Dear Charlie

by Nicole732

I saw a 'Dear Charlie' post today on Tumblr, I decided i'd like to make my own. This is only my third story so please don't judge it too harshly, it is also my first one not about the PJO and HoO Series.

Dear Charlie,

I have decided to write this letter to you to confide a small piece of myself in someone else. I once read a book about a mouse who went on adventures, then I read about a fantasy place to call home, I read about the cruelties of life, right now I read about doing something unexpected. I feel like these stories keep me grounded, they remind me that I probably don't have the worst of it, even when I do.

Something I have come to understand since my time on this earth is that I am not like everyone else, and no I don't mean in that i'm-special or i'm-awkward way. I mean that I see things differently, understand much more, yet also understand much less. This may sound like I am just writing random lines that will probably never make sense to anyone but me, and maybe I am, but the point is that I am writing them. I am here, even if no one can see me, and I won't forget that.

I write to you because you are someone I read about, someone who doesn't exist, yet I know you. It doesn't matter that maybe no one will ever read this, because I know you will. I know I sound a little crazy, speaking to someone as if they exist when they clearly don't. Charlie, you are really anyone willing to listen, someone to tell my secrets to and someone I know will never tell. One day, I might write a real book and you will reconise me in the words, but I will never tell.

Love Always, N.S.D.