MADCAP Monday: Bella Swan's Dating Guide

Hey folks,

It's Alluring A and for my first MADCAP Monday I chose "Bella Swan's Dating Guide" by Pears 13. Even though this story isn't purely a comedy, it does have some hilarious aspects. Most girls, and guys even, have standards when it comes to who they will and will not date. But in this story, Bella takes it to a whole new level.

When she meets Edward she is already knee deep in her dating guide. Each chapter gives you a rule and usually an example of how it is broken or why it was created. Edward soon finds out about her rules, and ends up breaking most of them. Sometimes even on purpose. The story is all about Bella breaking her own rules and finding the perfect guy for her, outside of the guide she's made for her dating live.

"Ooh, Bella," Jessica said from my left, "green hat, eleven o'clock."

On instinct, I lifted my eyes a little to the left and noticed a good looking man in a Mariners hat looking right at me. He winked when I made eye contact and I turned to look at Jess. "Eight," I said with a shrug.

"Really? How can you tell?" Jessica looked up at him and scrunched her eyes together—to focus, I assumed.

"Right behind him is that guy you dated for a few weeks . . . what's his name again? Elton or something?"

"Alvin."

"Who's this?" Alice asked, leaning over the table. "Which one?"

"Green hat," Jessica said. "He was making eyes at Bella, but she said number eight."

Alice turned her head to find the guy we were talking about. "Oh yeah, definitely eight. The Chipmunk guy is right behind him, they're practically the same height. Right Rose?"

"Huh?" Rose asked, her head jerking up to look at us.

I glanced over to Edward as Jessica and Alice explained to Rose who we were all looking at and he was glaring at me. His green eyes were warm again, but they seemed a bit confused as the piece of flesh between his brows was puckered up. I took some time to take in the rest of his features, gulping as I followed the contours of his cheeks with my eyes, down to his strong chin and alluring neck. I'd never before looked at a man's neck and almost melted as I was doing so now.

"Bella," Alice said, bringing me out of my appraisal of Edward. "He's talking to the waitress about you."

"What?" My head snapped up to look at him again and he was, in fact, talking to Sandy and motioning over to our table. "He could be talking about any one of us."

"We'll see," Rose said with a smirk.

"Will someone please tell me what's going on and what 'eight' means?" Emmett looked so frustrated over by Rose. He kept turning his head in the direction we looked, then back at us, shaking his head as if he didn't get it.

"Bella has a list of rules—" Rose said, but I interrupted.

"Guidelines, Rose, not rules."

"Guidelines, rules, whatever—" She waved her hand in my direction to shut me up. "Either way, she has these rules that the guys she dates must meet."

"What kind of rules?" Edward asked with one eyebrow cocked.

Alice laughed. "Anything you could possibly think of. She won't date men over 6-3 or under 5-11—that's rule number eight, which is why she would never date the man in the green hat."

"Really? He doesn't look very tall," Emmett said, staring at the man.

"Exactly," I said. "He's definitely under 5-11"

That, my friends, is just a teaser of the awesomeness that is "Bella Swan's Dating Guide." This story had me laughing and wanting to create my own guidelines for dating. Pears give you the story in both Bella and Edward's POV. Though I personally love the Edward chapters more than Bella's the story is written so wonderfully you'll get to the end and want more.

Her Edward has a knack for making up nicknames, just like me. He calls Bella Scarlett and Alice Half-Pint. He even calls one person Skittles. I keep my nicknames mainly for inanimate objects, but I really loved his thought process for his nicknames. Also once he finds out about Bella's rules, how he goes about trying to break her is just too funny. You will want to find a way to help him and destroy Bella's guide in the process. Yes she actually keeps it written down.

There are other things that happen along the way to push Bella and Edward together. Edward has a past that he's moved to Seattle from, Bella has been hiding from her own past and even has a secret or two up her sleeve. You will find their personalities quirky and explosive. Just don't start to following Bella's guidelines, cause I can't ensure that there will be an Edward Cullen to come break your rules.



Hope you enjoy it! And please leave Pear13 some major love. Till next week folks. Make sure to check in tomorrow for Tea-Time Tuesday with Mischievous M!