Alright, folks. It has been slow-going on Chapter Fourteen. What a shame, I know.

I know what I'm doing with the chapter, it's just hard pulling the whole thing together the way that I want it to look. Since there are only four of you actively following my blog, how about a summarized preview? It'll probably help me more to write all this out. :-)

Heading back to the Cullen house, Edward has to face the whole family. (Perhaps a surprise in who is pissed off most.) The conversation takes an interesting turn, when Carlisle basically says that Edward's enthrallment is based entirely on his vampiric nature - and he needs to rise above it just as he did in the newborn days. Edward resents this, because the pull to Bella is so strong. To prove his point, Carlisle points out that Edward hasn't known Bella long enough for his being drawn towards her to be based on mind or personality. It basically turns into a verbal who-knows-Bella-better-battle. One guess who the winner will be.

Bella wakes up and deals with the events of the previous day as she readies for her shower. At school, she finds herself noticing the physically attractive qualities of her classmates more than she ever has before. However, lunch brings a surprise when Alice and Jasper inform her that Edward was in her room the previous night. Bella is angry, embarrassed, disgusted, and Edward basically becomes her least favorite person on the planet.

Her next visit to the Cullen home becomes a long heated discussion between Bella, Edward and Rosalie and about the choices that Edward and Rosalie have made for themselves. The conversation ends when Edward reveals that Alice called them in to deal with her attackers in Port Angeles. Misunderstanding, Bella believes that the two men are now dead because of her and she runs.

That's probably a good place to end the chapter... but I do know what happens next. :)

Anyone care to offer up their thoughts while I continue to struggle to put this together as an entertaining read?