- Isabella Swan: [Edward jumps down off the roof of Bella's truck] Could you act human? Okay, I have neighbors.
- Edward Cullen: I'm gonna take you to my place tomorrow.
- [Pulls dent in Bella's truck back into correct place]
- Isabella Swan: Thanks... Er, wait, like with your family?
- Edward Cullen: Yeah.
- Isabella Swan: W-what if they don't like me?
- Edward Cullen: So you're worried, not because you'll be in a house full of vampires, but because you think they won't approve of you?
- [laughs]
- Isabella Swan: [unsmiling] I'm glad I amuse you.
- Isabella Swan: I'd never given much though to how I would die. But dying in place of someone I love, seems like a good way to go. I can't bring myself to regret the decisions that brought me face to face with death. They also brought me to Edward.
- Edward Cullen: And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.
- Isabella Swan: What a stupid lamb.
- Edward Cullen: What a sick, masochistic lion.
- Isabella Swan: [to Edward, her back to him] You're impossibly fast. And strong. Your skin is... pale white, and ice cold. Your eyes change color... and sometimes you speak like - like you're from a different time. You never eat or drink anything; you don't go into the sunlight.
- [pause, silence]
- Isabella Swan: How old are you?
- Edward Cullen: Seventeen.
- Isabella Swan: How long have you been seventeen?
- Edward Cullen: ...a while.
- Isabella Swan: I know what you are.
- Edward Cullen: Say it... out loud. Say it.
- Isabella Swan: Vampire.
- Edward Cullen: Are you afraid?
- Isabella Swan: [turns to face him] ... no.
- Edward Cullen: Then ask me the most basic question: What do we eat?
- Edward Cullen: [to Bella before going into the prom after Jacob leaves] I leave you alone for two minutes and the wolves descend.
- Isabella Swan: Look, You gotta give me some answers.
- Edward Cullen: Yes. No. To get to the other side. Uh, 1.77245...
- Isabella Swan: I don't want to know what the square root of pi is.
- Edward Cullen: You knew that?
- Edward Cullen: My family, we're different from others of our kind. We only drink animal blood, but it's your scent. It's like a drug to me. It's like you're my own personal brand of heroin.
- Isabella Swan: Why did you hate me so much when we met?
- Edward Cullen: I did, only because of wanting you so badly. I still don't know if I can control myself.
- Isabella Swan: I know you can.
- Isabella Swan: Are you going to tell me how you stopped the van?
- Edward Cullen: Yeah. Um... I had an adrenaline rush. It's very common. You can Google it.
- Edward Cullen: Edible art?
- [Bella knocks over the apple and Edward kicks it up and catches it]
- Edward Cullen: Bella.
- Isabella Swan: Thanks. You know your mood swings are kinda giving me whiplash.
- Edward Cullen: I only said it'd be better if we weren't friends, not that I didn't wanna be.
- Isabella Swan: What does that mean?
- Edward Cullen: It means if you were smart, you'd stay away from me.
- Isabella Swan: Okay well let's say for argument sake that I'm not smart, would you tell me the truth?
- Edward Cullen: No probably not.
- Edward Cullen: I should go back there and rip those guys' heads off.
- Isabella Swan: Um... No, you shouldn't.
- Edward Cullen: You don't know the vile, repulsive things they were thinking.
- Isabella Swan: And you do?
- Edward Cullen: It's not hard to guess.
- Edward Cullen: Can you talk about something else? Distract me so i won't turn around.
- Isabella Swan: You should put your seat belt on.
- Edward Cullen: Haha... you should put your seat belt on!
- Edward Cullen: What did you expect? Coffins and dungeons and moats?
- Isabella Swan: No, not the moats.
- Edward Cullen: Not the moats.
- Rosalie Hale: Is she even Italian?
- Emmett Cullen: Her name's Bella.
- Dr. Carlisle Cullen: I'm sure she'll love it no matter what.
- Rosalie Hale: [sniffs] Ooh... get a whiff of that. Here comes the human.
- [Esme flashes a big grin just before Bella and Edward walk around the corner]
- Esme Cullen: [runs up to Bella] Bella! We're making Italiano for you.
- Edward Cullen: Bella, this is Esme, my mother for all intents and purposes.
- Isabella Swan: Buon Giorno?
- Esme Cullen: Molto Bene!
- Dr. Carlisle Cullen: It gives us an excuse to use the kitchen for the first time.
- Esme Cullen: I hope you're hungry.
- Isabella Swan: Yeah, absolutely!
