DPOV

Waiting, that's all that I could do. E had brought me inside of my house where I waited with him to find out the fate of my dad. I couldn't believe that he was hanging on by a thread in a hospital and all Uncle Jacob had allowed me to do was sit here. He didn't want me to use all the strength that I had left worrying about my dad. In a way I guess it was a good thing that he was dying, not to sound like a didn't love my dad, but at least I wouldn't have to worry about him going off the deep end when I died. I don't want to die. I haven't had the chance to live my life to the fullest. There are still so many things that I wanted to do before I died. When I was fifteen I had made a list of things that I wanted to do before I died.

Ten things to do before I die.

10. I want to donate my money to charities.

9. I want to finish high school.

8. I want to go to a big city.

7. I want to get out of this country.

6. I want to meet my La Push family again.

5. I want to go to at least a week of college.

I knew that most of my wants were completely and totally never going to happen but I still wrote them down as something to strive for, just in case I did get the chance to live longer than about one more year at the most.

4 I want to make real friends who like me because of my personality not because they feel bad for me.

3. I want to have a family

2. I want to get married.

1. I want to fall in love.

If only half of my wants could actually come true. At least one of my wants had been fulfilled, I had got to see my La Push family again. One out of ten, at least that's better than nothing. And technically I had started falling in love but it was never going to work out, I am dying.

"Danni? Danni are you okay?" EJ asked.

"Not really but in a way yes. If that makes any sense at all," I smiled at him,

"It makes more sense to me than you know," he sighed.

"What's wrong E?" I asked.

"Well, I have something to ask you. I wanted to ask you this two days ago when we were talking in school but, I am kind of afraid to ask you," he sighed.

"Okay. What's up?" I asked.

"I was wondering if you would accompany me on a date?" he asked closing his eyes involuntarily waiting for my answer. Did EJ, the gorgeous guy who I had just met for the first time last week when he disappeared want to go on a date with me?

"I would love to. I just have one question," I smiled at him blushing when he looked in my eyes.

"Thank you. And what is you question?" he asked.

"I just need to know so don't take this offensively, I was wondering if you actually wanted to go out on a date with me or if this is some kind of pity date because you found out that I was dying?" I asked looking down careful not to look up in fear of what emotion his eyes may show.

He didn't say anything, instead he slowly moved his hand and arm, that wasn't casually slung around my shoulder, under my chin and lifted it ever so gently so that I was now looking him in the eyes, "I would never go out with you just because I felt sorry for you. If I didn't feel any feelings toward you than I wouldn't have asked. I will not give you any pity if that is what you want but I can not make promises for my family, mostly my mom and sister."

He laughed a musical sound that I had never heard before, it was almost like low bells or something similar, not like that of the La Push wolves or pack as they called themselves. I just called them my family.

"May I ask you a question?" he asked meeting my gaze.

"Sure," I smiled at him.

"I was just wondering what that paper was that you pulled out of your pocket earlier was?" he asked and I blushed. This was really embarrassing. Nobody knew about my list of thing I wanted to do before I died.

"It's okay if you don't want to talk about it, I was just wondering," he said trying to make me fell better.

"No. I want to tell you, it's just embarrassing, that's all," I sighed pulling the paper out once again, this time so that he could look at it.

"Really, it's okay. You don't have to show me. I don't want to make you uncomfortable," he smiled at me.

"No, I want to," I sighed again holding out the paper for him to take.

He read it over quickly and then quickly averted his eyes from the page and looked up at me. The emotion in his eyes was so hard to read. It was a cross of pain and sorrow, almost like he didn't know what to say to me.

"What is this?" he asked trying to control the emotion in his eyes.

"A list," I said confused.

"I know that," he chuckled, "What is it for though?"

"Oh," I smiled a blush prominent on my pale face, "It's a list of things I would like to do before this illness kills me. Most of them will never happen because I am only sixteen."

"That sucks," he sighed not sure what to say. I was about to say something when a phone that I was not familiar with started to ring.

"Hello?" EJ asked into the phone, "Uh-huh…Yeah she's right here…Do you want to talk to her?…Okay…Thanks Jake…Bye."

"For you," he smiled handing me his phone.

"Hello?" I asked into the phone hoping for good news.

"Danni?" he asked.

"Yeah," I answered.

"I'm sorry sweetie. Your dad didn't make it," he sighed his voice breaking toward the end.

"Uh-huh," was all I could manage to get out.

"Listen to me okay. I want you to pack a few of your things in a bag and go over to the Cullen's house for the night. I already talked to EJ and he said that it would be fine," Jake said his voice breaking in random places.

"Okay," I sighed trying to say more but not succeeding due to the fact that I was starting to break down in sobs.

"Please stay safe, for your Uncle. I love you kid. Bye," he said and I tried to smile due to the fact that he had told me to be safe, as if. I was a walking accident.

"Love you too, Uncle Jake. Bye," was all I managed to say before I fell down on my knees not realizing that I had gotten off the couch.

"Danni?" EJ asked warily, "Are you okay?"

I was about to say something but then I was overcome by darkness.

The first thing I felt when I awoke was something cold near me and people talking, although I couldn't make out what they were saying. I opened my eyes to see a room that I wasn't at all familiar with. EJ saw that I was awake a carefully moved so that he was sitting up next to me and was able to speak.

"Don't worry Danni, you're safe," he smiled.

"Thanks E," I smiled back at him automatically feeling much better than yesterday.

