The Nest

Alec, a beautiful transfer student living in the country from a major metropolis, observed Soho, a socially ostracised young man whom everyone numbered among those who implied that he had “the ability of driving even away the forest monster.” Although Alec had been subconsciously projecting his own ugliness onto the boy, the moment their eyes met through Soho’s spectacles, suddenly, an overwhelming feeling of attachment developed within Alec. The location where they traversed through an ascendant forest to flee from Alec’s parent became a haven for both of them. “I shall make you my monster.”