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stopped me. “Hold on,” he said, scanning the form.
“Is this all you know?”
    “ Yes, but it’s complicated.
I—”
    “ Sit down,” he growled,
cutting me off again.
    Quickly, I slid back into the chair I’d
just vacated and looked expectantly at Lieutenant Disher.
“Sir?”
    “ Are you wasting my time,
young lady?”
    “ No, sir. I—”
    “ Then let’s cut to the
chase. Tell me what’s going on.”
    “ Lieutenant Disher, I need
your help. I honestly believe that something will happen to this
girl if you don’t—”
    “ Will? You didn’t
even see anything?”
    “ Well, I saw her with, uh- I
saw a person, um—” All the things I’d considered saying, all the
explanations I’d rehearsed had fled my mind all at once, leaving
behind a complete blank. When left to wing it, I always went with
the path of least resistance. In this case, that was the truth. “I
saw someone choke Lisa Bauer to death in the grass just off campus
at University East.”
    If I hadn’t been so nervous,
the look of surprise on his face would’ve been comical. “You what? I thought you said
a possible murder. ”
    “ Uh, I, um- yesterday, I,
uh—” My head began to throb. This was getting worse by the
second.
    “ Why don’t you start at the
beginning,” he offered, more gentle than he’d been up to this
point.
    “ Well, I saw it when I was
on my way to school yesterday morning. I cut through the woods and
was walking toward the quad when I saw her. She was on her back in
the grass and a person with long red hair was strangling her.” I
tried to be as brief as possible, hoping he wouldn’t ask me too
many questions.
    “ Did you see her
attacker?”
    “ Not the face,
no.”
    “ Did you actually see this
girl die? Or you just saw someone choking her?”
    “ Yes, sir, I saw her
die.”
    “ Did you try to help
her?”
    “ Well…no.”
    Disher started shaking his head
sympathetically. “That’s alright,” he soothed. “Most people freeze
when they witness something like that. Don’t beat yourself up. You
could’ve ended up getting hurt if you’d intervened,” he said. “I’m
assuming you didn’t call the police.”
    “ No, sir.”
    “ Did you tell anyone
else?”
    “ No, sir.”
    “ Did the attacker see
you?”
    “ No, sir.”
    “ Did the attacker move the
body?”
    “ I don’t know.”
    Disher looked back down at the form I’d
completed. My pulse picked up again when I saw his thick eyebrows
draw together over the bridge of his nose. “Is this description of
what she was wearing accurate?”
    “ Yes, sir.”
    “ So she was dressed like a
man.”
    I nodded.
    “ And she had a fake goatee
on.”
    I nodded.
    “ And this happened yesterday
morning in broad daylight.”
    Uh-oh , I thought, hesitating before I answered. “Uh, I’m not
sure.”
    “ What’s that supposed to
mean?”
    “ Well, I didn’t actually see
the—”
    “ You said you saw
it.”
    “ Well, I did, but it was
more of a vision than—”
    Crumbling the paper in his hand and
hissing an explicative, Disher pushed away from the desk. “Are you
one of those fruitcakes that invent crimes so you can get
attention? You’re not gonna claim to be a psychic, are
you?”
    “ No, I’m not a psychic, but
I did see—”
    The lieutenant rolled his
eyes, standing up so quickly his chair flew back and slammed
against the wall behind the desk. “Come with me,” he snarled,
stomping angrily around his desk and out the door. I could hear him
muttering. Come in here and waste my time like I’ve got
nothing better to do. Then he mumbled
something about crazy people, followed by a few more things I
couldn’t quite make out.
    I followed him back through the marked
door. He pointed to the bench I’d been seated on earlier and
growled over his shoulder. “Sit.”
    I desperately wanted to take exception
to his command as well as his attitude. I was neither a dog nor a
criminal that he could treat just any old way. But I figured at
this