And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.
If you’ve read Twilight, you should read Midnight Sun. It’s Twilight, rewritten from Edward’s perspective. It was supposed to be a book, but it leaked. The awesome thing is that instead of pissing and moaning (which she did), the author accepted that it happened and posted it on her website for free.
I haven’t gotten far into it, but this part is tits. The first time Bella walks into the classroom, she stumbles over her feet because of how gorgeous Edward is. All you read is how Edward uncomfortably grips the table. Later on he tells her it was because she smelled so good. Here’s what he meant:
Bella Swan walked into the flow of the heated air that blew toward me from the vent.
Her scent hit me like a wrecking ball, like a battering ram. There was no image violent enough to encapsulate the force of what happened to me in that moment.
In that instant, I was nothing close to the human I’d once been; no trace of the shreds of humanity I’d managed to cloak myself in remained.
I was a predator. She was my prey. There was nothing else in the whole world but that truth.
There was no room full of witnesses—they were already collateral damage in my head. The mystery of her thoughts was forgotten, for she would not go on thinking them much longer.
I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.
I hadn’t imagined such a scent could exist. If I’d known it did, I would have gone searching for it long ago. I would have combed the planet for her. I could imagine the taste…
Thirst burned through my throat like fire.