"Danni, Jake wanted you to call him when you feel like it today so they can figure out where you will be staying from now on," he sighed once again looking in my eyes, the emotions in his unreadable.

"Danielle?" someone called softly from the doorway of whoever's room I was in.

"Yes?" I answered turning toward the door to see all the Cullen and Swan women standing there.

"We were just wondering if we could talk to you?" Bella asked in a motherly voice.

"Sure," I smiled trying to get out of the bed.

"Oh no! You are staying right here. Jake's orders," EJ chuckled.

"Damn!" I muttered under my breath wishing that I had never told him that I was dying.

"You guys come in, I will go out," EJ smiled.

"That works," Madi smiled.

Once EJ left all of the women had come to sit by me on the bed. I was worried about what they wanted to talk about. What was the worse thing that they would want to talk about? Themselves? Oh, scary.

"Danni? We need to talk to you about something important to everyone in our family," the one that never came to school said.

"Before we talk can you please tell me your name?" I asked blushing at the embarrassment of not knowing them.

"Bella, she looks like a mini you," the pixie squealed three octaves higher than normal.

"Okay, Alice don't scare the poor girl. Hello. I'm Rosalie Hale, please call me Rose," Rosalie smiled at me. She was beautiful, she had blonde hair and the body that any girl would kill for.

"I'm Alice," the pixie smiled also, and then sticking her tongue out at Rose.

"You already know Bella and Madi, so I guess that leaves me. I'm Esme Cullen but you may or may not remember me from the hospital," she smiled a reassuring smiled.

"Thank you, and please call me Danni," I smiled embarrassed.

"Okay, we were just wondering how much you knew about us?" Rose asked.

"I'm sorry but I am not quite sure what you mean," I said trying to think of what I knew about them.

"Sorry about her, she's very straight forward," Alice joked, "We were just wondering what Jake has told you about us?"

"Oh," I sighed, "He didn't tell me anything about anyone but his son did tell me a old ancient legend and then told me all about werewolves."

"Okay then. He told you nothing about us," Esme sighed.

"Do you think…?" Alice started.

"Yeah. We should. She deserves to know," Bella smiled at me.

"Wait, Jason, Uncle Jake's son did give me this book. One second and I will get it," I sighed pulling my bag onto the bed.

"What book?" Esme asked.

"This book," I sighed dropping the book in front of them on the bed, "He told me a story about how his dad had been friends with a girl named Bella. He then went on to tell me that one night while she was out with her friends, Jacob met up with her and she used her own methods to get him to tell her an old story. After he told her the story she went home and then looked up a book about ancient Quileute legends. In the old story Jacob had told her he mentioned a name that she recognized, the Cullen's. That's about all that I know."

"Okay, so you know a lot about me," Bella chuckled.

"Not too much, just some," I smiled.

"Okay, well that book that I bought was when I first found out about the Cullen's," Bella sighed reliving memories, "I found out what they were, what they still are."

"We are vampires," Rosalie sighed not wanting to put it off any longer.

"Nice Rose. Very well thought out," Alice joked.

"Now Danni. We still have a few things that we want to talk about," Esme smiled at me.

"I am very sorry if I scared you, but I had a feeling that you already knew," Rosalie apologized.

"It's okay. And yeah I did kind of know already," I blushed again.

"Okay well you don't know anything about our family so I suppose that I should tell you about us," Esme smiled at me.

"Well, Carlisle was the first one to become a vampire, he's the doctor, then it was Edward and then it was Esme, then Rosalie and last was Jasper and Alice, but they found us, we didn't change them," Bella explained.

"Then we moved to Forks and Edward was the only single one. Well he went to school like any normal day only this one specific day he went and when he got home he decided that he needed to stay away from school for a while. We didn't understand but when we got home from school that day he explained that he had met a human girl whose blood was very hard for him to resist. Then he started to fall for this girl and we learned that her name was Bella," Alice explained smiling at Bella, "Well long story short, she was a danger magnet and she got chased into Phoenix by a crazy vampire. Then Edward dropped all his boundaries and the next day he left her for her "safety." Now sixteen years here we are all together again."

"So you are the same Bella that Jason has told me about?" I asked.

"Yeah," she smiled.

"One thing that the brain over here forgot was the EJ and Madison are Edward and Bella's kids. They just tell everyone that they are her siblings because no one knows that Bella's suppose to be like forty and Edward over one hundred," Rosalie explained.

"Now girls, we should probably tell her why this is important for her to know," Emse smiled.

"I will do it since I have experience in this part of life," Bella chuckled, "Now Danni, you know how my blood was very hard for Edward to resist, that's what your blood is like for EJ."

"Oh," I blushed.

"Don't worry. It's nothing to be embarrassed about," Bella smiled reassuring me.

"We just wanted to let you know that EJ really does care for you and the reason he asked you out isn't because he felt sorry for you, it's because he feels very strongly for you," Rosalie explained.

"Thanks for everything you guys," I smiled.

"Not a problem," they all smiled at me.

EJPOV

"Hey EJ is that the girl?" Emmett asked as soon as I had brought a passed out Danni home. God, this was going to be a really long night.

A/N I am so very sorry that this took so long. And I am sorry that the Cullen's told Danni what they are (for anyone who didn't like it) but she basically already knows so I just wanted to make sure that she was completely sure of what was going on. Now please review! I will update when I get at least five reviews.

Megan