045: Horrible Past

Dexter

“Well, first of all, I came here because I thought that we should find you. You’re our kin, and you deserve to know that we exist. That you have a family.”

I nod, and then ask, “Where are you from?”

“All the way in Baywood,” he states. “Yeah, a long way away. A whole week to get here. We never thought she got so far, you know? We started looking in the nearby towns and cities. Nobody ever heard of her. We thought that maybe she changed her name. My mother got sick afterward and stopped looking. Then, she asked me to take over as soon as I turned eighteen.”

“And you’re how old now?”

He’s clearly younger than me. He says, “I’m twenty-one.”

“I see,” I say. “You came a long way.”

“I’m glad it wasn’t for nothing,” he says. “I’m glad we found you. But I’m sad that things turned out so badly. I really hoped that she had that happy ever after, you know? I grew up listening to stories about her.”

I sniffle and nod. “Yeah. It’s a shame, too.”

“I was told by Jim about what happened,” he