Catch Me

"Sterling Jensen-Olivier was brilliant, spirited, and shared many characteristics with a bomb.
She took the bus from the Upper East Side to California. Her parents were rich Republicans who shopped at Prada and Dior. If she had been even slightly less resolute, she would have gone to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. But instead, she bought a bus ticket and ended up at UCLA. She showed up in the dorms on the first day of school, wearing Ray-Bans and a too-big collared shirt. When people asked her where she came from, she told them Manhattan. She didn't like to talk about her parents. She didn't like to talk about the private all-girls high school she had gone to. She liked science and cigarettes. She hated the smell of perfume. That was eighteen-year-old Sterling Jensen-Olivier, my best friend. She made everything light up. But sometimes the fire she burned with took over. Sterling was explosive. We should have run while we had the chance."

Mila has only just started freshman year of college when Sterling bursts into her life, introducing her to a world where not everything makes sense, much unlike anything Mila has ever allowed herself to be a part of. But Sterling has a life she left behind, and a life she is still attached to, no matter how hard she tries to break away. So if Sterling gets pulled back in, will Mila be able to hold herself together long enough to figure herself out?

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