T.01.11 Complications

In Which Being In The Dark Is Annoying

After a long morning of Q&A, Bella and Edward go to Bio, where they watch a movie in the dark. It's a horrible experience. At least it was for me because I had to read how they can't touch each other. It's some kind of actual , physiological torture to sit near each other in the dark. Oh, the starcrossedness or something.

Wait, why can't they touch each other? They've touched before (remember? electricity?). Supposedly it boils down to Edward being a psychopathic monster who would kill her if she touches him while there are no photons bouncing off his milky, stone skin. Or maybe it's the room full of witnesses. I guess this is what PG sexual tension looks like, and it's ugly. When they leave Bio, however, Edward touches her face. I was waiting for the ensuing blood-bath, but was disappointed. This angst pile is tedious at best and while I make fun of the silly rules that SM seems to have dropped into this universe, it doesn't make any kind of rational sense for them to torture each other like this when there are literally only two options: Bella becomes a vampire or they stop being together (bloodbath or not).

Bella goes to gym and is clumsy. Mike is unrealistically cool with the whole situation. I miss Mike, he didn't subject me to long dark angst filled classes. Oh, and Psychic powers are very lazy. Not going to rant again. Having a hard time paying attention to details in the descriptions because I'm frustrated with the facts as presented. Plus my already tenuous grammar is slipping. Edward reveals that every dude in school is secretly hot for Bella. She plays coy. I grind my teeth. Oy.

You know what else is lazy? Emoting with eyes. Hope your livers are ready.

• eyes = shrewd
• eyes = burned with sincerity
• eyes = playful
• eyes = measuring
• eyes = topaz again.
• eyes = dark
• eyes = ambivalent

Doesn't make the pain go away, does it? No. Not even a little.

The next day is a photocopy of the dark angst, face touch after class routine.  Statues rubbing your face wouldn't seem like it would be that enjoyable, but I don't know how to test that theory without looking really stupid.. Also, the question duties have shifted to Edward, who has a bottomless appetite for the mundane answers we get from Bella.

Thankfully, Jacob and Billy show up to disrupt the Q&A.

SumUp: C
It's the same as yesterday, only more so. Can't penalize for telepathy, but I can be annoyed by the darkness and eye-emoting. I also miss Mike, even as flat a character as he is.