Stradlater

I didn't have anything worthwhile to do so I went down to the can with Stradlater. Remember how I said about Ackley being a slob, well so was Stradlater. He was just more of a secret slob! He was a pretty handsome guy though, in a different way to me.
He asked me if I was going out that night to see whether I could do his English work. He wanted me to write a composition, I told him that it was me flunking out of the goddam place but that didn't deter him. He was yawning while he told me what to do, gives me a royal pain in the ass when someone does that. They are telling you what to do and then they yawn. He told me to stick the commas in the wrong place to look like it was his work, its just like Stradlater that, he thinks to make it look like you have written a lousy composition, you simply have to stick the commas in the wrong place.
After a while I got bored sitting at the washbowl so i started horsing aroud. I horse around quite alot. I was tapdancing around the room. Stradlater noticed my hat so I started telling him about it, was getting out of breath anyway.
I asked about who his date was, I thought it might be Fitzgerald when he told me it wasn't I was thinking about how I want her, just my type she is! For some reason, I felt like horsing around again so I jumped of the washbowl and got Stradlater in a half Nelson. That's a wrestling move. It was a goddam good one aswell. After a while I gave up and moved back onto the subject of his date. He told me how it was Jane Gallager. I got really interested when I round out it was her. I used to know her when we were small. She was a next door neighbour! We hang around quite a bit together, I got on really well with her. One thing I remember about her is that whenever we played checkers(which we played quite a bit), she always kept her kings in the back row. She liked the way they looked when they were all in a row or something.
I just couldn't stop thinking about Jane. She had sucha lousy childhood she really did. Once again Ackely barged in, uninvited of course. But for like..the first time ever I was actually quite happy to see him. It took my mind off other things at least.