Rafael Alcantara had made a promise to the man. The problem was, he did not know how to honor it.

He really wanted to ask Marc-André Ter Stegen if he could tattoo this painting on the man’s body, but for that, he needed to see the painter. Hence, he did not know him. At all. He had heard several times that people were sometimes meeting him in the streets of Barcelona, while he was painting, but Rafael never had. He could not just spend all his days walking around the city, hoping to find him. Barcelona was huge.

He sighed. He needed to find a solution as soon as possible.

He looked at his computer and went on Google, searching for “Marc-André Ter Stegen”. The first result was Wikipedia, as usual, and he had read it already once or twice. Okay, he had actually read it three times. The first time, he wanted to know where his accent was coming from after hearing an interview of him on television. The second time, he wanted to see the name of one of his most famous painting, “Moonlight on a cloudy night”. The last time, he had just read the whole page, because he was curious to know how a man of his age could be that successful. Honestly, he had thought of string-pulling, but he was completely wrong: Marc-André Ter Stegen had built his success himself. From scratch. Just like Rafael, but contrary to Marc-André, he was not that famous.

Fame was not what he cared about, anyway. He liked to have his small tattoo shop, where only his most loyal customers were coming. Word of mouth was also helping him, and that was all he needed.

Well, now, he also needed a way to contact Marc-André Ter Stegen.

Wikipedia was clearly not helping. The second result was a link to Marc-André’s website. Rafael had doubt about the fact that he was the one managing him, but he wanted to look at it nevertheless. It was a nice website, in which there were pictures of every single painting, sold or not. You could not buy anything on the website, because as it was explained on the top of the page, you could not clearly see the painting through a screen: you had to go to his gallery.

Rafael wrote the address on a post-it and he closed the tattoo shop.