The song for this chapter is Hot N Cold by Katy Perry (suggested by Melanie)
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This entire week has been a rush of school and writing stuffs, and I don’t believe I have stopped for even a minute to take a breath. However, while I was out getting prints made for my photography class, I managed to check the fanmail PO box, and behold the return address on one of the packages:
From the star herself?! Wowsa, what could it be? You’ll know its mysterious contents soon enough 😀
Anyhows, after my psychology test, I managed to leap into the next chapter in Eclipse: the much-hyped and anticipated Fire and Ice! Usually, when I receive an odd amount of comments or emails from people saying they ‘simply cannnottt waitttt…lulzzz!!1!’ for me to read a certain chapter, I instantly know to be wary. The last time this happened, Bella attempted to extract herself from more than the usual amount of clothing someone removes during wintertime. Now, she and Edward are alone in the mountains in a tent. Whoops. Maybe I should skip this one…
Luckily for me, there’s still someone else to keep them company: probably wary, I’m sure, of leaving them alone. Not like it would matter. As half of the title suggests, there is quite a bit of chill up there: and not even half of it is coming from the vampire. I can say from terrible, horrible, oh-so-memorable experience that cold weather and camping do not mix well. In fact, on one such camping trip, it was so cold that my Boy Scout troop won the Polar Bear Award for actually surviving the night (true story).
Unfortunately for Bella and Edward, there appears to be no such award in Forks. But never fear: Jacob Black is still hanging around as always; and, he is all too eager to make himself useful. In the kind and total selflessness of his heart, he offers himself as a living space heater to Bella Swan, with the pure and noble intentions of simply keeping her warm through the night.
Smooth, fella. Very smooth.
I enjoy this confrontation between Jacob and Edward: partly, I believe, because they are forced to be together and not fight, for the sake of Bella. They really seem to want to kill each other: you can feel it in the tone of their words. But even in the midst of this verbal battle, there’s some type of common goal that they both must work towards, if they want Bella to survive.
I pick up a certain amount of uncertainly in Jacob’s words, something that he doesn’t show much when Bella is listening. I think that deep down, he knows that he will never convince Bella to leave Edward. Somehow, he seems to know this, but he is fighting it: hoping that somehow she will leave the vampires. And he is right: it might better for her to stay with him. I’m sure the prospect of leaving Bella to Jacob, and her staying a human, is quite a conflicting one for Edward. It would easily be better for her to stay a human, in a literal sense: but how long would she survive if Edward was gone? I don’t think he’s willing to take the chance again, after what happened in New Moon.
People have gotten onto me recently because of my disagreements with Jacob, and his obviously intent of stealing Bella from Edward. Admittedly, it is hard for me to see any excuse for Bella to keep both of them hanging on: it is something that is simply not done, in any sort of respectful relationship. But there is a great amount of truth in saying that Edward did leave Bella: he told her he didn’t love her anymore, and he would never return. Team Jacob people tell me all the time that Edward brought Jacob into the relationship because of that: and now, he must suffer the consequences of his actions.
Still, there seems to be a deeper, underlying meaning to this scene in the tent: an analogy, almost, to where Jacob and Edward stand in regards to Bella. Perhaps I am mistaken. But I seem to pick up on certain familiar images. I see Edward in the tent, wanting to help Bella but feeling unable to. And I see Bella not wanting to accept Jacob, but needing him in some way. And in the middle of this, I see Edward accepting the fact that for Bella to survive, he might need a bit of help from Jacob after all.
And isn’t this the core of their problems? Isn’t this what has caused so much friction between the three? As I have said many times, it is the nature of this triangle: you cannot remove one without the other two collapsing upon each other. If Edward was to leave, Bella would surely die. If Jacob were to leave, she would never forgive herself. And like Edward, perhaps I am slowly coming to understand Jacob’s special purpose in both of their lives 😀
Question for the comments: feel free to take guesses at what Christian Serratos sent. Oh, and I’d love to hear about any nightmare camping experiences, sans werewolf space heaters 😀
——NOTES——
– Happy Valentine’s Day to all! I realize this is very anti-climactic for a blog studying a romance novel, but it is 2 AM here and I can’t make a proper card nor flowers 😀
– For anyone who enjoys my music, I just uploaded a new song that you can download for free — click here to listen!
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Cool, first. Anyways, how many people do you think sugested “Hot n’ Cold”? It’s almost a perfect song for this chapter. While reading this chapter myself, I thought about why Edward was being so honest with Jacob. I think it’s because Edward respects Jacob, to an extent.
