Chapter 63

The best feeling I get get is the time I'm with my whole family. When we all spend time together, to comfort each other with warm cozy hugs, with teasing each other about something we know that will make other person embarrassed. I have been loving our family moments a lot these days. After the whole fuss between my brothers and I we all went to our respective rooms to get ready again for the day. Now we were sitting on the dining table for the second time today to eat our breakfast. There was a little chatter going around the table when my father cleared his throat to get everyone's attention.

"Hazel, cara, I need to talk to you about something."  He looked a little nervous but why?

"Yes dad........"

"Ummm.... I know that we all found about you just a while ago and within this time span a lot have happened. Due to that we were not able to tell you that."

"Dad, you can talk freely about what you want to say. You don't have to beat around the bush."

"Well cara, last night I had a call between our extended family, I mean my three brothers. One lives in Spain and other two lives in New York."

"And........"

"Well..... they were upset that I've hidden about your existence from them till now and we had a huge argument about it. So, they are coming to meet you tomorrow with their families."

"That's........ amazing...... but why are you nervous dad?"

"He didn't tell you whole thing my Tesoro" Nonno said gaining my whole attention to him now.

"And what is that?" I looked around the table to see everyone was smiling or trying to control their laughter...... but why?

"Well..... I'm definitely not going to reveal that secret now, so you have to wait till tomorrow for that." I looked at him with annoyance.

"Then why did you point out about that nonno?"

"What's the fun in telling you about that when you'll see it, you'll know."

"Uuuggghhhh.... fine...... but can you please tell me more about them? Are they older than dad or younger? Are they also in mafia? How many kids they have? Are they my age or older?" I started bombarding the questions at them with excitement. I really want to know everything about them. Everyone started laughing at looking at eagerness.

"And last night you were worried sick about her reaction dad. "Gabrielle asked dad with his raised eyebrows.

"You can tease him later as much as you want brother but right now feed me some answers." He laughed and replied.

"Sure"

"No.... I will tell her about everyone " Edwaldo said raising his voice.

"No brother I will be the one explaining her about that" Niccolo argued back.

"I'm older than you." Edwaldo counter attacked

"And you think I give a fuck?"

"LANGUAGE......" Santino, Achille and Gabrielle said in unison. I looked at them as in are they serious right now. I mean it's not like I'm a kid.

"Even if you are not a kid they are not allowed to swear in front you my principessa." I looked at my dad in astonishment. How did he even knew what was I thinking?

"It was not hard to find out." He again replied my unasked question with a smug smile on his face.

"They are not going to stop with this soon. Why don't you take her out if here and answer her questions. We'll join you soon." Dad looked at his three older sons. To my surprise Santino didn't replied him and just got up and walked away. Other two replies with "okay dad, we'll be in the  white room." He just smiled and looked at me to give me a nod indicating I should go with them before those two bulls started killing each other with their horns.

I got up and followed both of them. I don't know why they both decided it is a good idea to pull their arms around my shoulders because they are heavy as a truck but that gave me good feeling so I didn't said anything.

"Is he still not talking to dad?" My question caught them off guard but they smiled at me and replied.

"You don't have to worry your pretty head about that." He said kissing my hair.

"I know it's not my place to say anything to him but I'm afraid."

"Of what cara?" Achille questioned.

"That there fight doesn't get messed up."

"Nothing will happen, just give them some time everything will be back to what it was before, okay?"

We went towards a different direction of the house. I've never been here before. As we enter the area it was so quiet and different. The whole vibe was just amazing here. Then we enter a room which was whole white. Now I knew why this is called white room.

We sat on the pillows that were on the floor and saw Santino entering the room with a tablet in his hand. He didn't said anything and started connecting the tab with the screen. As he was setting it up everyone else too joined us in the room.

"Okay let's get started. Are you ready cara?"

"Sì fratello" I replied with a smile looking at Santino to which he also smiled back a little. I could he a picture of a very handsome gentleman on the screen who looked like in his 50's. Then Gabrielle started introducing me with all the pictures.

"This is Aurelio Salvatore Barone who owns Spanish mafia. Our oldest zio (uncle) and the most strict one. You know till now I've only saw him smiling three times only in my life." I looked at him with surprised look.

"Really"

"Yeah,..... he gives me chills sometimes." Niccolo added to that and Edwaldo nodded to that as well.

"Okay now this is zia (aunt) Delfina Barone one of the sweetest person I know on this earth."

"I sometimes wonder how the hell she fell in love with her" Achille's remark made every smile in the room.

"When you'll find one you'll know then until then hush and stop making my kid a villain here" Nana replied him and then looked at Nonno and smiled. That was sweet.

"Okay now this is their first son Baniamino Barone Santino's best friend. He is just like Santino"

"And what am I like?" He asked him raising his eyebrow.

"Rude, angry, pissed, stone face and the list goes on." Edwaldo says with a pleased smile on his face. Santino didn't said anything but his stare was enough to say that I'll deal with you later.

"Moving on, this one next is Massimo Barone. Okay this is more like Niccolo when he is with us or with his close ones but when he's out somewhere he becomes just like his brother Bani short for Baniamino. Also he likes to smoke." I just shrugged my shoulders at his last comment.

"Okay now this last one Ettore Barone. This guy is honestly a complete mystery to me till now." Gabrielle says looking at the photo with a long sigh.

"What you mean?" I asked him

"Well he says quite all the time. He likes to observe things and people around him. He's not much off a talker since he was a child." Achille's response gave me a little clarity on that.

"Okay."

This time dad introduced me to his second brother who is younger to him by 5 years.

"This is Stefano Barone. He lives in New York and basically handles all our legal business outside Italy. Since beginning he didn't wanted to get evolve in any mafia so we let him do whatever he wants. However, he still gets evolves in some situations when it gets out of our control."

"This is his wife Enrica Barone. She as well is the sweetest of all. Technically she's like my younger sister." Dad continues with a smile on his face.

She is gorgeous I thought in my mind. Then I looked around the room to see all my brothers with a confusing expression.

"What happened?" To which Achille and Edwaldo replied.

"Well, we can't find a picture of their older son." Achille replied

"I know I had it in my phone somewhere here, give me a second I'm checking."

"How come you don't have a single picture of him? He's your brother." This time nonno replies me.

"Umberto was adopted at the age of 10 or 11 I guess because Enrica couldn't get pregnant. He was a very shy kid and didn't get involved with us much in the beginning. He only visits us on few occasions or family gatherings."

"Oh,..... that makes sense."

"Now this is my love and my life Renato Barone. He's also a prankster like you. Can you imagine he made Gabrielle fall on the stairs once's became he thought it was funny to tell him that there is a spider near his foot to which he magically last his balance and taa-daaaa." Achille's dramatic explanation made everyone laugh in the room except Gabrielle.

I saw Santino was still fixed on the table looking for the picture.

"That's fine fratello. I'm going to meet him tomorrow anyways." He replied with an okay and got to next picture. This time nana chimed in.

"This is my youngest son Agostino Barone."

"And her favorite son." Niccolo hissed in my ear that made me laugh.

"He's also like his brother who doesn't want to get involved in mafia so he helps him in New York with legal business." Nonno said.

"I thinks that's all. We have talked about everyone and you well know more about them when you'll see them tomorrow." Santino says. With that everyone started going out of the room to their daily routines. I kept looking at the ceiling and thoughts started running through my head now. Will they like me? Will they treat me like my brothers did when they learn about me? Will my aunts treat me like nana? Will my uncles like me? I don't knew the answer to any of these questions but I will soon get them tomorrow I guess.