- Edward Cullen: She already ate.
- Rosalie Hale: [crushes the salad bowl she's holding] Perfect!
- Isabella Swan: Yeah - it's just that I know... I know you guys don't eat.
- Esme Cullen: Of course. That's very considerate of you.
- Edward Cullen: Just ignore Rosalie. I do.
- Rosalie Hale: Yeah! Let's just keep pretending like this isn't dangerous for all of us.
- Isabella Swan: I would never tell anybody anything.
- Dr. Carlisle Cullen: She knows that.
- Emmett Cullen: Yeah, well the problem is... you two have gone public now so...
- Esme Cullen: Emmett!
- Rosalie Hale: No, she should know. The entire family will be implicated if this ends badly.
- Isabella Swan: Badly as in... I become the meal.
- [Carlisle and Edward struggle to suppress laughs]
- Isabella Swan: Did you follow me?
- Edward Cullen: I... I feel very protective of you.
- Isabella Swan: So you followed me.
- Edward Cullen: I was trying to keep a distance unless you needed my help and then I heard what those low-lives were thinking.
- Isabella Swan: Wait. You say you heard what they were thinking?
- Isabella Swan: So what you... you read minds?
- Edward Cullen: I can read every mind in this room apart from yours. There's... Money. Sex. Money. Sex. Cat... And then you, nothing. That's very frustrating.
- Isabella Swan: Is there something wrong with me?
- Edward Cullen: See... I tell you I can read minds and you think there's something wrong with you?
- Isabella Swan: About three things I was absolutely positive: First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn't know how dominant that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
- Isabella Swan: [to Edward] How did you get over to me so fast?
- Edward Cullen: [to Bella] I was standing right next to you, Bella.
- Isabella Swan: No. You were next to your car, across the lot.
- Edward Cullen: No, I wasn't.
- Isabella Swan: Yes, you were.
- Edward Cullen: Bella, you hit your head. I think you're confused.
- Isabella Swan: I know what I saw.
- Edward Cullen: And what exactly was that?
- Isabella Swan: You stopped the van. You pushed it away with you hand.
- Edward Cullen: Well, nobody's going to believe you.
- Isabella Swan: I wasn't going to tell anybody. I just need to know the truth.
- Edward Cullen: Can't you just thank me and get over it?
- Isabella Swan: Thank you.
- Edward Cullen: You're not going to let this go, are you?
- Isabella Swan: No.
- Edward Cullen: Well then I hope you enjoy disappointment.
- Isabella Swan: Who are they?
- Angela Weber: The Cullens.
- Jessica Stanley: They're, um, Dr. and Mrs. Cullen's foster kids. They moved down here from Alaska, like, a few years ago.
- Angela Weber: They kinda keep to themselves.
- Jessica Stanley: Yeah 'cause they're all together, like TOGETHER together. Uh, the blonde girl, that's Rosalie, and the big dark-haired guy, Emmett, they're like a thing. I'm not even sure that's legal.
- Angela Weber: Jess, they're not actually related.
- Jessica Stanley: Yeah, but they live together. It's weird-and, okay, the little dark-haired girl is Alice. She's REALLY weird, and, um, she's with Jasper, the blonde one who looks like he's in pain.
- Edward Cullen: Was that as weird for you as it was for me?
- Isabella Swan: I don't know.
- [looks at the graduation caps on the wall]
- Isabella Swan: Graduation caps?
- Edward Cullen: Yeah private joke. We matriculate a lot.
- Isabella Swan: Will you tell me the truth?
- Edward Cullen: No, probably not.
- [Bella turns away slighly angry]
- Edward Cullen: I'd rather hear your theories.
- Isabella Swan: I have considered radioactive spiders and kryptonite.
- Edward Cullen: All superhero stuff right? But what if I'm not the hero? What if I am the bad guy?
- Isabella Swan: You're not.
- [Edward smiles]
- Jessica Stanley: Hey you're from Arizona right?
- Isabella Swan: Yeah.
- Jessica Stanley: Aren't people from Arizona supposed to be like, really tan?
- Isabella Swan: Yeah, maybe, that's why they kicked me out.
- Isabella Swan: Everybody's staring.
- Edward Cullen: Not that guy. No he just looked. Breaking all the rules now anyways.
- [looks at Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, and Alice]
- Edward Cullen: Since I'm going to hell
- [slips arm around Bella's shoulder]
- Isabella Swan: How did you get in here?
- Edward Cullen: The window.
- Isabella Swan: Do you do that a lot?
