it was three am and calum could barely sleep. you see when someone really really close to you is gone you can't help but hate the world. in calum's case it was his father. he died while going to work one day. he was walking across the street and a drunk driver hit him and in an instant he died.

calum's father was someone special to him. as corny as it sounded he was his best friend. he made sure he had everything he needed, and most importantly he made sure he was happy. if anything calum felt like he was hurt more than his mother at times but he knew she was just acting because he used hear her crying to his sister almost every night.

so there he was, tossing and turning in bed just like every other night. he'd call ashton but he was probably too busy with his girlfriend who constantly caused him headaches. he'd call luke but he had his own family to be with. or then he'd call michael but he was probably too busy adding music to his collection.

best friends had their own lives to live so he didn't really want vent to them fot the rest of his life. he thought about violet but he just met her and she didn't know much about him. thinking about her, his thoughts came upon the penpal website she was on. he wondered what it would be like to get on there and just forget about all the negativity in life.

so then there calum was, pulling his laptop out from under his bed and typing in the website.

"welcome to penpal world."

calum had no idea what he was doing but he followed the instructions into making himself an account. once he was into it he made himself a bio and put a decent photo of himself in the icon.

"hi calum hood, meet these pals that are also your age 18-20."

he requested a few of them to be his 'pal' and messaged them. his level at keeping his mind busy was pretty high. but then again he didn't mind.

about four people replied after a few minutes. only two of them seemed interesting to me. their names were danny and abien. their bio's read:

hello i'm danny and i'm 19 years old. i live in sweden and my hobbies include playing soccer, eating, making people laugh, and drawing. send me a message yeah?

hey you, i'm abien. yes i'm a girl & i'm 18 years old & i plan on teaching history one day. i live in the u.s. i really like being lazy & wasting my time online. fuck, i don't know what else, so uh message me? (warning; i curse a lot.)

abien didn't reply after he messaged her back and after a while danny told him it was night time where he was and he was tired so he told him he would talk again tomorrow. he was then planning on going to sleep but then he noticed he had another message.

abien: yo yo i'm back. you're new here i see, i don't fuck with newbies. jk you seem cool i guess

calum: yeah. i just joined.

abien: lolol well you seem tense. like you've never talked to people online before

calum: i haven't tbh

abien: so i'm taking your penpal virginity, huh?

calum: of course you are

abien: noice

abien: you live in australia? that's fucking noice too damn.

calum: what the hell is noice??

abien: it's a way of saying nice

calum: oh

calum: noice

calum: haha get it?

abien: *rolls eyes* australian people.

calum: dude that's mean

abien: i'm sorry, are you upset about it?

calum: no

abien: then bitch don't stress about it :))

calum: ...

abien: welp i gtg i'll talk to you later cal pal !

abien: haha cal pal. that's a good one *slaps knee*

abien: see ya

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i know in previous chapter/s i used the american school system but that's because i don't know how it is in australia and i'm too lazy to figure it out but yes they are in australia :)