6 : Family.

A M E L L I A

I panicked when I saw that I'm in an unfamiliar room. It's dark.

I'm not that afraid of the dark since it became my comfort zone when they try to hurt me. But right now, I just wish someone would hug me.

I had this dream earlier, it's more like of a memory than a dream but, in that dream I was younger I think I'm 2 or 3 years old at that time, I was crying, I woke up in the dark and started crying when I saw no one with me, I was so scared of the dark. A couple of minutes later someone came inside of my room and picked me up hugging me.

I think it's a teenager, I couldn't recognize him but when he hugged me I felt calm and safe that I stopped crying. After that I woke up, and here I am curled up in fetus shape while keeping my self in a corner wishing that that dream will come true. That someone will hug me tight and make me stop crying. My breathing are heavy, I'm starting to lose some air, I couldn't breathe. I hold my hair tight thinking that this would ease the pain I'm feeling.

Someone hugged me. This is the same feeling that I felt on my dream. It's calming, relaxing, the feeling of being safe in someone's arms. I started to relax, my breathing becoming even as the one who holds me up into his arms caress my back.

"Shhh, sono qui piccola, il fratello maggiore è qui, nessuno ti farà del male." He said something that I couldn't completely understand.

All I know right now is that I feel safe and relaxed than ever.

I felt my eyelids fall down again and with that I fell asleep AGAIN!

I woke up in a dim light room, well at least it's not too bright nor too dark.

I tried to move when I felt something heavy on me, someone's hugging me, I panicked but when I saw who it was I calmed down.

It's my Eldest brother, Alec.

Who's room is this? All I remember is that I'm Dad's office discussing the rules which are 1. No boyfriend until I'm 20 or better if until I graduate. 2. No cursing. Well not out loud Enzo whispered to me. 3. Keep my grades good. 4. No disrespecting, that includes lying. That's all. Then someone talked in the intercome, Xendric. He asked for our father and brothers to be there immediately. They all run downstairs as they heard Xandrix's heavy breathing. I also run down with them- well typically walked as I'm advised- told by my brother, Enzo to not run.

When we reached Xandrix's room, he was there crying and having a hard time breathing. Enzo tried to calm him down but couldn't. I couldn't take it anymore, I slowly walked towards him and hugged him, after that we had a small talk and I fell asleep. Then I woke up in a room so dark, I cried then someone hugged me then I stopped crying then fell asleep again.

What is me sleeping all of a sudden.

"Bambina, is everything okay?" I looked at Alec.

I saw him half awake, scrunching his eyes.

"Yeah, just thinking, who's room is this?" I asked.

"Mine, I saw you in Xandrix's room crying and having a hard time breathing. You scared me you know? But I guess it's because it's dark. You hate the dark, you would always cry every time you would wake up in the dark. You would only stop crying when I carry you, not even Mom or Dad could make you stop crying." He said chuckling.

"I would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night just to go to your room and carry you into my arms, I was 12 at the time. But I couldn't stand seeing you being scared, so I would stay with you until you fall asleep again." He said reminiscing.

I looked at him in awe, never thought that if I wasn't taken away from them I would've been so happy in my brother's arms.

"What did you felt when someone took me?" I asked out of nowhere, I just want to know.

"Sad, angered, lonely. Almost every bad emotions." He answered.

"How about them?" I asked referring to my other brothers.

"Let's just say, they all changed. They all felt sad and angered. All of them were affected so much. Vinzenzo started burying himself into studying and finding you, Lorenziano started to get himself into fights but stopped when our mother pleaded him to stop, he don't want to see our mother crying. Aldrenrein, he became quite, he's not as jolly as he used to be when with you. Xandrix was diagnosed with adhd, he sometimes act impulsive, that's why he's keeping his distance from you, he don't want to hurt you, he act without thinking sometimes Sorellina. Xendric won't talk to anyone but his twin only. Keilo being diagnosed with the same thing with Xandrix, yeah we didn't need two of them, but we did our best to handle them, we love them Sorellina. Kailo have OCD ever since, he took it hard as he is close to you, we would see him cry or some times he would look himself in his room. Hendriz tried to act strong for his twin but would cry every night. Handrix being the emotional one was there crying himself out. All of were affected, mostly our parents, Mom never would also cry every night, Dad wouldn't stop looking for you." He said answering the question that's been running in my head for years.

