The Twilighter Times
Story Of The Week
. Hunter: By Leon McFrenchington
Hunter Vincent Masen finds himself in Forks; when he comes across the Cullens, will his dark past reveal itself to be a problem for the coven? Why is he so distraught? And why does he look like a young Edward?
Recent News
Comic Con convention for New Moon was a success. During the convention two new clips of New Moon were released. These included one of Bella and Jacob with the motorcycles, when they first start to ride them. The other clip is when Bella runs throughout Italy searching for Edward and trying to save his life from the Volturi. Both of these clips are amazing and the links to them will be on our profile.
Twilight Trivia
What does the cover of New Moon mean?
Answer will be in next issue
Great Stories To Check Out
Juice Me Up by Leon McFrenchington
Désolée by Leon McFrenchington
Flash by LiveRandom
Quote Of The Week
"You know, Jacob, if it weren't for the fact that we're natural
enemies and that you're also trying to steal away the reason for my existence,
I might actually like you." -Edward
Random Fact
Twilight won over 10 awards at the Teen Choice awards.
Edward's Playlist
When You're Gone: By Avril Lavigne
When you're gone is a great song (but sad) of when Edward left Bella. We think it fits New Moon really well and it was given to us by KCcrazy for last issues contest.
Twilight Merchandise
School is back and that means we are all looking for something to carry our school stuff in. Well Hot Topic and Fye have a solution to our problem. They are selling Twilight bags, some of them feature just Edward and others feature the whole Cullen clan. The bags are "one-shoulder strap". Be sure to stop by Hot Topic or Fye to pick up your choice.
Contest
The winner of last week's contest was KCcrazy they gave us this week's song for Edward's play list. Like always, they will get the bragging rights and their choice of any Twilight character.
This issues contest is going to be who can give us a riddle for Jacob's riddles. The winner will get bragging rights and their choice of any Twilight character.
Jacob's Riddles
The answer to last week's riddle was Collin and Brady.
I am a primary source of intimidation and resentment,
I haven't yet achieved my goal, though I surely cause no contentment,
Among the someone, who is in my way,
But I will get what I want in the end, just as cliché,
Who am I?
The answer will be in the next issue.
Jasper's Helpful Relaxing Tips
Stress
When we can't change our situation, learning to let go will reduce your stress considerably. The serenity prayer encapsulates the wisdom of acceptance:
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can and the Wisdom to know the difference
Rosalie's Beauty Expertise
Freckles
Don't try to hide your freckles. You may not appreciate them, but they are part of you. Exposure to sunlight makes freckles darker so avoiding the sun and using a sunscreen will keep them in check. As you get older, they can fade -- and then they won't be an issue.
Emmett's Pranks
10 things to do whan you are bored
Cut out photos and paste them on popsicle sticks and have a puppet show
Get a tootsie pop and see how many licks it takes to get to the center of the tootsie pop
Learn how to fake an accent and then make an interesting message on you best friends answering machine using that accent
Make up poems or songs about your boredom
See how long you can hold your breath
Send a tune with keypad numbers on the phone
Sing even if you can't
Spin until you're dizzy
Stand on your head
Stare at the ceiling and try to make something out of the dots
Write your name in permanent marker on all your underwear
Ask Alice
Dear Alice,
Do you ever argue with yourself? If so do you ever lose? I do it all the time…and yes I know it's strange…I also hear little voices that tell me to spread my wings and fly but I don't have wings so I tend to shout that and then ignore them. Yes I do shout that loud most of the time in public. Send me to an insane asylum, there's one here that if you admit people you get a free toaster. I've always wanted that toaster, and I have no idea why they do that if you have any idea please tell me. But this is long enough so I'll spare you and wait till the future issues to ask.
Anyways tell everyone I love them, well not Jacob. I don't really like him and I don't know why. Actually my favorite is a tie between you and Jazzy. Shh! Don't tell the others though! Well, I suppose this is long enough so bye. Sorry for the randomness and all!
Sincerely,
Crazy Person Who Talks To Much
Dear Crazy Person,
Wow, that's a lot to take in. Umm, where to begin. Let's see.
No I don't ever hear voices in my head I only see the visions. That actually seems kind of cool that they tell you to fly. Too bad you don't have any wings, As for the hearing voices Edward is the one in the family who hears them. (And a toaster seems weird to give out, but it would be cool to get one)
I'll be sure to tell them that you love them. I'm sure Rosalie would like you not liking Jacob that much. They never get along. And I love the randomness so it's okay!
