Talk:Bella Swan and Edward Cullen/@comment-24927180-20140901044420/@comment-7600752-20140901055009

You could be right. Being unable to read Bella's mind definitely caught Edward's notice. It made Edward wonder how Bella was different... and she wound up a mystery to him. However, you also have to consider that once Bella caught Edward's attention... he couldn't help but notice Bella's bizarre behavior. Edward ALWAYS expected Bella to react in a certain way... and Bella NEVER reacted the way he expected... the way a typical human girl would react. Although many girls found Edward (& Cullen's) attractive... the human girls reacted to Edward's (& Cullen's) alieness. The books describes it as an aversion to vampires developed by human instinct. Humans naturally avoid vampires... it's there in almost all the books. That's one of the reasons the Cullen kids were 'misfits' in school - the other kids tried to avoid them. Anyway, Bella was born without this instinctual fear of vampires. She's not freaked out by them, nor does she avoid them.