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Guest Work - Amara's Phone Call
🕑 Added 2024-07-30 17:00:05 +0000 UTCHi everyone! I've got a special treat for you today; one of my readers felt inspired to write a short piece about Amara, and gave me permission to share it here. I think it's a really great read, and a fun way to speculate about possible futures for our collegiate succubus! I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did <3
(This work is not considered canon)
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Amara glanced at her phone before hitting the call button. “Hey mom, what’s up?”
“Hi Amara! It’s been a while since we talked, so I just wanted to call and see how you’re doing, how college is going, and all that.”
“I mean, it’s going,” Amara replied. “I’m working on a project for my Social Media course right now. I’m combining my project with one of my friends’ projects to set up a fundraising platform to replace a building that burned down recently.”
“Ooh, that sounds dramatic. I hope nobody was injured?”
Amara hesitated a little too long. “No, no one was injured.”
Is everything ok, hon?” her mother asked. “You got a little quiet there.”
“Yeah,” Amara sighed. “It’s just… I was there. When the fire started. We were at a party, and everything went wrong so quickly.”
“Oh Amara, I’m so sorry. That must have been terrifying.”
“It was. Working on the fundraiser and cleaning the debris has really helped everyone get past it.”
“Still though,” her mom said. “You’re going to college parties; that sounds fun. I remember those days. Any exciting tails to tell?”
“Tales… no.” Amara replied. “Mostly I stay in and work on school.”
“I worry about you, Amara,” her mom said. “You were always such a serious girl when you were younger. You need to get out and see things, meet people. Grab life by the horns.”
Amara paused. “Grab life by… what? Mom, what are you saying?”
Her mother went on. “I’m just saying, you’re an adult now. You need to find out who you are. Really spread your wings and embrace your future.”
“My wings… what?? Mother! What do you know?!”
“Know about what, dear?” Her mom asked.
Amara hesitated before answering, “I… nevermind. It’s nothing.”
Her mother sounded concerned now. “Are you sure, Amara? You sound tense. You’ve been under a lot of pressure lately, with school, and now the building fire. Maybe you should take a week off? Come visit? Tell your teachers it’s for health reasons.”
“Yeah… yeah, I might do that,” Amara sighed. “Hey, I’ll talk to you later, okay? I have to get to class.”
“Okay sweetheart, just think about what I said. I’d love to see you again.”
“I will. Bye mom. Love you!”
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“Find out who I am?!” Amara fumed as she paced around her living room. “I’m telling you, Nick. She knows. She has to know. She can’t not know. There were too many little comments. Grab life by the horns? Really? Spread your wings? Come on. She has to know.”
“Those are all normal things people say, Amara,” Nick replied, watching from her couch as she did laps around the room. “Especially parents to their newly adult children when they leave the home. Like, I get what you’re saying, and I agree that it looks suspicious from your point of view, but it’s still just coincidental.”
“Oh, and get this. She asked if I had any tales to tell. Tales, Nick. She asked about my tail,” Amara said, fluttering said tail in front of his face.
“Okay,” Nick said reasonably as he pushed her tail out of the way. “So why didn’t you tell her?”
“Because… well…” Amara’s righteous ire fled, leaving her feeling slightly deflated. “What if I’m wrong?”
“Are you wrong?” Nick asked. “You made a pretty good case, and it does sound like she was fishing for information about a specific topic.”
“I know… but… these are all things that normal people say,” Amara dithered. “What if I’m wrong?”
“Well, what if you are wrong?” Nick led her train of thought. “What could happen?”
“What could happen?!” Amara could feel herself spinning back up. “Nick. Telling my mother that I’m a demon is just a little more serious than telling her I’m pregnant or something. I mean, absolute best-case scenario, she already knows and she’s waiting for me to say something. Ooh, I know. She can teach me some new tricks. Maybe I could do a flip or whatever. But what if I’m wrong?? I don’t even know, but it probably involves an old priest and a young priest!”
“That’s from The Exorcist,” Nick replied. “And you said your family isn’t religious.”
“We aren’t!” Amara exclaimed. “That’s why it’s worse!”
“Listen, it’ll be okay.” he said soothingly. “You just need to talk to your mother more often. If we’re right, and she’s dropping hints to see what you know, maybe you should drop some hints to see how she responds. That might give you a better feeling to work with.”
She sighed. “Yeah, that’s a good idea. You know, maybe she’s right. Maybe I should take a week off, go home, and decompress a little. Things have been non-stop crazy since all of this started. You went to your grandparents’ house for a week, and it did you a lot of good.”
“Ha,” Nick smirked. “That’s a terrible idea. It did me a lot of good, but you nearly went crazy from withdrawals. If your mother doesn’t know anything about this whole ‘having wings’ thing and you need to hide it, how well do you think you would do on your own for a week?”
“Ooh, yeah. Good point,” she said. “But what if we’re right though? What if my mom is a succubus and that’s where I get it from? There’s so much she could teach me. I feel like I’ve fallen into each one of my abilities by mistake. I don’t even know enough to know what questions I need to be asking! And maybe we could, I don’t know, bond over hot guys or something. Hey, wanna come with?”
“What am I, a to-go meal? Exactly how were you planning on bonding with your succubus mother, again?”
Amara glared at him. “You stay away from my mother, Nicholas!” she said sternly.
“Hey, you brought it up, not me,” Nick exclaimed. “Anyway, I can’t. I already took a week off, and I doubt my professors would work with me for another week without a good reason. And I don’t think being a succubus’ lunch box would cut it. Besides, if we were all normal, non-demon people, without any horns or tails or anything, bringing a date with you the first time you return home from college is kind of an advanced relationship move, and I didn’t think we were there yet.”
“Yeah, that might not look great,” Amara mused. “Still though, I think you’re right. I need to talk to her more. Maybe I’ll tell her about taking you home after that party, steer the conversation towards sex, see what happens.”
“You’re a little old to be having the ‘sex’ talk with your mother,” said Nick, “but that could work.”
Amara smirked. “Well, if we’re both succubi then it’ll be just like deciding where to go for dinner, right?”
Nick laughed. “I mean, when you put it like that, I guess you have a point.”
Comments
Gerald Ferguson
Really good side story here that enriches the full scope of what Amara is facing
Nyx Nyghtingale
Good things come to those who wait <3
Nyx Nyghtingale
We will! I've already got a very detailed plan for how Evelyn will be introduced into the plot, and how she'll react to everything that's been happening :)
Tim Wininger
Great little side story. Will we see her mother in the main series at some point?
Nyx Nyghtingale
I mean, this is Amara's current assumption, so if anything Evelyn being the Succubus would be the twist XD
AFanofRoses
Plot twist: Amara's mother isn't a succubus, but her father is an incubus. And the mother has no idea.
Keith Murray
That was good. I truly enjoyed that. But I’d still like to see your take on this “problem” 😉
