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CAST

Bella swan – Bethany sristi Roy

das

Edward Cullen- Marcus Vincent

Alice Cullen – Divyanshi

Chatterjee

Emmett Cullen – Veer Kapoor

Jasper hale – Rishaan Ray

Rosalie hale – Samaira Bejdas

Charlie swan – Som Appayya

Reneé Swan – Shivangi Saha

Phil – Praganya Ginodia

Billy Black – NAMRATA
Jacob black – Karan Dugar

Esme Cullen – Rigel Ghosh Roy

Carlisle Cullen – Priyaan
ERIC - MANAN
Narrator – Aarushi Chakraborty

Ensemble: Manan, Megharonjoni, Naffi

ACT I
TWILIGHT – written by Stephanie
Meyer

Narrator : I'd never given much

thought to how I would die.. But dying in
the place of someone I love seems like a
good way to go.. So I can't bring myself to
regret the decision that brought me here to
die... the decision to leave home.

BELLA'S MOTHER, RENE, mid 30's --exits

their house --it's
 low rent for this ritzy neighborhood.
Rene is eclectic,
scattered, anxious, more best friend
than parent. She
thrusts a cell phone at Bella.
RENE
It won't work again, baby.

BELLA
You put it on hold.

RENE
I did?
BELLA
Look. You also called Mexico.
Rene pushes her playfully, they
laugh.
RENE
I'll figure it out. You gotta be able
to reach me and Phil on the road -
I love saying that - on the road
BELLA: Very romantic
 PHIL, 31, good looking with an
athlete's body, exits the
house, carrying Bella's three
suitcases with ease.
PHIL : If you call crappy motels,
backwater
towns and ballpark hot dogs
romantic.
He puts his Phoenix Desert Dogs baseball
hat on Rene's head with
a
kiss. Phil's love of Rene reassures
Bella. Phil heads to the old
station wagon to load the luggage,
while Rene slips her arm
through Bella's, clinging to her as
they walk to car.

RENE
Now, you know if you change your
mind, I'll race back here from
wherever the game is.
 But Rene's strained expression tells
us what a great
sacrifice that would be. Bella forces a
smile.

BELLA
I won't change my mind, mom.

RENE
You might. You've always hated
Forks.

BELLA
It's not about Forks, it's about
Dad. I mean, two weeks a year, we
barely know each other.

(off Rene's still worried

look)
Mom, I want to go. I'll be fine.
But as Rene hugs Bella, we see the
truth on BELLA'S FACE
dread, doubt, regret. Off Bella,
struggling to keep her
 facade up as she climbs into the back
seat of the car..

ACT II
Bella sits next to her uniformed
father, police chief CHARLIE
SWAN, 40's. Taciturn,
introverted like Bella. Their
strained
silence contrasts Bella's
relationship with her mother.
Beat.

CHARLIE
Your hair's longer.

BELLA
I cut it since last time I
saw you.
 CHARLIE
Guess it grew out again.

She just nods. Silence.

CHARLIE
How's your mom?

BELLA
Good.

More silence. Yikes. They

pass a SIGN: �The City Of Forks
Welcomes You - Pop.
3246.� Bella sighs.
 As the cruiser drives
through, Bella takes in this
logging town
-
every storefront has a
wood carving. The Timber
Museum's sign is
two loggers sawing a
stump. The

The cruiser pulls up to the

old two-story house. A woodshed
full
of firewood. There's a
small boat in the garage, fishing
gear, an
old buoy. Bella climbs
out... home.
ACT III
 Bella and Charlie carry in
her bags. The house isn't stylish
(the only new thing here is
a Flat Screen T.V.), but it's
comfortable, lived-in. Lots
of fishing memorabilia; photos
of Charlie fishing with
Quileute Indian BILLY BLACK.

Handmade cards to
�Daddy� and photos of Bella.
She winces at
herself, age 7, in a tutu,
sitting stubbornly on the
ground.

