The Vampire List

Chapter 1: The List

"Uh dad, what are you doing?" I asked timidly when I saw the mess in the kitchen.

"What, I can't make dinner in my own house?"

"The last time you did that, you wanted to discuss my punishment, remember?"

"Bella, what's your point?"

I sighed. As usual, Charlie didn't get it. I guess I should have expected something like this; ever since Edward and I announced that we are getting married (and ever since he found out that Renee wasn't going to be mad for my premature act of matrimony), he'd been acting abnormal.

I watched as Charlie set two bowls of pasta on the table. As I sat down I realized that the last time I ate pasta at home was the last time Charlie had cooked. I picked at my food as we ate in silence.

"Bella," Charlie said, breaking the stillness. I looked up. "Are you sure you want this?"

"What are you talking about?"

"This life, I know you like him but you don't have to marry straight out of high school. You should give it some time Bells, you know, go to college, live your life a little before marriage. I know you love him Bella, but can't you give it a little time?"

"Now you're starting to sound like mom. I know what I want, and I want Edward. I would never not want him, I would love him forever. I winced at that last statement; I truly could be with Edward forever. If only Charlie knew…

"Bella…I guess I can't change your mind but…just… just think about it, please?"

I nodded. It was useless trying to convince Charlie. I looked back down picking uselessly at my food. There was no point in eating; Alice was going to pick me up in minutes, for another "sleepover," supposedly Edward didn't want me to be lonely as everyone except Alice and Rosalie went "camping." In reality, all the Cullen's were at home. Edward had devised a plan to get me away from Charlie while he was adjusting to the fact that Edward and I were getting married and I wasn't going to be home as much, or at all.

Someone knocked on the door. I got up and greeted Alice and Rosalie. "Hey Bella! Are you ready?" Alice was her usually beaming self, and Rose seemed more pleased to see me than usual.

I nodded, "Just let me get my stuff." I ran upstairs in to my room, grabbed my stuff, and ran back down stairs. "Bye dad," I called.

"Have fun."

I closed the door and within fifteen minutes— thanks to Alice's crazy driving—we arrived at the Cullen's mansion.

"Hello," Edward welcomed me.

"Hi. So, uh what are we going to be doing today?" I asked breathlessly.

He smiled my favorite crooked grin. "Well, since you're so eager for eternal damnation, I thought that you should enjoy the rest of your human life. In short, we're going to make a list of all the human experiences that you are going to accomplish before I change you."

"You know what I want," I whispered seductively.

"Bella, you're going to get it, before I change you I might add; besides I gave you the chance to get what you want, without getting married."

I pouted "Fine."

He laughed "Bella, Bella, Bella, you're going to thank me for this." With his incredible vampire speed, he scooped me up and we ran to his room. Once through the door, I was dropped on the bed and before I could I blink Edward ran out of the room and returned with a pen and a pad of paper. At the top of the paper was written "The Vampire List" in Edward's elegant calligraphy.

"Edward, what is this?" I asked.

"Our activity for the day, like I said, we're going to make your human life as memorable as possible. So we're going to create a list of things to do before I change you."

"Or I could go to Carlisle right now and ask him to change me."

"Bella, I thought that we had finished having this argument. I gave you the chance to have everything you want, without my demands and requests but, you said that you'd rather do it my way. I'm just trying to make your human life as memorable as possible, most of us don't know much about our human life, and those that do…well, I want to make your memories ones that you will enjoy."

"I will enjoy my last memories, they involve you."

"Bella," he groaned. "Please just cooperate with me."

"Alright, so what do I want to do most? How about cliff diving at La Push? That was a lot of fun."

"Bella…"

"Fine, I want to find Jacob in Canada and make sure that he's ok with our wedding."

Edward sighed and I didn't need his mind reading abilities to know why. He had asked me if it was alright if he included a note in our wedding invitation to the Black's, now he blamed himself for Jacob's disappearance and my sadness. "Edward…please don't blame yourself… you couldn't have predicted what was going to happen, Jacob was jealous that I chose you, I think that it was most likely going to be him that had his heart broken by me. He knew that I love you more than anything, but he was the first to realize that I loved him too, but I love you more, I couldn't live without you."

