4. INVITATIONS
In my dream it was very dark, and what dim light there was seemed to be radiating from Edward's skin. I couldn't see his face, just his back as he walked away from me, leaving me in the blackness. No matter how fast I ran, I couldn't catch up to him; no matter how loud I called, he never turned. Troubled, I woke in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep again for what seemed like a very long time. After that, he was in my dreams nearly every night, but always on the periphery, never within reach.
The month that followed the accident was uneasy, tense, and, at first, embarrassing.
To my dismay, I found myself the center of attention for the rest of that week. Tyler Crowley was impossible, following me around, obsessed with making amends to me somehow. I tried to convince him what I wanted more than anything else was for him to forget all about it — especially since nothing had actually happened to me — but he remained insistent. He followed me between classes and sat at our now-crowded lunch table. Mike and Eric were even less friendly toward him than they were to each other, which made me worry that I'd gained another unwelcome fan.
No one seemed concerned about Edward, though I explained over and over that he was the hero — how he had pulled me out of the way and had nearly been crushed, too. I tried to be convincing. Jessica, Mike, Eric, and everyone else always commented that they hadn't even seen him there till the van was pulled away.
Tense 緊張的
4. 邀請
夢裡，很黑，惟一的一點兒昏暗的光，似乎是愛德華的皮膚髮出來的。我看不見他的臉，只能看見他的背影，他正離我而去，把我留在了黑暗之中。不管我跑多快，總也追不上他；不管喊多大的聲，他也不回頭。一急，我半夜的時候醒了，似乎有好長一段時間硬是再也睡不著。打這以後，差不多每天夜裡他都會出現在我的夢裡，但他總在我碰觸不到的外圍，永遠都是近在咫尺又遙不可及。
接下來的一個月出現的事情很令人不安、緊張，尤其是尷尬。
令我感到鬱悶的是，我發現自己成了後半周大家關注的中心。泰勒·克勞利真讓人受不了，成天跟著我轉，老想著怎麼補償我。我努力讓他相信我最想要的就是，他把這件事統統忘掉--尤其是，實際上他根本就沒給我帶來任何傷害--可他就是一根筋兒地堅持。他課間跟著我，吃午飯也擠到我們現在已經很擁擠的桌子上來湊熱鬧。邁克和埃裡克對他的敵意，甚至超過了他們彼此間的敵意，弄得我很擔心自己又多了一個不受歡迎的粉絲。
似乎誰也不關心愛德華，儘管我有一遍無一遍地解釋說他是英雄--還解釋了他把我拉開的過程以及差點兒讓車給輾了的情形。我使盡了渾身解數，力圖描述得可信一點。可傑西卡、邁克、埃裡克以及其他所有人總是說他們在客貨兩用車拉走之前，連看都沒有看到他。
閱讀更多 讀書看劇記單詞 的文章
