Midnight Sun--First sight, part 1
We start Midnight Sun with Edward musing over his horrible predicament: he’s stuck in High School. Oh, the horror! He just starts this book complaining about how monotonous his life is and that any crimes he had committed should be forgiven because he’s just suffering so much. (Yes, reading Shakespeare for the 5th time sounds like such a cruel fate. I’ll make sure to wish it on my enemies)
Problem is: he’s rich, immortal and already educated. He doesn’t need to be there. He could grab a credit card, a back pack and travel around the world. Look for crazy-awesome, stinky or weird jobs and do them yourself for a while just to se what it’s like. Watch an episode of mythbuster and try to recreate the myths using yourself instead of buster. I’m sure Emmet would so help you with that. As long as you can come up with new experiments to do, new places to go, new things to learn life wouldn’t be boring.
(Has he even given a monkey a shower?)
Instead of doing anything fun after that little monologue, we see Edward looking for animals in the cracks on the plaster. It’s like cloud watching, only pathetic. He does this to drown out people. You would think that after a hundred years of it he would come up with a better distraction.
I Would feel bad for Edward if he weren’t such a jerk about it. I mean I can imagine when he got his ticket to see the original Star Wars for the first time, he almost ripped it right then and there when the previous movie goers started spoiling the movie for him. And you just know he didn’t have a second of peace when the prequels came out and everyone and their mother wanted to smack Lucas. I bet whenever Rose gets mad at Edward she just reads whatever book he was looking forward to reading and scream spoilers on her mind. I bet when Harry Potter 6 came out Rose mentally shouted “Snape kills Dumbledoore” as revenge for messing up her hair and saying blonde jokes.
Moving on, Edward comments on Bella by saying:
Today, all thoughts were consumed with the trivial drama of a new addition to the small student body here. It took so little to work them all up.
>(As Edward) You should have seen last week when I threw a tin foil ball down the stairs. The whole school ran down, 17 were hurt in the incident. Those silly humans.
I’d seen the new face repeated in thought after thought from every angle.
>(as Edward) Even inside her nose. Somebody needs to tell Jimmy his obsession with nasal cavities is very disturbing.
Just an ordinary human girl. The excitement over her arrival was tiresomely predictable-like flashing a shiny object at a child. Half the sheep-like males were already imagining themselves in love with her, just because she was something new to look at. I tried harder to tune them out.
Wait, what?! Meyer, most boys don’t go around imagining themselves in love with some random chick. Heck, most people don’t. Sure lots of people have the “S/he’s cute/hot, wonder if s/he’ll go out with me.” thought (or something similar), but that’s not falling in love.
After that little introduction to Bella Edward presents his family:
Rosalie: The shallow vamp-girl who gets distracted by shiny things
Emmet: The dumb jock
Jasper: The new one who is struggling
Alice: The special one
He starts having secret conversations with pixie Barbie while he pretends he’s still looking for piggies on the ceiling. Alice wants to know if Jasper is about to crack somebody’s neck open and drink it like a piña colada. Edward says it’s fine and Alice thanks him. This causes Edward to monologue about how Jasper should stay at home since this is too dangerous. Hate to agree with sourpuss, but maybe they should ease Jasper into society instead of throwing him in a High School surrounded by tasty sacks of flesh and blood.
Also, I have to say that Edward gives himself more importance than needed. He describes all the measure he takes to keep his convos with Alice secret, but would anybody really care or notice? Rosalie is distracted by her shiny spoon, Emmet is flexing and Jasper is having rapetastic neck fantasies. He could talk out loud and nobody would care. Plus he is the master of the perpetual scowl and I can’t imagine somebody like that is fun to pay attention to.
Anyhow, Jasper starts daydreaming about sucking a girl dry with loving detail. Edward kicks him under the table and Alice comforts him telling her to think of her as a person instead of a cheeseburger. Jasper gets pissy over his woman getting all condescending on him and she shuts it and leaves. Edward comments on how pure and virtuous Alice and Jasper are with their relationship versus the shameless lewd pairing that is Emmet/Rosalie.
Well, plot is not about them so we move to the scene where Jessie is talking about Edward Cullen to Bella. He takes a moment to remind us that everyone is going around thinking only of her. Which is weird because I’ve seen new students at that age and all I could think about was: seeing the next episode of Inuyasha, which new book from the library I’m going to get, I have to finish Final Fantasy 7 (but Cloud is so annoying!), and I want ice cream. Are you honestly telling me everyone is focused on this one girl 24-7?