The question if I have other family, do they miss me?

It was answered with that, they do miss me.

"All of that because of me? Heck, I'm sorry." I apologized.

They all took it hard.

"Sorellina, it's not your fault, and it will never be your fault, okay? The one who took you, they're at fault." Alec said hugging me.

I hugged him back, we stayed like that for a couple of minutes.

"Now, why don't we go downstairs and eat." He suggested.

Yeah eat. We also talked about that in Dad's office, and yup I forced them with my puppy eyes to not give me a dietician.

Well, I need to start eating normally if I want this wounds and injuries to heal.

"Okay." I agreed.

We went downstairs only to see my family eating their breakfast while some of them are, glaring at each other?

What the...

"Hell! Huh! You thought I wouldn't get that right!" Handrix shouted all of a sudden.

"What's happening?" I asked to Alec who bent down when I tried to whisper something into his ears.

"A game of theirs, you need to guess a certain word that connects to the other word, a time limit is set, if you don't guess it right or if you guess incorrectly 3 times a pancake with icing on it will come flying into your face." He explained.

"Wrong!" Xandrix then shouted.

All of them are now aiming at Handrix ready to shoot him with pancakes with icing.

"ENOUGH!" A booming shout from Alec made them stop and look at Alec, even I looked at ales because of shock.

"Foods are not to play with brothers, how many times do we have to tell you that! Hayst." He scolded them.

They all put their pancakes down and ate it.

"Too early for a scolding session don't you think?" Dad said coming downstairs to the kitchen.

"Good morning Figlia." Dad greeted kissing my forehead.

"Good morning Dad." I greeted back.

"Girls always get special treatment!" Handrix said pouting.

"Good morning sons." Dad greeted kissing Handrix's forehead which made him smile.

"I have an announcement." Dad said while we're eating, well basically them eating while I'm here being forced and babied by Lorenz.

We looked at him waiting for his announcement.

"Extended Family are coming today." Dad said sighing heavily.

"From which side Dad?" Keilo asked.

"From both side." Dad answered exhausted.

I looked at him shocked.

"I'm sorry Lia, but I couldn't stop them anymore." He apologized.

"Y-Yeah..." The only word that came out of my mouth.

I'm just imagining how would they react. Heck, of course I want to know them, but hell not right now, not in this situation where I have this injuries and wounds.

"It'll be alright Bambina, they won't question a thing about you." Enzo assured me.

I just nodded my head still thinking of things that could happen.

Hayst here comes nothing.

This day all we did is watch some movies and talk about some funny stuff. But one of the twins did something unthinkable, they launched themselves from the stairs and landed on the couch thankfully. By the way, the couch was putted there by them also. And what's surprising is that Kailo and Keilo did it.

It's already time to sleep, I'm in my room with a dim light on. But I couldn't sleep, even with this cloud like bed that's literally big enough for 2-3 people.

I decided to go out of my room and check if any of them are still awake.

I checked all of their rooms only to see one room that still have their lights on.

I walked near it and knocked. The door opened revealing my Eldest Brother.

"Yes Sorellina? Is their anything wrong?" He asked looking at me softly.

"I just couldn't sleep." I answered.

He smiled then opened the door widely for me to enter.

"Come in." He said.

I walked inside and jump onto his bed. This is my second day and my second time sleeping in his bed.

He chuckled and walked to his bed, he fixed his stuff, shut his laptop down which I just noticed. He then went to bed with me and hugged me which I returned. I love the feeling it gives me every time he hugs me.

After a couple of minutes I finally fell asleep.

"Bambina, hey Elli, come on wake up, you need to get ready, we're meeting the whole family today." Alec waked me up.

