okay so we know that edward shuts down most of the traditional vampire lore convo bc the twilight universe vamps are built different,,,,, but (as far as i know) nobody mentions the arithmomania (compulsion to count)?????
like idk if anyone’s already talked abt this BUT what if one day a still human bella just,,,,, dropped her wallet and a bunch of loose change scattered everywhere???? what if she was out helping esme with (fake) groceries and was put in charge of carrying the bag of rice bc how could she possibly hurt herself with that but then she trips and the bag falls and rice goes everywhere???
suddenly all of the cullens (or at least the ones in the room/area) are crouched on the floor counting. she’s like “uh guys,,,,, what??? we can just sweep it up??” but they’re so entirely focused that they just,,, don’t answer her. so she just sits down and watches them because what the fuck.
eventually - and it takes a while because they take their time making sure they’re counting accurately and then come together to add up their little piles - there’s just this pile of rice in the middle of the floor and then they all just stand up and look at each other like it happened again and bella is just like,,,, chilling on the couch trying not to laugh hysterically because what the fuck was that.
and then they all go on their merry ways and edward takes bella joke and she’s like,,,, eddy??? what??? just??? happened??? and he’s like uhhhhhhhhhhh and just avoids the question because he’s embarrassed for whatever reason until one day bella’s so fed up that she just marches into carlisle’s office at the hospital, drops a bag of birdseed (small bag bc she doesn’t want to wait forever), waits for him to pick it up, and then makes him tell her what it’s all about.
she doesn’t let them live it down after that and finds it hilarious.
she just carries around a pouch of dried beans and whenever she’s pissed at edward she threatens to let them drop