After encountering yet another bump in the rocky road of her situationship, Bella finds herself on Alice Cullen's doorstep in the middle of the night in the pouring rain.
With Edward simmering down by himself in the mountains for a month, Bella takes to Alice for comfort and companionship. Together they start to bond in unexpected ways and Alice starts to wonder if Bella has had ulterior motives from the beginning.
see another thing about twilight being written by a woman who grew up in a culture that demonizes female sexuality is that edward being so chaste is the perfect catharsis. in a culture where women are expected to be the ones in charge of stopping sexual advances, she writes a story where the female lead is allowed to feel those feelings to their full intensity without fear of crossing a boundary, because it’s the man who prevents it from going further. bella can cuddle in bed with edward every night, have passionate make out sessions, even try to take her own clothes off and beg for sex. she can just be a horny teenager and rely on edward to, unfailingly, not give in.