Our friends have to love Twilight just as much as we do. They just do. Why? Well, does passing on the obsession somehow validate our own reaction to the world of Edward? Or do we just need a support system?
I know that I needed someone to exclaim to when Bella discovered she loved Jacob. I needed someone to tell me to power through, and provide other pep talks on the few occasions when I slammed shut "Breaking Dawn" and wanted to toss the book across the room. I needed someone (or ones) with whom to pre-func before seeing the movie. I needed someone to sit beside me at the movie, giggle, tremble, and hold hands, and hhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I love talking each new friend through the reading of the books. I love hearing that a friend's Mom happened to pick up the book I sent her, and can't put it down. I love getting the emails from Vicky, "She's pregnant?!" And then I get to toy with her and make her think it's a werewolf baby, just for funsies. I love discovering that someone I love, like my sister-in-law Annie, has also fallen in love with books on her own and needs no convincing from me that Edward is IT. (When we discovered this mutual obsession, we had to hug it out.)
It's very intense, this being in love with a fictional teenage vampire. I'm just so happy that there are others who feel the same way. Especially those who are willing (and obsessively compelled) to discuss it with me ad nauseum.
You can't push it underground
ReplyDeleteYou can't stop this screaming out
How did it come to this?
ooo ooo ooh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Edward has MY vote.