Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father, Police Chief Charlie Swan, in rainy Forks, Washington.

In biology class, Edward reacts with barely concealed hostility when Bella is assigned to sit beside him.

Tyler's van skids out of control on an icy school parking lot and slides directly toward Bella.

Edward appears across the lot in an instant and stops the van with his bare hands.

At the hospital, Bella confronts Edward and demands he explain how he saved her, but he refuses.

Edward offers to drive Bella to Seattle, admitting he is tired of trying to avoid her.

Four threatening men corner Bella on a dark Port Angeles street before Edward appears and rescues her.

Jacob Black tells Bella the Quileute legend about cold-one vampires and the Cullens' truce with his people.

In a sunlit forest meadow, Edward reveals his skin glitters like diamonds and they share their first kiss.

Edward introduces Bella to his adoptive family of peaceful vampires at their secluded forest home.

Three nomadic vampires interrupt the Cullens' mountain baseball game; James catches Bella's scent and crouches to attack.

Alice and Jasper drive Bella to Phoenix while Esme stands guard over Charlie and the others pursue James.

James tricks Bella into going to her childhood ballet studio and brutally attacks her.

The five Cullens storm the ballet studio, kill James, and discover he has bitten Bella's hand.

At prom, Bella dances on Edward's feet and asks him to turn her into a vampire; he refuses but swears to stay with her.

Bella Swan moves to rainy Forks, Washington, and is immediately unsettled by the cold, mysterious Edward Cullen in biology class. When Edward stops a runaway van with his bare hands to save Bella, she becomes determined to understand his secret no matter what he says. After being rescued from attackers in Port Angeles, she pieces together the truth from local legend, and Edward confirms he is a vampire. Their romance deepens through tender confessions until a family baseball game is interrupted by three nomadic vampires and a lethal tracker named James targets Bella. The story reaches its violent peak when James lures Bella to a ballet studio, and the Cullens race to save her before it is too late.

The headline events of Bella and Edward's dangerous romance.

Charlie surprises Bella with an old red Chevy pickup truck as a homecoming gift.

Edward stays absent from school for a full week following his hostile first encounter with Bella.

Edward returns to school and partners with Bella on a biology mitosis exercise; his hand feels ice-cold.

During a blood-typing exercise in biology, Bella nearly faints and Edward effortlessly carries her to the nurse.

Edward drives Bella home after the blood episode and they discover a shared love of Debussy's Clair de Lune.

On a student beach trip to La Push, Bella meets Jacob Black, son of her father's old friend Billy.

After researching vampire legends online, Bella concludes Edward must be a vampire and decides she does not care.

At a Port Angeles restaurant after her rescue, Edward explains he found Bella by sensing her in other people's thoughts.

Billy Black arrives at the Swan house and stares unsettlingly at Bella, his suspicion about Edward unmistakable.

Edward confesses to Bella that he has been sneaking into her room at night to watch over her while she sleeps.

Bella asks Edward to stay the night, and they talk quietly until she falls asleep in his arms.

Alice has a sudden vision of James in a room of mirrors, which Bella identifies as a ballet studio near her Phoenix home.

Bella slips away from Alice and Jasper at the Phoenix airport by pretending to need the restroom.

Renée visits Bella in the hospital and announces Phil signed with a Jacksonville team; Bella insists she must stay in Forks.

Jacob finds Bella at the school prom and delivers Billy's warning that his father will be watching her and Edward.

Bella's life in Forks takes shape through smaller but meaningful moments, from receiving a beat-up red truck as a homecoming gift to navigating friendships at a new school. The romance with Edward grows slowly through shared biology exercises, a blood-testing crisis that reveals her weakness, and a car ride home where they discover a mutual love of music. A beach trip to La Push and a night of online research give Bella the pieces she needs to understand what Edward truly is. Secrets deepen when Edward confesses he has been watching her sleep, and she drifts off peacefully in his arms. When James emerges as a threat, a psychic vision from Alice provides the critical clue, and Bella's courage peaks when she slips away from her protectors to face the danger herself.

The quieter moments and discoveries that built Bella's new world.

Edward is seen at the school office frantically asking to switch out of biology class to escape Bella.

After weeks of cold avoidance, Edward tells Bella directly that it is better if they are not friends.

Edward sits with Bella at lunch for the first time, saying he has decided to stop avoiding her even if it means going to hell.

Bella tells Edward on the drive back from Port Angeles that she researched cold ones and already believes he is a vampire.

Edward reveals to Bella that she is the only person whose mind he cannot read, which is why she constantly surprises him.

In the meadow, Edward confesses Bella's blood scent is uniquely irresistible and nearly drove him to kill her on their first day.

Edward warns Bella never to enter the woods alone, telling her he is not always the most dangerous thing out there.

Edward reveals he was born in 1901 and was transformed by Carlisle while dying of Spanish flu in 1918.

Carlisle's history is revealed: born in the 1640s, he was accidentally turned while hunting a vampire coven for his pastor father.

Edward admits he once abandoned Carlisle and hunted murderous criminals for their blood before guilt drove him back home.

Billy Black privately warns Bella at the Swan house that dating Edward is a serious mistake; she defiantly tells him she knows more than he thinks.

Laurent warns the Cullens that James is absolutely lethal and has never been stopped in three hundred years.

Bella writes a secret farewell note to Edward and seals it before slipping away to surrender herself to James.

Bella regains consciousness at the ballet studio surrounded by the Cullens; Carlisle urges Edward to suck out James's venom.

In the hospital, Bella argues that Edward should have let James's bite transform her so they could meet as equals.

From Edward's desperate attempt to flee biology class to his blunt declaration that he and Bella should not be friends, the early story is shaped by his failing effort to resist her. His surrender comes in stages: sitting with her at lunch, then revealing on the drive home from Port Angeles that her mind alone is unreadable to him. In the sunlit meadow, he delivers the most dangerous confession of all, that her blood scent is unlike any he has encountered, yet his love overpowers the urge to harm her. Backstory revelations about Edward's transformation, Carlisle's centuries-old origins, and Edward's brief dark period hunting criminals add depth and moral weight to the Cullen world. The arc closes with Bella making her own brave choice to face James alone, and then insisting in the hospital that becoming a vampire is not an ending but the beginning she has chosen.