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Bella moves. It's uneventful. She's not thrilled with the rain.
New kid shows up at the high school the next day. Hello, the high school. Hello, the students in the high school.
Hello, Jessica.
Jessica's very talkative. It's almost hypnotic.
"So what's Arizona like?"
"Well, sunnier."
"I bet! Wow, have you ever seen snow before?"
"On TV."
"Ha ha ha! Oh man is everybody really tan? Do you hang out at the pool all year round ogling boys?"
"I'm a little too gay to ogle boys."
"Oh! Oh wow. Okay. So um, I know this is a really small town, but guess what?" says Jessica.
"What?" asks Bella.
"We actually have a lesbian here! HEY SOLVEI!" Jessica hollers across the entire cafeteria.
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An improbably tiny girl - she can't be more than five feet tall and may be somewhat less - laughs and excuses herself from her busy table and hauls her lunch over to see why she has been summoned.
"Yes, Jessica?"
"Yes, Jessica?"
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"Guess what!" exclaims Jessica.
"I think what she wants you to guess is that we are both lesbians? Are we both lesbians?" says Bella dryly.
Jessica giggles.
"I think what she wants you to guess is that we are both lesbians? Are we both lesbians?" says Bella dryly.
Jessica giggles.
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"I think it's safe to say we are," says Solvei, with a wryly indulgent smile. "Hello, Fellow Lesbian."
Of all things, she actually dips a small curtsy. And makes it look not only graceful but natural and ordinary, like curtsying is just a thing you do when you meet cute girls. Her knee-length skirt swishes.
Of all things, she actually dips a small curtsy. And makes it look not only graceful but natural and ordinary, like curtsying is just a thing you do when you meet cute girls. Her knee-length skirt swishes.
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Bella thinks that's adorable. "And of course our mutual lesbianhood is all we need to know. We're like oxygen atoms that way. Oxygen atoms who can only complete their reactions in Canada, but still. But since I have somehow learned your name apart from 'fellow lesbian' I might as well introduce myself, I'm Bella."
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"Enchantée," says Solvei. She sets herself and her lunch down at their table. "And what brings you to this fine town, Fellow Lesbian Bella?"
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"Moved in with my dad."
"Her dad is the police chief, you know, Mr. Swan," explains Jessica.
"Her dad is the police chief, you know, Mr. Swan," explains Jessica.
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"Of course. So welcoming you to Forks would be a bit presumptuous of me; I've only lived here since August, myself."
Is that a trace of a foreign accent? It's hard to tell. Hard to place, too, if indeed it is one.
Is that a trace of a foreign accent? It's hard to tell. Hard to place, too, if indeed it is one.
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"I was born here. And have probably spent more time in the town than you, from visiting my dad, albeit you have the advantage in familiarity with the school."
"Solvei's from Thule," explains Jessica. "Originally I mean. She lives with her aunt."
"I see."
"Solvei's from Thule," explains Jessica. "Originally I mean. She lives with her aunt."
"I see."
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"We have a very nice house annoyingly far out of town," laughs Solvei. "Once in a while I convince Ghys to let me have a big party, and the rest of the time I either visit someone or I make friends with the deer."
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"Sounds to me like you stalk them. Those poor deer. Who will save them."
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"Come now. Would I stalk a deer? Look at this face," she says, with a look of comically exaggerated innocence.
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"I bet you would stalk a deer. And probably put flower garlands on it, too, you monster."
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"How dare you accuse me of such crimes! I am innocent! Innocent, I tell you!"
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"Of all days for me to forget how to perform a citizen's arrest! It had to be this one!"
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Eventually, and a bit wheezily:
"I will enjoy my freedom for another day, it seems."
"I will enjoy my freedom for another day, it seems."
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"No, no. If you catch me frolicking with the deer, then my plan has succeeded and I am no longer stalking them."
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"You'd be frolicking. The deer would be helplessly attempting to escape you, obviously."
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She shakes her head firmly. "Not at all. The frolicking and flower garlands only begin once they have accepted my presence."