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Pen Pal [Owen Lindmark] 🎄

Description: Owen and Y/N both sign up for a Christmas Pen Pal project,

Warnings: Cursing.

A/N: Day 11 of 12 Days of Christmas! Merry Christmas!

The University of Wisconsin has a program around the holidays where students can be paired with a pen pal in their class if they feel like they are lonely or just want to.

Y/N wasn't making very many friends. She's a Pre-Med student, so she doesn't have much time to go party, or hang out with other students that aren't in her classes.

Sure, she did make a couple of friends, her roommate, Jessa, and Lacie, Max, and Joel, who are all pre-med students as well. She just felt closed off.

Owen has plenty of friends, he just wants friends that aren't hockey players, or girls that are just trying to hook up to say they hooked up with "The Owen Lindmark".

You know your pen pals first name, but that is it.

Owen has just gotten back to the dorm after practice and stopped by to get his mail for the first time in days. There was a package, his amazon order, finally. There was also two letters. He looked at the one, it said, "University of Wisconsin Pen-Pal Program". The other said "To: Owen From: Y/N".

"What's up O?" Ryder asks as he walks in behind his teammate.

"I got a letter from my pen pal. I think it's a girl, their name is Y/N."

"Yeah I've heard of her, never met her though." Ryder says.

Once Owen gets in his dorm room, he opens the package. He had ordered more Gatorade Gx pods. Then he opened the letter from the pen pal program.

Dear Owen Lindmark,

Thank you for signing up for the pen-pal program. After going through all of the students who have also signed up from your class, we have selected Y/N. Have fun making a new friend, and Happy Holidays!

Then he opens the letter from Y/N.

Hi Owen! I'm Y/N, we've been paired for the pen-pal program. I'm not really sure how to do this type of thing, so I'll just tell you a little about myself. I'm eighteen, a freshman here at UW. I'm a Pre-Med student and I want to be a Orthopedic Surgeon.

I hope to hear back from you!

"She sounds super smart." Owen mumbles to himself.

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Later that day Owen sits down to write a letter to Y/N. He struggled for a little bit, not really sure what to say or even how to start out, but once he started he just kept writing.

A few of the boys came in while he was writing, asking what he was doing, and he just said "I'm talking to my pen-pal.".

The boys were confused, but just continued playing video games.

Once he was done, he rand down to the front desk to mail it to Y/N, hoping she didn't think he ignored her.

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The next day Y/N stopped to get her mail in her dorm. It had been a few days since she sent a letter to her pen-pal, Owen, and she hadn't heard anything back, so she was hoping he sent her something.

She got her mail and her eyes lit up when she saw it said it was from him. She rushed up to her dorm and sat on her bed to read it before doing her homework.

Hi Y/N! I'm Owen! I'm sorry for not responding as quick as I should have, I forget to get my mail a lot. Anyway, you sound super smart! Where are you from and what do you like to do outside of school? I also do not know how to do this type of thing so I'll just tell you some random facts about myself. I'm eighteen, also a freshman at UW. I haven't chose a major yet, but I'm working on it. I'm from Naperville, Illinois. I love hockey, and football. I have a few siblings, they're kind of annoying sometimes but I love them. I like to play video games with my friends and basically just do whatever with my friends. They are a great group of people, I hope you'll meet them one day!

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Over the next few weeks they sent letters back and forth. They even sent each other candy once in a while.

They both really like taking to each other and their friends all noticed. Y/N was a lot more social, and Owen was happy all of the time, even with finals being a week away.

Y/N had decided to get Owen a psychology book, because he had mentioned he was interested in that for his major. She got a box and put the book in it with a letter and a Milky Way.

Owen had also got Y/N some stuff. She had mentioned that she was going to try a new note taking method that would could down on time because it doubled for studying. She needed colored card stock and pens. He got her those and a Starbucks gift card that he taped to his letter to her. He decided last minute to put his phone number in it.

When he got her package the day before everyone left for Christmas break and opened it he smiled and pulled out another piece of paper.

Y/N about cried when she opened her package. She had a stressful day and the thoughtfulness of it made her day. When she read the letter she could feel it already. She hasn't even met this kid and she's already falling for him.

She put his phone number in her phone and texted him really quick.

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Owens phone buzzed against his nightstand while he was making a sandwich. He walked over to it and saw it was a unknown number. When he opened it a big grin took over his face.

You're the sweetest. I forgot I told you about the card stock thing.

Then another message popped up.

Thank you Owen, you seriously made my day. ❤️

He decided to be a little brave with his reply.

You're welcome! And thank you for the psychology book. It's ok if you don't want to, but would you maybe want to meet up after break? I really like talking to you and I'd love to meet you in person.

It only took Y/N a minute to reply.

Y/N-

I'd love to. I'll see you then, pen-pal?

Owen-

I'll see you then, pen-pal. Merry Christmas.

Y/N-

Merry Christmas Owen.