He then says this:
The new student, Isabella Swan. Daughter of the town’s chief of police, brought to live here by some new custody situation. Bella. She’d corrected everyone who’d used her full name…
And I have to laugh because if this had been at my school that would have ended this way:
In Spanish class, the teacher hands in a group assignment. Seeing that Bella is alone, a redhead with blue eyes named and her tall friend with messy black hair approached her.
“Hi. I’m Liz,” she said pointing to herself. “And the mophead next to me is Robbie.”
Bella straightened herself a bit. “Hi.”
Liz grabbed a sit and made circle around Bella. Robbie placed his backward and sat on top of the desk.
“You really need to stop doing that,” said Liz.
Robbie rolled his eyes and turned to Bella. “So, your name is Isabella?”
“It’s Bella.”
“Your name is Bella?” Liz’s eyebrows raised. “You italian? You don’t really look it.”
“No, but I like Bella over Isabella.”
Liz frowned. “Bella? Not Izzie or something like that?”
“I just think it sounds nicer, don’t you?”
“Sounds weird if you ask me,” said Robbie banging his pencils on his notebook.
“Isn’t your last name Swan?”
“Yes, it is,” said Bella, feeling smaller under her gaze.
“So you go around telling people to call you “beautiful swan”?”
Robbie stopped his melody and looked at his friend. “What? Like the children story.”
Bella blushed a bit. “I didn’t mean it like that.” All this time she had just grown accustomed to that particular name. So much had changed lately that loosing her name as she knew it... it was too much.
“Ah, c’mon Liz. No harm done. We can always come up with a new nickname. Something fun.”
Bella wanted to say something, but nothing came out. She had already pissed her off and didn’t want to make it worst.
“Like what?”
“Well...” he looked at the ceiling for a moment. The gears turning until he came up with something, you could almost hear a ‘ding’ sound before saying “Ducky!”
Liz raised an eyebrow. “Ducky?”
“Yeah! Like in the Ugly Duckling.”
“Hey, I like that.” Liz beamed at her friend. “Very cute. From now on Isabella Swan shall be called Ducky.”
“Welcome to Forks, Ducky!”
Bella sank in her chair. “Yay.”
So, in honor of that, I’ll be calling Bella Ducky from now on (or at least until the end of this part). Remember, Ducky=Bella.
Edward keeps listening to silly Jessica’s thoughts while calling them petty and shallow. Oh, the whiny, pale, glittering irony of that statement. See, Edward has to listen to people’s thoughts to warn his family when people start thinking vampire. Right now she was gossiping about his family and seeing as we know Twilight there’s no real gossip. They are extremely pale and give incestuous vibes since they date amongst themselves. At worst they are considered freaks, yet nobody avoids them in the Twilight series. I don’t care what Edward says here, nobody avoids them. Jessica wanted to date Edward (as I’m sure every girl in this school does), nobody really calls them freaks and when they threw a party everyone came.
Anyway, Edward tries to listen to Ducky’s thoughts and discovers he can’t. All he can do is read his expressions like any other human. He gets frustrated by this and tries to poke her harder which breaks everyone’s mind barrier and we hear the whole school thinking about Ducky. Wasn’t there a game on last night? Something on the news? A test tomorrow? Shipping wars to fight? Anything?
Apparently Meyer heard me and placed Angela as the only one not obsessed with Ducky. She’s also described as quiet and thus she’s good. Of course the obsession thing won’t last forever since she’ll be her human best friend.
Ducky asks about Edward and Jessica tells her about him after calling her an idiot mentally. This pisses Edward off because how dare she have negative thoughts about Ducky. The nerve of that girl. I do love how he describes it ” I felt the strangest urge to step in between them, to shield this Bella Swan from the darker workings of Jessica’s mind.” What the hell? Is she going to tie Ducky to some railroad tracks? Is Jessica the Joker now? (Well, she does remind me a bit of Harley) It’s just so over the top. XD
So Edward starts creating his own image of Ducky: a sweet, gentle flower who hates being tended to. A shy girl of most pure thoughts and kind disposition. A real lady of good breeding and little quackery. Picture of grace to the high-- And Rosalie comes and interrupts his thoughts on Ducky, thank heavens. Emmet asks if anybody is afraid of them (Why? All you guys do is sit on corners and pose!). Edward says no (Big surprise) and Jasper, Emmet and Rose take off, leaving Edward who is about to go to Biology. That is all for today’s episode of “The young and the fangless.”
