After her appointment with Dr. Burnette, she had decided her goal for the day would be to take a small step toward independence by driving home. If she could prove to her mother that it was possible for her to get from point A to point B without getting lost or crashing into someone or something, she would begin to build her case to get her own car back. After a minor glitch in that she had no idea how to start her mother’s Mercedes, she had succeeded with the aid of the navigation app on her phone, only mixing up right and left twice. She was feeling very pleased until she saw the sheriff’s car. In that instant, the bottom dropped out of her stomach and an old feeling that was attached to an old memory came rushing up through her, taking her breath away. Suddenly she was fourteen, sitting in the backseat with Casey, giggling and laughing, excited to get home to show Daddy the dress she had bought for their father-daughter dance at the country club.