CHARLIE
I put Grandpa's old desk in
your
 room. And I cleared some
shelves
in the bathroom.
BELLA
(grimacing)
That's right. One
bathroom.

Bella's eye lands on a

PHOTO of a much younger
Charlie and Rene, on vacation,
beaming with love.

CHARLIE
I'll just put these up in
your room
-
 BELLA
I can do it
They both reach for the
bags, bumping one another
awkwardly.
Bella backs off, letting
Charlie carry the bags upstairs.

ACT IV

An antique rolltop desk

sits in a corner. The room is
filled with
childhood remnants that
have seen better days. As she
unpacks her
CD case, loneliness finally
overwhelms her. She sits heavily
on
 the edge of the bed, tears
threatening..
.
Then we hear a HONK
outside. Bella runs across the
hall and looks
out the window to see
11 OUTSIDE - A FADED RED
TRUCK, CIRCA 1960 pulls up... 11
Bella exits to find Charlie
greeting the driver, JACOB
BLACK,
16, Quileute Indian,
amiable with long black hair, and
hints of
childish roundness in his
face. The two of them help
Jacob's
 father, BILLY BLACK (from
the photos), into a wheelchair.

CHARLIE
Bella, you remember Billy
Black.
BELLA NODS
BILLY
Glad you're finally here.
Charlie
hasn't shut up about it
since you
told him you were coming.

CHARLIE
Keep exaggerating, I'll
wheel you
down the hill.
 BILLY
Right after I ram you in
the ankles.

Billy takes several rolls at

Charlie, who dodges. Jacob
shakes
his head at their two
fathers as he shyly approaches
Bella.

JACOB
I'm Jacob. We made mud
pies
together when we were
little kids.
 BELLA
Yeah... I think I remember..
.
(re: the dads)
Are they always like this?

JACOB
It's getting worse with old
age.

Charlie then pats the hood

of the truck, addressing Bella
-

CHARLIE
So what do you think of
your
 homecoming gift?

BELLA
No way. The truck is for
me?

CHARLIE
Just bought it off Billy,
here.

JACOB
I rebuilt the engine and -

BELLA
It's perfect!
She beams. It's the first
genuine smile we've seen on her.
 She rushes to the truck.
Jacob eagerly joins her.

JACOB
Okay, so you gotta double
pump the
clutch when you shift, but
-

He hands her the keys as

she climbs in.

BELLA
Maybe I can give you a
ride to school.

JACOB
 I go to school on the
reservation.

BELLA
Too bad. Would've been
nice to
know at least one person.

As she starts up the truck

we MATCH CUT
- ACT V
Loud, belching and turning
heads as Bella parks, mortified.
All
eyes are on her as she
climbs out of her truck and steps
in
a
 PUDDLE, soaking her
sneakers. She slinks toward
school, as we
begin
-
-- Bella (never without her
IPOD) makes her way thru kids
who
stare openly; a few brave
ones say hi. They're all talking
about her. This is her hell.
-- Bella wanders the
walkways looking for room
numbers, lost.
-- Constant stares at Bella,
the outsider..
.
 SERIES ENDS when a
sweet, nerd-cute, motor mouth
boy, ERIC,
appears in her path.

ERIC
You're Isabella Swan, the
new girl. Hi.
I'm Eric. The eyes and ears
of this
place. Anything you need.
Tour guide,
lunch date, shoulder to cry
on.

Bella just looks at him. Is

he for real?

BELLA
 I'm kind of the �suffer in
silence� type.

ERIC
Good headline for your
feature
-
I'm on the paper, and
you're news,
baby, front page.

8.
BELLA
I -- no, I'm not news -- I'm,
seriously,
not at all
-
 ERIC
Whoa, chillax. No feature.

BELLA

(relieved)
Would you mind just
pointing me
toward Mr. Varner's class?

He leads her away,

enjoying the attentive stares, as
she cringes
from them
-
 ERIC
You've missed a lot of the
semester,
but I can hook you up -
tutor, cliff
notes, medical excuse..

