So when last we left Bella she was full of teenage angst and Edward had just said he would (oh joy!) drive her to Seattle so she would not have to deal with the school dance.
Chapter 5
So Bella is now talking to Edward… he’s even sitting with her at lunch (gasp!) The big event for this chapter we find out that Bella faints at the sight of blood. Mike (one of the boys who has a crush on Bella) escorts her to the nurse after she faints in biology class (a class the Edwards skips this day… hmmm.) Edward intercepts them and convinces the nurse that she should go directly home. The knight in a shining Volvo! They talk and Bella tell him one of her theories dealing with radioactivity and a spider bite. Remember radioactivity + accident = superpowers.
Chapter 6
Bella goes to the beach with all the other kids and meets Jacob Black from the reservation- She learns that the Cullens are not not allowed to step foot on the reservation since they are the “cold ones” and the reservation is for the people of the wolf. So finally Bella starts putting things together. Lots of teenage issues with who sits next to whom and that kind of stuff.
Chapter 7
Bella gets home and complains (which seems to be all she ever does) about the dial up Internet speed. She does find a site dealing with vampires (remember folks if it is on the Internet it must be true) and starts researching. At school she finally explains to Mike that Jessica likes him so he should bug off – See boys at this age tend to not see the forest for the trees. They get fixed on one girl and ignore that the one next to them is nice and doesn’t complain (all the time), and likes them so they can fawn over the one that is too self-abosorbed and fawning over someone else (named Edward). Bella gets invited by Jessica to go shopping for dresses for the dance (even though she isn’t going) and she decides, since Edward has vanished again, to join them.
Chapter 8
The girls all head into Port Angeles to go shopping and have dinner. Bella decides to head off on her own to a book store and almost gets assaulted by a group of guys who do not have the noblest intentions. Edward comes flying out of the darkness in his silver Volvo to save her. They go out to dinner and he drives her back home.
Chapter 9
Finally the big reveal… Edward admits that he’s not from Krypton and that his great great grandfather was Vlad the Impaler. Not really- Bella and Edward talk and he admits he’s a vampire and discounts some of the mythology of vampires. Edward also goes into how he can read others thoughts but not hers. He also explains why Bella should stay away and shouldn’t go out into the forest alone- there are dangers in the forest. So after 195 pages of build up the stage is set with only 2/3 of the book to go.
Sometime during this section Bella decides that it doesn’t matter who or what Edward is that she is madly in love with him and all that matters is that they are together. (Oh no this could be a bad thing)