Sincerely- A Quackity X Reader

Chapter 1: "Sincerely is a cool word for from"

"Dear Mrs. Tegucigalpa or Mrs. T, you are a cool teacher, from Y/n," 7-year-old Y/n said, happy to have answered her teacher's question. She always sat in the front of the class on the pizza rug, her hand raised at every question hoping to be called on.

The question that day changed her life, something she never realized until almost 12 years later.

Now what was that question?

It was a mere: can anyone tell me how to write a friendly letter?

"Dear Mrs. Tegucigalpa or Mrs. T, you are a cool teacher, from Y/n." Mrs. T repeated what the girl had said, clapping her hands in approval. The woman had a smile curling at her lips as she continued, "Exactly Y/n. You start with your heading. In that heading you say dear, the person you are talking to, and then put a comma. After that, you put a space under it and say what you want to say. In Y/n's case that was saying I was a cool teacher. Once you're finished, you say from, comma, and then your name. But..." Mrs. T.'s eyes glinted mischievously, "do you kids want to know a really fancy way of saying 'from'?"

All the kids shouted a yes in unison, but no one louder than Y/n.

"Sincerely" her teacher stated, writing on the board at the same time.

The word sort of stuck with the young girl and she didn't know why.

Sincerely, sincerely, sincerely

Finally, it was her classmate Caleb who voiced what everyone was wondering, "why are we learning this miss T?"

"Pen Pals, my dear kids. You're going to make a new friend today!"

Y/n blinked innocently as her favorite teacher explained what pen pals were. Her and her classmates were to reach into a special hat to pick a person they would write friendly letters to. As the young girl reached into the shiny black cap, she pulled out a piece of paper that read Alexis Maldonado- Mexico and a bunch of numbers after which she later learned was an address.

Her jaw dropped slightly as she read the country portion, the thought of having a friend in a whole different place was just so wonderful to her. Right after she went home, she started writing her first letter with the help of her mother.

She searched her house for the crispest, cleanest paper and sharpened her pencil 26 times, (she counted) and wrote in big letters,

Dear Alexis,

Her pencil hovered over the too blank space below those words, poised to compose, but she soon realized that she didn't know what to say.

She decided to start with being nice, that always worked didn't it?

Hi! How are you? My name is Y/n,

Hm, what to write next?

As if it just fell into her head, she suddenly knew exactly what to say. After her mother helped her seal it and write the numbers in the back but she put a really cool sticker on the paper.

"Mom what's that sticker? Why did you put it?"

"Honey, it's a stamp, it's our way of paying the people to send this letter to the person you want to send it to. They can't do it for free, and paying for stamps is how we pay them. How else do you think this paper gets to your friend all the way in Mexico?"

Y/n just nodded eagerly, impatient to get her greeting to Alexis. The aspect of waiting for more than a week positively killed her. Every night before bed she would just think about what she said and what he'll say back. The words replaying over and over and over again.

Dear Alexis,

Hola! I just learned that Spanish word today, I'm sorry I don't know that much Spanish, but I promise I'll try to learn more. How are you? I'm really happy to be your friend, I promise I'm not a mean person. I'm 7 years old and my birthday is on (your birthday) How about you? I actually got a bike today! Did you get anything to play today? It's ok if you didn't, I promise I'll share if I ever come to see you!

Sincerely (it's a cool word for from)

Y/n

Those next ten days were what could be considered the most eventful days of her life, at least so far. Only the day after and she already got a book of Spanish words, determined to talk with as much ease necessary.

The next day she knew how to greet people in Spanish in 4 different ways

And the next, and the next, and the next, each day she tried to learn more Spanish but no letter came for her.

The words replaying in her head never faded away, and neither did her hope that he would reply.

But after an excruciating 10 days, she finally got a response.