"What if he was right? I did leave you, and you were never in love before me right? So if I never lived in Forks, then would you have lived the rest of your life here? Well if you did you'd be safer, no vampires hunting you. The events in Phoenix, Italy, Victoria hunting you, they never would have happened and I—"

"You'd still be lonely, and I probably would be dead by now because I'm a danger magnet and no one would be here to save me," I interrupted.

He didn't contradict me. A painful silence followed my words, after a while I finally whispered, "Baseball." Edward looked up puzzled. "I want to watch you guys play baseball again, and this time I'd rather not be escorted out with any sense of urgency because there's a vampire that wants to eat me."

That made him smile, "Well you're going to have to wait for a thunder storm for that to happen."

"I can wait; we still have a few weeks until the wedding. Let's see what else can we do?

"'We'?"

I nodded, "We're doing everything together. I know an obvious one, get married." I could almost sense him rolling his eyes.

"Really Bella?" Edward rolled his eyes.

"It's true I want to marry you before you change me, you know what goes with marriage don't you?" I giggled.

"Your demands," Edward said, I nodded.

He added it to the list, in his perfect handwriting. "Hmm, what else can I make you do? Ah I know, what about car shopping?"

"What? Isn't my truck good enough?"

He shook his head, "Alice foresaw it breaking down, so you will need another one, and I think that I know just the perfect car."

"As long as it doesn't cost too much and it's the crappiest car that we find," I added.

"I don't think so, what next?" he said nonchalantly, rolling his eyes again

"Well I guess that I should look for a wedding ring for you, seeing as Alice wants you to get me the one with the biggest diamonds."

"Bella," he groaned, "I got it covered, don't worry about it."

"Well I want you ring to be perfect because I know mine will. Alice said that we could go shopping for one this week and knowing her we're going to max out her credit card." I giggled.

"You're going shopping with Alice? How'd she convince you to do that?"

"It's a long story and I'm sure that Jasper or Emmett will be willing to tell you."

"Bella…"

I sighed. "Jasper and Emmett made a bet wondering if how long I could shop with Alice and I want to prove them wrong, especially Emmett."

"How long?"

"Emmett bet that I couldn't last an hour, Jasper bet a little higher, but not much. So I told them if I could last the whole day then they each owe me two hundred bucks."

"And if you can't?"

"They just want to see if I truly am a girl, because they said something about how real girls go shopping and real guys hate it. And they said something about you being gay…"

"WHAT! EMMETT, JASPER! I'M NOT GAY! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!" He left the room raging a storm of anger.

"Nice Bella," Jasper said walking into the room, Emmett behind him.

They each handed me a wad of money. "Edward is going to kill you guys, but get used to giving me money, I'm going to be spending the whole day shopping with Alice soon and you're going to regret betting against me."

"Oooh gutsy, well Bella maybe we should be scared, but it doesn't mean we are," Emmett whispered threatening.

"Oh crap Edwards coming." They ran off, I stuffed the wad of money in my pocket, and arranged my face in an innocent expression. Edward walked into our room a second later, visibly upset.

"There going to get it," he growled.

"I thought of something else."

"What?"

"For the list. I want to punch Lauren."

"Oh is that all? Maybe Jasper will win the bet like Rose predicted," he murmured the last sentence but I could still hear his words.

"Are you betting against me too?"

"Of course not Bella love."

"Right, well I want to punch Lauren for being such a brat and convince Emmett to read a classic book."

"Why?"

"Because Lauren is a brat, and Emmett needs to expand his horizons so he should read a book."

"Umm, ok." He added it to the list.

I started to giggle uncontrollably. Edward gave me a funny look which only made me giggle even more. "What?" he asked.

Between giggles I managed to say, "I want all of us to watch all of the Disney movies ever made, then we need to watch the sappiest chick flick that is in existence." I kept on giggling while Edward was staring at me like I was an idiot. "Aw come on, please." I purposely put extra emphasis on the last word, toying with the only weakness of Edward's I knew.

"Fine," he growled, "but you're going to have a heck of a time convincing Emmett and Jasper to this."

This brought on another fit of giggles. When I'd finished I said, "That shouldn't be a problem. I'll be right back" He raised his eyebrows as I sent one last look at my love before exiting the room.

Once outside, I half-ran, half-walked to Alice's bathroom. I must have looked anxious when I burst through the door because Alice looked shocked when she saw me. Rosalie on the other hand kept a cool head. "Bella, where's the fire?" she asked.

