Disclaimer: If I really owned The Catcher in the Rye, I most likely would
not be writing fanfiction for it...
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Dear Holden,
How have you been? I haven't seen you in the longest time! I was thinking about you the other day and I started wondering about what you've been up to, so I decided to drop you a note to see how you've been doing. So, how is everything? How's Phoebe and D.B.? And you're parents?
Didn't we have the best time working on my family's Christmas tree way back in December? It seems like so long ago, doesn't it? That was so much fun—and it was so sweet of you to bring little Phoebe along! She's just darling!
The other day, I was also thinking about what you said to me that time at the skating rink at Radio City. How you asked me to come out West with you and get married. I was just thinking—why did you ask that? I mean, it was ever so sweet and all, but it was so incredibly random. I'm sorry if I upset you with my response then. I just really didn't know what to say...
Because I'm just not ready to get married, Holden. Maybe you are, but I'm not. No, I take that back-you are *not* ready. We're only teenagers, for heavens sake! We can't go off and do things like move out West and get married.
I hope you don't take this letter in the wrong way, Holden. You can be my boyfriend and I your girlfriend for as long as we want, but I don't want to get married until after I go to college. Maybe, then we can go out West and make a family and all. Or maybe not. I'm not sure that I want to go out West. I might miss my family too much. I mean, *you* would be close to D.B. out West, but wouldn't you miss Phoebe and your parents? I know I would if I were you.
And I was wondering-what ever made you ask me that in the first place? I felt like I was in some sort of movie when you came out and asked me all these questions out of the blue. I've always dreamt of a boy I loved asking me these questions, but not at the age of sixteen! I just feel so young sometimes...
Anyway, I was wondering if maybe we could get together sometime soon? We haven't seen each other in ages, and I miss you. Maybe in April, when I get out of school for Easter? That would be so much fun!
I have to go now; I have a lot of homework to do. I really shouldn't have written this to you right now, but I was feeling really lonely and missing you, and I can't call you right now, so I wrote this.
I *really* have to go now! Goodbye! I miss you!
Love,
Sally
A/N: Yay people like it! I wasn't sure what kind of response this was going to get...
Amaliia Milan: You think it's a brilliant idea for a fic? Ha, tell that to my old English teacher! It is a good idea, though, it was a fun assignment last year...D.B. will come later. I'm publishing these letters in the order that I wrote them in the project I did, and he was last. Thanks for reading!
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Dear Holden,
How have you been? I haven't seen you in the longest time! I was thinking about you the other day and I started wondering about what you've been up to, so I decided to drop you a note to see how you've been doing. So, how is everything? How's Phoebe and D.B.? And you're parents?
Didn't we have the best time working on my family's Christmas tree way back in December? It seems like so long ago, doesn't it? That was so much fun—and it was so sweet of you to bring little Phoebe along! She's just darling!
The other day, I was also thinking about what you said to me that time at the skating rink at Radio City. How you asked me to come out West with you and get married. I was just thinking—why did you ask that? I mean, it was ever so sweet and all, but it was so incredibly random. I'm sorry if I upset you with my response then. I just really didn't know what to say...
Because I'm just not ready to get married, Holden. Maybe you are, but I'm not. No, I take that back-you are *not* ready. We're only teenagers, for heavens sake! We can't go off and do things like move out West and get married.
I hope you don't take this letter in the wrong way, Holden. You can be my boyfriend and I your girlfriend for as long as we want, but I don't want to get married until after I go to college. Maybe, then we can go out West and make a family and all. Or maybe not. I'm not sure that I want to go out West. I might miss my family too much. I mean, *you* would be close to D.B. out West, but wouldn't you miss Phoebe and your parents? I know I would if I were you.
And I was wondering-what ever made you ask me that in the first place? I felt like I was in some sort of movie when you came out and asked me all these questions out of the blue. I've always dreamt of a boy I loved asking me these questions, but not at the age of sixteen! I just feel so young sometimes...
Anyway, I was wondering if maybe we could get together sometime soon? We haven't seen each other in ages, and I miss you. Maybe in April, when I get out of school for Easter? That would be so much fun!
I have to go now; I have a lot of homework to do. I really shouldn't have written this to you right now, but I was feeling really lonely and missing you, and I can't call you right now, so I wrote this.
I *really* have to go now! Goodbye! I miss you!
Love,
Sally
A/N: Yay people like it! I wasn't sure what kind of response this was going to get...
Amaliia Milan: You think it's a brilliant idea for a fic? Ha, tell that to my old English teacher! It is a good idea, though, it was a fun assignment last year...D.B. will come later. I'm publishing these letters in the order that I wrote them in the project I did, and he was last. Thanks for reading!