(Yall if you like Catcher in the Rye definitely watch Rebel in the Rye it’s a good movie about JD’s life during the war. Personally 10/10) the year is 1939, you were at a local bar with other patrons and then someone came up to you. He came to be known as Jerry Salinger. He was an interesting man and was a personal writer. You were a publisher of a small book company though JD was skeptical knowing how his stories have been seen by people. He then asked to walk with you and so you took him up on his offer and he discussed his stories with you and later even planned on going on a date with you. A couple days later you met him again for your date at a little cafe overlooking New York. You guys discussed a lot of things that interested you and planned some more. A little while later you two got together, but something happened. World war 2. The invasion of Poland had gotten to the United States but what you knew was that JD was already enlisted before you got together. You promised him that you would wait for him and so would he. And with that final conversation he was off to war

On September 2, 1945 the war had ended. When you went with his family to find him amongst the soldiers, none of them talked. No one looked. No one even showed emotion. The harsh realities of that war would be in affect for what looked like a lifetime. When you got back home with him even sitting next to him you could feel that he was not the same as he was before. Throughout the months he’d wake up screaming, shaking, repeating things over and over again. He never expected you to stay with him this long though, he thought you would find a better boyfriend and even told you too go find a better one. But you never did. You wanted to stick by him no matter what. You started helping him write again and helping him through his trauma. He met with one of his old professors from a different publishing team but the story wouldn’t get published. The teacher then said “it was like a war” and that triggered something in him

War? War!? No you don’t know what WAR is! You never saw what I saw! The smell of those camps I was in never once go away! And you didn’t even bother to try and get my damn story published! I never want to see you again! he then left the cafe he was at leaving the teacher feeling guilty and depressed. When Jerry said he never wanted to see someone again, he meant every word. He would ice anyone out that pissed him off that much. He then burst into your office saying Are you able to publish this?! he was still angry from before by the tone of his voice, by his face, even when he threw the paper at your hands. He didn’t mean it towards you because he knew it wasn’t you who did it, he was just angry which was almost a normal thing that came with him