In the Rye

by TheAsgardianDiaries

1948, New York. The time for jitterbug and jazz! But as a girl from London somehow finds herself caught up in trouble at a rough bar, she is approached by an unlikely figure. Who goes by the name of Holden Caulfield. But as each one learns more about the other, darker doors to their past are opened and little do they know that they could end up with only each other to rely on...

1. Prolouge

A girl stood in the middle of the grass, blinking in the weak sunshine. A cool breeze sent her hair into a wild dance, with strands of it flying in all directions.

The air travelled throughout the street causing sheets on washing lines to bluster, sharply tugging against the wooden pegs which bound them, like a row of captured ghosts over old dead grass.

The girl breathed in and closed her eyes letting the walls and the air that trapped her, disappear for just a moment.

I was the girl.

Age sixteen, I was quite a bonny looking lass though I did not see it at the time. A vigorous youth striving to explore and escape the supposedly dull life that so bound me. But it was that winter, in the year 1948, which changed my life. I met someone.

A boy.

The strangest boy I've ever met….