Sincerely,
Alice
Dear Alice,
I am Twilight obsessed fan girl and I have read all the books except for Breaking Dawn. My mom won't let me until I move out (that's in a long time). I don't know what to do because I really want to read it, but sneaking it would not be a good idea. My mom says be patient, but when you're obsessed you can't! HELP ME OH ALICE CULLEN!
Sincerely,
IDK What To Do
Dear IDK What To Do,
Okay, first off I would try talking to your mom about it. Just talk to her and tell her how much it would mean to you for her to let you read it. Tell her how much you want to read the book, and how only holding it away from you will just make you want to rebel and read it anyways. If this doesn't work then I would try looking stuff about the book up on the Internet about it to help keep your thirst for reading it "quenched" for the time being. Talking to your friends can even help too, to help you get different opinions on the book.
Sincerely,
Alice
Dear Alice,
Have you ever maxed out a credit card? Been dared to steal something and get caught? What happens if someone tries to get Jasper to break up with you or you with him?
Sincerely,
Just A Curious NxyBorn
Dear Just A Curious NxyBorn,
No, so far I haven't maxed out a credit card. I have never had that particular problem yet. I haven't been dared to steal something that I can remember at this moment, but with me being able to see the future I'm positive I can't get caught. Like the time I stole that 911 Turbo Porsche in Italy. So far no one has tried to do that so far. They could try but it would never work. I've found my soul mate and he isn't going anywheres.
Sincerely,
Alice
Dear Alice,
Radom Question: Do you have a favorite song or band? I have a couple favorites, so it's hard for me to decide. Just curious.
Another random question, is it possible to beat people with their own egos? I know a kid at my school who has an ego big enough to be a lethal weapon…don't you hate people like that? This kid insulted my writing the other day, so I'm a bit angry with him.
Tell Jazz he's got the look and tell Embry he needs to come help me beat people with their egos!
Sincerely,
Ego-Beating Music Lover
Dear Ego-Beating,
It's so hard to pick my favorite song right now, but I do know what Madi and Sarah's favorite songs are at this moment. Madi's favorite is "Open Your Eyes" by Daughtry, and Sarah's favorite is "Battlefield" by Jordan Sparks.
I think that it can be possible to beat people with their egos. It just takes some hard thinking and whit on your side to figure out how to do it. Just be sure to stay strong and don't let one person bring you down. Your awesome, and don't let anyone tell you any differently.
Sincerely,
Alice
Dear Alice,
You're one of my favorite characters from Twilight, and I totally love the Twilight series. Anyways I just moved and I'm new at this high school and it has already been FIVE weeks and I still have no friends. I'm so lonely and I have tried to talk to people and I smile at everyone and try to bring something up but they ignore me just a yes or no and I have no idea what to do. They are all to themselves…please help me.
Sincerely,
Your Biggest Fan
Dear My Biggest Fan,
That is so awful that they are doing that to you. Everyone deserves to have friends and that's not right for them to shun you like that. If only they knew how hard it is to move to a new school. Let them get a dose or reality they need. Okay, try bringing up Twilight in a conversation. It is usually a never fail thing to do. Just find someone who is reading one of the books in the series and ask them about it. It is such a great conversation starter and it can lead to so much bigger things sometimes. I know for a fact that if Madi hadn't gotten to get Sarah to read Twilight to begin with they wouldn't be as good of friends as they are now. I hope everything works out for you, and if I was there I would be your friend!
Sincerely,
Alice
Bella's Library
Jessica's Guide To Dating On The Dark Side
The undead can really screw up your senior year . . .
Marrying a vampire definitely doesn't fit into Jessica Packwood's senior year "get-a-life" plan. But then a bizarre (and incredibly hot) new exchange student named Lucius Vladescu shows up, claiming that Jessica is a Romanian vampire princess by birth—and he's her long-lost fiancé. Armed with newfound confidence and a copy of Growing Up Undead: A Teen Vampire's Guide to Dating, Health, and Emotions, Jessica makes a dramatic transition from average American teenager to glam European vampire princess. But when a devious cheerleader sets her sights on Lucius, Jess finds herself fighting to win back her wayward prince, stop a global vampire war—and save Lucius's soul from eternal destruction.
