grow up, I want to be just like you and play for the Thorns and US team. I play soccer at school and for the Oregon Youth Soccer Red Team. I'm a forward and like to score lots of goals. I wear #17 like you do.

I live with my Mom, Dad and older sister Christen. Christen plays soccer at Stanford University, she is a pretty good player too. She wants to play in the NWSL one day, maybe you will be teammates sometime.

I hope someday that I will get to meet and talk to you because you seem pretty cool. I'm not sure what else to write, so I guess this is it for now.

Good luck

Go Thorns

Your fan,

Casey Press #17

After signing her name and number Casey brings it to her teacher so that she can look it over and approve it.

Her teacher smiles at her, "Is Tobin really your favourite player?"

Casey nods, "Yeah, she's awesome, I like watching all the videos and highlights of her nutmegging the players, they're hilarious. Christen says it would take a lot of practice for me to be as good as Tobin is."

"It definitely would take a lot of practice to be like Tobin. She is my favourite Thorns player as well."

"Do you think she'll answer my letter?"

"I'm sure she gets a lot of mail from fans, but you never know. Now let's find the address and I can show you how to write it on the envelope and put a stamp on."

Once the class are all done their letters, the teacher promises that she will put them in the mail on her way home.

A few days later, Tobin Heath finishes up her training session with the Thorns and before heading home decides to check in with the office to see if the new cleats she was promised have arrived yet.

She finds a large box with her name on it as well as a bag of fan mail addressed to her and starts out towards her car. Not having a free hand she tries to nudge open the door with her hip, it opens quickly and causes her to drop the bag of mail on the ground.

"Dang it." She puts her box down and collects the letters, stopping to look at an envelope with the name of a local elementary school on it. She puts it on top with a mental note to read it first. She heads home and goes about the rest of her day.