Closer

“Sorry for spacing out.” He apologized and added. “It is not a tattoo.”

Nima gave him a funny look, but it made her look cute, considering her face was still flushed and lips more plump from his hard work.

God! She's so adorable.

Deciding to focus and take his irrational emotions one step at a time, Joel proceeded to shed light on the mystery of his acclaimed tattoo.

Joel was born with a strange creature drawing on his back.

At first, it looks like the form of a fetus, which his parents assumed to be a birthmark of sorts, but as Joel grew older, the mysterious birthmark grew with him, slowly taking a sinister form that resembled a human yet far from it.

Joel would have had a lonely childhood if not for the love his family showered him with, and it hadn't taken him too long to make a single friend who didn't have judgemental parents.

When they have sports activities at school, his assumed tattoo becomes the topic of discussion, making the kids distracted.

This earned him a reproachf