It was Saturday morning at 10:00 am when Edward knocked on our door. I went to answer it and he smiled.

"Come on. I'm taking you out for the day" he smiled and guided me out the door towards his Volvo.

"Bye dad!" I called back towards him as I got into Edwards car. "So what are we doing today?" I asked.

"We are going on vacation." He said as he drove the familiar route to his house.

"We meaning…"

"All of us. You, me, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie."

"Seriously! That's great! Where are we going? For how long?" I was very excited at the news.

"Well, we were thinking, and we agreed to let you choose." Edward said, turning to me.

I tried to comprehend it as he parked and we got out of the car. The Cullen's were letting me choose where they would invest tons of money and go on vacation? That's just weird. Nice, but weird.

I tried to think of places that I wanted to go. If the Cullen's were willing to, I would like to go out of the country. Not Europe, they probably had been there plenty of times already. Asia? No… they would stand out too much there. In fact, they would stand out pretty much wherever they went. I know! Australia! I've always wanted to go there. Now I just had to get it approved by the rest of the Cullen's and we're good to go.

When Edward and I got inside, the entire Cullen clan was seated in the living room. Alice had already seen what my proposal was going to be and was bouncing up and down, excited. Edward turned to me.

"Australia?" he asked me. I just smiled and nodded.

Meanwhile, Alice was murmuring to herself about wardrobe choices for the trip. "…oh, and Rose, you and I will have to take Bella shopping for swim suits and stuff like that. Maybe we can have Esme help us or something…"

"Oh no," I said, suddenly thinking of something important. "I haven't cleared it with Charlie yet." Edward smiled at my sudden exclamation.

"Its fine, Bella. Carlisle already talked to him. He said it was fine."

Alice danced over and grabbed my arm. "C'mon Bella! We have to get packing! We're leaving in two days! I've already gotten some things laid out for you, and I just have to get your approval."

She dragged me upstairs and into her room and showed me the huge array of clothes that were laid out all around. There were clothes that I would never in a million years wear and then some so fancy that there would be no opportunity to wear them.

"Alice is there anything… um normal here?" She just smiled and shook her head at me.

"Have a little fun, Bella! We're going on vacation! Now let's see, try this one on, I wasn't exactly sure about how it would look."

She led me over to the bed and shoved an armful of clothes into my hands. Then she directed me into the bathroom and shut the door behind me. I looked through the clothes, trying to find one that was casual.

All of the clothes had designer labels on them. I shook my head. I tried all the clothes on and found that they fit perfectly. Surprise, surprise. I didn't get the point of trying them on if Alice already knew how they would fit.

I slept over with Alice so that we could leave right away in the morning. We all got into a rented limo from the airport and were on our way. Alice made sure that it was a cloudy day so that they would have no trouble. The flight to Australia was uneventful and long, nearly 24 hours straight. I fell asleep for a few hours on and off, and my dreams were normal, something odd for me.

I woke up to Edward gently shaking my shoulder saying "Bella, love, its time to get up. We're here." We gathered our bags and got off the plane into semi- sunlight, with plenty of shade all around. Carlisle got a rental car and we were off.

He had rented a large house on a private stretch of beach. It was beautiful here. The sand was a soft beige powder and the ocean was a beautiful sparkling blue. I couldn't wait to go swimming.

Apparently Alice couldn't either. "Bella!" she called from the house. "Get changed and we can go swimming!"

"okay!" I said back. I raced inside and put on one of the bathing suits that Alice had packed for me. It was a lot skimpier than something I would wear normally, but still, I had agreed to wear it. It was a deep blue two piece, with white trim. I met Alice and Rosalie outside and we ran into the surf, laughing and splashing each other. Alice and Rose looked perfect and I felt a flash of annoyance at them, but it was quickly gone. Edward, Jasper, and Emmett jumped into the waves with us, with Carlisle and Esme sitting comfortably on the sand.

We just swam around and played in the water for a while when suddenly, Edward stopped, cocking his head out to the ocean. His brow furrowed for a moment and then he turned back, looking confused.

"What is it Edward?" I asked him. He shook his head.

"I thought I just heard someone thinking…" he trailed off.

"Wow Eddy heard someone thinking, big surprise" said Emmett laughing.

Edward shook his head again. I was almost starting to worry about him. "I thought I heard someone thinking out there" he said, gesturing out to the ocean. "It only was there for a second, and then I couldn't hear it anymore."

"Well do you think anyone's out there? No human could swim that far out. Maybe they have a boat or something?" said Rose.

"I don't think so. No one decided to boat out today" said Alice.

"Maybe Eddy's finally snapped his cap." Emmett suggested, grinning. Everyone shrugged it off and we went back to playing in the water. But I couldn't stop thinking about the mysterious human mind out in the ocean.