I could've sworn that his parents had raised him to be a man of courtesy, in his childhood days. He was one with the word happiness, he was also raised to be a dedicated follower of Christianity. I used to see him running with a naughty grin while the teachers desperately tried to make him sit down, at the end he always would get tired as he sat there listening. He was one of pure intelligence too, it was rumored that he was able to do difficult mathematical equations at the age of 5. In all honesty, this man had a perfect childhood, he had a loving family and was a son of a rich man.

He made good friends and had a very healthy relationship with his peers. He is the perfect role model, his older and younger cousins looked up to him.

Fast forward to the man's teenage life, we see that he lost a fair amount of

weight, and grew his hair. He moved to his province to go and study there.

He still had that same expression of joy from when he was young, he made friends quickly and had a great relationship with his relatives. Even greater than his other relatives from the city, he had a bond full of trust and was always the one to volunteer when something fun was coming up. He went on to be a great follower of God performing well in his church. His parents had dreams of him being an aspiring singer. Some relatives had dreams of him being a doctor or engineer, you get the idea. He was the hope of the family to stop their problems once and for all.

Well, tell me. What happened to that kid, why am I now seeing a figure of this

person–unemployed, a disappointment, a drophead, a pessimistic opposite

of that kid we hoped to be the solution to our problems, yet he turned into a catastrophic failure of the person we unanticipated for, just what caused this sudden metamorphosis?–I too am confused about this sudden change… The last thing we have of him is a photo. I currently possess, it is one of his last posts on his social media account. In the photo, it was shown that his hair grew reaching his neck he also has a visible scar on his ear and mouth, and he wore round glasses and a ragged dark green jacket with brown cargos. The picture was taken in the corner of an abandoned church, (you can plainly see in the picture how the wall is crumbling in 3 places) he was sitting down with his arms resting on his thighs while clasping his hands and leaning forward at the camera with a smile on his face.

When I first encountered this picture while I was scrolling through my phone, I felt a sense of unease, the smile felt so uncanny.

A vague smile that fails to give a genuine expression, I look closely at the face and notice it as nothing more than puckering of ugly wrinkles. Even a plain mask would give more of a sincere expression than such a hideous smile, I tried to forget the face yet it was already lodged in my brain as an eternal nightmare. The same picture caused me to lose sleep for nights without end, such effigy suggests nothing such as a demon's head forcefully attached to a human body. A thing which makes me shudder in distaste. I have never seen such a smile emitted by a human.