Twilight

SECTION 1 Exile to the Rain A girl trades sunshine for her mother's happiness Seventeen-year-old Bella Swan 1 boards a plane from Phoenix carrying a parka and a lie — that she wants to live with her father in Forks, Washington, the rainiest town in America.

SECTION 1 Exile to the Rain A girl trades sunshine for her mother's happiness Seventeen-year-old Bella Swan 1 boards a plane from Phoenix carrying a parka and a lie — that she wants to live with her father in Forks, Washington, the rainiest town in America. The truth: her mother Renée 16 just married Phil, a minor-league baseball player who travels constantly, and Bella 1 exiled herself so Renée 16 could follow him without guilt. In Forks, her father Charlie 4 — the taciturn police chief — has already bought her a truck, a rusting red Chevy from Billy Black 15 on the nearby Quileute reservation. Charlie 4 can't cook. Bella 1 can barely tolerate rain. She enrolls at a high school with 358 students where everyone already knows her name, and walks into her new life certain of exactly one thing: she will hate it here. <div

SECTION 2 The Boy Who Recoils Five beautiful strangers, and one who can't bear her presence At lunch on her first day, Bella 1 spots five students who move like they belong on a different plane of existence — chalky pale, bruise-shadowed under the eyes, inhumanly beautiful. Jessica Stanley 12 identifies them: Edward 2 and Emmett Cullen, 11 Rosalie 9 and Jasper Hale, 8 and Alice Cullen, 3 all adopted by the local doctor. 5 In Biology, the only open seat places Bella 1 beside Edward. 2 The moment she sits, he goes rigid — leaning to the far edge of his chair, fist clenched white, coal-black eyes radiating revulsion. He flees the instant class ends. Bella 1 later overhears him in the office trying to transfer out of Biology. When the door opens and her scent reaches him again, he glares with undisguised hatred and leaves. He doesn't return to school for a week. <div

SECTION 3 The Parking Lot Miracle Edward stops a skidding van with his bare hands On an icy morning, Bella 1 stands behind her truck when Tyler Crowley's van skids across the lot, tires locked and squealing. Edward 2 was four cars away. Then he's beside her — his palm pressed flat against the spinning van, metal folding around his hand like foil. His other arm swings her legs clear a second before the van crunches into the spot where she stood. At the hospital, Bella 1 confronts him: she saw the dent his shoulders left in another car, saw…