Warning for this book. It's Rated M for 18 and up only due to content such as language and sexual descriptions and situations and violence.

Also, I don't own anything from the Being Human USA Universe. Based on season 1. This chapter is just the introduction. It starts a week after Rebecca is a vampire.

Nina Dobrev as Emma Moon (22 years old)

Minor OCs:

Crystal Reed as Lola

Holland Roden as Rose

Arden Cho as Crystal

Expect fluffiness in this chapter...

We're all hiding something, aren't we? From the moment we wake, look in that mirror, all we do is spin our little lies. Suck in that gut, color that hair, twist off that wedding ring. And why not? What's the penalty? What are the consequences, really? "I'm only human," you say, and all is forgiven. But what if some cruel twist of fate makes you something else, something other? Who forgives you then? Every human spends a night or two on the dark side and regrets it. But what if you only exist on the dark side? We just want the same things that you do: a chance at life, at love. We're not so different in that way. And so we try and sometimes fail. But when you're something other, a monster, the consequences are worse. Much worse. You wake up from your nightmares. We don't.

Chapter One: A Date

There are days that I hate being me. Awkward Emma. The girl that blushes at the slightest male attention. The Miss I-haven't-even-been-kissed girl. And it wasn't by choice per say. Mostly it was. But when you have very religious parents who are even more strict then you are and you are telekinetic, it happens. You as in me. I'm 22 and more of a virgin than that Virgin Mary herself. I'm just glad I was able to get away from my religious parents and get a small apartment in Boston with my savings and my grandma letting me rent from her as she lives in New York.

But I'm glad I decided to become a registered nurse and work in Suffolk County Hospital, which I started about two months ago. I mainly work with the kids and teens, but I occasionally get assigned to adults. It depends on the day really. I have made friends too, which is great. Their names are Rose, Lola, and Crystal. Which sounds like a bunch of strippers, but they're really nice. Encouraging me to go on dates, me ignoring them as I gawk from the distance a guy I wish would ask me out. His name is Aidan and he's worked here for... Okay, I don't remember. But he's got this really great smile and it's adorable when he laughs. He's got this classic theme about him, but also something deep. Dark even. And I'm curious about it.

I'm currently eating lunch alone as I wait for my three friends to join me when I notice the new nurse, who's taking over Rebecca's position, Cara, was trying to flirt with Aidan as his friend, Josh, watches awkwardly. Can't say I would be any better honestly. I suck at knowing when a guy is flirting with me and- why is Cara leaving and Rose talking to Aidan?

My eyebrows furrow as I take a bite of my sandwich and feel Crystal and Lola sit down on either side of me, giggling. "We saw you eye fucking Aidan... For the millionth time," Lola says, rolling her eyes as she takes a grape from my bowl.

"What?" I said, blushing red as I look at her. I've never felt so embarrassed. I feel like a kid with her hand in the cookie jar, caught red handed.

"And Rose had enough of you pinning from afar so-" Crystal said, eating a fry from her McDonald's bag.

"So she thought she would intervene," Lola continued, smiling ear from ear like an evil cat. A cute evil cat.

"No! I don't-" I began, but Lola shushed me before both her and Crystal pointed at me suddenly. My eyebrows furrowed before I look over to see a chuckling Aidan, who was looking directly at me, smiling, with a gleeful Rose. "Ugh," I huffed as I covered my face with my hands. I can't believe my friends meddled with my non-existent love life. For the millionth time.

I look up as Rose skips over and plops down in the seat in front of me. "Guess who has a date tomorrow night? And who's going out to celebrate with her friends tonight?" Rose sung, smiling afterwards like a witch.

"You didn't have to-" I began, but she just waved me off.

"Please, you've only shown interest in one guy out of the- how many, Lol?"

"18," Lola says, giggling as all three of them rolled their eyes at me.

