I may or may not have participated in this tradition. Renée took Bella with her to Downey, California, to live with her difficult grandmother, before moving to Riverside after her mother got her education degree and landed a job as a kindergarten teacher at a local school. Those she shields will also become a part of her, allowing her to feel them in range without having to look.

To appease her father, she tries to engage in normal, teenage-like behavior. As Erin discussed with Country Living, "You don't feel like a star. Edward immediately takes her back to Forks where he and Carlisle can abort the baby, but Bella asks Rosalie to protect her: she has already come to love the child. We knew everyone’s first and last names and their siblings and their parents and most of their cousins too.

Renesmee's middle-name of "Carlie" is a portmanteau of both Carlisle and Charlie. They suspect that the army is directed toward them, but decide to play it by "ear". In Breaking Dawn, Angela is the one who catches Bella's wedding bouquet at her reception. The various renovations that Ben and Erin take on always look professional... and expensive.

In addition, Jacob continues to think of her as just Bella rather than a vampire with a powerful gift. She is also said to possess poor acting skills. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); « Blogging Basics: Frequently Asked Questions, Mother’s Day Gift Guide | What Mom Really Wants ». This power comes from her subconscious desire to protect her mind above everything else, and as long as she holds on to that desire, it makes the shield difficult to extract.

Edward saves Bella from being crushed by Tyler's van. I turned around and Erin had this really short pixie cut and she was wearing these loose-fitting jeans and it was like, oh man, she was so cool.
Aside from Edward and Renesmee, she is the closest to her in the Cullen family. Aside from watching the show, the audience can also do that by following Erin Napier's online journal, which can be found on the Laurel Mercantile website. In the movie of New Moon, Bella comforts him that he cannot be damned to be a vampire. Just A Small Town Girl – 10 Signs You Grew Up in a Small Town. Victoria's mate, James, is a sadistic tracker vampire who has set his sights on killing Bella for sports; he was fascinated by Edward's protectiveness of a human. During free time, she preferred to sit home and read, in part because she was extraordinarily clumsy. The scent of her blood is incredibly attractive to vampires, described by Bree Tanner to be the "sweetest scent she'd ever smelled", though it is a thousand times more intense to Edward Cullen. Because she lacks any skill in anything noticeable as a human, she mostly prefers to spend her free time reading, especially classics, and listening to music. Bella is also a very bad liar. But she soon regains self-control, and Bella, Edward, and Jacob make peace. Soon after I started high school, teachers were recognizing my last name and who my parents were. Edward sees this, but is still willing to fight for her.

This makes Edward believe that it is not bad luck that follows her around, but that she has no sense of self-preservation.

After Renée took her away to Phoenix, the only times Bella would see Charlie was in the summer. We're having a lot of fun designing these products.". But actually in a small town, how many other people could be out and about? Bella inherited her mother's perceptiveness to some degree, as she was able to guess Edward was a mind reader, the first human to do so. Alice finds Bella and tells her that Edward is going to Volterra to ask the Volturi to kill him, because he believes Bella is dead. Anyway, says Erin, "You don't feel like a star. She later finds out that the killings in Seattle is caused not just by newborns, but an entire army of them. She is also the adoptive daughter-in-law of Carlisle and Esme Cullen and the adoptive sister-in-law of Alice and Emmett Cullen, and Rosalie and Jasper Hale. So he serves as the heroic big city guy that saves a small towns political problems and also wins the girl, Haily Caldwell (Natalie Lisinska). When Bella was pregnant with Renesmee, she asked Rosalie to be her guardian, knowing that she would side with her. This can get really tricky when someone out of town is looking for directions. She is also the granddaughter of Geoffrey and Helen Swan, as well as Marie Higgenbotham and her ex-husband. ", On the work-front, Ben and Erin are focused on supporting American businesses through their work. This is already impressive, but even more so applause-worthy is the number of posts Erin shares. It doesn’t matter. She is also very brave, able to block painful thoughts and memories (hence her special vampire ability), and tends to come face-to-face with life-threatening danger head-on, even though she can get scared later. Jacob thinks that, since he is more human than Edward, he will be safer for Bella to have a relationship with. The insecurities and baggage that they possess can cause collateral damage in the form of impressionable young men who just want to find a woman to settle with. Later, Edward rescues Bella from a gang of men in Port Angeles. Each year before graduation, they spray paint their name in front of their driveway. She was later invited as a guest at Bella and Edward's wedding. Eleazar corrects this when he discovers her true gift. ", And in their personal lives, there are big discussions as well. Isabella Marie Swan was born on September 13, 1987, to Renée and Charlie Swan, a young couple living in the small town of Forks, Washington. Edward introduces her to his family, and soon after she is invited to watch their baseball game. She finds it much easier to live with her father, because he respects her privacy. As a vampire, she also dislikes the idea of feeding on humans, but is glad to have found the strength she needed to protect her loved ones. It has been speculated in the first three novels about what her gift might be after she was changed. Mike becomes her friend again, although not with the same enthusiasm and also never forgets his fondness of Bella. At the end of Breaking Dawn, Bella learns how to deactivate her mental shield allowing Edward to read her thoughts for the first time, which brings them even closer together. Bella insists that he would never allow himself to let that happen. Later, Jacob, aware that the Cullens are planning to move away, phases into his wolf form in front of Charlie (he thought Charlie was the reason they were leaving). Publishers Weekly states that, after her transformation into a vampire, "it's almost impossible to identify with her" in Breaking Dawn. Jacob and Bella become friends, when suddenly Jacob refuses to answer any of her calls and asks her not to come to his house anymore. That meant my graduating class had about 100 students, maybe even less. Believe me, it got boring and it got boring fast but I don’t think I would ever change it. Bella is furious at Edward's presumption and manages to slip away to see Jacob. He votes in her favor to become one of them, partly because he wants to stop the constant urge to kill her, but also because he already thinks of her as part of their family, like the others. Although initially outraged by his family's decision, Edward later agrees to change her himself if she agrees to marry him first. Besides, she also admits this throughout the whole saga, though she seemingly manages to lie to herself about her romantic feelings for Jacob. The couple is as passionate about their little town as they are about restoring the historic character homes lining their streets.

Bella's adoptive brother-in-law: Emmett Cullen. Rosalie Hale is Bella's adoptive sister-in-law. I hugged her for the first time on a Tuesday, at the yearbook meeting, and we spent every minute that we could together for the next six days. Bella felt that Jacob was a good friend, and that he was her own "personal little sun" which would beam happiness in every direction wherever he went. When the Volturi arrive at the end of December, the Cullens and their allies manage to convince them that Renesmee really is half-human, but Aro, dead-set on claiming the gifts of the Cullens and some of their friends, plots every possible justification to kill Renesmee. In Breaking Dawn, Bella can detect minor changes in Renesmee's physical appearance, such as her hair growing a couple of millimeters. And that dream one day became a reality. I am so thankful that Coach Richards and Coach Harbour took a chance on this small-town girl … He vows not to make love with her again until she has been turned, but Bella succeeds in getting him to do so. Ben and Erin have made it clear that they want their show to give a focus to small towns and the charming elements of that lifestyle. Bella is determined to be with Edward forever, but at the age of 17.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Twilight Saga Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. She also has very negative views on teen marriage due to her parents' early experience, but learns to overcome them later. Ever since her unfortunate death, Sally continues to haunt her old house scaring the living daylights out of its current residents and happily playing with it's younger ones. Erin continued on to describe her town since the show began airing.