Undeserving Of Your Sympathy (ON HOLD)

Is It Called A Sitting Duck When It's Waiting To Happen?

I am startled at a knock downstairs.
Ah! Finally; some new refreshments! I'm glad. I've been living off water since I last killed the other person.
I slick my hair back and put on some fresh clothes.
I obviously have to look professional, this is a hotel, right?
As I walk down the carpeted red steps, I try to act mortal. At least try to fit in when taking in stock.
I grab the key from my pocket when I get to the last step and walk to the hotel door.
I don't exactly have a vampire cape or anything. In fact I look like a normal teenager around 17 because quite frankly I never age.
Now it's pretty hard for me to take food from the mail-man and stuff because I always get thirsty for blood when I see a mortal alone. It's like a sitting duck.
The duck is sitting around in the bank, maybe eating a bit of bread from the grass, hanging around with its' friends and decides to finally go for a swim on its' own because it feels brave and wants to show its mother that it's ok to do it on its own.
It's taken it years to get used to the coldness of the bank and its mother's told it that it's a scary place outside but still, it wanted to prove that it can do it.
Unlike any other year-old ducks around it, it feels trapped and wants to do more than sit in the grass all its life.
It's not even a year old but wants to be adventurous and show everyone that it wants to conquer the world when it's older.
It tiptoes slowly away from the group of ducks as not to scare anyone and suddenly steps over the boundary.
It starts off in the shallow but then goes in to the deeper end and is able to swim! It shouts to its mother that it's the biggest thing it's ever done in its small life and it's mother is so proud of her baby.
She turns her back for about 10 seconds and there's a sudden gunshot behind her from the waters.
She whips her head round and sees her baby duckling upside down in the bank, making no sound nor movement.
She screams out for it. Her heart is breaking and she falls to the ground. It's over. Duckling doesn't hurt anymore. It's over the pain. And gone.
"Thanks, dude." I say to the delivery man.
"No problem, Mr Way. I noticed you've already paid for this as you pay monthly, yes?"
"Yea, whatever. See you around, sir."
He leaves and I shut the door after watching the red van disappear into the distance.
"Money this, money that. Fuck off, poshnob mortals. Pshh."
I mutter to myself as I haul the slightly large parcel into the storage room in the back of the hotel. Damn it. I thought there would be a new customer to drink from. I haven't tasted that irony stuff in such a long time and I kinda miss it.
I miss it like the mother misses the duckling. So very much.
I long for the taste of the saltiness on my tongue once again. I long for my fangs to pierce through the neck skin of mortals. I long to hear the screams of a slow death taking place in my hands in this very hotel that drapes over Fresher Lane. I long for it all.
I slam the storage door shut and walk into the big dining hall where customers would eat. I sit at one of the tables nearest to me and daydream.
This room is where so many innocent souls would have their last meals.
Their spirits would forever roam the halls of the bottom floor of this depressing hell of a hotel.
I glance up at the peeling cream walls that show the red and brown bricks that was once there before being plastered.
To be honest this isn't really a well built place if you think about it because it's literally falling apart.
At the back of the hotel next to the storage room is a bashed-in old conservatory which used to be the summer dining room as it had long glass windows and the sunlight always shone through it.
Wanna know what happened to it?
A storm happened. Yes. Another storm.
Storms always seem to happen wherever I go anywhere so that's why I don't go outside.
I also had to get workers when the summer dining room was still ok because the sunlight. I'm allergic to sunlight so that's a big nope for me.
It's kind of hard for me to own a hotel as I have to be up in the daytime but I guess it's the best way to gather 'guests', right?