"And Aidan seems to be the only guy, who you haven't talked to, that you like and seem genuinely interested in. No need to thank me," Rose said, smiling from ear to ear as I giggle at her. Then, I quickly grab her fry as she tries to smack my hand away. I feel calm and happy, something of a rarity. But I feel normal. Especially with my friends here with me. We talk for the rest of lunch, not even mentioning my date with Aidan once. Which I'm grateful for as I was nervous enough as it is with dates. But when it's a guy you like... it's stressful and anxiety worthy.

After lunch, I went to my area of the hospital as Lola goes to her desk for the ER. Rose goes to the burn victims unit and Crystal goes to check on her fiancé, Doctor Nick Green, before she goes to do her doctorly things. I smile as I saw a little boy, Erik, who was hugging his bear as he was waiting for his checkup. I've seen him quite a lot times as he tends to eat things he's allergic to and other stuff he's not. He's also the only child of Rick's, who's another nurse here and widowed at forty. But Erik and Rick are good guys, especially the single father. Who's dating Miss. Miller, Erik's former music teacher.

I smiled as he looks over at me with his thumb in his mouth and he smiles at me. Then, he runs over and takes his thumb out of his mouth, jumping into my awaiting arms. I giggle as I say, "Wow, you're getting big for a six year old!" I say with a chuckle as I let him down.

"I'm not big! The docto says that-" Erik begins, pushing up his glasses as he takes a deep breath of air. "If I eat healthy and stuff then I will be big and stwrong, but I'm small!"

I roll my eyes playfully as I say, "Actually, he told you to stop eating chocolate and things with nuts in them as you're allergic to them. And you're upsetting your tummy with them."

"Okay, okay," He says, sighing before he rolls his eyes at me. "Hi, Aidan!" He shouts, looking down the hallway with his big blue eyes. My eyebrows furrow as I look behind me to see Aidan walking towards us. Oh, shit. Now how do I act around him?

"Hey, Erik!" He says, smiling at us before he walks over and kneels in front of Erik. Who hugs him and I can't help but smile down at them.

"Sewet hand shake?" Erik asked, mistaking his "r's" for "w's" again. I giggle as they high five, then fist pump each other with them making blasting sounds as they wiggled their fingers away from the other. "Cool!"

"Yeah, buddy! How about you go to nurse Mitch and he'll give you a sucker," Aidan says, smiling as Erik's eyes widen before he giggled and ran down the hallway. I couldn't stop smiling seeing that little boy giggling as he ran to get candy. Aidan got up and turned to face me as my eyes flicker from the little boy to him, but then I blinked, clearing my throat.

"You know, Erik?" I asked, my eyebrows furrowing for a moment as he nodded his head.

"Yeah, he's Rick's son. Plus, he keeps-"

"Eating what he shouldn't eat," I interrupted, making Aidan pause before chuckling at me. Yay. Not so awkward.

"Yeah, anyway. We haven't properly met yet. Even though we have a date tomorrow night," He says, making me blush as I nod my head and bite my bottom lip to keep them from blurting anything embarrassing out. "I'm Aidan."

"I'm Emma, nice to meet you," I said, giggling a little as he nods his head and we shake hands, smiling at each other. "Sorry, that was, uh-"

"Formal?" He says and I nod my head. "Ah, that's okay."

"So... uh, I'll see you at.."

"Eight, tomorrow night at that bar on main," He says, smirking, or smiling, down at me as I slowly nod my head. Great.

I was so nervous as it was almost eight in thirty minutes and I was already here, waiting. I was wearing a white cream dress with red roses on it and my heart locket. The top layer of the dress was covered in lace that matched the roses with an a-neckline and the dress flowed down to my knees with long sleeves. The top half being tight, but comfortable, but from the waist down it was flowy. I also was wearing black flats with some light makeup except my lips were painted red and black nails as usual. Straight hair as per usual. I was sipping on a water, waiting at the table in the corner. I don't think this was a good idea because what if he just wants to get me drunk to get into bed with him or something. Or what if he's this awful guy and- oh, shit.

