Bills Must Be Paid

It’s been four long years since my Sire passed unto the Fade and I’ve been trying to make ends meet every way I know how. But recently, I’d decided to take on a different kind of second job. Aside from working at the local manufacturing plant as a welder, I’ve been working at a nightclub in the evening, allowing anyone with the right amount of cash to feed off me. Granted, I can’t do it often, so it’s really only supplemental, but it’s doing what I need it to do… it’s getting me by.

If only my mahmen… well, the female I’ve always considered my mahmen, had had one ounce of respect for me or my Sire. That would be too much to ask, though. All my life, I had called her mahmen and treated her as if she were my actual mahmen. Actually, It wasn’t until I was ten that I found out I had been born of another. At the time, I had heard whisperings from the doggen in the house and confronted my Sire. He explained that he had loved another, a human female, and I had been born of her. My mahmen had been gracious enough, at the time, to take me in, when my real mahmen died in childbirth.Even knowing what I knew, I never treated her differently, from there on out. As far as I was concerned, she was the one that raised me, she was my mahmen. Apparently, she never really was as gracious as we all believed, because the second my Sire’s Fade Ceremony was over, she turned to me and told me she wanted me out of her home. She pretty much kicked me out with the clothes on my back.

Thankfully, I had a friend that was in the welding business and he got me an apprenticeship. I’ve gotten my licenses now and the pay is pretty good, but in a state like New York, it’s hard to find anything that pays all the bills, especially when you live on your own. The other thing that I was extremely thankful for was that being a half-breed, I was able to go out into the sun. Therefore, I had more opportunity for work. At this point, I’ve tried many things as a second job, but nothing has come close to the money I make at this new second job. I hate that I pretty much have to sell myself to do it, but bills must be paid.