Alorah Weeks

Even once I’m gone

The wake was months ago, yet it was so vivid in Jacob’s mind as he sat in one of the stiff chairs in the family attorney’s office. His grandfather’s testament was being read, the man who raised him. He felt sick, the reality of it never really settled in until recently. Jacob’s grandfather was all he had, his mother died in labor and his father disappeared without a trace a few weeks later. His siblings were older and already had their lives together and their own families while he just recently turned 19. He didn’t know them very well, they moved out when he was 6 to live with their mom, his dad’s ex wife.