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Chapter 16
So Bella’s preparing for graduation and Alice stops by to drop off clothes cause Bella’s got stolen earlier, when Bella has an epiphany – the people who stole her clothes and the vampire army in Seattle are being headed by the same person! And they’re after her! Bella hasn’t figured out it’s Victoria, but baby steps here. This is a momentous thing for Bella to figure out on her own, especially without having a funky dream spell it out for her.

I think this is the first thing Bella’s figured out without a dream cracking her over the head.

Charlie drives Bella and Edward to graduation in his cruiser. Nevermind it’s illegal for him to do that.

The graduation walk happens. Alice merrily thinks about translating dead languages backwards so Edward doesn’t have a flip out during the handing out of the diplomas. Bella lets Edward in on the fact that the vampire army and the clothes stealer are probably run by the same person, and he manages to avoid flipping his shit in public. Bella and Charlie eat dinner, then Charlie drops Bella off at le Chateau Cullen. Charlie’s “don’t you let boys kiss you if you don’t want to” talk is too little too late.

Chapter 17
Apparently Alice’s idea of “small town party” translates to something resembling “European Discothèque On Speed,” which just makes everyone who showed up really uncomfortable. Although it seemed the food was good.

Fortunately Alice has an Important Vision and ditches Bella, just in time to force Bella to answer the door and greet the werewolves. Bella is very sullen with Jacob because she’s still pissed but he buys her off with a wooden wolf charm he made himself.

… wait, he gave her a charm bracelet? I take it back. Jacob isn’t a furry douche. He’s gay.

The rest of the chapter goes thusly:

Jacob: Something’s bothering you. What is it?
Bella: Nothing!
Jacob: You’re a sucky liar.
Bella: … I’m still not telling you even though your species is well suited for helping me with my problem!
Alice: Sup’ mah hommies?
Bella: ACK! Don’t tell him anything! Even though there are killer vampires looking for me!
Alice: Oh, and they’re coming here. The whole lot of them.
Bella: Nooooooo! *panic*
Jacob: … we could help?
Alice: Sounds good.
Bella: No! I won’t let you! *hysterics*
Alice & Jacob: *ignore Bella in favor of making plans for future war meetings*

Chapter 18
So Bella frets a lot and then everyone goes to the field where Vampire Baseball was played back in Twilight. The werewolves and vampires have a sort of cease-fire so Jasper can do his presentation, “Fighting Newborn Vampires 101” which involves some live demonstrations.

Jacob gets all friendly in wolf form with Bella – complete with licking her face.

Anyway, the rest of the pack takes off but Jacob stays behind to strategize a bit – for some reason the others don’t hang around. Jacob wants to keep Bella at La Push for the duration of the fight, but she can’t be anywhere she commonly goes to cause the newborns will follow her, yada yada. There’s also the problem of the newborns tracking her by scent since Bella smells rather distinctive and they’ll follow anywhere Edward goes.

Since werewolves smell pretty bad to vampires it’s decided that the newborns won’t follow a werewolf trail too closely and Jacob can carry Bella to some cave in the wilderness.

I’m half surprised nobody thought to mention maybe he could lick her all over to get rid of that human smell. This is supposed to be vaguely pornish after all. And aside from some female gaze pages, Jacob has gotten no sexxoring.

So Bella’s going to be hidden in a cave, and Seth – the newest, youngest (at fifteen) werewolf will be sent to keep an eye on her and to keep him out of trouble. And to keep Seth out of the fighting because he’s way too eager for that.

Chapter 19
Boils down to: Bella sleeps the day away, guilts Edward into staying with her at the cave, and the werewolves and vampires play war-games. Oh, and Jacob is a really big fuzzy pillow. And Edward bitches about everyone else being allowed to give Bella a present but him (he sees Jacobs girly man-charm).

Chapter 20
So on the way to le Chateau Cullen Bella decides she doesn’t want to become a vampire while she’s still a virgin, only, yanno, she doesn’t actually say that because talking directly about sex is crass.

So Edward presents her with a tacky glitter-heart charm to outglitter Jacob’s and then Bella tries to get her freak on before getting shot down oh so very hard. Edward’s way of saying no is to break the furniture to remind Bella how super strong he is. Now there’s the bastard I know and … well, am indifferent to.

This part took forever to get through, mostly because I either couldn’t stop laughing, or was too horrified to continue and needed to take a breather. Quite honestly, it’s something that has to be read for oneself to be believed, because the shenanigans that go on are simply too long to quote. The short version goes thusly:

Bella pleads, begs, and bargains to try and get Edward to have sex with her. Edward’s condition for the sexing while Bella’s human are for her to marry him, and let him pay for her education. Which is just really creepy, because that basically turns him into her Sugar Daddy. Ew. Not to mention the incredible possessiveness in the “mine and nobody else’s” (paraphrasing) that he says. I kept expecting him to grow a faux moustache for twirling. Because either Edward is the gayest gay that ever gayed, or he’s a villain ripoff who’s trying to get the female heroine to marry him to save her friends. Or something.

Oh, and he makes a formal proposal. Just for the record.