"Are you okay? You don't seem okay," she said.

Catherine hesitated. She didn't want to lie to Serena, but she knew that she couldn't tell the truth, either. She didn't want to burden her friend with her problems, since she was clearly busy enough with her own problems.

She couldn't burden her with anything. She was supposed to be happy, but somehow she couldn't. She couldn't stop thinking about everything that had happened to her tonight. Everything that had happened to the people that she loved.

She couldn't stop thinking about her parents or what they would think if they could ever see her now. She couldn't stop thinking about...