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“Just one glass?” he asked, looking skeptical.
“Yes. I’m not drunk.”
The officer studied her for a bit, then moved on. “The front of your car doesn’t look too banged up, except the left side where you hit the trees. You missed whatever it was you saw.”
“It was not a deer,” Amanda insisted through gritted teeth.
“You did hit your head, Miss Garner,” he said with a smirk.
“I know what I saw, Officer.” Amanda glared at him. “And I didn’t hit my head so hard I started hallucinating.”
“Okay.” He scribbled something down. “Can you describe this girl?”
“She’s skinny, maybe a little shorter than me. I don’t know. It happened so fast. But her hair is dark blonde.”
“Is she white, black or—”
“White.” Amanda knew that much. “But she was dirty. Her face, her shirt.”
“What about the color of her shirt?”
“I don’t know. Blue maybe. Again, it was dirty.”
“Blue?” The officer chuckled this time, which annoyed the hell out of Amanda. “You must’ve seen the lady.”
Amanda frowned at him. “What lady?”
“The lady in blue. You know the legend. In the fifties, a lady wearing a blue dress drove her car off the bridge. Ever since, people had claimed they saw the lady roaming the area.”
Amanda’s spine straightened at the obvious ridicule.
“It was a girl, not an adult woman. She might’ve run into the woods. Did you look there?”
They both looked at the dark line of trees on the other side of the road.
“We don’t have enough light to search the woods, Miss Garner.”
“So you’re not going to try?” Amanda demanded. “I want your full name and badge number, Officer Penn. Your superior officer will hear from me about how you refused to look for a possible hurt and lost minor.”
Officer Penn’s lips flattened. “We will try our best to look for the girl you saw, Miss Garner. But we can’t guarantee to search the whole woods at night.”
“Thank you,” Amanda said without actually feeling any gratitude.
“My partner will give you the incident report,” he said shortly before he excused himself.
“Alright, Amanda. Let’s get you to the emergency room to have you thoroughly checked out,” Amy said.
Amanda got off the ambulance. “I don’t need to go to the emergency room.”
“You need a thorough examination after an accident like that.”
“As you can see, I’m fine. A little sore, with nothing but this cut and probably a sprained wrist,” Amanda pointed out. “I barely hit those trees.”
“Are you a doctor?” Amy’s partner, John, asked with a lift of his brow.
“No, but he is.”
She pointed to Gene Rowland, who was talking to the other officer. It took Amanda a moment to realize the man who had found her in the car was her high school crush.
