Bella was currently on the bench on the side lines of their next game. She had shown up to practice all week thinking that she could somehow sneak past Kate and actually get to play. Of course, the vampire caught her every time and refused to let her even get close to the field let alone a soccer game.

She was cross legged and all but pouting. Her sunglasses covered her face and her chin was propped in the palm of her hand that wasn't currently in a cast. Kate was stood on the sidelines intently watching the game and cheering the girls on as she felt necessary.

The vampire glanced over her shoulder and stepped over to Bella to take a seat next to her on the bench, but not too close to her. Bella barely glanced at her and huffed, "You're doing this to torture me, aren't you?" She asked with a monotone voice full of boredom.

"I most definitely am!" Kate replied in a bright tone with a smile to match. Bella sighed and shook her head as Kate got back up and started yelling at the referee for something that had happened.

Someone took a seat on the bench next to Bella in that moment, but the brunette was too caught up in whatever was happening on the field to spare a glance in their direction. "You look thrilled to be here," Was spoken from beside her and Bella glanced sideways over the tops of her sunglasses at the blonde woman who was currently taking up residence beside her now.

"Ecstatic," Bella responded in the same tone that she had used with Kate. She didn't bother wondering who this stranger was, she didn't know most of the people in Denali.

"She's right, you do seem like a sad puppy right now," The stranger replied and Bella finally turned her head towards the woman and fixed her with a confused look.

"Tanya, what are you doing here?" Kate asked as she stepped to the side of the bench but kept her attention on the field.

"Carmen got to meet her," Tanya said defensively, and Bella sighed. That made sense. Another of the coven. Kate rolled her eyes at her sister in response.

"God, you sound like a child," She said exasperatedly, "Hey, come on ref!" She yelled then as she stepped away from the two of them and back towards the field.

"So," Tanya said as she watched her sister yell at the ref from the sidelines but directed her words towards Bella, "How'd you really do that?" She said as she pointed towards Bella's cast, "You punch someone?" She asked playfully and with raised eyebrows.

Bella just laughed softly and shook her head, "I wish I had," She mumbled, "Minnie did though," Bella said as she pointed out the smallest of the girls on her team, "He was shocked. No one knew she had it in her," Tanya laughed at that and Bella just smirked.

"She'd be the one who's about four feet tall I suppose?" Tanya asked as she indicated the girl who was currently dribbling down field. Bella barked out a laugh and nodded.

"Oh, come on, she's not that short," She said though she couldn't say she and the other girls hadn't made similar comments before. Tanya just raised her eyebrows in response and Bella shook her head.

"Ref! Are you blind?!" Kate yelled and Bella looked up in shock. She heard Tanya laugh from beside her and turned towards the blonde.

"Should you stop her?" She asked in slight concern though she knew Kate wouldn't hurt anyone.

"I'm not supposed to be here," Tanya said with a smirk. She reached out and slipped a piece of paper into Bella's cast and shot her a look before leaving with a friendly good-bye and a threat thrown in Kate's direction if she were to get into another yelling match with another ref. Kate had just thrown a look over her shoulder and smirked at Bella before shrugging and going back to her game.

Bella waited until Kate was in a huddle with the girls to pull out the slip of paper and unfold it to see what it was.

"Bella,

She'd kill me if she knew I told you this (which is why I didn't say it so she couldn't hear) but she loves you with her entire heart and she's terrible at expressing herself. She never shuts up about you. Trust me, we know so much about your 'chocolate brown eyes' and your 'amazing abs'. I just thought you should know since it will take her forever to tell you (at least it's a good thing she has forever). I don't know if you're quite as clueless or bad at talking about your feelings as she is (you don't seem to be) but Irina, Carmen, and I thought we'd speed things along.

Welcome to the family."

Bella blushed while reading the short and simple note and slipped it back into her cast just as the huddle was breaking up. She looked up and caught golden eyes and was thrown a brilliant smile. She couldn't help her answering smile in return and could've sworn that Kate smiled impossibly wider in response. Oh yeah, she was head over heels for this woman.