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You’re impossibly fast and strong.

Your skin is pale white and ice-cold.

Your eyes change color.

And sometimes you speak.

like you’re from a different time.

You never eat or drink anything.

You don’t go out in the sunlight.

How old are you?

Seventeen.

How long have you been 17?

A while.

I know what you are.

Say it.

Out loud.

Say it.

Vampire.

Are you afraid?

No.

Then ask me the most basic question.

What do we eat?

You won’t hurt me.

Where are we going?

Up the Mountain.

Out of the cloud bank.

You need to see what I look like in the sunlight.

This is why we don’t show ourselves in sunlight.

People would know we’re different.

This is what I am.

It’s like diamonds.

You’re beautiful.

Beautiful?

This is the skin of a killer, Bella.

I’m a killer.

I don’t believe that.

That’s because you believe the lie.

It’s camouflage.

I’m the world’s most dangerous predator.

Everything about me invites you in, my voice, my face, even my smell.

As if I would need any of that.

As if you could outrun me.

As if you could fight me off.

I’m designed to kill.

I don’t care.

I’ve killed people before.

It does not matter.

I wanted to kill you.

I’ve never wanted a human’s blood so much in my life.

I trust you.

Don’t.

I’m here.

I trust you.

My family, we’re different from others of our kind.

We only hunt animals.

We’ve learned to control our thirst.

But it’s you, your scent, it’s like a drug to me.

You’re like my own personal brand of heroin.

Why did you hate me so much when we met?

I did.

Only for making me want you so badly.

I still don’t know if I can control myself.

I know you can.

I can’t read your mind.

You have to tell me what you’re thinking.

Now I’m afraid.

Good.

I’m not afraid of you.

I’m only afraid of losing you.

I feel like you’re gonna disappear.

You don’t know how long I’ve waited for you.

So the lion fell in love with the lamb.

What a stupid lamb.

What a sick, masochistic lion.

About three things I was absolutely positive.

First Edward was a vampire.

Second, there was a part of him, and I didn’t know how dominant that part might be, that thirsted for my blood.

And third.

I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

Monte Carlo?

That’s our prom theme?

Gambling, tuxedos, and Bond, James Bond.

Oh, my God.

Wow.

You know, everybody’s staring.

Not that guy.

No, he just looked.

I’m breaking all the rules now anyway.

Since I’m going to hell.

So, does a person have to be dying to become like you?

No, that’s just Carlisle.

He’d never do this to someone who had another choice.

So, how long have you been like this?

Since 1918.

That’s when Carlisle found me dying of Spanish influenza.

What was it like?

The venom was excruciating.

But what Carlisle did was much harder.

Not many of us have the restraint to do that.

But didn’t he just have to bite?

Not exactly.

When we taste human blood, a sort of frenzy begins, and it’s almost impossible to stop.

But Carlisle did.

First with me and then

with his wife, Esme.

So is Carlisle the real reason that you don’t kill people?

No, he’s not the only reason.

I don’t want to be a monster.

My family, we think of ourselves as vegetarians, right, ‘cause we only survive on the blood of animals.

But it’s.

It’s like a human only living on tofu.

It keeps you strong, but you’re never fully satisfied.

It wouldn’t be like drinking your blood, for instance.

Was it other vampires that killed Waylon?

Yeah.

There are others out there, and we run into them from time to time.

Can the rest of your family read people’s minds like you can?

No.

That’s just me.

But Alice can see the future.

I bet she saw me coming.

Alice’s visions are subjective.

I mean, the future can always change.

Could you act human?

I mean, I’ve got neighbors.

I’m gonna take you to my place tomorrow.

Thanks.

Wait, like, with your family?

Yeah.

What if they don’t like me?

So, you’re worried not because you’ll be in a house full of vampires, but because you think they won’t approve of you?

I’m glad I amuse you.

What is it?

Complication.

I’ll pick you up tomorrow.

Hey.

Come to visit your truck?

Looks good.

Got that dent out.

Yeah.

Actually, we came to visit your flat-screen.

First Mariners game of the season.

Plus Jacob here keeps bugging me about seeing you again.

Great, Dad.

Thanks.

Just keeping it real, son.

Vitamin R.

Well done, Chief.

Harry Clearwater’s homemade fish fry.

Good man.

Any luck with that Waylon case?

Well, I don’t think it was an animal that killed him.

Never thought it was.

So spread the word out at the rez, huh?

Keep the kids out of the woods.

Will do.

Don’t want no one else getting hurt, do we?

Whoa.

This is incredible.

It’s so light and open, you know?

What did you expect, coffins and dungeons and moats?

No, not the moats.

Not the moats.

This is the one place we don’t have to hide.

I told them not to do this.

You add a little bit of olive oil to a non-stick saut� pan, and you want to cook with the olive oil in medium-high heat.

What I do, I cut this in strips, and then we gonna cut this.

Is she even Italian?

Her name is Bella.

I’m sure she’ll love it, no matter what.

Get a whiff of that.

Here comes the human.

Bella, we’re making Italiano for you.

Bella, this is Esme.

My mother for all intents and purposes.

You’ve given us an excuse to use the kitchen for the first time.

I hope you’re hungry.

Yeah, absolutely.

She already ate.