Aidan walked through the door wearing a navy blue button down, long sleeve shirt with black jeans and a black leather jacket with black boots. He was also early, coming in twenty minutes early. He looked so handsome, but would he actually like me? We haven't really talked since yesterday as I've been crazy busy at work to my friends taking me out to buy this outfit for this date. I just... don't think I'm his type, but how would I know?

"Woah, you're here before me?" He says, smiling down at me as he's standing next to the table now.

"Yeah, sorry, blame my anxiety," I joke, when really I'm serious. He just chuckles and sits down across from me.

"You know, you don't need to keep apologizing to me. It's okay, really," He says and I smile, holding my glass with both hands as I look down for a second.

"Blame that one on my parents," I try to joke, but he nods his head before I shake my head and shut my eyes. "That's probably not a first date conversation."

"Eh," He starts making me look up from my glass to him. "I think any conversation is a good conversation whether it's a first date or not. But only if you're comfortable sharing." I look down as he softly rests his hand on mine, making me smile more at him before I take a deep breath of air and just blurt it out.

"True... Well, if you must know that my parents are religious nutcases," I said, trying to get a vibe off of him as he laugh and I let go of my glass to play with his hand. "They're like strict Christians that believe God is watching my every thought. They put me into an all girls school and locked me inside the house from five til it was time to leave for school. They were trying to protect me from demons."

"Oh..." He says, eyebrows furrowed as I nodded my head, letting go of his hand as I grab my water and taking a drink from it.

"Yeah, that's my crazy family. But my grandma helped me escape from them and start my own life. My own choices," I said, smiling down at the table. I lean on my elbows as I quirk an eyebrow at him as I ask, "What about you? Any crazy family stories?" He shakes his head as I continued, "Secret kids that I don't know about?" He froze at that and I saw him swallow, making my eyebrows furrow as worry began to consume me.

"Uh, my father owned a printing press that I hoped to someday own, but... I don't think I'll ever get the chance now. I wasn't really close to my mother as she died giving birth to me, but no siblings or anything," He says, clearing his throat at the end before he looks behind me and his eyes widen a fraction. "What?" I say, going to look behind me when he suddenly gets up.

"I'll get us some beers, be right back," He says and I slowly nod my head, watching as he walked away from the table and went to the bar. I just shrug my shoulders, playing with my heart locket as I stare at my glass of water, wondering if I can handle a beer. I've drank all of two times in my life and all of them with my friends from work. Last night, when I went out to the karaoke bar with them, they had me try several drinks to the point of a headache and me barfing half of it a little later. I wouldn't say I'm a... Okay, I'm not a lightweight, but I don't think I should do that on a first date.

Plus, why was Aidan sad when I asked about his family? Are they... dead? Oh, no. What if I came off as insensitive as I complain about my very much alive parents? And does he have a kid? I mean, he is in his mid to late twenties. Could be possible. Even at sixteen in this day and age. Where is he? He should of been back by now. My eyebrows furrow as I look back, twisting to find him but I couldn't see him anywhere. I grew worried that he ditched me, wondering if I said the wrong thing when I was about to turn back, but I smiled as I soon as I saw Aidan grabbing two beers, a food bag and walking back over. He was just barely visible in the crowded bar.

"Here you go, madam," He teases and I giggle at him as he hands me a cold beer bottle and then sets down take out. He smiles at me as he sits in front of me and opens his beer bottle. He begins to go drink it, but stops, eyebrows furrowed as he asked, "You okay?"

I blink and realized I was staring at him, turning red, and said, "Y-yeah." He smirks as he nods his head and takes a drink as I do the same, but I almost want to spit it out. I cringe, realizing that I've had shots. Not beer beer. I swallow down the grossness as he begins to laugh as I squirm a little.

"Are you sure?"

"Maybe," I joke after taking a deep breath and pushing the beer towards him. "How can you drink that? Tastes horrible!"

