She’s stunned by his intense anger and often witnesses it in the days thereafter. Just in time, Edward appears and saves her. When she gets separated from her friends, a group of four men surround her in a dark alley. Bella travels to a larger city with two girls from school to help them shop for prom dresses. Back home on the Internet, Bella further investigates Jacob’s claims and discovers Edward’s chilling secret: He and his family are vampires.īella knows she should be more fearful, but Edward’s increasing attention, protective nature and passionate gazes have left her entranced. Jacob explains that the ancestors of his tribe have a territorial agreement with the Cullens, as the Cullens and other “cold ones” are their mortal enemies. Jacob Black, a few years younger than Bella, is eager to impress and reveals classified information about the Cullens when Bella prods him.

On a day trip with other school friends, Bella runs into an old acquaintance who lives on the Indian reservation. Through their cryptic banter in class, Bella becomes more and more attracted to the pale, gorgeous boy whose eyes “smolder” and drive her wild.

He does, however, begin to act more friendly toward her at school. He’s reticent when she asks how he got to her so fast and had the strength to save her. She’s perplexed by the deep hand indentions he’s left in the vehicle. Edward, whom Bella had seen standing far away, is suddenly at her side and saves her life by holding back the other car. When icy weather hits, Bella’s truck and another student’s car collide in the school parking lot. She wonders what could make him hate her so much. She later sees him in the office trying to change his schedule to avoid her. He sits far away from her and casts searing glances in her direction. She’s taken aback by his hostile behavior toward her. Bella later shares a lab table with the fifth member of the group, named Edward.

Two sets of them (Alice and Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie) are couples, but they’re all in the same family, adopted by the town’s young doctor. While sitting with them in the cafeteria, she spots a group of five strange and incredibly beautiful people and learns that they are the Cullens. Bella enrolls in the high school and makes some new acquaintances. He lives as a resigned bachelor in the same house he owned during his brief marriage to Bella’s mom. Her father, Charlie, is the small town’s police chief. When 17-year-old Bella Swan moves to her dad’s home in perpetually-cloudy Forks, Wash., she has little hope of enjoying her new life.

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