"Hmmm..." I hummed.

"Come on you little lady." He said picking me up.

"Aghhh!" I screamed when he picked me up.

"ALEC PUT ME DOWN PLEASE!" I shouted.

He chuckled putting me down.

"Now you're awake, go get ready, they'll be hear in an hour or so." He said.

I immediately run to room to get fixed, I don't them seeing me like this with messy ass hair.

I did my morning routine, fixed my hair and chose an outfit that would look elegant yet just enough for a family gathering.

I chose this Black under knee length dress. It have a slit on it, I then paired it with a white hills, then put some accessories. Yes of course Dad and my Brothers bought all of this.

"Elli! Come down stairs." I heard Lorenz shout.

"Coming!" I said leading myself downstairs.

Good thing is that I did not get lost like the first 2 days.

As soon as I got down stairs all eyes are on me.

"You look beautiful as ever Amellia, you're really a younger version of your mother." Dad said hugging me.

"Yeah, so Alec is a girl then? He looks like me, well a male version though." I said laughing a little.

My Eldest brother looked at me in disbelief, while others tried to keep their selves from laughing hard.

"Yeah yeah Sorellina, but in no way that I look like a girl, YOU may look like me but hey, I have this male features that could make girls fall in love." He said emphasizing the word You.

I mean yeah, I won't deny that, our genes do have a lot of impact on people for sure.

"Yeah, maybe they fall just for your eyes." I said teasingly.

"Na-ah sis, they fall for this body too." He said proudly.

Everyone neither looked shocked or just stopping their laughs.

"Well this eyes are to fall for duh." I said flipping my hair.

He raise he's eyebrows.

"And what do you mean by that?" He asked.

"I mean, I do have a lot of suitor back in Florida, I might as well said yes to one of them." I said teasingly.

I mean, half that are true, well the a lot of suitors are but the one where I said yes to someone? Never!

"Amellia." Alec called out my name.

I looked away stifling my laugh.

"Amellia Mio Krane Ruscov." Okay that's it, Dad called out my name coldly.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Alec asked coldly.

"We talked about this. No hiding secrets." He said.

I mean yeah we did talked about that.

"But you are hiding a secret from me." I reasoned.

"Oh Bambina, we are going to tell you that today, with our whole family for you." Lorenz said giving me a kinda scary smile.

"H-Hey, I was just joking! Well, half of it is true, but I never said yes to any of them!" I said getting kinda scared.

Their face softened a little.

"Good." Dad said and picked up his phone when it ringed.

"They're here." Dad said after putting the phone down.

And with that, I'm nervous again. Oh please help me.

We went to the living room and well there standing is at least 30 or more people.

"Ehem, Amellia, this is your whole family." Dad said getting everyone's attention.

They all looked at me and awed when they saw me.

"She looks exactly like you Amarros." One of them said.

Well, even with the joking earlier, I really do look a lot like Dad more than Mom, I just got those loving eyes mom have.

I already saw pictures of hers and she's beautiful!

"Why don't you introduce yourselves starting from my wife's family." Dad said.

Okay, here goes nothing.

"Okay let's start with the oldest." A middle aged woman said.

"Hiroshito Hara, your Grandfather, nice to see you again Magomusume." The Man who looked like he's in his 60's said.

Well he still have this healthy body, he doesn't really look like in his sixty's just his voice.

"Aimi Achiko Hara, your Aunt."

"Riku Hara, Eldest son and your aunt Aimi's Husband."

"Airi Kiono Hara, I am also your aunt."

"Hiroshi Hara, your aunt Airi's Husband."

"Mei Hara the most beautiful aunt of yours."

"Hiroto Ayama Hara. Aunt Mei's Husband."

"Yua Hara, another beautiful aunt of yours."

"Haru Akiyome Hara, Yua's Husband."

"Rio Klein Hara. Aunt of yours."

"Takumi Kenji Hara, Rio's Husband."

"The husbands are your Grandfather's children, so yes, like you your mother is the only girl."