"Goes down easy for me," He says after chuckling and shakes his head before smiling at me.

"Should we play a game or something?" I asked after a moment and his eyebrows furrowed at me as he smiled, tilting his head as I push some of my hair behind my ear.

"What game?" He asked and I shrugged my shoulders. He looked like he was thinking before he said, "We could just do the normal game of never have I ever or... Or just take turns asking questions about the other?"

"Hmmm... I choose questions, but you go first," I said, giggling as he pretended to pout at me before smiling again with a chuckle.

"What's your favorite movie?" He asks, taking a drink of his beer as he leaned back in his seat.

"I prefer horror or comedy usually, not that that's what you were asking, but..." I hummed as I thought for a moment. That's such a hard question because I love the classics like Friday the 13th or Anger Management. "That's really hard to answer," I started, wanting to just speak my mind. "I love the classic horror movies like Friday the 13th or the stupid comedies by Adam Sandler like Anger Management. But I think I have a solid answer. Beauty and the Beast."

His eyebrows raised as I giggled at his baffled expression and he said, "You went from horror and adult comedy to a princess movie?"

"Well, I tend to fall in love with innocent love like Beauty and the Beast. For example, I like the storyline." I smile as I look at the table and drone on. "It's about a beautiful woman who's an outcast in her town because of her brains and her father's brains. A strong man wants to marry her, but she wants something more. Something that's there. Her father gets into trouble, so she sacrifices herself to this beast, who's hideous and all. She falls in love for his heart and doesn't care if he's this terrifying beast to others because to her... he's her true love."

I look up to see Aidan smiling at me brightly as I shrug my shoulders and blush, feeling strange. "That's really..." He trailed off as I sighed and shut my eyes for a moment, waiting for him to call me names. "Beautiful, actually," He clears his throat and I smile as I look up at him.

"Thanks, but... What's your favorite color?"

He smiled at me as we started to play this game of just getting to know each other. But I kept my one secret. I can't just tell him I'm telekinetic and show him me moving things with my mind. That would be... just no. I don't even want to think about because of my abusive, name calling parents. They never laid a hand on me, but they would lock me in my room with the bar windows when I was young. No food until I stopped crying and using my powers. Telling me to pray for my soul. Calling me a monster or a demon.

After about an hour or two of eating, drinking, taking turns and asking each other mundane questions, we started to leave the bar to go on a walk to a park I love. Thankfully it's nearby. I smiled as we walked, him bumping into me as I tease him a little about his love of old movies. "So you're an old man?" I joked, laughing as he rolled his eyes at me.

"Or you're just immature," He teased and I gasped, feigning offense as I rest my hand on my chest.

"Excuse me?!" I said, making him laugh as I soon follow after. I look up smiling as we were at the park and I pointed to the tree I always sit under or on to just breathe. "There's my tree," I said, him already knowing the reason I call that beautiful green tree mine. He nods and we sit down on the soft and dry grass, leaning against the tree as I sit crisscross and he stretched his legs out in front of him.

"This is nice..." He says as I take a deep breath of air and nod my head.

"Yeah, I wasn't really allowed to be outside with everyone until I was at school. Wednesdays were skip-class-days," I said, smiling down at the grass as I played with my heart locket.

"So you skipped school to play outside? Did you ever get into trouble?" He asked.

"Pretty much or just... be out in nature really. But I never got caught. My parents never found out either. I'm sneaky like that."

"What about boyfriends?" He asked after a pause and I glance over at him for a moment. Should I tell him?

"I'll only tell you if you promise not to make fun of me or laugh," I said, causing him to look at me confused before he looked serious and nodded his head. I huffed as I looked up at the leaves and with a shaky voice said, "I've never had a boyfriend. So I just... never got into trouble."

"Oh..." He said, eyebrows furrowed as I nodded my head, keeping my eyes forward as he watches me. "But... how?"

