Conflict of interest

I am but a simple teenager who is a little different than other kids in the world we live in today. Actually I am a whole lot different than the other kids in the world, I am a vampire, but I hide my identity from those I love because I know the dangers of telling who I am and I am afraid that they along with many of other people would not understand. My father Liam Makter and my mother Jaqueline Makter very understanding people, but I don’t think they’ll quite be that understanding in this case. Saying I am a vampire; because of the classic tales of vampire folklore and the tales of the bible; they think all of my kind is evil and all spawns of the devil, but it just so happens that I am a Christian and I believe and love my God, but I just happen to need a different source of sustenance than the average every day teen; but we’ll get into that another time for now. Right now I stand in front of another vampire that has succeeded in taking me down and nearly killing me and it’s near the end of days as predicted in the bible plus it’s pouring rain could it get any worse, oh I almost forgot, right now and I am thinking about my life before I even jump into this fight with this man who calls himself the devil, to think I was at home four years ago and I came across my true identity.

BOOM!! The TV is blaring in my room at 9o’clock at night and a knock comes to my door “Jason turn that crap down before I take that TV from you along with all the other noise making crap you have in there got it?” that’s Liam Mark Makter he’s 32 and very mean or at least I thought he was “yeah dad, got it” that’s me Jason “bloodlust silph (or silph for short)” Makter. I got my nick name bloodlust because of the stuff I used to draw and write and I made silph up a long time ago kind of like an alter ego. My life was very simple then, so it seemed, until I really got into reading the bible and looking at things from different religions, paganism, Satanism, Catholicism, even witnesses of Jehovah. I chose two things that were opposites but complete opposites; those two were Wicca and Catholicism. My parents raised me to be a devoted catholic so I went by their teachings. Life for me wasn’t all that great I was in trouble in school a lot because people picked on me for what they thought were my beliefs and because I was smart, I was also in Trouble for not doing well in school because I was so upset that the other kids were making fun of me because I was smart, so eventually I gave up on paying attention in class and doing things that are supposed to be done in school. I was pretty much a loner, emo, Goth, hopeless romantic, and a very paranoid person and to this day I still am I keep to myself because I know the thought process of most people in today’s society; unfortunately it is not as accepting as it proclaims to be…. But that’s another story for another time. This story is about the declining years and the end of days.

The date today is September 12, 2007 and I just got home to discover my family surprising me with a birthday party…. But unfortunately I didn’t have such a great day in school so I reacted pretty badly.

“Jason what’s wrong?” my mom could always sense if something was wrong with me. “Nothing mom, thank you all for the party” even though I wasn’t really connected with my family I still appreciated them and everything they’ve done for me. “hey jase” my friend Leo Lopez, like me he was a loner but he had a lot of people to count on so he let everyone see him for who he is, and of course my folks don’t like that but they except him for who he is. Now if it were me in his spot things would be great, but I have to keep myself hidden because I am their son. “Leo you’re here I can’t believe my parents let you in” I said happily sarcastic “hey man you know your parents love me” he said playfully fully aware that my parents were staring at him. “Yeah they love you, like they love the devil” my mom shot a look across the room at me and I felt it without even looking behind me.

I look around to see if there were any other kids from my school here but I already knew what the turn out of my search would be as usual no one other than Leo. Most of the kids at my school were scared of me because of a small leak in info. The fact that I studied Wicca for a while had gotten out of a supposed friends mouth and spread around the school like the plague. I was thoroughly embarrassed and pissed at her and I’ll never for get her name Jessica brown. She, like me, studied Wicca. The thing is she and I were different because the Wicca I studied was good and the Wicca she studied, well you guessed it, was evil which I did not find out until later. I’m not going to say I never looked into black magic because you have to know both aspects of the things you are studying to get a full understanding. Unfortunely my parents didn’t feel the same way. If they say it is all evil “all of it is evil.”

“Hey man you all right?” Leo asked as I spaced after looking around the room. “Yea man I’m alright, lets join the party ok?” I said after coming from some deep thought. “Ok man lets get this party really started” he runs over to the stereo and pops in a CD, of course not letting me know what he put in until after it plays. Music starts pouring out of the stereo and its 50 cent’s this is how we do. “Ooohhhh yeah, it’s time to get it bumping up in this peace” he says that as he picks up the phone to call some people we knew from school that loved to party. “Jason 10 o’clock that’s when everyone has to go and we are staying to provide supervision” my mom snuck up behind me anticipating Leo plans she also mentions that she ordered extra pizza just in case and I kiss her on the cheek “I love you mom” I say as I smile and disappear in the crowd of cousins, family and family friends looking for Leo. “Leo who are you calling?” I say as I finally locate him on the stairs with a small PDA and the phone. “Hold on jase I’m about to get this place bumping” he smiles as he tells me to hang on and continues on the phone. So I decide to go ahead and start dancing. As I make my way through the crowd someone grabs my hand and pulls me to the middle of it “go Jackie go Jackie!!” the crowd is calling out my moms nickname as I realize she was the one who pulled me into the heart of the crowd “lets see if you have some moves sonny boy” she smiles as she dances around and I start laughing as the crowd starts calling “SILPH SILPH SILPH!!” I look around laughing as they call me with my nickname so I start to dance with my mom when Leo pulls me to the side “dude it’s about to hit the roof in here man” he says enthusiastically “what do you mean “hit the roof”?” I say kind of puzzled looking over at the door when the bell rings. Leo takes off towards the door and opens it, and in pours 20 kids from my school. Now at this point I’m thinking “oh my god Leo what’d you do?” but I said to myself “hey lets just have fun and at the end make him clean up.”

