ECLIPSE: Chapter 12-Time

CHAPTER SUMMARY: Graduation party is planned, Bella is not grateful as usual. Bella freaks out about it being too soon to graduation and therefore she and Edward postpone her turning, I'm wondering when the plot is going to move forward.

NOTES/THOUGHTS/REACTIONS:
So bad time transition once more, because suddenly we're at school. Meyer attempts (and fails again) to have humor in these books by way of Alice. Then she drops a bomb: she's throwing a graduation party for Bella! I know, what a rotten friend, right? Also in all of this, Bella realizes she's graduating in a WEEK! She's shocked and so am I because in the beginning of this book I was under the impression it was like maybe April/Mayish but no, turns out it's the end of the school year. Which...I'm sorry how can YOU NOT KNOW THIS WHEN YOU'RE A SENIOR? The fact Bella doesn't a) have senioritis like all seniors do, and b) didn't even know she was graduating in a week is just...stupid. Frankly I think Meyer decided halfway through writing this she wanted the graduation in there and therefore just randomly put this in and expects us to buy that a senior is not going to realize she is graduating in a week. Having been a senior twice (in high school and college) I can tell you THIS IS MORONIC.
But whatever, it's in there and now Bella's freaking out over something she knew was coming eventually so I'm having a hard time figuring out this sudden meltdown but it's Twilight so logic has no place here. Even Bella kind of acknowledges in her freak out that she's being stupid.
More thinking as she and Edward and Alice leave school and Edward asks what she's thinking. Then for once Edward shows some consideration and thoughtfulness and says she's not ready (uh...DUH) and then says to wait till all the stuff with Victoria is over instead of graduation. But Bella still protests (I'm also scratching my head a little because wasn't she all ready to go and be a vamp like two chapters ago?) and then this turns out into yet another Edward going "I'm dangerous and not good enough for you" moment. God, now you're recycling scenes from YOUR FIRST BOOK. I'd thought we'd had moved past this conflict but apparently not.
Then Bella realizes Edward thinks he's being selfish. Um...yeah he kind of is. But of course Bella assures him he's not (again, we've had this scene). Then it moves back to the marriage issue and Edward whines about her not wanting to marry him. She whines "But it'll look bad to everyone in this town!" God, first we've had this scene too and second WHY DO YOU SUDDENLY CARE WHAT THE TOWN THINKS? Seriously, she has not given one lick about the people of Forks (including her so-called friends) but suddenly she cares now. Also excuse me while I laugh about her saying she's responsible and mature and therefore shouldn't get married young. HAH. She is not mature (I think she's a pretentious spoiled brat myself). I also have seen very little evidence of responsibility as most of the chores she does she has pretty much taken upon herself. Charlie has never once told her to do something in these books and then she goes and does it. Plus, Meyer is once again making grand stereotypes about young marriage. I know most marriages out of high school don't work out but there are also a few that DO. Those few that do have lasted over forty years too and the people in those marriages are TEN times more mature then Bella and Edward.
Then Edward goes on about how in his time that's how it was done and frankly all this talking goes no where.
Bad transition (where Bella actually studies for a test! First time I've seen this so called Ivy League school material do so) and we get her looking at an article about the Seattle killings. Now apparently everyone thinks it's a serial killer and frankly the article doesn't read like a news piece at all and that's probably because Meyer can't write in any voice but her own.
Edward shows up again after she's finished and now their worried about it again. Question, if the Cullens are supposedly these great humanitarians, why didn't they do something when they first suspected there was a newborn on the loose? You would think they would worry about the humans and would have decided to send one of them right away right? But no, now their "going to do something about it" after who knows how many people have been killed. Some humanitarians.
Once more Bella ditches school and they go to see Jasper for some reason. Okay. All the Cullens gather (again, Esme expresses concern about innocent human life, WHY DIDN'T THEY DO ANYTHING BEFORE????) and this leads to Jasper apparently knowing something that will shed light on newborn behavior...or something he knows that is important. This all leads to Jasper starting to tell his story. Oh...intrigue. Though it's probably going to be more fudging of history like Roselie's story...

WORD LIST: petulantly
GENERAL ANNOYANCES: I exhaled in a big gust.-Huh? She exhaled twice? She exhaled really long? What?