Problem is: he’s rich, immortal and already educated. He doesn’t need to be there. He could grab a credit card, a back pack and travel around the world. Look for crazy-awesome, stinky or weird jobs and do them yourself for a while just to se what it’s like. Watch an episode of mythbuster and try to recreate the myths using yourself instead of buster. I’m sure Emmet would so help you with that. As long as you can come up with new experiments to do, new places to go, new things to learn life wouldn’t be boring.
(Has he even given a monkey a shower?)
Instead of doing anything fun after that little monologue, we see Edward looking for animals in the cracks on the plaster. It’s like cloud watching, only pathetic. He does this to drown out people. You would think that after a hundred years of it he would come up with a better distraction.
I Would feel bad for Edward if he weren’t such a jerk about it. I mean I can imagine when he got his ticket to see the original Star Wars for the first time, he almost ripped it right then and there when the previous movie goers started spoiling the movie for him. And you just know he didn’t have a second of peace when the prequels came out and everyone and their mother wanted to smack Lucas. I bet whenever Rose gets mad at Edward she just reads whatever book he was looking forward to reading and scream spoilers on her mind. I bet when Harry Potter 6 came out Rose mentally shouted “Snape kills Dumbledoore” as revenge for messing up her hair and saying blonde jokes.
Moving on, Edward comments on Bella by saying:
Today, all thoughts were consumed with the trivial drama of a new addition to the small student body here. It took so little to work them all up.
>(As Edward) You should have seen last week when I threw a tin foil ball down the stairs. The whole school ran down, 17 were hurt in the incident. Those silly humans.
I’d seen the new face repeated in thought after thought from every angle.
>(as Edward) Even inside her nose. Somebody needs to tell Jimmy his obsession with nasal cavities is very disturbing.
Just an ordinary human girl. The excitement over her arrival was tiresomely predictable-like flashing a shiny object at a child. Half the sheep-like males were already imagining themselves in love with her, just because she was something new to look at. I tried harder to tune them out.
Wait, what?! Meyer, most boys don’t go around imagining themselves in love with some random chick. Heck, most people don’t. Sure lots of people have the “S/he’s cute/hot, wonder if s/he’ll go out with me.” thought (or something similar), but that’s not falling in love.
After that little introduction to Bella Edward presents his family:
Rosalie: The shallow vamp-girl who gets distracted by shiny things
Emmet: The dumb jock
Jasper: The new one who is struggling
Alice: The special one
He starts having secret conversations with pixie Barbie while he pretends he’s still looking for piggies on the ceiling. Alice wants to know if Jasper is about to crack somebody’s neck open and drink it like a piña colada. Edward says it’s fine and Alice thanks him. This causes Edward to monologue about how Jasper should stay at home since this is too dangerous. Hate to agree with sourpuss, but maybe they should ease Jasper into society instead of throwing him in a High School surrounded by tasty sacks of flesh and blood.
Also, I have to say that Edward gives himself more importance than needed. He describes all the measure he takes to keep his convos with Alice secret, but would anybody really care or notice? Rosalie is distracted by her shiny spoon, Emmet is flexing and Jasper is having rapetastic neck fantasies. He could talk out loud and nobody would care. Plus he is the master of the perpetual scowl and I can’t imagine somebody like that is fun to pay attention to.
Anyhow, Jasper starts daydreaming about sucking a girl dry with loving detail. Edward kicks him under the table and Alice comforts him telling her to think of her as a person instead of a cheeseburger. Jasper gets pissy over his woman getting all condescending on him and she shuts it and leaves. Edward comments on how pure and virtuous Alice and Jasper are with their relationship versus the shameless lewd pairing that is Emmet/Rosalie.
Well, plot is not about them so we move to the scene where Jessie is talking about Edward Cullen to Bella. He takes a moment to remind us that everyone is going around thinking only of her. Which is weird because I’ve seen new students at that age and all I could think about was: seeing the next episode of Inuyasha, which new book from the library I’m going to get, I have to finish Final Fantasy 7 (but Cloud is so annoying!), and I want ice cream. Are you honestly telling me everyone is focused on this one girl 24-7?