"How?" I repeated, feeling confused as I look over at him to see a smile on his face as he nodded his head. "Because my parents kept me trapped and I only came to Boston a few months ago. I was in an all-girl school."

"I'm sorry, I just..." Aidan began, sighing as he shut his eyes for a moment. "I just think it's strange how such a beautiful woman, inside and out, could have no guys after her or any boyfriends." I smiled at him once he opened his eyes and he smiled back, genuinely. That's the nicest thing a guy has said to me. I also never feel like this with any guy I've gone on a date with. Usually they roam their eyes at my boobs or ass or legs. Call me hot. Make me feel uncomfortable, but not Aidan. He makes me feel... normal, comfortable, and beautiful. Like I can actually go on another date with him if he wants it too. And he's so charming.

"Thanks... I don't think I regret it though," I admitted, making him furrow a brow. "I mean, do I wish I could've experienced normal stuff like a date to prom or having that sweet first kiss or having a boyfriend to show off to my very caring and non-asshole parents, then yeah. That would be awesome, but it's not reality," I explained, but he looked baffled at me. "What?"

"Uh... Nothing," He says, and then it clicked as my eyes widen after a moment and I groaned in frustration as I got off the ground. "What?" He says as I shook my head, feeling my face to my neck go red as I covered my face.

"I can't believe I said that," I said, almost wanting to cry at how embarrassed I feel. "You weren't supposed to know!"

"Woah, hey, it's okay," He says, grabbing my hands and gently pulling them away from my burning face. "Are you okay?" He asked, smiling down at me as I sigh and notice he's still holding my hands.

"Um... Not really. I literally just said..." I paused as I squeezed my eyes shut.

"That you haven't been kissed?" He asks and I nod my head, keeping my eyes close. "It's okay. It's nothing to be ashamed about," He says, causing me to open my eyes as he continues with an encouraging smile. "Everyone has to start somewhere. Even if they're sixteen or twenty-two."

I smiled and giggled in glee as I pull him into a hug suddenly. He freezes for a moment before he sighs and hugs me back, making me feel like I'm on cloud-nine. I sigh in relief and happiness as I hang onto him. "Thanks for making me feel normal," I said, smiling into his chest before I pull away and he nods his head.

"You're welcome," He says, causing my smile to become bigger. Then, I realize he's still holding me and I look into his eyes, getting lost in thought for a moment. I wonder if I'm ready to be kissed? I mean, I'm old enough to have slept with someone. Why not? Plus, Aidan is... so kind and handsome. Funny. Charming. And he's very expressive with the way he talks. He's smart and a gentleman. "What?" He whispers, eyes flickering to my lips for a moment as I rest my hands on his chest.

"Can you..." I paused, feeling nervous about this. He looks into my eyes before glancing at my lips. He licks his own lips as I watch and swallow the lump in my throat.

"Can I, what?" He said, his eyebrow arching as he talked quietly.

"Kiss me?" I said, also speaking quietly as I looked up from his lips to his dark brown eyes. He smiled and nodded his eyes, his right hand coming up to brush a piece of hair out of my face.

"Close your eyes," He whispered, making me release a shaky breath as I do as I was told and he cups my cheek with his right hand as he pulls me by the other hand closer to him. I jump a little once I felt his soft, burning, lips on my lips. But I kiss him back almost instantly as I felt a fire run through me. I turn my head a little as we kept kissing before I remember watching this from a movie scene. I run my hands up from his chest to his shoulders before I grabbed his neck softly as I moved my lips with his, while my other hand ran through his messy hair. Then, he licks my lips and I just open my mouth and let him in. I tried to copy his moves as best as possible as he grips my waist tighter and he let's out a groan as I lick his tongue. Eventually, we pulled away with him resting his forehead on mine.

I never felt this... powerful before. I feel like I'm higher then cloud-nine. That was so... exhilarating. I've never felt so alive from one touch before, although that was my first kiss. I just... wow.

"Are you sure you've never been kissed before?" He teases and I let out a laugh as he does the same.