 Bella expresses a desire to become a vampire herself, but Edward refuses to "turn" her.In the second novel, "New Moon", young 17-year-old vampire Edward and the other Cullens leave Forks in an effort to keep a young now-18-year-old human Bella safe from the vampire world.Jacob Black, a member of the Quileute tribe who is also a shape shifter taking a wolf form, comforts the distraught and severely depressed Bella.