Eric is the first boy to greet Bella on her first day at Forks High School. He is described as the overly helpful chess-club type. He is also enamored with Bella and vies with Mike Newton and Tyler Crowley for Bella's attention. He is one of the three boys to ask Bella to invite them to a girl's choice dance. She turns him down, due to her apparent lack of balance and the fact that she likes someone else. Though she used the excuse that she was going to Seattle .