"Now, Aimi and Riku's Children. Oldest to youngest." Grandpa said.

"Toshiro Hara, 32."

"Daichi Hara, 31."

"Tadaaki Hara, 29."

"Tadahiro Hara, 27."

"Tadashi Hara, 27."

"Tadanori Hara, 27.

"Airi and Hiroshi's sons."

"Katsu Hara, 29."

"Yasu Akama Hara, 27."

"Yuki Hara, 26."

"Mei and Hiroto's sons."

"Akira Hara, 30."

"Keisuke Hara, 29."

"Takeshi Hara, 28."

"Ayumu Hara, 27."

"Ao Kio Hara, 26."

"Yua and Haru's sons."

"Itsuki Hara, 29."

"Kyou Hara, 27."

"Hiroshima Hara, 25."

"Rio and Takumi's sons."

"Eihei Hara, 30."

"Akiko Hara, 27."

"Takeo Hara, 26."

"Tsuki kurayami Hara, 22."

"Well, that's all of it." Grandpa said looking at me.

"T-That's a lot of names to remember." I said.

They all laughed.

"Now, for my family side, they couldn't wait a little mo-" Dad was cut off by his I think father.

"Stop with the nonsense Amarros." He said voice filled with authority.

"Hi there young lady, I'm your grandfather, Amarliono Ruscov." The one who shouted at dad said.

"I'm your Uncle, Rusvell Ruscov, and this is my wife, Araya Ruscov."

"I'm your Uncle Klayyed Ruscov. This is my wife, Amara Ruscov."

"I'm your Uncle Louise Ruscov. And this right here is my wife Bianca Ruscov."

"I'm your Uncle Lucian Ruscoc and this is my wife Violar Ruscov."

"Uncle Angelo right here and my wife Cielo Ruscov."

"Rusvell and Araya's Sons." With that 4 men stepped forward.

"Giovanni Ruscov, 30."

"Gustov Ruscov, 29."

"Kio Jack Ruscov, 27."

"Arthelesis Ruscov, 25."

"Klayyed and Amara's Sons." The other four stepped back and 6 ones stepped forward.

"Vion Ruscov, 29."

"Avalino Ruscov, 28."

"Miko Ruscov, 27."

"Kiann James Ruscov, 26."

"Alarco Vior Ruscov, 23."

"Violito Ruscov, 22."

"Louise and Bianca's sons." The same thing happened, it's like they're trained or something.

"Gregorio Ruscov, 29."

"Guston Ruscov, 27."

"Gregory Ruscov, 25."

"Lucian and Violar's Sons."

"Nickolas Ruscov, 26."

"Xander Ruscov, 25."

"Xavier Ruscov, 25."

"Angelo and Cielo's sons."

"Kairo Ruscov, 27."

"Keiro Ruscov, 27."

"Kuiro Ruscov, 27."

And with that it's all finished, heck this is a lot! So your telling me, having 10 brothers ain't enough that I needed 41 more cousins or let's say brothers!

"A fly might get inside your mouth Sorellina." Alec said.

"What the- I thought there's only 30 people inside the living room that includes my cousins but heck. 41?! Aunts and Uncles and Grandpas not included?! Is 10 brothers not enough that I needed more?" I asked completely shocked about how many are there in this family.

They all laughed.

"Well, it's from both sides of the family Elli, 21 cousins from our mother's side and 20 from our Father's side." Alec explained still laughing.

"Still! You'll be giving my suitors a hard time courting me! Mostly because one look could make them pee themselves!" I said.

"Oh for sure we will give them a hard time Ell, no boys will be coming to you, a lady like you mostly coming from this family, deserves a Man not a boy." Giovanni said.

I looked at him in amusement.

"So does that mean-" I didn't even get to finish my sentence when all of them said

"NO AMELLIA!" They shouted in unison.

I breath out, I should've known this was coming.

AUTHOR

Had a hard time publishing this chapter. It kept saying something was wrong or there's no internet connection.

But finally! I published it.