A Twilight Obsession

                If anyone close to me was asked “What is Chelsea passionate about?” Twilight would be their first answer. If it wasn’t, then it looks like I need to rethink some friendships… (kidding of course) I am unbelievably and irrevocably in love with the Twilight series; love the books, love the movies, and love the actors. It is just an indescribable frenzy that I get obsessed with. I can’t even say I get overwhelmed with the phenomenon of Twilight because “overwhelmed” insinuates a negative feeling of needing to take a break. No break needed over here, thank you! Let’s just keep this madness coming!

                Let’s see…it all started for me when my roommate, Deanna, my sophomore year of college wanted to see the movie Twilight coming out on November 21, 2008. I only knew of the series a little bit since, quite honestly, I’m not that big of a reader. I saw the previews one day in our living room and thought “This is what everyone is excited about? He [Edward] isn’t even that cute!” I was expecting this famous and supposedly “enticing vegetarian vampire” to be drop dead gorgeous and make me want to pass out or something by the way these girlfriends of mine were talking! However, because I was such a good roommate, I told Deanna I would go see it with her. I even invited two more friends of ours to go with us and we planned a movie date for the Friday it was to be released. Deanna had read the first three novels (Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse) and really loved it. Little did I know her love for Twilight was going to look like nothing compared to my outbreak of Twilight Fever.

It was 7:00pm on Friday November 21^st. Megan and I had just snuck into the Starplex with our chocolate milk shakes before the movie started. I was surprisingly excited and even anxious to finally see what everyone was talking about. The lights go down and the previews come on. “Come on already! No one cares about the stinking previews right now Mr. Hot Dog! Just start the darn movie already!” is what I was thinking. Somehow I managed to elegantly keep my composure and waited for the beginning credits. OMG! It’s starting! Starting from the moment “Full Moon” by the Black Ghosts started to play to the moment Bella asks her friends, “Who’s he?”,and Edward walked on screen into the cafeteria, I knew it was too late. I was hooked onto Twilight.

                I went home with Twilight racing through my mind. “Why were people saying Twilight is great? Twilight isn’t great, it’s AMAZING!! Who is this “Sex God” Robert Pattinson and why hasn’t he been on People Magazines Best Looking People already? I wonder if there are any interviews on YouTube I could watch. How long has Twilight been out again? Could I go and buy the book tonight? No, it’s already 9:00. I can wait till tomorrow! I can do it...it’s ok. Just breathe, breathe! “ After somehow managing sleep that night, I went to the store the next morning and bought the book. Remember how I mentioned earlier about how I’m not that much of a reader? Well I finished the entire novel of Twilight, all 544 pages, in less than two days. I couldn’t put the book down!  I was so in love with Edward and Bella and how ‘crazy in love’ they were. It made me feel like I was in love; a feeling that once it comes, you can’t even fathom it going away. I then moved on to reading the second and third novel as well. [Fourth novel to come]

            Before I knew it my everyday life involved Twilight in some shape or form whether it was through the internet, watching movies, or day-dreaming about a love like theirs. Magazines were filled with rumors of Robert and Kristen’s real love life and interviews on TV shows were filling up my recorded shows. I was visiting fan-page websites and studying Perez Hilton’s webpage to find juicy details about a “They’re looking and smiling at each other” tagged photo. Fortunately, one of my best friends, Melissa, is there to share this passion with me. We send each other e-mails with interviews of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, songs from bands included on the soundtracks, and have numerous amounts of eclectic Twilight propaganda such as posters, calendars, and life-size Edward cut-outs. We recently went to Baton Rouge in December 2010 to try and meet Robert or Kristin. We weren’t able to see them but soon after Melissa bought me a handsome black and white picture of Robert signed “Lots of love, Rob Pat Xx” for my 21^st birthday. I think she won best gift!

            This whole experience has been and always will be a memorable part of my life. I will never forget the feeling I had the first time I saw Twilight, the feeling I had when I walked into my room to find an Edward cut-out for my 21^st birthday, or the feeling I had when I first heard the song “Ours” by The Bravery on the Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack. My Twilight Fever is soon to burn out when the last movie comes out and people get less excited with news of the Twilight cast. However, no matter what, I will always have a special place in my heart for Twilight.