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I meet Bella Swan when she moved to Forks, WA to live with her father, Chief Charlie Swan. She is a human girl whose thoughts I am unable to read, and whose blood smells overwhelmingly sweet. I fight a growing attraction to her, but after saving her life on several occasions, I succumb and eventually fall in love with her. I admit to Bella that I am a vampire, and that although I retain the physical body of a seventeen-year-old, I was actually born on June 20, 1901. My adoptive father, Carlisle Cullen, transformed me into a vampire in 1918 to prevent me from dying in the Spanish influenza epidemic in Chicago, Illinois. Carlisle instilled in me a sense of morality uncommon in most vampires, and central to his way of life is the refusal to consider humans as food.
However, I constantly warn Bella against being with me, perceiving her life to be at risk if she continues to associate with me. Bella's love and confidence in my restraint caused her to ignore my warnings, even after she becomes the vampire James' target. Unlike my family, who are "vegetarian" vampires, James regularly feeds on humans and will not stop until he drinks Bella's blood. With my family's help, I am able to save Bella from James' predations, but how to assure Bella's continued safety remains an open question.
My fear for Bella’s safety intensifies when she cuts her finger and is almost attacked by my brother Jasper. In an attempt to protect her, I convinced her that I no longer loves her, and moves away with my family, leaving Bella heartbroken. I find it difficult to live without Bella, and become severely depressed at the prospect of an infinitely long and meaningless life. After I mistakenly learn from his sister Rosalie that Bella has committed suicide, I attempt to convince a group of Italian vampires, the Volturi, to kill me. Together with my sister Alice, Bella rushes to Italy and stops me before the Volturi can destroy me. I explained why I left, and apologizes to Bella. She eventually forgives me entirely, and we continue with our relationship as though I had never left, with the exception that Bella has ties that cannot be broken with a werewolf named Jacob Black. Bella successfully seeks the support of my family on turning her into a vampire. While I am furious at the prospect, I later agreed to change her myself if she agrees to marry me first.
Bella agrees to marry me on the condition that I will make love to her while she is still human. I eventually relent and agree, on the stipulation it will only occur after we are married. Victoria who, seeking revenge for the death of her mate James, is hunting Bella and creating new vampires to build an army. A grudging truce is made between us and the Native-American werewolf pack led by Sam Uley and Jacob Black, a friend of Bella's who was there for her when I broke her heart. However, the truce is endangered when Bella realizes Jacob means more to her than she thought. Ultimately, I accept that Bella cares for Jacob and successfully destroys Victoria, and Bella acknowledges that I am the most important person in her life. I told Bella that we may attempt making love before they get married, as I realized that she spends too much of her life trying to please other people. However, she refuses my offer and says that she will do everything the right way: marriage, making love, and then becoming a vampire. Bella and I marry. Bella becomes pregnant on our honeymoon, and the rapid growth of the half-human, half-vampire fetus swiftly impacts on Bella’s health. I try to coerce her into having an abortion in order to save her own life. However, Bella feels a bond with her unborn child and insists on giving birth. I come to feel love for the baby as well, after I hear its thoughts and learn that the baby loves Bella in return. Bella nearly dies giving birth in an emergency c-section, but I successfully deliver my daughter and then inject Bella's heart with my venom, healing her wounds by turning her into an immortal vampire. During Bella's painful transformation, Jacob imprints on our baby daughter, Renesmee. After a vampire named Irina mistakes Renesmee for an immortal vampire child—a creation forbidden in the vampire world—the Volturi arrive to destroy us. I stand with Bella and our allies to convince the Volturi that Renesmee is not an immortal child and poses no threat to our existence. Once the Volturi leave, Bella and I feel free to our lives in peace with our daughter.