Port Angeles, Washington

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Port Angeles is a rather large town in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, and the county seat of Clallam County. Many teenagers from Forks, Washington go there for entertainment when they do not have anything to do in their own town. It has at least a movie theater, several restaurants, a bar, a bookstore and a McDonald's.

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Bella Swan, Jessica Stanley, and Angela Weber go to Port Angeles together during Twilight to go dress shopping. Bella leaves them so that she can go and look for a book store. While she is looking for one, she encounters 4 men, all drunk, one of whom intends to rape her, the other three are just following his lead. Edward Cullen, who was trying to find her to make sure that she was safe after she left Angela and Jessica, hears their thoughts. He goes to save Bella and arrives just in time. He takes her to dinner at a restaurant called 'La Bella Italia', fearing that she will go into shock and therefore wanting to get food and sugar into her system. In the book, this is the first time Bella sees Edward after she found out what he is. She doesn't dare mention it while there are other people around, so instead she questions him, trying to ascertain that he really is a vampire before she makes a fool of herself. She tells him her 'latest theory' in the car on the way home, and although he doesn't actually say that she is right, he does not deny it, and answers all of her questions truthfully. It is here that their romantic relationship truly starts.

During New Moon, Bella and Jessica go there for a movie after Charlie complained that Bella was 'lifeless'. After the movie, when they are walking to dinner they pass a group of men outside a pub. Bella thinks she recognizes them as the ones who almost attacked her in Twilight, and as they are a reminder from her days with Edward she starts to walk towards them. She then hears Edward's voice for the first time. She believed that it was her subconscious mind giving her what she wanted - some part of Edward that had not been faded out by time. At the end of New Moon, she realizes that this was not it, but that the reason that she heard these voices was because she knew in her subconscious mind that Edward really did love her and he wanted her to be safe. And because of this, Jessica no longer wishes to be involved with Bella Swan again.

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