- Edward Cullen: Just the past couple of months.
- Edward Cullen: Uh, yeah this is my room.
- Isabella Swan: ...No bed?
- Edward Cullen: Ah no i don't, i don't sleep.
- Isabella Swan: Ever?
- Edward Cullen: No, not at all.
- Isabella Swan: Ok, hmmm, boy you have so much music, what were you listening to.
- Edward Cullen: It's Debussy.
- Isabella Swan: Clair de Lune is great.
- Edward Cullen: [Edward spins Isabella around and she gives him a look] What?
- Isabella Swan: I can't dance.
- Edward Cullen: [laughs]
- Isabella Swan: ...
- Edward Cullen: Hmm... Well, I could always make you.
- Isabella Swan: I'm not scared of you.
- Edward Cullen: [laughs] Well you really shouldn't have said that.
- Edward Cullen: [he jumps out his bedroom window and lands on a tree] You better hold on tight spidermonkey!
- Edward Cullen: [he climbs up tree]
- Edward Cullen: Do you trust me?
- Isabella Swan: In theory.
- Edward Cullen: Then close your eyes.
- Edward Cullen: [Jumps to next tree and climbs to top]
- Edward Cullen: [Bella gasps] What?
- Isabella Swan: This isn't real. This kind of stuff just doesn't exist.
- Edward Cullen: It does in my world.
- Isabella Swan: Hey dad I have a date with Edward Cullen.
- Charlie Swan: He's a little old for ya, isn't he?
- Isabella Swan: No, uh, he's a junior I'm a junior. I thought you liked the Cullens.
- Charlie Swan: I thought you didn't like any of the boys in town.
- Isabella Swan: Edward doesn't live in town, technically. He's right outside.
- Charlie Swan: He is?
- Isabella Swan: Yeah he wanted to meet you, officially.
- Charlie Swan: Alright,
- [cocks gun]
- Charlie Swan: bring him in.
- Isabella Swan: Could you be nice? He is - he's important.
- [Charlie draws invisible circle around his head, as to be a halo]
- Isabella Swan: [to Esme, as Rosalie hits the baseball almost as loud as the thunder crash] Okay, now I see why you need the thunder.
- [Bella watches Rosalie hurtle around the bases like a runaway express train]
- Isabella Swan: But it's gotta be a home run, right?
- Esme Cullen: [shakes her head] Edward's very fast.
- Isabella Swan: It's like diamonds... you're beautiful.
- Edward Cullen: Beautiful? This is the skin of a killer, Bella... I'm a killer.
- Isabella Swan: I don't believe that.
- Edward Cullen: That's because you believe only the lies... the camouflage. I'm the world's most dangerous predator, Bella. Every thing about me invites you in. My voice, my face, even my smell. As if I would need any of that... as if you could out run me... as if you could fight me off. I'm designed to kill.
- Isabella Swan: I don't care.
- Edward Cullen: I've killed people before.
- Isabella Swan: It does not matter.
- Edward Cullen: I wanted to kill you at first. I've never wanted a human's blood so much, before.
- Isabella Swan: I trust you.
- Edward Cullen: Don't.
- Edward Cullen: That's what you dream about? Being a monster?
- Isabella Swan: I dream about being with you forever.
- Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [while Edward is sucking the venom and blood out of Bella] Edward, stop. Her blood is clean. You're killing her. Stop. Find the will.
- Isabella Swan: [freaking out] You can't leave me!
- Edward Cullen: Shh... Where else would I go?
- [he leans in to kiss her forehead]
- Edward Cullen: Hold on tight, spidermonkey.
- [climbs up tree]
- Edward Cullen: Do you trust me?
- Isabella Swan: In theory...
- Edward Cullen: Close your eyes.
- [Jumps to next tree and climbs to top]
- Edward Cullen: [Bella gasps] What?
- Isabella Swan: This isn't real. This kind of stuff just doesn't exist.
- Edward Cullen: It does in my world.
- [Edward enters Bella's room via her window]
- Isabella Swan: [flustered] Mom, can I talk to you later?
- Renee Dwyer: Come on, we gotta talk boys! Are you being safe?
- [Bella quickly hangs up the phone, embarrassed]
- Edward Cullen: Why didn't you move with your mother and Phil?
- Isabella Swan: Well, Phil's a minor league baseball player, and uh, he travels a lot, and my mom s-stayed home with me, but I knew it made her unhappy, so I figured I'd stay with my dad for a while.
- Edward Cullen: And now you're unhappy.
