Vocation: A Short Story by Claudia Silva

Author:Claudia Silva [Silva, Claudia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-29T22:00:00+00:00

Like he had done since he could remember, Jeremy took out his house key to enter a seemingly abandoned one story house. The house would show signs of life only when he arrived or when his mother woke up, which wasn’t until it was dark.

Dark.

That didn’t really mean anything, a lot of people had night shifts and only worked at night. Not everybody was fortunate enough to have gone to college and have a comfortable nine to five desk job. His mom was clearly not one of those people.

When he was younger and before his dad had moved out of town, his dad had also had a night time job. That’s where his parents had met – or at least that’s what the story told. Only coincidence, right? Again, it couldn’t possibly mean anything.

Besides, he had seen his parents during the light of day, right? Mmh, or maybe not. He surely must have. Or perhaps Will was just messing with his head and he was now seeing things that weren’t there. That had never been there.

The house was old and small. The two bedrooms belonged to his mother and him. The living room took all the space, so the kitchen counter served as a dining table. Jeremy had never had a lot, but he had never felt he was missing anything important; besides a belief in God, of course.

What he owned or didn’t own didn’t really matter. What really mattered was the truth – because being a vampire couldn’t possibly be true. For example, wouldn’t he have fangs, crave blood or burn during the day if he were a vampire? He found it hard to believe he could be a terrifying creature of literature without his notice.

In all honesty, he could not figure out why he was even considering the possibility in the first place.

Ask your mom! Will had yelled. Easier said than done. His mother had a strict rule about letting her rest during the day because she worked all night and yet… he couldn’t stop looking at her closed door. Was it locked? Did she lock it to make sure he wouldn’t disturb her sleep? What would happen if he went inside? Maybe he should knock. Or maybe…

“It’s stupid,” he told himself out loud. “Stupid and impossible.”

But for some reason, he kept turning to look at the door. A door that had been closed every single day of his young life, or as long as he could remember.

4:07 p.m. read the time on the kitchen clock. It would still be a few more hours before his mom woke up.

Unless…

Unless he opened the door just that once and woke her up and asked…

What would he even ask? Hey, mom, Will says I’m a vampire. What do you think? Seriously, that would be the most stupid, idiotic, silly thing to do.

Although it would only take a minute. Just a minute. Would she get angry? Possibly. Would he get a consequence? Most definitely. Would it be worth it?

Taking a deep breath,

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