Jumping on the bus that was going down town was always an interesting thing. It was almost always the same driver, and when it wasn’t the person driving ignored me. But when the regular driver was the one driving the bus he always started talking to me. I actually welcomed this normality that I didn’t have in my otherwise supernatural life. We never talked about me, on the few occasions that that had happened I had quickly turned the subject away from me. The driver, also called Sam, was a happy man in his fifties. He was always happy and cheerful and everyone who bothered to pull out their headphones became his friend. So when I stepped on the bus this morning I was greeted by a kind smile.

“Well if it isn’t little Georgie! It’s been a long time kiddo.” I laughed along with him and paid for my trip.

“I know! I haven’t been able to go down town in a long time. But the last time I did you were sick!” I pointed at him accusingly and he laughed as he started to drive towards the next stop.

“Nah, it was just the old ticker again.” He shrugged and I frowned a little. “Nothing to worry about.” I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose as I stared at him.

“We’ve talked about this Sam. You need to take this more seriously, or we won’t have you as our bus driver for that much longer.” He waved me off and stopped the bus. I stepped out of the way so that the people getting onto the bus could walk to the back.

“My heart is fine, Gigi. It’s just acting up, just like this bloody bus.” He scoffed as the bus jumped into gear. I laughed at him and shook my head at his stubbornness.

“What have told you about calling me Gigi? It’s a toddlers name.” I snorted and leaned against the pole I was holding on to. He simply smiled at my statement and stopped the bus once more.

“Aren’t you getting off?” He looked at me with a smile on his old lips and I realized we were at my station. I quickly kissed his cheek and bounded for the door. “Say hello to Craig for me!” I jumped outside the bus and waved back at him while shouting to him that I would. Even though we never talked about me he knew about Craig. He had seen him and I together a few times and being the curious old man he was he just had to ask, over and over again until I told him. Leaving Sam and the thoughts about him behind I started walking towards the usual place where Craig and I usually met up. When I got to it he was standing outside waiting for me. A big smile was plastered on my face as soon as I saw him and I picked up my speed to get to him faster.

“Hello love.” He swooped me up in a hug and lifted me off the ground. I giggled with happiness and as he sat me down his brown eyes met my own. “I’ve missed you.”

“I’ve missed you too.” I sighed and leaned forward to connect our lips. I wanted so badly to feel a spark when I kissed him but I had never felt anything. It was always a normal kiss to me but to him it was always more.

“You wanna go in? That guy Markus just can’t wait to see you.” He spoke with a dry tone and when he put his arm around my shoulder all I could do was laugh and punch him in his stomach. He feigned being hurt but I felt a little triumph.

“You can’t be jealous of him! He’s gay Craig. Gay.” I pecked his cheek softly before freeing myself from underneath his arm and sitting down at the table we always sit at.

“Really? But he seems so straight.” He looked dumbfounded and I laughed at him again.

“Really, he told be the last time we were here. You were in the loo and he wanted to tell me you had a nice bottom.” His mouth fell open and just like clockwork, Markus appeared at our table.

“Hello! Long time no see, how is everything going with my favorite couple?” Now that Craig knew about Markus situation he couldn’t help but notice that he was staring at him.

“We are good Markus, thank you for asking!” I looked at Craig who was busy looking at the menu. “We are actually celebrating, or something. I’ve been out of town for a while and this is the first time in a month we’ve seen each other.” I reached my hand over the table and Craig reached his forward to mine.

“Isn’t that sweet.” He smiled sweetly to the two of us and sighed happily. “Well, could I get you guys something to drink while you decide?” I nodded and looked at Craig who usually ordered the drinks.

“We’ll have two glasses of white wine.” Markus nodded and scribbled it down in his little notepad.

“I’ll be right back with those.” As he walked away Craig blushed and sunk down in his chair.

“Isn’t all that fun having someone you don’t want crushing on you, huh?” I laughed as I looked over the menu once again, even though I knew what I wanted.

“Not when there’s no chance in hell that anything will happen.” He looked up at me with a small smirk. “In other cases then I might not be so bad.” He shrugged as he winked and sat up straight in his chair as Markus set the glasses down on the table.