About 4 hours later the party stops and in comes cleaners that clean the place spot less when Leo pays them. Now I don’t know how Leo gets money all the time but I know his parents are like mega rich and they don’t like the fact that he is the way he is. “Wow Leo you really know how to get a place clean” my mom walks up to Leo and smiles at him. “Dude that was the most fun I’ve had in years man. Thanks man, thanks a lot” I give him a quick hug and let him go “don’t you have to be home soon Leo?” my dad says as he opens the door. “Yeah Mr. Makter, see you tomorrow silph” he waves as he leaves the house. “I really don’t like your nickname son” he stares at me sternly, I guess he was hoping I’d say some thing like “ok dad I’ll change it to flowers and sunshine” but what I did do was say “dad this is me and this is my nickname. I know you don’t like it much but trust me I cannot get rid of it now it is apart of who I am” he replied “I respect that you stood up to me like a man son but none the less it was still backtalk your grounded no going out for a week you are confined to your room” he pointed up stairs signaling me to go.

When I get up stairs I put some headphones on and sign on my myspace messenger. Listening to Mindless self indulgence, I go through my online friends list looking for a particular person, but no luck. So I turn to the TV on and jump into my bed and watch a documentary on vampires that I’ve seen about 5 times already. “Ring” the phone broke me out of my concentration as I watched the show paying full attention seeing if there was anything I could study. I pick up the phone and look at the caller id and it says unknown and I watch until my parents pick which they do so I put the phone down and finish watching my the show. My dad knocks on my door. “Come in” I say as I stay focused on the TV. “Hey Jason there is a caine on the phone for you” with a puzzled look I look up at my dad and say “caine?” I hurry up and pick up the phone. “Hello caine-sama” I say in a cool voice making sure I watch what I say. “Hello silph-san you sound surprised that I called. Am I right?” the voice is electronically altered so I can’t fully tell if it is a guy or girl. “So it seems you came across some voice altering technology, and yes you are right. May I ask a question?” I sit up fully on the bed waiting for the approval to ask the question that is now buzzing in my mind.

“Yes you may silph-san.” He replies

“Well what exactly made you call me?” I ask puzzled and exited at the same time.

“I needed your help, and I knew you still need mine.” He replies with a very cool and calm tone of voice, but I’m sensing a little bit of worry in his electronically altered voice.

“My help, what would you need that for?” I say this clearly concerned about the purpose and the dangers of this call to, not only him but me and my family.

“I know this may come as a surprise to you but I need you to meet me.” He is clearly in some sort of trouble but I continue to listen as I know the phone is on private.

“M-meet you?” I tried to hide my excitement, nervousness and concern but it didn’t quite work as planned.

“Yes. Is there a problem with that?” I was pretty sure he sensed my feelings at the moment so I was quiet for a minute gathering my thoughts and regaining my composure.

“No there’s no problem with it at all, I’m just quite surprised at your decision.” I replied as soon as I had every feeling I had under wraps.

“It is imperative that you meet me, but you will be talking to a stand in for a while before I can actually reveal myself to you” the words he used kind of brought a little disappointment in my mind.

“Ok but May I ask another question?” I say with the intent on receiving an answer to this.

“Yes silph-san” I gather my thoughts and listen to his answer trying to figure out how to say what I’m about to say.

“What exactly is this all about?” I say in as kind a manner as possible.

“Training you” he replies.

“For what if I may ask?” I say concerned.

“The end of days” a dial tone comes up on the phone after I hear these words.

A knock comes on my door. “Hey Jason what was that all about?” my dad ask questioningly I’m guessing he tried to listen in on the conversation. “Nothing dad” I reply quickly so that I do not draw in any suspicion. The thing that’s going through my mind is he never told me where we would meet. The problem is that I have stuff planned for the whole week already and if he shows up while I’m carrying out my plans it could be a serious conflict of interest.

The next day as I load up my computer to get my morning fix of music before I start my day an IM screen pops up saying “tonight at 9:00, Hemmingway Park” which is only about a block from here and it’ll be completely dark then. He’s offline so I can’t reply to that. That’s a horrible time for me because I’m supposed to be going out to meet Leo at the teen club around 8, man this is really not good time management. So I plan to go to the club and then leave early so I can meet caine, or his stand in at the park.

At the club I hang with Leo and a couple of people that I knew from school. “Dude what’s wrong?” he asked me as I looked at my watch for the fifth time.

“Nothing man I just got to get out of here by 9” I replied with a serious tone in my voice.
“Ok man, but I need you to stay for at least a half an hour after 9, I got something for you” he said and I could clearly sense that he had something up his sleeve.

“But it’s serious and important that I go” I replied sadly because I want to stay but I want to find out what the business with caine is and this end of days thing.

“You know what dude you never say anything is serious with that tone, so I’ll let you go, but do you need a ride or something?” he said calmly and seriously at the same time.

“Nah man, I got it. I’ll see you tomorrow ok?” I said as I wave and walked toward the door.

“Yeah man, tomorrow.” He said sadly. I felt bad for leaving like this but this is important.

I take off down the street, knowing I should have taken that offer but I didn’t want to risk anything with caine and anyone else. I keep going until I come up o the park, finally I’m here and I’m ready.