Chapter 10: To Hide the Heart that BleedsJANINA STOOD STARING AT Devante and Nurse Erica in disbelief. She had no idea why he fled the room. Meredith had seen what just happened.
“It’s not your fault,” she told Janina. “He must have been triggered by something.”
Janina watched as Nurse Erica led Devante out of the girls’ wing.
“You mean, like, a flashback?” she asked. She’d known kids who’d had flashbacks before.
“Yes,” Meredith said.
Janina wondered what he’d seen that would have made him have a flashback. It couldn’t have been her teddy bear. Why would anyone be afraid of that? She hadn’t expected their time together to be cut so short. Sure, she’d been warned that he didn’t talk, but she hoped that maybe he might. Just to her. Meredith told Janina it was okay for her to go to the a
