Third Person's POV:
"Umm... Who is coming?" Ariana asked. Everyone fell silent at this. They were hesitating on how to tell her.
"Actually princess, we have more family members besides us. We have a big family." Started Gabriel. Ariana nodded slowly trying to understand what he was getting at.
"You have grandparents, uncle, aunt and cousins. And they are coming to meet you." He finished.
"Wow. Really. They are coming to meet me. Where do they live?" She asked excitedly. "They live in Italy." Antonio replied.
"How many cousins do I have? Considering I have six brothers." She asked with a smirk. Matteo chuckled. "That you will know when they come. We won't tell you now." Ariana glared at him.
"Why tell me, tell me please." She showed her puppy dog eyes. Matteo avoided her eyes because he knew that he would give in to her if he saw her eyes.
"Nope. Let's go to sleep. I am so excited to meet them. We will meet again after a year. I missed them so much." He said excitedly. Everyone then dispersed and went to their room to sleep.
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In the morning: 🌞
The Romano mansion was bustling in anticipation of the other members' arrival. Everyone was busy preparing for the arrival of the Romano members. They are coming after a year. They were all very happy and excited.
All of the staff members were busy cleaning and preparing the rooms for them. They were very busy. There were many of them that were coming. There was so much to do for their arrival. Ariana was also helping wherever she could.
She was helping in the kitchen to prepare the ingredients for dinner for them. They will be coming by evening. They have boarded the jet. They also have a private jet as they are also in the mafia. They have the Italian mafia while Gabriel has the American mafia. But they both have a partnership with each other. They are family after all.
The whole day passed by waiting and preparing for them. By evening everyone was very eager to meet them. Antonio, Gabriel and Benjamin went to pick them up from the airport.
When they reached the airport they inquired and got to know that they will land in 10 minutes. They were waiting for them. They had bodyguards with them. They don't go anywhere without them. After waiting they finally landed.
The Romanos were very excited. Be it here or there. They got down from their jet and saw that their family was waiting for them at the airport.
"Hello. How are you guys?" Benjamin asked, giving each of them a hug. Leonard, Isabella, Robert, Sophia and their kids all of them were there. They were very excited to meet their princess. They will be meeting her after so long. They can't describe what they were feeling at this moment.
They were also a little bit nervous as to how she would react to them. They hugged each of them and then moved to sit in the car. They wanted to reach there as soon as possible. Because now they can't wait any longer. They were so excited to meet her.
"Dad, mom calm down. We will reach there soon. She is also very excited to meet you all. We told her yesterday about you all. But she doesn't know how many cousins she has as we have decided to surprise her." Gabriel told them.
"Really uncle? You did great by not telling her. We will now surprise her for sure." Said one of the cousins. They reached home and got out of the car. They went in and said, "we are home." All of the other members were waiting for them in the living room. Upon hearing Benjamin's voice they all rushed to the front door.
Hurried footsteps can be heard as all of the siblings came into view. Ariana was also with them. All of the brothers came to them and hugged all of them tightly.
"Nonno, nonna, zio, zia e cugino. I missed all of you so much." Matteo said, hugging them.
(Nonno: grandfather, nonna: grandmother, zio: uncle, zia: aunty, cugino: cousin, e: and)
"Where is she? I want to meet my princess." Said Leonard.
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Ariana's POV:
Few hours ago:
I am very excited to meet my extended family. I didn't know that I had so many family members. Papa told me that I have grandparents, uncle, aunt and cousins. I always wanted a big family as mom and dad are single children so I don't have any uncle and aunt. I always wanted to. Now my wish has been fulfilled.
I got ready as I want to have a great impression on them. I want to impress them.
After getting ready I went to the living room and saw that all of them were patiently waiting for them. Papa, Tony fratello and Ben fratello went to pick them up from the airport.
After some time they came. We hurried to the front door. All of the staff members were also there waiting to welcome them.
"Welcome everyone." All of them went and hugged them. Matteo also went and hugged them and addressed them in Italian. Thank God I know Italian otherwise it would have been really awkward and difficult to understand them.
I am so happy that my family members are from Italy. While I was lost in my thoughts I heard a strict and firm voice of a man.
"Where is she? I want to meet my princess." I looked towards him and saw that everyone was looking at me. They parted ways towards me.
"Princess come here." Papa said softly to me. I went to him and he introduced me to everyone.
"Meet my princess. Princess this is Leonard your grandfather, this is Isabella your grandmother, this is your uncle Robert and this is your aunt Sophia." I looked at them and they wore a big smile.
"Ciao nonno, nonna, zio e zia." I greeted them.
(Hello grandfather, grandmother, uncle and aunt)
Nonno came forward and hugged me tightly and asked "conosci l'italiano?"
