36. You Abandoned Me

Candance sat there shaking her head. At the same time, Dexter expressed what has been sitting in his heart for ten years.

"I don't like to have to repeat things of the past, and I was willing to let by gone be by gone, but you showed up here asking me to give you another chance. So you must have forgotten. I told you something that I have never shared with anyone. Remember Candance, that conversation?"

She hung her head, nodding yes. Dexter went on to recant word for word that conversation that night for her.

"What is it, Dexter? You can share anything with me. I love you with all my heart."

"I know. That's why I'm opening up to you. Uhmm, my secret is I have a rare and complicated form of color blindness."

"Oh my God! What does that mean? You can't see any colors at all?"

"Well, as I grew up, the amount of color I can see diminished over the years. By the time I'd turned four, I couldn't see anything in color anymore."

"Candance, you became very quiet that night, like you