We are on Chapter 20 of our countdown that means 5 MORE DAYS! Until the release of New Moon. Join us by reading a chapter a day together. So in order to help pass the time while we wait for New Moon to be released, I will continue to post a thread everyday for each chapter in the book, counting down the days until the official release of the film on November 20th.

Chapter 20: Volterra

“Palazzo dei Priori…Palazzo dei Priori”

“I’d never seen anything more beautiful-even as I ran, gasping and screaming, I could appreciate that.  And the last seven months meant nothing.  And it did not matter if he did not want me.  I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived.”

The race continues! It seems as if they’ve been driving forever, or maybe its me being impatient as hale!

• Pg. 446  Alice bribes the guard…priceless
• Pg. 448  Bella is finally out of the Porsche.  “There was no pathway, no crevice between the close pressed bodies.  I pushed against them furiously, fighting the hands that shoved back.  I heard exclamations of irritation and even pain as I battled my way through, but none were in a language I understood.”  Funny how Bella looses all clumsiness.
• Pg. 451  He’s baaaaaaaack!  And a hot mess too! I think Edward kind of goes a bit mental for a minute.   As Bella runs through the water fountain to stop Edward from stepping into the sunlight she runs dead smack into him.  “No!”  I screamed.  “Edward look at me!”  He wasn’t listening.  He smiled very slightly.  He raised his foot to take the step that would put him directly in the path of the sun.  I slammed into him so hard that the force would have hurled me to the ground if his arms hadn’t caught me and held me up.  It knocked my breath out of me and snapped my head back.  His dark eyes opened slowly as the clock tolled again.  He looked down at me with quiet surprise.  “Amazing,” he said, his exquisite voice full of wonder, slightly amused.  “Carlisle was right.”  “Edward,”  I tried to gasp, but my voice had no sound.  “You’ve got to get back into the shadows.  You have to move!”  He seemed bemused.  His hand brushed softly against my cheek.  He didn’t appear to notice that I was trying to force him back.  I could have been pushing against the alley walls for all the progress I was making.  The clock tolled, but he didn’t react.  It was very strange, for I knew we were both in mortal danger.  Still, in that instant, I felt well.  Whole.   I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again.  My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin.  It was like there had never been a hole in my chest.  I was perfect-not healed, but as if there had been no wound in the first place.  Oh Bella.  Why do you do this to us?  We are supposed to be mad as all hale at Edward right now, but alas…we love him!
• Pg. 456  Enter Jane…smh.  After Edward snaps out of his temporary mental state, he tries to be slick and make light of the situation with the Volturi guards, but it doesn’t hardly work and after the back and forth exchange we between Edward and the guards, Jane steps in and forces everyone, (Alice included who has now joined Edward and Bella in the alley) to follow go into the Volturi’s underground kingdom.   
• Pg. 459  Finally, a proper reunion.  “Edward held me tightly.  He reached his free hand across his body to hold my face, too, his smooth thumb tracing across my lips.  Now and then, I felt his face press into my hair.  I realized that this was the only reunion we would get, and I clutched myself closer to him.  For now it felt like he wanted me, and that was enough to offset the horror of the subterranean tunnel and the prowling vampires behind us.  It was probably no more than guilt-the same guilt that compelled him to come here to die when he’d believed that it was his fault that I’d killed myself.  But I felt his lips press silently against my forehead, and I didn’t care what the motivation was.  At least I could be with him again before I died.  That was better than a long life.”  Someone pass me a tissue quick!

Who is past annoyed with Edward right now?  All this seems hardly worth it, this is beyond insane; I’m really surprised miss Isabella hasn’t had a nervous breakdown already, and now this Jane character?  This is too much!  Would you go through all this? And be truthful, remember her age, what would your parents do?  Mine would’ve locked me up and threw away the key when I got back and Edward would be a memory!