Happy Valentines Day Twilighters..!!
Christian Serratos says that she LOVES this site..??
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Now to the chapter..yes ur right..this is one complicated triangle,but isn’t that the reason why we totally adore it..YES IT IS.!!
personally..it’s in this chapter that Edward slightly shows his feelings..he never tells bella that he is jelous ou insecure..or that he is hurt when she is with jacob,it’s in this chapter that we kind of realize how much Edward rily must be going through all along the way[in Eclipse!].I cried in this chapter..my mom thought i was INSANE..crying over a characer..but i just did,thinking about How much hurt Edward was deep inside..
personally i think he needs to seriously stop taking up everything on himself..if u start to count just hot many times Edwards felt guilty during the entire Saga we might as well loose track on the count..He is tooo forgiving,altruistic,loving,caring,respecting..and what is the word..yes,Masochistic..but i LOVE HIM..!!
oops..typing errors..
*”‘jealous or’ insecure”
**”just ‘how’ many times..”
🙂
“It’s an uncomfortable truce, isn’t it?”
Obviously, being written from Bella’s point of view, this is not a dream like she thinks, it’s really happening. I’m wondering, how a vampire and werewolf with their super senses did not realize that?
I love how this chapter finally has the two proving that it’s possible for them to be cordial with each other. It’s already been decided that Bella is not going to be able to be without either, no matter how unfair that seems at this point, so it’s at least nice to know that Edward’s probably not going to throw his Volvo at Jacob.
I can’t believe you didn’t mention the third wife! Bella the accident prone martyr wanting to throw herself into the middle of a huge vampire fight as a distraction. That girl’s so silly!
YAY KALEB!! You’re finally through this chapter everyone was so nuts about. Now you’re on to the two I can’t wait for you to comment on… The only time I’ve ever been mad at Edward. I’m so mad at the three of them through the next two chapters, I could … spit? LoL I think I threw the book the first time. (Isn’t that a SIN???)
Shoot, I forgot to comment on Christian. I think she’s given a few autographs to auction off. Call me crazy, but I also think that she’s requested your autograph in return.
I think Carly is right Edward is so open with Jake because he respects him but he also trusts in the love that he and Bella have deep within him self he knows that Bella has a different kind of love for Jake much the same as he and Rose or anyother of the Cullens. Happy V/Day love much XXXX
Ya… So I’m happy you finally got this chapter read… I would comment much much more on this whole topic, but as you said it’s 2am, well 2:30 now and my brain doesn’t seem to want to be that creative… Maybe after I’ve had some sleep… =) Happy Valentines Day!!!
HAPPY V-DAY <3
I just wanted to let you know that we’re TOTALLY on the same page on this chapter. At first it was hard for me to understand why it was so hard for Bella to still hang on to Jacob like that but now i can see that she needs him in her life 🙂 as a friend. she NEEDS him to be her friend. He does complicate that for her but underneath it all you just know that he’s that fun smiling friendly Jacob Black she met before the whole Werewolf Vs. Vampire mess.
I feel like Bella. I am not in any “Team”. I prefer Edward as a “lover” (haha lame i know) and jacob as a BFF =]
oh! and i think Christian sent you a shirt that says ” I SUPPORT THE TWILIGHT GUY” that she designed herself! 😀
i got a strong feeling she sent you something she designed… i can feel it in my feet!
oooh. i wanna what christian sent you. *jealous mode*
oh and about this chapter,it’s my favorite from eclipse. i just love how Edward and Jacob sort of became friends there even for just a moment. i love both guys in this chapter, because it proves that they really love Bella, and each one trying their very hard to fight for her. really love this chapter.
I really like the triangle analogy, that they need each other because if one side is gone, the other two collapse. I hadn’t thought about it like that (and I’ve thought about the triangle quite a bit, trying to get my head around it.) Somehow, it makes lot more sense.
I think there’s a bit of denial going on here. Bella’s in denial about how she feels about Jacob, and about the extent of his feelings for her. She’s convinced that Jacob is nothing more than a friend, so I don’t think she has realised exactly what she is doing by keeping him around, because she is so convinced that it is platonic.