He then says this:
The new student, Isabella Swan. Daughter of the town’s chief of police, brought to live here by some new custody situation. Bella. She’d corrected everyone who’d used her full name…
And I have to laugh because if this had been at my school that would have ended this way:
In Spanish class, the teacher hands in a group assignment. Seeing that Bella is alone, a redhead with blue eyes named and her tall friend with messy black hair approached her.
“Hi. I’m Liz,” she said pointing to herself. “And the mophead next to me is Robbie.”
Bella straightened herself a bit. “Hi.”
Liz grabbed a sit and made circle around Bella. Robbie placed his backward and sat on top of the desk.
“You really need to stop doing that,” said Liz.
Robbie rolled his eyes and turned to Bella. “So, your name is Isabella?”
“It’s Bella.”
“Your name is Bella?” Liz’s eyebrows raised. “You italian? You don’t really look it.”
“No, but I like Bella over Isabella.”
Liz frowned. “Bella? Not Izzie or something like that?”
“I just think it sounds nicer, don’t you?”
“Sounds weird if you ask me,” said Robbie banging his pencils on his notebook.
“Isn’t your last name Swan?”
“Yes, it is,” said Bella, feeling smaller under her gaze.
“So you go around telling people to call you “beautiful swan”?”
Robbie stopped his melody and looked at his friend. “What? Like the children story.”
Bella blushed a bit. “I didn’t mean it like that.” All this time she had just grown accustomed to that particular name. So much had changed lately that loosing her name as she knew it... it was too much.
“Ah, c’mon Liz. No harm done. We can always come up with a new nickname. Something fun.”
Bella wanted to say something, but nothing came out. She had already pissed her off and didn’t want to make it worst.
“Like what?”
“Well...” he looked at the ceiling for a moment. The gears turning until he came up with something, you could almost hear a ‘ding’ sound before saying “Ducky!”
Liz raised an eyebrow. “Ducky?”
“Yeah! Like in the Ugly Duckling.”
“Hey, I like that.” Liz beamed at her friend. “Very cute. From now on Isabella Swan shall be called Ducky.”
“Welcome to Forks, Ducky!”
Bella sank in her chair. “Yay.”
So, in honor of that, I’ll be calling Bella Ducky from now on (or at least until the end of this part). Remember, Ducky=Bella.
Edward keeps listening to silly Jessica’s thoughts while calling them petty and shallow. Oh, the whiny, pale, glittering irony of that statement. See, Edward has to listen to people’s thoughts to warn his family when people start thinking vampire. Right now she was gossiping about his family and seeing as we know Twilight there’s no real gossip. They are extremely pale and give incestuous vibes since they date amongst themselves. At worst they are considered freaks, yet nobody avoids them in the Twilight series. I don’t care what Edward says here, nobody avoids them. Jessica wanted to date Edward (as I’m sure every girl in this school does), nobody really calls them freaks and when they threw a party everyone came.
Anyway, Edward tries to listen to Ducky’s thoughts and discovers he can’t. All he can do is read his expressions like any other human. He gets frustrated by this and tries to poke her harder which breaks everyone’s mind barrier and we hear the whole school thinking about Ducky. Wasn’t there a game on last night? Something on the news? A test tomorrow? Shipping wars to fight? Anything?
Apparently Meyer heard me and placed Angela as the only one not obsessed with Ducky. She’s also described as quiet and thus she’s good. Of course the obsession thing won’t last forever since she’ll be her human best friend.
Ducky asks about Edward and Jessica tells her about him after calling her an idiot mentally. This pisses Edward off because how dare she have negative thoughts about Ducky. The nerve of that girl. I do love how he describes it ” I felt the strangest urge to step in between them, to shield this Bella Swan from the darker workings of Jessica’s mind.” What the hell? Is she going to tie Ducky to some railroad tracks? Is Jessica the Joker now? (Well, she does remind me a bit of Harley) It’s just so over the top. XD
So Edward starts creating his own image of Ducky: a sweet, gentle flower who hates being tended to. A shy girl of most pure thoughts and kind disposition. A real lady of good breeding and little quackery. Picture of grace to the high-- And Rosalie comes and interrupts his thoughts on Ducky, thank heavens. Emmet asks if anybody is afraid of them (Why? All you guys do is sit on corners and pose!). Edward says no (Big surprise) and Jasper, Emmet and Rose take off, leaving Edward who is about to go to Biology. That is all for today’s episode of “The young and the fangless.”