Twilight Hangman
The answers to last week's hangman were:
1. Pregnancy
2. Temptations
3. Aro
4. Eclipse
5. Nomads
We decided that we want to try something fun and new this week. We are going to have a hangman challenge. We want you guys to give us the words for next issue. We will be taking the top 10 and putting them in the next issue. This is all you guys. If you want them to be private so them PM us, or you can just leave us a review. We can't wait to see what you guys have for us!
Your Twilight Story
Brown Bisoular: I remember two years ago at my school's bookfair I saw a medium sized book. Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. Next to it was the sequel New Moon. So the next day I came with money to pay for them. Too bad there was only one New Moon left as Twilight books were already gone. And the person who bought the last Twilight book was my enemy, Paige… So I read New Moon first and then a couple of weeks later when I was in the store I bought Twilight!
MaralynneKWhitlock: My story was that we I was 9, I read a lot, and was at Border's one day. I was walking along the young adult section, because I'm advanced for my age. A black book caught my eye, and low and behold it was Twilight. I read it in two hours and began counting down the days until New Moon. Now I am a devoted fanpire.
Reclusive Desperation: I'm an avid reader and some of my friends share the same love of books so I kept hearing left and right about Twilight, how it was the 'greatest book ever' and how it was so addicting. Even though I was hesitant in reading it since I didn't like fluff plus, I didn't like the name Edward. Also, I thought it was going to be another lame Vampire book, there are so many. Anyways, it wasn't until a friend gave me a gift card to a local bookstore did I finally by the book, nothing else having caught my interest. Three chapters into the book I was hooked and went to by New Moon the next day. I then forced everyone to read it guys included.
Emily's Relationship Advice
Dear Emily,
There's this boy that sits across from me in math. And he is always flirting with me and he will come to my lunch table to talk to me and he walks with me to my bus, but I don't know if he's just being flirty or if he likes me. What should I do? Should I ask him out or should I just flirt back and wait for him? Or what?
Sincerely,
Very Confused
Dear Very Confused
Okay, this guy definitely likes you. He's doing all this stuff with you he likes you. It just depends on what you want to do. Do you want to make the first move or do you want him too? If you want to then ask him out, but if you want him to make the first move then just flirt back and wait. It shouldn't take long since he likes you. So just decide what's right for you.
Sincerely
Alice
Dear Emily
So I used to date this guy, but I think I got over the little crush I had on him. So we are friends, kind of. When I had him sign my yearbook, he gave me his number and told me to text him sometime. Since then I've been thinking about him a lot more than I should. But he has a girlfriend. What I want to know is should I just forget about him, or wait until they break up and then ask him out? Because I'm scared of what will happen if he says no, and it might ruin our friendship. I've also liked him for a long time and on the off chance he says yes, everyone says we would make a good couple, and I think maybe he liked me before he started dating his girlfriend. Help, please!
Sincerely
Anonymous
Dear Anonymous
I think you should wait till they break up before you ask him out and tell him how you feel. You do not want to interfere with his current relationship. That would only make things bad for you. Just wait it out and see, most relationships in schools don't last very long. Good luck!
Sincerely
Emily
Dear Emily,
I have been struggling with this for a while; I have had this massive crush on my best friend's brother forever but he is my best friend's brother. My best friend gets upset when I even say hi to him and recently I hung out with him at a party and at the end of the night he asked me out! Now I don't know what to say, I said yes but my best friend doesn't know and I feel bad about it. I once asked her what would happen hypothetically if I ever went out with her brother and she laughed and said I'd kill you. I know this could wreck our friendship and I am stuck on what to do and I need advice asap! Thanks!
Ok, loving it, update soon!!
Sincerely
Confused
Dear Confused
I think you should talk to your friend about it. Don't do anything behind her back because that can make it worse. If you sit down and talk to her about I think that she will understand. It may be weird for her at first, but she will get used to it. Just tell her you need to talk and tell her. She will probably appreciate you coming to talk to her and not doing things behind her back.
Sincerely
Emily
Madi's Editorial
Take the path less traveled by
Okay, so how many of us honestly "go with the flow", or take the easy way out of situations? Even make bad choices because we are pressured to do so.
Taking a path less traveled by is so much more rewarding in life. It can help you become a better person, give you more confidence, and make life so much more enjoyable.
If you just do what other people are doing you aren't being yourself, what's the point in that? We are all unique in our own ways and need to take our own way. Our own path created just for us. Everyone is their own person.
So how are you your own person if you are making an awful choice, like drinking, when someone told you to do that? Be different from that person and make the right choice. It might not be easy but that's what taking a path that not very many people take is like.
