When Ackley saw the blood on my face he asked me what happened. I briefly explained and then asked him if he wanted to play cards, but I‘m sure he just ignored me and he asked me for more details about the fight. I didn’t want to answer. Instead I shoot the bull, I told him that I was fighting Stradlater on his behalf. Ackley kid is Stupid, I told him I was kidding.

I laid down on Ackley’s room mate’s bed and told Ackley kid I was lonely. I started to imagine Jane and Stradlater in the car, it drove me crazy, I got all depressed. Ackley, the sonovabitch fell asleep again but I just lie there. I woke Ackley up to talk about how to join monastery. For some reason he thought I was horsing around but I wasn’t. he got annoyed with me and said goodbye in a very sarcastic way.

That’s when I decided to go, leave. Leave Pencey Prep right then. I decided to leave and rent a hotel room in New York, instead of waiting until the end of term, three days later. I wonder what mother would say when she gets the letter saying I’ve been expelled.

Feeling guilty, I packed my new ice-skates into my bag. The ice skates that mother sent me. I counted my money, I had enough but I thought I could with a little more, so I sold my typewriter.

What a loner I am, last person I see at Pencey and it’s Ackley kid, someone who has no friends and who is different to the others. I know I come across not liking him but I feel sorry for him sometimes I really do, no one really cares about him. No-one cares about me.