Talk:Emily Young/@comment-3518524-20140908021529/@comment-24927180-20140914184038

Sam couldn't have phased in 2003 even if he was a year ahead of Leah because he phased during his senior year. (2003/2004), but it's safe to assume that it had to be late 2004.

Also, he had gotten a scholarship for college, but he had yet to finish his senior year until he came back after his first shift.

It would be that he phased at early 2004 and TwlightReader brings up a good point that Sam was still dating Leah in New Moon, or hand't broken up with her yet as she is on the phone all night trying to get a hold of him.

So, it doesn't change the orginal point being that Sam and Emily's realtionship moved too fast with everything that happened between them as they got together in New Moon, and were engaged by Eclipse. Which again I think this whole tangled mess might have more errors skipped over in it, but the gist of it is that Sam and Leah at the very least hadn't broken up by New Moon.

Also, don't put that I was wrong...again. When I've only been wrong once, and that was about Leah and Sam being in the same year.

You have to remember the shifter gene takes time to come in, it took Jacob months, and so Sam's probably took months as well, so the Cullen's came back in 2003, and Sam probably phased in  early 2004 after sometime had passed with the Cullen's being back, if they changed right away then this wouldn't be an issue, but because it takes time, Sam couldn't have shifted right when the Cullen's came back.

I'm factoring in the time it takes for the shifter gene to build which for all of them seemed to be a few months.

Again, I'm not saying that you're wrong, I might be mistaken about 2003, but given the large time gaps 2003 would create, it's more accurate to assume it was early to mid 2004 when Sam shifted because he was still in his senior year, so I will agree it was before Twilight, but it wasn't that long before Twilight.