disclaimer: this isn’t meant to follow the books exactly – realize that this is a real life experiance, so no, it won’t follow the book exactly. also, if you’re here to rant about how you hate the book there’s no point. :)
So you want to be Bella… well guess what? You really, really don’t.
I used to be like any other teenage girl. I wanted to be Bella Swan, wanting an Edward of my own, someone I could always trust, always love, and be with, forever. Someone I could love, that would love me back just as much, and someone who I’d always be 100% comfortable with.
What I forgot was about Jacob.
In my story I found my Edward. He’s perfect in every way that I want him to be, and he’s wonderful for me. I love him, and I trust him limitless amounts. He’s everything I want, and everything I need. He loves me, and he’s amazingly romanic, and me, being Bella, am a hopeless romantic. If we’re following the series, let’s skip Edward leaving, and me meeting Jacob, let’s just say Jacob becomes much more apparent, and guess what happens when Jacob realizes what’s happened to his Bella? That’s right. A huge war.
And sure, I’m not talking a huge werewolf gang fight against a clan of vampires here, but you get the point. My best friend, was not one bit happy with Edward. I was stuck in the middle, while I watched Edward and Jacob fight it out. My Edward reacted just the way Edward did – calmly, reasonably, but he still wanted me for himself. Jacob on the other hand, got more and more angry with me, and I got more frustrated with him. Jacob ended up becoming really pushy on me, holding my hand and other things that I didn’t really want him to do, and yet, I still loved him like the best friend he always was. Edward was getting mad at me for feeling this way, and more mad at the way Jacob was behaving.
In the end? In the book Jacob runs away and breaks off all ties with Bella. In real life, my Jacob and I broke off our friendship. Edward was happy about his win, Jacob is completely unhappy with the result.
Jacob and I won’t ever be the same again, it’s just how things turned out. So believe me when I say you don’t want to be Bella Swan. You end up trapped between someone you love, and someone who is your best friend. You can’t really do anything to help either side, and there’s only one side happy at the end of the whole thing.
It sucks to be Bella.