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New Moon starts with Bella attempting to keep her 18th birthday a secret from the Cullen family. She is very upset by her birthday because her turning 18 makes her older than Edward. She and Edward are still arguing over her becoming a vampire, and Bella doesn't want to be much older than Edward when she changes (Bella is certain that she will eventually change). So when Alice throws her a surprise birthday party Bella goes along with it just to make Alice happy, and while opening a gift she gets a paper cut. Edward is able to save her from his brother, Jasper, who has trouble with the rule of no human blood, by hearing his thoughts and pulling Bella out of the way in time. Edward always hates how he seems to put Bella in danger all the time because of what he is and the birthday party showed him just how dangerous vampires can be. Edward makes the decision to leave in order to save Bella. He convinces Bella he doesn't want her anymore and leaves Forks to travel to California with the rest of the Cullens. After leaving Forks, Edward mostly just lives a depressed and meaningless life curled in a ball, though he does try his hand at tracking so that when he finds Victoria, James's mate, he will be able to track her but he was unsuccessful. Meanwhile, back in Forks, Bella has gone completely numb except for the hole torn in her from Edward. Every night there are nightmares that make her life miserable. Finally, when Charlie is threatening to send Bella to Jacksonville, she goes becomes friends with Jacob Black so that they can fix a pair of motorcycles. Bella wants the motorcycles because she recently discovered that when she puts herself in danger, Edwards voice comes into her head to lead her out of danger. There friendship comes to a sudden halt one day when Jacob becomes sick. After Jacob should be better, he still refuses to see Bella until eventually one night he comes to visit her and tell her of his secret. After that, Bella is in danger once more and against Edward's wishes. After some months of living in a ball, Edward receives a phone call from Rosalie. Rosalie tells him that Alice had gone back to Forks because Bella is dead. Shocked, Edward calls Bella's house and asks to speak to Charlie, but Jacob Black answers the phone and says that Charlie is at the funeral,.which leads him further to believe that Bella was dead.Unwilling and unable to live without her, Edward rushes to Volterra, Italy and to the Volturi the "royal family" of vampires in order to ask them to kill him. When they refuse, Edward decides to force their hand by attempting to expose himself as a vampire inside their own city, which would lead to his immediate execution. Bella, who rushes to Italy with Alice as soon as they realize what Edward is doing, stops him just before he steps into the light. But even though he has not exposed himself, and Bella hasn't gone completely insane, they still aren't safe. Edward has exposed their secret to a human and by their laws she must die or become a vampire herself. To save them, Alice shows Aro that Bella will be changed soon enough...despite Edward's protests--and they are finally allowed to leave. Back in Forks, Bella at last uncovers that Edward really does love her as much as she loves him, and gathers the Cullens, who have moved back, in a meeting where the family votes on whether or not Bella should be changed into one of their kind and enter their family. The majority votes affirmatively, but they all agree that it should not happen until after she graduates from high school. Edward is furious, but later agrees to change Bella himself if she will marry him first (Bella does not like this). Later, Jacob reminds Edward that the Cullens are not allowed to bite or kill a human without violating the treaty. So Bella and Edward will have to leave before Bella becomes a vampire.
