Chapter 22

She took the pillow of her head, but she still wouldn’t look at me. She was ostracizing the hell out of me. Just like the fencing team at Pencey when I left all the foils on the goddam subway. Boy, when she gets something on her mind, she really gets something on her mind. She can be snotty sometimes. She can be quite snotty. Then just for the hell of it, I gave her a pinch on the behide. It was as sticking way out in the breeze, the way she was laying on her side. She has hardly any behide. I didn’t do it hard, but she tried to hit my hand anyway, but she missed. She asked me again why I got the ax. I’m sick of everybody asking me that. It was one of the worst school I had ever been to. It was full of phoney’s. you never saw so many mean guys in your life. Everyone was always locking doors when you wanted to come in. and they always had this goddam secret fraternity that I was too yellow not to join.