Jacob’s in denial about his chances with Bella when Edward is. Edward’s not in denial – I think he’s better able to see what is going on – but he has moved from being overprotective of Bella, to not sharing his knowledge, his awareness with Bella. He’s not one to take the middle ground, is he? All extremes. Which brings it back to the triangle – it’s existence isn’t all Bella’s fault and it isn’t all Jacob’s fault. Edward is as much responsible for it as they are, for his actions first created Bella’s need for Jacob, and his refusal to share his awareness of what Bella is doing by letting Jacob hang around with Bella is perpetuating it. They all have the choice to destroy that triangle… but for their differing reasons have chosen not to.
She sent you a message asking you to marry her? (joke)
And the love triangle between Edward, Jacob and Bella is a tricky one. But I still do think that there wouldn’t even be a triangle if Jacob accepted that he was just a best friend and not a lover… I can’t believe you didn’t mention the third wife either…. Lol, I can’t think of anything else to put, though I know there was soemthing. Oh well, happy valentines day! 😀
HAPPY V-DAY KELAB, AND EVERYONE ELSE!!!
Ahaha. Hot N Cold? I was just watching the Hillywood Show Twilight Parody with the same song in it. Hilarious. Go watch it. The Cullens dancing… I will never get that image out of my head.
Argh… You used anyhows. Come on, Kaleb. We’ve talked about this.
Ugh, I don’t do camping. I find it hard enough to get to sleep in my own bed, let alone on a tent floor.
Keep the songs coming, by the way. I absolutely love The Grave of Embry Hambric. Really beautiful. Makes me cry half the time. Oh, wow… that’s embarrassing. I have to stop telling people things like that. Ah well, I’m a muso. *shrugs*
I think your wariness was warranted, given Jacob’s involvement. 😀
Oh, my bad. Happy Valentine’s Day! It’s 10 something at night here, so the day’s almost over. I kind of forgot… since it’s Saturday and all I’ve done is watch movies and make cookies… Lame day. Apart from the cookies.
Another great chapter! I think the conversation between Edward and Jacob is one of the best in the entire series. Especially because Bella tells herself she didn’t really hear any of it.
I’ve only been camping once in my life, and it was actually a pretty enjoyable experience. My family went along with a couple of my friends’ families and the weather was beautiful. Except it did get REALLY cold at night, and the outhouse smelled like it hadn’t been cleaned in at least a decade.
I discovered your site only 2 weeks ago and i was mid way into reading Breaking dawn, but i made a promise to read all your blogs on everything you had read so far after i had completed the book. I read everything so fast, that by the time i got to your most recent post i wasn’t even satisfied and i was dying to know what you had thought of this chapter. lol.
anyway just thought i’d throw my two cents in whatever they contribute, not much. But thank you for all the postings, it is really fun to read what you think of each chapter because you seem to notice things i didn’t lo.
I love your site!
Well, at the mention of the Polar Bear Award, I paid little attention to the rest of the blog, b/c I was reminincing about my summer break.
No werewolf space heaters.
In the middle of June, I went camping at both Devil’s Tower and Yellowstone. [Not at once.] With me, my brother, and parents in the tent, it seemed to shrink. A lot. At Devil’s Tower, the wind got so bad, the side of the tent hit me in the face. But that wasn’t really bad, compared to Yellowstone. [Keep in mind, I am a Texan/Louisianian and this was the middle of June.] When it went below freezing, I was pretty surprised. [I was probably wearing shorts while we were there.] As a Girl Scout, my mom thinks I deserve to be in the Polar Bear Club for surviving two freezing nights in June, but….
Anyway, love the site!
This is also an awesome chapter of the book. You get to see into Edward and Jacob’s heads more than you do almost anywhere in the saga. Anyway I agree with Michelle: She sent autograph. Possibly a request for yours… OOOOH I JUST HAD AN IDEA!!!!! You should give away YOUR autograph! Because I think pretty much anyone who reads the site/subscribes to you youtube would like that. And if you’ve already done that or something and I missed it then nevermind…
Michelle(#4) has a good point. I wonder what it would say if S.M. wrote the third book in Edward’s view, and Jacobs. I don’t know if anyone asked but, how was your Valentines Day. Vamps RULE :-)=
haha, nice post. The confrontation in this chapter makes it my favourite out of the entire series. The reason I have been patiently waiting for this since you were only midway through Twilight was that I was sure you would give us an amazing, deep, analytical post that would open my eyes to a new aspect of the scene, and you did not let me down!
PS. I don’t think I said, I got a green light-up gnome for Yuletide and I named him after you Kaleb.