"I need a favor," I panted. Before they could respond I continued, "You guys could make Jasper and Emmett do anything right?" They nodded. "Good, could you convince them to watch some movies with Edward and me?"

Alice started to answer, but before she could, her eyes became distant; the sign she was having a vision. "Bella that's brilliant!" she cried hugging me tightly.

"And that is?" asked Rosalie, rather confused.

Alice and Rosalie talked in hushed tones, fast enough to only be heard as a buzzing murmur. "Bella you are brilliant!" giggled Rosalie.

I grinned, "Thank you! You guys are the best!"

I uncharacteristically skipped out the door and back into Edward's room, my happy-go-lucky grin still plastered on my face.

"Something wrong Bella?" he asked.

My grin became more pronounced when I said, "Nope, everything is fantastic."

Just then someone knocked loudly on the door, followed by Emmett throwing the door open so hard and fast that it came back and hit him in the face. "Ow, hey Edward, Bella, what's up? How's life? Ow that really hurt."

I snorted, "Emmett, you're strong enough to be a jack when Rosalie's working on your jeep. Any high school football coach would probably put you on varsity just by looking at you, you can—"

"Your point Bella?" interjected Edward.

"Sorry. So you can do all that and a door rebounding off the wall and hitting you in the face hurt? You are a vampire right?"

Edward started to laugh hysterically, which made me grin again. "Awwww come on Edward, that's not nice," Emmett pouted.

"Emmett, you should leave the puppy dog face to when you're alone with Rose," I giggled.

"Fine, and yes Bella, a door hitting me in the face does hurt, ok not so much, but whatever, you never answered my question."

"We're trying to make Bella's human life as memorable as possible by making a list of things to do before our wedding."

"I know! Hey Bella, we should dump random things on Jasper's head when he's not paying attention. Or, or, or we could stay up all night, or we could take a joy ride in Rose's car. That'd be sooooo cool, or we could go surfing, or, skydiving or, or, or—"

"Emmett..." said Edward warningly.

"I think that those are excellent ideas!" I squealed.

"I don't think so," Edward objected.

"Why? What's life without a little danger?" I asked, batting my eyelids in another pathetic attempt to seduce my vampire fiancée.

This time it was his time to snort, "Bella, love, you said it a few minutes ago, you're a danger magnet. Looking for danger would be a very bad thing for you."

"Humph. Well, I want a second opinion."

"Hey I have another idea, we should get everybody else in on this plan!" With that, Emmett left the room at top speed.

"Emmett wait, hold on!" Edward yelled in a failed attempt to stop his brother.

"I uh think we should go downstairs," I timidly suggested a few moments later.

Edward nodded and we both got off the bed. As we walked through the door, he caught my hand and placed a kiss on the back, making me grin. "Love you," he whispered in my ear.

"Love you more."

"I doubt that."

We made our way downstairs and into the dining room that held little use, but currently had all but one of the Cullen's. "Edward would you like to explain to us what Emmett is yelling about?" asked Carlisle in his usual calm voice.

We sat down in the two remaining chairs before Edward spoke. "Well, as I'm sure that you all know, but our wedding is in a few months. And I'm also sure you know what happens after to Bella when we are married." He sighed, but continued. "I want the rest of her human life as long as possible, so I devised a plan in an attempt to make those memories as unforgettable as possible."

"And I barged in on them and decided that we should all help," Emmett declared proudly.

"So what's on the list?" Esme asked.

Before Edward or I could say anything Emmett interrupted, "That doesn't matter, but I think we should all write down what we all think that Bella should do, and any of us can be included."

I was shocked; Emmett just had a very good idea. "I love it," I said as soon as I found my voice.

He grinned, "Here." We were all handed a piece of paper and a pen.

I looked up all the Cullen's were absorbed in their thoughts. A few minutes later I was too.

A/N: So yeah, I love this fic. I have to give credit to my friends before I forget. Thanks to all my friends that have helped out with this!! You guys gave me some great ideas, You rock!!

Secondly, I got this idea while listening to John Mayer's song "Say" which is in "The Bucket List" So that's where the idea came from, same idea, different circumstances (is that spelled right? I'm too lazy to check...). So yeah, dun't sue me!!

So now that's out of the way let me know what you think! I'm dying to know, should I go on?? Should I quit because my writing stinks? The only way you can let me know is to REVIEW!! And if anyone wants to have something put on to Bella's vampire list let me know.