“Have you decided on what to get?” I nodded and looked at Craig to see if he had decided.

“Yeah, I’ll have the chicken with parmesan, and she’ll have steak and potatoes.” I smiled fondly as Markus wrote down our order and ran off.

“What if I wanted to chance my order today?” Craig snorted and looked at me with mocking eyes.

“You never do, and if you do then you mention that you’re feeling adventurous to me like five thousand times.” I waved his words off and looked out the big window. I was trying not think about Niall and Simon and that whole ordeal, but they were in the front of my mind all the time.

“I’m sorry for being gone so much lately.” I looked back at my boyfriend who no one knew about and he was smiling.

“I kind of understand.” He shrugged and took a sip of his wine. “I mean, I don’t know why you’re gone all the time and it bothers me a little, but I trust you.” He shrugged once more. Craig was a lot of things, but most of all he was kind hearted.

I met him two years ago when I was out dancing. I wasn’t looking for anything but when I met Craig he was so normal. Well, he was normal compared to the things I live with. He was kind, quirky and smart. I knew back then that it was a stupid thing to get involved with anyone, and I still think so. But the thing with Craig was I only had a crush on him. Even now, two years later, I couldn’t tell him I loved him. And he was fine with that. When I met him I told him my real name, well first name. I made up a last name. He doesn’t know who my father figure is, he doesn’t know about any of that. I told him I work at a traveling agency and that is kind of the reason why I’m gone so much. He has never been to my house, we always went to his place. I couldn’t risk Simon finding out about him. I even got a second cellphone so that I could call him. All of this trouble just because I wanted to feel a little normal.

“What are you thinking about?” His words woke me up from my thoughts and I smiled towards him.

“Just about how we met and how long it’s been since.” Just as the words left my mouth I glanced out the big window and regretted it instantly. Right outside stood Simon and two bodyguards. Instead of panicking as I thought I would I simply sighed and looked at Craig.

“Yeah, it’s quite a funny story. Isn’t it?” I nodded my head and looked over at Simon. I saw him pick up his phone and put it to his ear, and then my phone rang. I looked back at Craig and smiled sweetly.

“I’m so sorry, it could be work.” He nodded and I answered the phone quickly. “Hello.” I tried to keep my eyes away from the window as I spoke.

“Nicola.”

“Yes, this is she.” I looked up at Craig and smiled as I waited for Simon’s harsh words. He paused, I imagined he was watching us. Finally he sighed and then spoke.

“I’m giving you thirty minutes.” I nodded my head to make him see I understood.

“That will be my honor! How about I call you right when I get back to the office?”

“You have thirty minutes to break up with him Nick.” I sucked in a sharp breath and tried to keep the smile on my face.

“Splendid! I look forward to working with you.” I said my good bye and hung up the phone. I wasn’t prepared to face Simon like this, but I wasn’t completely surprised. I knew that someday he would wonder where I disappear to and today must’ve been that day.

“A client?” Craig smiled sweetly and nodded towards the phone I was still holding.

“Uhm, yeah. I didn’t quite catch what he wanted but it was something about a future traveling resort.” I shrugged and thanked the lords when our food arrived. We spent about twenty minutes talking about everything and nothing as we ate. He had a way to always make me relaxed, even though I was stressed up as hell. As Craig paid the bill I started to think about how I was going to do this. I must’ve gotten lost in my thoughts again because all of a sudden a chocolate cake was placed in front of me. I looked up at Craig with a surprised smile.

“I know we said we were going to have dessert at my place, but you looked like you needed this.” I felt a little string in my heart pull but I quickly had to remind myself that I couldn’t start to feel for him now.

“About later on.” I was looking at the cake in front of me but lifted my gaze to meet his. “Craig, I said I was thinking about our past because I’ve been thinking about our future.” He smiled weakly, not sure where I was going with this.

“Our past has been good.” I nodded, because I really did agree. I’ve had some amazing days with him. It was such a shame he had to stay out of my real life.

“But the future won’t be good for us, Craig. I can’t do this anymore.” I looked at the cake again and took a deep breath. “I can’t do us anymore.” He made a choking noise and when I looked up at him he was looking at me with a shocked expression.