YAY!!!! you finally made it to this chapter!! 😀
And i have a winter camping experience that i can share.
2 years ago my pathfinder group decided that we were going to go winter camping. We were going to be sleeping in tents on the lawn of my leaders house. She lives right on the lake, so we get all the cold air coming from the states. that night i didnt get ANY sleep because i was shivvering so badly!!! and we were staying there for 2 NIGHTS!! :P.
My group wanted to go winter camping again the next year, and i gladly said that i would sit out this time 😀
happy reading Kaleb!!!
lol try living in northern Minnesota in the middle of a blizzard with no electricity. It only got about forty below. anyways, I think the package was autographs.
This is an interesting Valentine’s chapter: Bella trapped between her two loves. I’m anxious to know what Christian sent you, but I have no guesses.
You should try to put up a Valentine-themed Twilight Guys Report later (in between plans with a girlfriend we don’t know about 🙂 ).
I love your thoughts on this chapter, but I’m more anxious about chapter 26. It’s very emotional, and I want to know what you think. I sent in a song suggestion for it!!!
There’s something very important and NON-spoilerish you should no about the end of Eclipse. The epilogue is …different from Twilight and NM. It deserves its own post/song (especially song) from the last thoughts on the whole book. You’ll see what I mean when you get there.
I have a camping horror story! When I was just a little young-in 6th grader my class took a camping trip (in actual tents, with actual outhouses) in the beginning of April. One would think it would be warm in April… but not if you live in Michigan. Our paper-thin tents contained NO heat at I woke up at 2 in the morning shivering. I put on every sweatshirt, blanket, coat and pair of socks I had but I was still freezing. Our teacher started a fire and everyone ran to it. You’d have to turn your front to the fire, get it warm, then turn to get your back warm. Terrible!
haha, everyone who gives a camping story thinks they had such a terrible time. I actually enjoy camping once in awhile, and every winter with my girl guide group we go to this cabin for a winter camp. Now, when it’s a cabin you’d think it would be fine, cause you’re inside. But this cabin is literally just 4 walls and a roof, and no insulation, and made out of logs. Plus we had a woodstove. Keep in mind I live in Canada, and it was February, and it was about -35 C (-22 F).
The first night we slept inside, and had to keep waking up to stoke the fire, but the second night we stayed outside. We made shelters made out of tarps and rope and fir needles, and stayed outside in that weather. It was completely cold, but it was fun.
It’s not exactly a nightmare camping trip (or even much of a camping trip for that matter) but one night I decided it would be a great idea to use my new tent and camp out outside my dad’s house. All was well until the next night when I decided to do it again. All of my stuff was still in the tent, so I plopped down on my sleeping bag. After a while I looked at the tent walls only to notice that they were coated in spiders. I burst out of the tent after realizing that I had actually left the door open all day, and the spiders must have crawled in. Thus ending my near-the-house camping trips and immunity to arachnophobia.
hmmm i’m bad at guessing so i don’t really have any guesses on christian….hope its something fun though 🙂
glad to hear your thoughts on the chapter, and hope you have a nice valentines day (and singles awareness day ha….) im personally spending mine eating sugar and babysitting and catsitting….i think i might tow along my twilight book though….its been a few weeks since ive read it because i took a break to read pride and prejudice and other love themed books but i really wanna get back to twilight…haha sorry for the randomness 🙂
I like this chapter because we do get a better understanding/insight into both Edward & Jacob’s minds.
At first I really hated the silly love triangle, it just made me mad (and didn’t help how much Jacob bugged me & made me mad w/his manipulative ways) but now I’m over it. Team Edward!
I’ll be waiting to waiting to read your thoughts on the next few chapters because both Bella & Jacob really make me mad. I love reading your blogs
on the different chapters you always have different insights & thoughts that I never thought of & most of the time I agree w/you! You’re awesome Kaleb.
As for the thing from CS I have no idea! Maybe an autograph for another contest?
I have never really thought about it that way…with the triangle falling in….
I was listening to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5ss4awsKv4&NR=1
This is Linkin Parks-In Between
This fits this response to Fire and Ice. They are needed to balance each other out. I didn’t really get that from the poem until reading this….
Without one it is hard for Bella to stay sustained. I think the reason Bella can not come to realizing she might love Jacob, is because what she has with Edward is oh, so unique….
