When I really think about this…It’s even crazier!
She met Edward on January 18 2005.
Her birthday is on September 13. So before that crazy-ass year, she’d known him for a total of 7 months.
She woke up as a vampire on September 13 2006.
But… she was married on August 13 2006, got pregnant and had her baby less than a month later on September 11 2006, which is the day Bella technically began her change.
So she met Edward, and then turned into a vampire about 19 months later, or, basically, a year and a half.
But. Let’s not forget they didn’t start dating until the 8th of March 2005.
So they dated for less than a year and a half before they got married?
Except.. they didn’t. It’s EVEN WEIRDER!
Edward broke up with her and left her on the 16th of September 2005. They’d been dating for just over 5 months.
She doesn’t go to Volterra to save him until the 20th of March 2006, 6 months AFTER he broke up with her. They don’t become Edward and Bella again until the 22nd of March 2006 (they weren’t even together when their anniversary of when they met OR got together rolled around)
So in the span of 1 year, they spent:
1 month not being a couple but interested in each other.
6 months broken up and completely separated with absolutely zero communication.
Three months after they got back together, they got engaged on the 13th of June 2006. But Edward actually proposed to her on the 22nd of March. They’d been together 5 months, but apart for 6 at that point.
They are married two months later on the 13th of August
One month later, on the 13th of September, she’s a mother, wife, and a vampire.
11 months of actual relationship time before she became a vampire and mother.
10 months of relationship time before they’re married
8 months of relationship time before they’re officially engaged
5 months of relationship time before Edward proposed.
They hadn’t even had an entire year together before they got married, had a baby, and she’d entirely changed herself for him, in the most literal sense.
The ENTIRETY of the books’ events don’t even span 2 years. She moves to Forks on the 17th of January, and it’s New Year’s Eve just under 2 years later when the Volturi battle happens.
All dates borrowed from the lexicon
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