“What?” The word was only a whisper but I could hear the hurt in it. “Why? Why would you say that?” He shook his head and waited for my answer. The only problem was that I didn’t have an answer.

“I’m so sorry Craig. I can’t even explain how sorry I am.” I felt a single tear slide down my cheek but I quickly wiped it away. “I don’t have a good enough answer. Nothing I can say will make you feel any better.” Feeling horrible as it was, I stood up and grabbed my things. I couldn’t stay here, watching an amazing guy cry because of me. “Maybe in a different dimension.” With those last words I walked outside and straight into the car where Simon was waiting.

“Nick-…” Before he could speak I put my hand up and stopped him.

”I need you to shut the fuck up for the rest of the ride.” Without another word the car started to move and I looked back at the restaurant. I was a little heartbroken but I would get over it rather quickly. What hurt the most is that I knew I hurt him, because he had done nothing wrong. As soon as the car stopped I noticed we were at Simon’s house so I got out and we walked into the house together. He sat down on a couch in the living room and I stared out the big window.

“Nicola we need to discuss this.” I ignored his words and spoke those who truly confused me.

“How did you find me?” When he was quiet for a long time I glanced over my shoulder and he sighed.

“Niall.” I groaned out loud and remembered I had shown everything to him. To be fair to myself I hadn’t expected him to remember anything. “He kept on talking about it when we went to talk to him, and I hoped he was lying Nick. So when I went over to the exact restaurant he mentioned and saw you there.” He shook his head and sighed. “Nick, why would you lie to me like that?” I felt all of the old anger about this subject flare up and I spun around too looked at him.

“Because he was normal!” I started shouting at him, and looked at me with startled eyes. “He didn’t know who or what I was! I was just a girl and he was just a boy! Simon, sometimes I get so sick of this bullshit!” I took a deep breath to try to steady myself and spoke to him in a calmer tone. “He didn’t use because I was special, he didn’t even know.” I laughed and sat down on the couch opposite his. “He loved me, although I couldn’t love him back, he loved me.” I shook my head and looked at someone I almost called my father.

“I didn’t know you felt like that.” He raised his chin and I almost snorted at him.

“You don’t know because you’re not normal. You’re a vampire.” I was pointing at him and then turned the finger towards my own body. “I’m not. I’m human, I’m alive. I’m alive but I’m not living.” I shook my head and dropped my hand to my lap. “To be completely honest I don’t know what I want. But it felt nice to have someone who was normal and who didn’t know or care that I could crush them if I wanted to.” I shrugged and stood up. I felt Simon watch me and I walked over to the window again. Once again he stayed quiet for a long time before speaking.

“We suspect that Niall is starting to turn his emotions on again.” I slowly nodded my head and waited for him to continue. “Today when he told us about you and Craig,” I winced as he spoke his name. It was one thing that he found out I was seeing someone, but he also learned the name. “He was very persistent on the fact that I would punish you too much.” I glanced at Simon to see if he was only saying this to make me react.

“He could be lying.” Simon shook his head.

“We had Lynette there.” I nodded my head slowly but I felt beaten. Lynette was a vampire who could tell if someone was lying, and if she says Niall isn’t lying then that’s the truth.

“Do you think me hurting him snapped him back into humanity mode?” I turned my face to look directly out the window and heard Simon sigh.

“We are hoping on something like that. But at the moment we don’t know.” I thought about all of this and realized Simon wanted something to come out of this conversation.

“What is it you want Si?” I turned around to stare at him.

“Tomorrow we are going to monitor everything about him, heartbeat, thoughts, reactions, everything.” He stood up from his position on the couch and looked at me with a small smirk. “We are going to see how he reacts to seeing you, and then take it from there.” I nodded and Simon turned to walk away.

“What do you think might happen?” He stopped in his tracks and turned around with a very prominent smirk on his lips.

“Accelerated heartbeat, starting to sweat and so on.” I looked at him confused.

“You want him to have a heart attack?” He shook his head. As he turned around he spoke again.

“We’re hoping he shows us he’s in love with you Nick.”

Notes

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