Valentines Day is also the last day that Bella and Jacob really had a normal human to human time together. I think that is hard for Jacob to come by; due to the fact that he was human and didn’t have to involve Bella in all of the Super Natural things that have happened. I think that he might wonder if he is any better because of that or maybe he IS a TINY bit better, because he is not the predator whom has fallen for the prey, but the friend who has fallen for the friend… Of course Edward could say the same thing. Bella did try to be his friend when he was acting utterly strange towards her, but she didn’t know that he WAS a vampire. And from what I know, Edward know more about Bella then Jacob does, and is so willing to give up every thing for her. Jacob cares, but Edward goes the extra mile….
Any ways I likes how you wrote this response, I think it’s my favorite….
-Syd
oh youve reached my favorite chapter!! when i convince people to read the series, and they discover its not all too bad to jump on this bandwagon, i tell them my favorite part is the tent scene in eclipse. i absolutely love jacob and edwards converstaion, each of them kind of unsure, and neither of them trying to impress bella.
i think that christian serratos sent something special for your next youtube contest of awesome =D
Happy Single’s Awareness Day! (Valentine’s Day)
I have never been camping. It’s very sad haha.
I guess she sent… candy hearts!
Haha
You couldn’t have been in Texas and it be that cold…were you? That’s awesome you were a boy scout. How far did you get? Star, light, eagle? It’s just, you seem like you’ve done just about everything. You make your own music, your own stories, your own websites, blogs, movies, you’re reading Twilight, you’re going to college, you were homeschooled…and now we find out you were a boyscout?
My brother earned the Polar Bear through Boy Scouts…and he’s only 13. (It is a lot easier to find cold weather in the mountains, in the winter).
We’ve never had a werewolf in our tent, but we were camping once and had a bear pass by in the night, growling and sniffing about. There was another time we sat a bear in the middle of the day while we were camping in Alaska. True story. We even got it on camcorder: a black bear walking right past our RV.
Then there are all those times (twice or thrice) we’ve been rained out, and our tent has filled with water, and the sleeping bags were soaked.
(next you should please give out an autograph of Stephenie Meyer!!!!!)
I was not in a tent at the time, but it snowed at the grand canyon in april when I was in an RV.
As for this chapter, I really just love the set up it gives for the next few. That’s what I’m looking forward to!
I am a horrible guesser, and I hate surprises, so I’m not going to breach the topic of the letter.
I do, however, have a very memorable camping experience. My friends and I just decided to camp out in my backyard one night. It was freezing,but we were all under a literal mountain of blankets and the tent was kind of small, so body heat took care of the rest.
It was a Saturday night. That weekend I had taken home a stupid mechanical baby for a project in my child care class. The baby was supposed to cry every two hours or so, and there were these keys you had to stick in its back. They were labeled “feed, burp, change…” etc, and whatever the baby needed you had to put in the key.
My baby was broken, and I e-mailed my teacher Friday night saying that it hadn’t cried once. She assured me that it was fine and that there were problems with a lot of the babies and that I didn’t need to worry.
That night, as all four of us were in the tent, we didn’t get to sleep for a while. It was around three when we were all pretty much dead, and then we heard the weirdest sound.
My dad ripped open the tent flap and threw my mechanical baby inside, which was actually crying. I swear, it was a DEMON CHILD. A demon child from the land of the MECHANICAL UNDEAD.
So, naturally, I ripped the battery out and we all went back to sleep.
But I haven’t been camping since. That baby would find me. I don’t exactly look forward to death by fake child rearing.
Definitely–If Bella were to somehow leave or cease to exist, there would definitely be a war, no matter who caused it. Bella, is, undoubtedly, the one person who keeps that relationship between the wolves and vampires hanging in the balance, but also is the source of a lot of its discord. At the very least, Jacob would try to kill Edward (I think Edward feels too condescending toward Jacob to actually take him seriously outside of their relationships with Bella), and that would bring everyone in on it–all the vampires, all the wolves. I think the vamps would win, personally, simply because they’re more experienced and have Edward on their side.
I don’t have such a bad camping experience so much as my general inability to successfully warm-up and stay warm when it comes to things like that. So everyone may be completely fine, but I’ll have a rough time sleeping at night just because I have this silly habit of losing an immense amount of body heat while I sleep, no matter how many layers I have. This was until I got my Thinsulate(r) insulated mummy sleeping bag. It’s beautiful.
Oh, and I don’t know why people were so excited to hear about THIS chapter… I want you to read the NEXT chapter! I am on the edge of my seat, and almost wish you had cheated and read two chapters in one week. I really can’t wait!
