Seth Winters
She had totally zoned out on me. I had a buddy on the force who spent two years in Afghanistan. He had pretty bad PTSD, and every now and then he would experience flashbacks, and when he did, he would react exactly the way Julianna did. Her eyes grew unfocused as she turned her focus inward. Jack always said that it was like being stuck in a re-run of a movie. I saw emotions flicker over her pretty face, but I didn’t couldn’t interpret them. Fear, confusion, desperation... Had her high-school experience been so extreme that it had psychologically damaged her?
It was hard to imagine a quiet, brainy girl like Julianna getting in a fight. It must have been a pretty serious fight to get a girl permanently expelled. My friends and I had gotten in plenty of fights, and I
