(short story)

Cathy and Heath are a good couple, and they love each other a lot despite some of their differences.

Cathy loves to invade mirrors! She’s also very fond of opening windows and breaking toys, regularly tricking her friends and Heath. Heath is used to it, even though he admits that she’s not very good at communication.

“I’d rather talk with Cathy, than receive another creepy letter on my mirror that says I should not forget about her birthday next week,” he says, as he erases the last sentence of her new letter: ‘P.S: BRING ME THE FLOWERS AS ALWAYS. XOXO’. So cute! “She often likes to use some liquid very similar to blood. Cathy’s a real prankster,” Heath chuckles.

Cathy is a bit moody. Sometimes, she doesn’t visit Heath for a whole month. Of course, they don’t live together yet. She is very stubborn and wants Heath to move in with her. She lives in a graveyard, which has a lot of unnamed graves.

Heath loves to visit his sweetheart, though, he’s fond of surprise visits. He often grabs a shovel and goes to do some digging there. It’s a hobby of his. “Charming, isn’t it?” Cathy grunts.

Cathy complains that Heath ignores her privacy and only ever listens to her when he hasn’t slept for days. And even then… “Eat something!” she begs. But, no, Heath shuts her mouth with a kiss, making her mad again. As a revenge, she often scares people who rent Heath’s apartment. She knocks on the windows at night, whispering scary stories and making her favorite brand of terrifying screeching noises.

For some reason, other people notice Cathy a lot more than Heath. “He’s just very unfocused. He should try and pay more attention to my signs. I’m being very, very straightforward”, the woman sighs regretfully.

The couple have been thinking about creating a family business. “A haunted house, perhaps?” Cathy suggests. “No, that’s not good. We need our business to thrive. How about a hotel?”

Cathy groans again.