Nightmare Camping Story! I was camping with my family for a week and it was pretty sweet, but then the last night these people show up in the camping ground across the road from us. The things they did include but are not limtited to: blocking the path to the bathroom, shouting, camping outside of the grounds they rented, cutting branches off trees (LAW BREAKERS!!!!), having a fire all night, and setting up at nine o’clock P.M. It was awful. Thank goodness it was my last night there.
I am very confused upon the mail form Christian.
Horrific Camping Story!
I was on a girl’s scouts trip to our cabin. We walk in to ind rats & rat poo everywhere. One bathroom for 100 girls!!! 🙁
Let’s just say we left after that. 🙂
one of my favorite chapters of eclipse
happy valentine’s day!
I could have used a werewolf space heater last weekend. Camping in the cold is never a pleasant experience. Unless you have a werewolf of course. Although, I did see Big Foot on that camping trip so who knows what else was out there?
This isn’t quite a nightmare, but I was actually a little scared at the time. I was on a church retreat to a camp, we had cabins, not tents. One night I’d had a fight with my best friend at the time and my boyfriend (and the other guys) had vanished. I stayed out all night, it was very cold but there was a barn and I am not above sleeping in hay. The next morning I was so cold, I couldn’t move. I was somehow positioned towards the east were I saw the most beautiful sunrise I’ve ever seen. So beautiful I actually cried a bit. Suddenly, I hear and Hallelujah chorus. No lie. It seemed to be resonating all around me. IT WASN”T THAT COLD! I seriously thought I was going to die.
The sun was already pretty warm (yay Texas weather) and I slowly crawled to the top of the haystack to see a church choir group singing for no apparent reason in the field surrounding the barn.
It wasn’t all that scary, I was actually rather calm. But it was funny.
Camping story: Outer Banks, North Carolina, Spring Break March.
I was camping in a tent with my daughter and we got a real for true Nor’eastener storm. The wind, the rain, the temps dropping fast, I felt like we had been shipped back in time. We had an inflated mattress for our sleeping bags but it was losing air and the floor of the tent was taking on water. I had paid a little extra for a camping sight near the bathhouse and closer to the ocean shore and it came with an outdoor outlet. Don’t ask me why, but I had packed a hair dryer. I used that hair dryer to heat up the inside of the sleeping bags – zipped together so we could share our warmth – and when the dryer would heat up as if to burn out, I’d turn it off, let it cool down and then start over again when I thought it was safe. All the while making sure the cord didn’t touch the water logged tent floor. I stayed up all night in while it stormed doing that and it kept us from freezing.
I can’t even guess what Christian Serratos sent to you, but that is pretty cool.
and Kaleb, 2 a.m.? tsk tsk. You will get sick if you don’t get enough rest (said the TwilightMOM!)
Happy Valentine’s Day !
I totally agree with you about Jacob.
I hated Jacob all through Eclipse (it just gets worse and more complicated). But you’ll probably feel differently in Breaking Dawn:)
It isn’t right for Bella to keep him around. I know from experience that it just ends up hurting everyone involved. It’s a rather selfish thing to do actually.
I’m totally with you Kaleb!
I love the song you choose for the chapter its one of my favorites. take a look at this Twilight parody with the same song!!!
and silly me I forget to post the link…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MKz0gkcgAo&eurl
also I can’t wait to hear what Christian sent!!!
Hmm Im uessing she sent a pic of her you could raffle off..well thats what I hope
LoL!! I was so busy posting on the chapter, that I really didn’t think about horrid camping stories. You all have got some good ones! I was on a camping trip once, when in itself, was a pretty nice time. I was with Boy Scouts who were kayaking because I’m a certified life guard. You would think that would be the turning point in my story, but oh no…
It was in the middle of the night when a few of the boys decided to try and take a swim. One of them got caught in the current and they woke me and I had to throw myself in after him. I ended up about 1/2 mile downstream by the time I caught him. He knew enough basics to be able to keep his head above the water while he was bouncing around, but he couldn’t get out the current by himself. No one was hurt in the end, but talk about a crazy adrenaline rush, bouncing through rocky river in the middle of the night…
Im guessing Christian sent you an autographed picture of her (or perhaps the entire crew?!) to give away in one of your contests….
As for camping, the only time I’ve gone “camping” was about 8 years ago and we stayed in cabins with real beds and sheets so I can’t exactly relate to Bella’s situation…lol
Happy Valentines Day! <3