Bella took Elle's invitation to heart and did continue to stare - at least until the electricity fizzled away. Without it there to distract her, she went back to staring at the woman's face instead as she explained her situation.
"Yes, I'm new. I appeared here just a few days ago and I've mostly stayed locked up in my room, trying to figure things out," she explained, though she didn't elaborate that she was contemplating much more than just research about the apocalypse in her room. Just because she was no longer in Forks, didn't mean her personal problems had disappeared. Her dependency on Edward to always be there for her had transferred over to Jacob in the recent weeks and without him here, she was quickly finding out that she was reluctant to do much outside of her room, other than eat and use the bathroom. "It's a little hard to be social here for me."