Bella : UMM THANKS BUT I CAN

HANDLE
BELLA AND ERIC EXIT
ACT V
NARRATOR : THERE IS STILL ONE MORE
PERIOD LEFT : BIO. BELLA TRUDGED TO
CLASS AND FOUND ONLY ONE SEAT EMPTY.
THE SEAT WAS BESIDE A MYSTERIOUS BOY,
PALE WHITE IN SKIN AND SOMEHOW
BEAUTIFUL. HIS PERFECT FEATURES HAD
ALMOST STARTLED BELLA. HE MUST BE THE
EDWARD CULLEN EVEYONE WAS TALING
ABOUT. EDWARD -- his back to her, sitting
at a front table. But as
she passes Edward's table..
 SLOW MOTION -- the breeze she
creates when she passes lifts a piece of
paper next to Edward. We're still on his
back as he inhales --then abruptly stiffens.
He grabs onto the edge of the table,
crumbling it slightly. No one notices. ON
EDWARD'S FACE -he slowly looks up at her,
his eyes coal
black with repulsion, fury. If looks
could literally kill..
Bella knocks someone's book bag off
their chair. Replaces it,
mumbling an apology. Then slinks
reluctantly into her seat.
Edward jerks away from her to the
extreme edge of his chair.
Bella glances at Edward who averts his
face, holding a hand over
his nose as if he smells something
horrible.
Bella, shrinking, subtly sniffs the air,
smells nothing.
Then she sniffs her hair. It's fine.
She's perplexed.
BELLA: Rude *mumbles*
 Bell rings and Edward runs
out
Bella stays in her seat for many
moments and then lights turn off

ACT VI

Edward climbs into a shiny new silver Volvo

with the Cullens,
while Bella, upset, hurries to her
truck. The many eyes still
watching her add insult to injury. ...
Finally, she reaches
-- and closes the door. Her eyes well...
but she fights it,
getting mad.
BELLA: Jerk.
ACT VII
IN BIO CLASS AFTER 2
WEEKS
She heads toward her seat, brushing off her
hair. But she
freezes when she sees --Edward.
 Bella straightens, girding herself.
Then strides to the
table, and confidently drops her
books down, ready to address
him. But he looks up at her
-

EDWARD
Hello.

Bella stops. Stunned. He is direct,

precise, as if every
word is an effort for him.

EDWARD
I didn't have a chance to introduce
myself last week. My name is
Edward Cullen.
She's too shocked that he's talking to
her to answer.
 EDWARD
(prompting)
... You're Bella.

BELLA
I'm... yes.

Feeling like an idiot, she quickly sits.

He abruptly moves to
the extreme edge of his seat. She's
even more baffled now.
EDWARD : So ..umm.. The work
BELLA: Oh uh yeah
EDWARD SMILES
EDWARD
Ladies first.

She grabs the microscope defensively

and snaps the first slide
in, adjusting the lens. She's curt as
she addresses him.
 BELLA
You've been gone.

EDWARD
Out of town. For personal reasons.

She glances at him but he just leans

far away, his face
tight. She looks back into the
microscope.

BELLA
Prophase.

She begins to remove the slide.

EDWARD
May I look?
 She slides him the microscope. He
glances through the lens.

EDWARD
Prophase.

BELLA
(muttering)
Like I said.

He writes it on the worksheet. Then

he takes a breath, as if
trying calm himself, and turns to her
with enormous effort.

EDWARD
Enjoying the rain?

BELLA
 Seriously? You're asking me about
the
weather?

EDWARD
It appears.

BELLA
No. I don't like the cold. Or the
wet. Or the gray. Or parkas. Or
turtle necks.

Is that a smile playing on his lips? For

the first time, he
seems more intrigued than agonized.
He studies her. She still
can't tell if he despises her or not. It's
infuriating.

22.
 BELLA

What?

He shakes his head and turns to the

microscope, switching out

the slides. She looks at him. And

keeps looking..
.