- Isabella Swan: ...no.
- Edward Cullen: I'm sorry, I'm just - I'm just trying to figure you out, you're very difficult for me to read.
- Isabella Swan: Hey did you get contacts?
- Edward Cullen: No.
- Isabella Swan: Your eyes were, black the last time I saw you, and now they're like, golden brown...
- Edward Cullen: Yeah I know it's the uh, it's the flourescents, um. Ugh.
- [walks away]
- Edward Cullen: [to Bella as they sense the trackers arriving] Put your hair down.
- Rosalie Hale: [scoffing] Like that'll work. I can smell her from across the field.
- [Alice and Jasper come in through the window]
- Alice Cullen: Hi Bella! I'm Alice.
- [Alice walks up to Bella and hugs her]
- Alice Cullen: Oh, you do smell good.
- Edward Cullen: Alice, what are you - ?
- Alice Cullen: It's okay. Bella and I are going to be great friends.
- Dr. Carlisle Cullen: Sorry, Jasper's our newest vegetarian. It's still a little difficult for him.
- Jasper Hale: Pleasure to meet you.
- Alice Cullen: It's okay Jasper, you won't hurt her.
- Edward Cullen: [to Bella] All right, I'm going to take you on a tour of the rest of the house.
- Alice Cullen: Well, I'll see you soon.
- Isabella Swan: Okay.
- Esme Cullen: [gushing] So CUTE!
- Dr. Carlisle Cullen: I think that went well.
- Esme Cullen: [to Rosalie] Clean this up. Now!
- Edward Cullen: Shall we?
- Isabella Swan: You're serious?
- Edward Cullen: Oh, why not?
- Isabella Swan: [sighs] Hmm.
- Edward Cullen: See? You're dancing.
- Isabella Swan: [giggles] At prom. Edward why did you save me? You should've just let the venom spread. I could be like you by now.
- Edward Cullen: You don't know what you're saying. You don't want this.
- Isabella Swan: I want YOU. Always.
- Edward Cullen: I'm not gonna end your life for you.
- Isabella Swan: I'm dying already. Every second I get closer, older.
- Edward Cullen: That's the way it's supposed to be.
- Isabella Swan: Alice said she saw me like you. I heard her.
- Edward Cullen: Her visions change.
- Isabella Swan: Yeah, based on what people decide. I've decided.
- Edward Cullen: [somewhat bitterly] So that's what you dream about, becoming a monster.
- Isabella Swan: I dream about being with you, forever.
- Edward Cullen: Forever?
- [Bella nods]
- Edward Cullen: And are you ready right now?
- Isabella Swan: [hesitant] Yes.
- Edward Cullen: [sighs] Is it not enough, just to have a long and happy life with me?
- Isabella Swan: [after a second of thought] Yeah. For now.
- Isabella Swan: [voiceover] No one will surrender tonight, but I won't give in. I know what I want.
- Edward Cullen: [pushes microscope towards Bella] Ladies first.
- Isabella Swan: You were gone.
- Edward Cullen: Yeah, um, I was out of town for a couple of days, personal reasons.
- Isabella Swan: [pushes microscope towards Edward] Uh, prophase.
- Edward Cullen: Do you mind if I uh, look?
- [Bella shakes her head]
- Edward Cullen: It's prophase.
- Isabella Swan: Like I said.
- Edward Cullen: So you enjoying the rain?
- [Bella laughs]
- Edward Cullen: What?
- Isabella Swan: You're asking me about the weather?
- Edward Cullen: Yeah, I-I guess I am.
- Isabella Swan: Well, I don't really like the rain. Any cold, wet thing I don't really...
- Edward Cullen: [laughs]
- Isabella Swan: What?
- Edward Cullen: Nothing uh,
- [laughs]
- Edward Cullen: it's uh, anaphase.
- Isabella Swan: You mind if I check?
- Edward Cullen: Sure.
- Isabella Swan: Anaphase.
- Edward Cullen: [smiles] Like I said.
- Isabella Swan: Do you do this a lot?
- Edward Cullen: Just the past couple of months. I like watching you sleep. I find it fascinating.
- Billy Black: See, I told you she'd love it. I'm down with the kids.
- Charlie Swan: Oh, yeah, dude. You're the bomb.
- Isabella Swan: About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn't know how potent that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
- Rosalie Hale: [after Edward asks her to put on Bella's coat to distract James] Why? What is she to me?
- Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [Hands her the coat] Rosalie. Bella is with Edward. She's part of the family now. We protect our family.