Taking the path less traveled by to me means that you don't take the easy way out of situations. You take the right way or even the harder way. That first step you take will most likely be tough, but you can get through it.
It's like a baby learning to walk for the first time. They fall down but they get back up, they persevere. Once they get those first steps down though they are walking in no time.
Sarah's Editorial
Jealousy
Everyone gets jealous every now and then.
I received a phone call from an anonymous number last week, the caller told me that my boyfriend was "Hot" and she was going to "steal him from me". I'm not sure who this person is and I don't think she knows who I am, but she was saying very mean things to me. I don't think I have ever done anything wrong to this person who called me.
She was so jealous of my relationship that she said things she probably didn't mean.
Jealousy does this to a person which is really bad. Sometimes a person will go out with someone just to make some other person jealous, which is wrong in so many ways. Because the person they are going out with may really like them.
"Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment" Author unknown
Guest Editorial
Okay, we are very pleased to announce that this issue's guest editorial was written by no other than the author of Jessica's Guide To Dating on The Dark Side, Beth Fantaskey! Madi read her book and we went to her official site and saw that she had hear email address on her website. We emailed her and she answered our questions we had and we asked her to write this editorial. We were surprised when she said yes and so excited! And if you haven't read her book yet it's amazing, any Twilight fan would love it.
Beth Fantaskey
In Praise of "Imperfect" People
When my first novel, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side, first came out in February, one of the things that took me by surprise was reader reaction to my heroine, Jessica.
Day after day, I received e-mails thanking me for making Jess a size 10 rather than a size 2.
I started wondering… Aren't there other normal girls out there in fictionland? Why do so many people seem surprised that a perfectly regular-sized girl could do extraordinary things – and win the hottest guy – without dropping a pound?
Jess does evolve over the course of the book, in terms of appearance. She starts to take more care with her clothing – but she never dresses like the other kids in school. She also changes her hair – but in a way that is more natural to her, even if it's not trendy.
To me, confidence is about being who you really are… which can sometimes mean embracing aspects of yourself that other people consider flaws.
That's why I made sure Jess didn't crash diet to win Lucius's heart. On the contrary, he's quite taken with her every curve. He loves that she has a "presence."
A lot of readers have responded to that word, and to Lucius's lament that too many American women seem to be struggling to disappear.
Now, I know that some of us were born skinny as rails. But some of us weren't.
Me – I spent my teenage years drinking protein shakes to gain weight. But I have a big mouthful of teeth that
that never got straightened and a nose that is most kindly described as "worthy of notice." When it comes right down to it, I'm kind of funny looking… But that's okay. A lot of really cool people have managed to love me anyway.
Now I'm not trying to be preachy about weight or looks. It's just that, for every supermodel, there are a couple million of us "average" people walking around out there. It seems to me that, given how many of us there are, we ought to be really proud of our "presence!"
Author's Note:
Okay guys we have a lot to say this week so please read all of this. We know no one likes author's notes but we do have a lot we need to say.
First off we would like to say that we are soooooo sorry for not updating so much sooner. It's just that we both had such insane, crazy, extremely busy summers we didn't have any way to update or have the time to update. We know we don't really have any excuse for not updating sooner, but we really did try. So, thank you guys so much for being patient and sticking with us. You guys are amazing and we wouldn't have it any other way! And we feel so bad for not updating sooner, we tried but it seemed every time we were going to something just went wrong.
Okay, secondly we would like to say thank you for all the reviews we have received and we appreciate them so much. Looking at our email and seeing all what you guys have to say about us and this story is just so amazing and thank you for that.
So it has almost been a full year since we have been writing stories on FanFiction. We thought we would do something different to add and have come up with something. We have decided to do a YouTube series on top of our FanFiction on from our other story "You Know You're Obsessed With Twilight When". Most of you guys have read that list of 1,000 reasons we have created and we thought that you guys would want to know about this. The videos will be us acting out each of the reasons 25 at a time just like the chapters. We will have something for each reason and we would love to hear what you guys have on this and any ideas you may have. They will be greatly appreciated so so so much! There is a poll pertaining to this on our profile. So go vote! Please!
Lastly, we would like to say that we should be updating regularly now, but with school back we may be off a couple of days. But that should only be if we get piled on with homework. We plan to continue this as long as we can and as long as you guys want us to. Thanks for everything!
-Madi and Sarah-
(Mrs. Cullen and Mrs. Black)