A Beautiful Bouquet

Chapter 3.

"We have no idea if this girl truly is who she says she is."

Honestly, I didn't expect this much arguing to commence over my joining the Olympic coven. I mainly expected, as I was informed by the Volturi, that integrating into the coven would go smoothly. As long as I appeased the head of the coven, Carlisle. But it appeared that I was greatly mistaken.

This coven was a bit weirder than I had anticipated. Everyone was allowed to speak out against their creator. And he took no offense to it, instead, he encouraged it. He probed into the minds of his subordinates.

Although, sometimes he didn't even have to ask, they gladly told him—especially Edward who seemed to have an opinion on nearly everything. Someone like Edward wouldn't have survived in the Volturi. Quieter men had been beheaded for less.

Clearly the Cullens' dynamic strayed far from the coven dynamic that I was used to.

"Edward, what is your damn problem? Why are you so resistant to the idea of Ellis staying with us?" Emmett questioned. For a reason unbeknownst to me, Emmett desperately wanted me to join his coven.

While Edward was completely against it. "You know what my problem is. She's a liability to our safety." Knowing what I knew about the coven, I knew Edward was concerned about Bella's safety.

"I have no ill intentions towards any of you." I attempted to reassure his worries. Technically, I wasn't fibbing. I wasn't necessarily there to convince the Volturi to persecute the Cullens.

Once again, Emmett wrapped his arm around me. "Look at her Edward, she's completely harmless." I smiled to myself, knowing that I could dismember all of them in less than thirty seconds.

Edward zeroed in on my smile with a frown. He didn't see me as harmless as Emmett did. And maybe he was smart for that.

My ears picked up on a car a few minutes away. Considering that I hadn't heard a car coming over this way before, I assumed that someone was on their way over. "Someone's coming." I could tell, by the confusion on everyone's faces, that no one else could hear the car. Most likely due to the fact that they were caught up in the conversation, it couldn't have been that far away.

"I didn't even notice. I was too focused." Carlisle laughed.

"Are you expecting someone?" I asked him.

"Yes, we're missing a family member," Carlisle told me.

I nodded understandingly. I didn't understand why the Cullens liked to think of themselves as a family. They were a band of vampires stuck together because they shared a maker and knew nothing else.

"Rosalie wouldn't agree with this." Edward crossed his arms.

Alice shrugged. "Rosalie doesn't typically agree with most of your choices either. But you do them regardless."

A blonde girl came through the door with an endless amount of bags hanging on her arms. "What are we arguing about this time..." I got the sense that arguing was a theme with the Olympic coven. The blonde's eyes scanned all over the room before they landed on me. "Who's she?"

"I'm Ellis," I spoke up. I wasn't fond of the way she spoke about me rather than to me.

The blonde briefly glanced at Carlisle before her gaze returned to me. She couldn't seem to stop staring at me. "What is she doing here?"

Edward was more than happy to explain the situation. "Emmett and Carlisle found her in the woods and they decided to take her in like a stray."

"She doesn't have a coven?" She questioned.