In Which I Beg For Sweet Release From Breaking Dawn: Chapter 6 -- Distractions · 11:43am Jun 27th, 2018
Edward keeps Bella busy on the island for days, with things like snorkeling and hiking and birdwatching, and she’s tired a lot. One night, Bella suggests waiting a little more for her to be turned; she wants to try out Dartmouth a bit, stay human for longer than she’d expected. Why? So she and Edward can bang some more. Hate hate hate.
At the end of their conversation, Bella yawns widely, prompting Edward to comment that she’s been sleeping like the dead ever since they arrived. Bella’s surprised; she’s been having nightmares, and she’s usually restless during nightmares. The nightmares are similar to the first one she had of an immortal child, only the child now is human.
That night, she has a dream of her and Edward having sex again (which, thankfully, we don’t see). And when she wakes up, she starts crying because it was only a dream. Edward asks her what was wrong.
“Tell me, Bella,” he pleaded, eyes wild with worry at the pain in my voice.
But I couldn’t. Instead I clutched my arms around his neck again and locked my mouth with his feverishly. It wasn’t desire at all — it was need, acute to the point of pain.
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Edward reluctantly gives her pity sex. When she awakes the next morning…
I was lying across Edward’s chest, but he was very still and his arms were not wrapped around me. That was a bad sign.
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Edward managed to avoid hurting her during the night, but her nightgown’s ripped to shreds and the bed frame’s been wrecked. Still, it’s easier for him to control himself now. Edward makes her breakfast — eggs, sunny-side up. She’s been going through a lot of eggs in the past week. Bella writes it off to the place giving her an appetite.
The cleaning crew arrives to tidy the house. One of them, Kaure, looks at Bella with terrified eyes. Edward explains that she’s part Ticuna Indian, and in her legends, the Libishomen is a blood-drinking demon who preys on women. She suspects Edward’s one and he’s going to kill Bella. I wish.
Once the cleaners leave, Bella has another meal, wonders why she’s so hungry, and then they decide to “work off the calories” with EVEN MORE SEX. Sweet criminy, is all this sex annoying. It’s like, rather than actually creating a plot, Meyer just stuffed in sex scenes and yet tried to be clean about it by having them take place off-screen. You know, if you want a sex scene, just go ahead and put in a damn sex scene. Don’t pussyfoot around. Here’s a relevant quote from Yahtzee Croshaw:
Rap, after all, is no less worthy than regular poetry as a cultural medium. More so, perhaps. If you want to bone someone, I’ve never understood why you can’t just come out with it, rather than dance around the issue for fifty stanzas. At least hip-hop tends to be direct with its subject matter. It’s just unfortunate that the subject matter is almost always guns, whores, and whores getting shot with guns.
Sigh. The saga of padding continues.
Clinginess Meter: 18
It really says something about this series that it's been three solid books before we get to anything greater than kissing, and you don't get to see it.
Not, I'm sure, that we would actually want to (god, can you imagine how that would look?), it's the principle of the thing, like you said.
Is the woman terrified by the possibility of bloodsucking demons, or is she just thinking, "Holy shit, they broke the bed"?