(You know Italian?)
"Sì, nonno. Sono così emozionato di incontrarvi tutti."
(Yes grandfather. I am so excited to meet you all.)
"Sono anche molto emozionato e felice di incontrare mio nipote."
(I am also very excited and happy to meet my grandchild.)
Then nonna came and hugged me.
"Ciao principessa. Sono tua nonna."
(Hello princess. I am your grandmother.)
"Ciao nonna. Sono così felice di avere una nonna."
(Hello grandmother. I am so happy that I have a grandmother.)
Then uncle came and he hugged me.
"Ciao principessa. Sono lo zio più divertente che tu possa mai avere. Se vuoi qualcosa vieni da me."
(Hello princess. I am the most fun uncle that you will ever have. If you want anything just come to me.)
Then came aunty and she also hugged me tightly. She had tears in her eyes. I wiped the tears.
"non piangere zia."
(Don't cry aunty)
"queste sono lacrime di gioia, principessa. Sono molto felice oggi."
(These are happy tears princess. I am very happy today.)
After all of the hugging I saw that there were some boys standing there. So I had some idea as to who they were. I think they are my cousins. But I am so shocked to see that there were seven of them. I have another seven brothers. Oh. My. God.
As I was looking at them they also looked at me and smiled. They came forward and said, "ciao principessa. We are your cousins."
(Hello princess)
I felt very happy to see them.
"Ciao fratelli. I am Ariana." I said, giving them a smile.
(Hello brothers)
Then they introduced themselves one by one.
"I am Elio. He is Emilio, he is Alessio, he is Aurelio, he is Aldo, he is Luciano and he is Orlando. I and Emilio are twins and I am the eldest and Emilio is younger by five minutes. Alessio, Aurelio and Aldo are triplets. Alessio is the third eldest, Aurelio is fourth one and Aldo is fifth one. Luciano is the second youngest and Orlando is the youngest. He is 18 just like you."
After introducing everyone they came and hugged me one by one.
"Andiamo dentro." I said to them as we were still standing at the door.
(Let's go inside.)
We went in and sat down in the living room. Where we all started talking.
"Princess how do you know Italian and you speak so fluently." Zio asked me.
"Zio, I had a friend who was from Italy in school. She spoke Italian so I got intrigued by it and decided to learn it. I took classes and she also helped me. That's how I learned it." I explained to him. He nodded and gave me a smile.
"You know Robert, she is very fond of Italy. She has a dream to go there." Papa said to zio.
"Really then I think we should complete your dream very soon. We are from Italy. Why don't you come with her there, brother?" Zio asked papa. I was getting excited to think that I will go to my dream place.
"Yes of course. We will come there soon. Right everyone?" Papa asked and everyone nodded.
"You know princess when you were born we were so happy because you were the only girl to be born in our family. We didn't have any sister or any aunty. You are the first girl to be born in three generations. We celebrated for so many days. We came to meet you immediately but then you got kidnapped. That was the worst moment of our life."
"Anyways now that you are here we are going to spoil you rotten so that you will be tired of it." Nonno said with a grin. They are very good people and I like them very much. They are so cool and accepting. Just then my parents came there. We have invited them also as we all wanted them to meet my other family members.
"Hello everyone. I am Evan Parker and this is my beautiful wife Hollan Parker." Dad said to all of them. Then my other family members also introduced themselves to them.
"It's good to meet you all. Wow you guys have a big family. I am very happy for you Ari. She always wanted a big family but we couldn't fulfill that wish of her."
"We are grateful that now we have her with us finally." Said Zia. After some chatting we went to have dinner when a maid came and told us that dinner was ready.
We went to the dining room and took our seats.
After that, the servants served us our dinner. It was an Italian style menu. As we wanted them to have a comfortable experience. We all also like Italian food.
It was all vegetarian dishes as I don't eat meat. We started eating after nonno started.
"You know nonno, nonna, that twinnie made all of these dishes with the help of the cooks. She said she wanted to make the dishes to impress you all." I was glaring at him. Why did he have to tell that?
"Really princess. Then I am thoroughly impressed by you and your cooking. Your cooking is excellent. The food is so delicious that I think I will overeat today." Nonno said.
"Yes you are right Leonard. The food is very delicious." Said nonna.
"Yes papà, mamma you are right. This is very delicious. Good job princess." Zia and zio said.
(Dad, mom.)
"Ariana, this pasta is so delicious. I think I haven't tasted anything this delicious in my life." Elio said. Everyone complimented me. Including my parents, papa and siblings.
"Grazie a tutti." I gave them a big smile.
(Thank you everyone)
Just like that we had our dinner while laughing and talking. I am glad that they liked the food that I made.
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Love, Stella.