Chapter 5: Janina’s Assignment“SO HOW DID YOU celebrate your birthday?” Dr. Lutkin asked Janina. She hadn’t seen him since last week, before her parents had come by for a Friday night celebration.
“Did you go home?”
Home. She flinched at the word.
“Not this time,” she replied. “My parents came and brought me some presents and cake, and a new journal. It was nice.”
Dr. Lutkin seemed disappointed. “Another birthday at this place?”
He’d said it like it was a bad thing, but she liked it here. She liked her room. She liked his office. When she was younger, it was because had the best toys out of all the therapists at Harrison. There were dolls, action figures, a castle with a working drawbridge, toy cars, trucks, trains, planes, stuffed animals, and an amazing three-story dollhouse. It had
