Gloom

Chapter 45

"Ready for the reveal?" His question of hers made me laugh. She removed her hands from covering her face. Ta-da!

My eyes widened. Without a drop of makeup, Nat could easily pass for a girl of fifteen or sixteen. Despite that, her face looked very pretty, childish, but young and shiny.

"You look good like that," I said with a smile.

"Thank you," he murmured, twisting his face, "but with this face I can't enter the clubs."

I laughed again, but the laugh faded as my eyes strayed once more to his hands.

"Don't look at them. Don't look at them. Don't look at them."

I hid my face in the cup in my hands and drank some more of the chamomile tea that she had prepared for me, so as not to continue seeing them.

Nat was wearing a black T-shirt with a rock band print on it, which was so big on her that it almost looked like a short dress. The garment completely revealed his thin arms, and I couldn't help but notice the small blue butterfly tattoo on his right forearm… Just as I couldn't ignore the