sometimes spoke, with unfamiliar cadences and phrases that better fit the style of a turn-of-the-century novel than that of a twenty-first-century classroom.¹⁶⁰ He had skipped the day we'd done blood typing. He hadn't said no to the beach trip 'til he heard where we were going, and what the weather was going to be like. He seemed to know what everyone around him was thinking... except me. He had told me he was a supervillain, that he was Bangkok-dangerous¹⁶¹...
Could the Cullens be vampires?
Well, they were something. Something outside the possibility of rational justification was taking place in front of my incredulous brain. Whether it be Squaw's "cold ones" or my own superhero theory, Fredward Cullen was not human. He was something more... better... faster... stronger...
So then—maybe. That would have to be my answer for now.
And then the most important question of all. What was I going to do if it was true?
If Fredward was a vampire—and that was a very big If—then what should I do? Involving someone else was definitely out. I couldn't even believe it myself; anyone I told would probably have an even harder time buying that big, bold, beautiful Fredward Cullen, hottie of the Forks High School, was a vampire.
Only two options seemed practical. The first was to take his advice: to be smart, to avoid him as much as possible. To cancel our big plans, to go back to ignoring him as far as I was able. To pretend there was an impenetrably thick glass wall between us in the one class where we were forced together. To tell him to leave me alone—forever.



160. Bella is comparing Fredward to a classroom because he is schooling her in the ways of love.
161. Bangkok Dangerous (2020) is a retro-futuristic film set in the early 2000's, about an emotionally withdrawn hitman who learns to love.

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