They Dyed My Dress for the Dance. I Left the Group of Five novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Why Colby
"Paint it or he'd tell everyone my secret."
My brother said it again, softer.
"Say all of it," I said. "From the start. Not the part that's easy."
He sat back down on the bench.
The tape lay between us on the concrete.
"It was Wednesday night. The night before."
"Where?"
"The bathroom on the second floor. Kinsley had the dye packets lined up on the sink. Every one had a color name printed on the label."
"You read the labels."
"That's how I knew which was which. Shell. Mint. Ivory. I never saw any of them."
He held up his hands, and the knuckles were taped white.
"Lance gave me the gray chart and a stack of cloth scraps. I dipped each one and let it dry under the lamp and held it up to the chart. Over and over."
"For how long?"
"Till two in the morning. A hundred and some scraps."
I thought of him bent over a sink with his sleeves pushed up, squinting at a strip of gray squares.
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