Catherine House

by Elisabeth Thomas

“I’ve spent my whole life reading beautiful books and watching beautiful movies, dreaming that there was some real place out there where I would fit in and be beautiful, too. And now I’m here. And I don’t want to leave. I don’t want to get an ugly job in an ugly office full of shit like staplers and fax machines. I don’t want to write memos. I don’t want us all to move far away from each other and grow up and forget to call. I don’t want to get fat. I don’t want to be tired. I don’t know. I just . . . sometimes I can’t imagine anything good happening to me. After Catherine.”

“You’ll see,” Diego said. “With Theo. You and him, everything is so good now. But when everything is good, everything’s going so well, that’s when you’ll really start to freak. Because then you’ve got something to lose.”