BELLA'S POV - ECU ON EDWARD'S

FACE

His cheekbones, his lips. So perfect,

like a sculpture..
.
EDWARD

Anaphase.
 She snaps out of it. Covers with a dry
look.
BELLA
May I?

(she looks through the

lens)
Anaphase.

EDWARD
Like I said.

She glances at him, and this time

sees a smirk. She simply
holds out her hand for another slide.

EDWARD

(handing her the slide)

If you hate cold and rain, why move
to
 the wettest place in the continental
U.S.

BELLA
It's complicated.

EDWARD
I think I can keep up.

He actually seems interested. She

looks into the microscope as
-

BELLA
My mother remarried.

EDWARD
Very complex. So you don't like him.
 BELLA
Phil is fine. Young for her, but
nice enough.

(re: the slide)

Interphase.

CUT ON THE SCHOOL BELL:

23.
36 INT. HIGH SCHOOL - HALLWAY -
MOMENTS LATER 36

Bella exits holding the golden onion,

and practically runs
into Edward, who's directly in front of
her.

EDWARD
 Why didn't you stay with your mom

and stepdad?

He waits for her answer, studying her,

as if trying to decipher
her. She's drawn in by his attention,
oddly compelled.

BELLA

Alright, Phil's a minor league

baseball player, so he travels

a

lot. My mother stayed home with me

 but it made her unhappy. So
I

decided to spend time with my

father.

EDWARD
But now you're unhappy.

BELLA
No... I -- I just..
.

Bella turns away -- embarrassed,

vulnerable.

EDWARD
 I'm just trying to figure you out.

You're very hard to read.

He's clearly trying to read her now...

their eyes meet again.
But now she looks more closely at
him.

BELLA
Did you get contacts?
EDWARD
... no.

BELLA

Your eyes were black before, now

they're this golden brown or
-
 EDWARD
It's just the fluorescents.

He abruptly turns and walks away. As

he does, Bella notes -
-
HIS HANDS clenched into tight fists.
Off Bella, utterly
bewildered, both intrigued and
frustrated.

ACT VIII

The rain has stopped, but the parking

lot is full of water
and patches of black ice.
Shivering, Bella heads for her truck,
carrying the onion,
carefully navigating the icy puddles.
As she reaches her
truck, she looks across the lot
 EDWARD stands by his silver Volvo
with his siblings, about to
climb in. A moment as their eyes
meet... then he looks toward the
sound of a high pitched SCREECH,
that quickly grows LOUDER..
Bella turns to see a VAN -- skidding
on the ice, careening out of
control, heading directly for her. TIME
suddenly fractures,
compressing to stillness, then
exploding in bursts of speed as
-- THE FACES OF THE STUDENTS - in
shock, seeing what's coming.
--THE VAN DRIVER'S FACE -TYLER,
desperately trying to gain
control, then shielding his face.
-- EDWARD'S FACE - looking at Bella
with horror..
.

THE VAN is about to hit Bella's truck,

with her standing in
 between, when suddenly, something
knocks Bella down, pinning
her to the ground. She looks up -
Edward is on top of her.

The world around them FREEZES -- in

this fraction of
a
second, their proximity is
overwhelming, electrifying. He
breathes in her scent, she takes in
his flawless face..
.

Abruptly, we BLAST BACK TO SPEED

as several things happen so
quickly, we, and Bella, are unsure
what's going on:

-- THE VAN SMASHES into the back of

Bella's truck
-
 -- Then SPINS around, once again
careening toward her and
Edward, then suddenly
-
--EDWARD'S HANDS are creating a
deep dent in the side of the
van's body as it shudders to a stop, a
foot from Bella.
-- Edward literally pushes the van
away.
Then silence. A long beat, void of any
sound, as Bella looks at
Edward, trying to absorb what just
happened. Edward's fear for
her is still alive on his face. She
starts to speak but..
THE SCREAMING begins,
yelling, calls for help.
Edward moves into the bag Eric runs
to Bella
-
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