Arabella Cattaneo POV

What the fuck is he doing here?

"Arabella? Jordan?" He whispered, tears welling in his eyes as he hugged us tightly.

"What are you guys doing here?" He removed his 17 year old, 6'0 self off of us.

"We're Lena's friends." Jordan smiled at him.

"That's surprising." He muttered.

Lena scoffed and punch him in the arm, "I'm amazing."

"How do you guys know each other?" Alejandro cleared his throat.

"You guys know that time we went to England like roughly 2 years ago?" Santi questioned as they nodded their heads. "Well, remember when I went to the shop at night with Andy but got lost, well I got cornered by a bunch of old men that had knives and guns and these two saved me. I didn't tell you guys because I knew you guys would freak out." He concluded as Sebastian and Rio walked into the room.

"That's why you had blood on you?" A girl that looked just like Santiago exclaimed, his twin?

"Yea." He answered bluntly, smiling gratefully at Danny and I.

"So, they killed the men?" Andre, his cousin asked, surprise clear on his Hispanic features.

"Yea..." Jordan trailed on. "We don't do it for fun though. Well I don't at least." He whispered the ending even though I was sure everyone heard and the boys almost fell on the floor and Maria giggled at the sight.

"He's joking." I rolled my eyes.

"He's probably not." Matti scoffed. At this, Lena's male cousins backed up from me as Maria and the girl identical to Santiago just shared a look. Sebastian and rio had their eye brows raised.

"Oh! Arabella, Jordan, this is my other younger brother, Miguel and his kids, Santiago and Sofia." He concluded, pointing to his brother that looked more like his mom and then his kids that looked the same as him.

"Hi!" Jordan waved to the three new people who joined the party.

"Okay, guys let's go outside. The food and drinks are going to go bad!" Cami exclaimed, leading everyone outside.

"Thank you, for convincing my annoying father to let me wear this dress by the way. Love ya." She kissed my cheek, leaning up.

"No problem." I smiled at her.

"Let's get the food food before those pigs eat it all." She smirked as Sofia with a Maria on her hip came toward us.

"Your guys' dresses are amazing." Maria complimented Lena, Sofia and I. Jordan nodded his head in agreement.

Sofia was wearing a blue dress with spaghetti straps.

"So is yours. You look like a princess!" I smiled at her and her purple dress that made her tan skin glow.

Maria made grabby hands at the pretzels on the table, everyone was talking and catching up with each other. Olivia, Cami and Elena were talking about clothes and recipes for new foods. Alejandro, Samuel, Matti and Miguel were talking in whispers about 20 feet away from everyone. All the younger males were by the food, inhaling it like it was the last food on the planet.

"Stop eating all the food, dickheads!" Selena yelled at them.

"Language!" Alejandro yelled.

"Oh yea, and what are you guys gonna do about it?" Sebastian scoffed, eating churro.

"Oh I don't know, brother." Selena put on a innocent face as she took out the taser she kept and took it out, charging it and smirkingly stared at them with a threatening look in her eyes.

"You're all bark no bite." Fernando scoffed. "Plus, we're older. You wouldn't dare."

"Oh. But won't the adults take their little princess' side?" We all had an innocent look on our faces as Jordan giggles at the situation.

They panicked slightly, not wanting to get in trouble by the oldies.

Especially the ladies.

"Step away from the table before I actually taser you idiots." Selena threatened them again, Maria giving them a glare as they continued to eat her pretzels.

"Daddy! Mommy! They're eating all my food! And they're making fun of me!" She cried fake tears as all the adults came towards us.

Sofia, Selena, Jordan and I tried to pretend comfort her as she kept sobbing fake tears.

"Who the hell made my princess cry?" Alejandro roared, taking Maria into his arms.

"They did," Selena and Sofia pointed at the boys who were glaring at each of us.

"All of you in the kitchen. Now!" He said, giving Maria to me as all the adults and boys went to the kitchen.

"You could totally be an actress when you're older." I giggled in her ear as she ate another pretzel.

We heard the ladies yelling at the boys, all of us softly giggling, still ready to pretend that we were hurt.

"Sorry princess, the boys are lacking common sense to not take food from an eight year old." Her dad came apologizing and taking her back as I feigned a sad smile.

"I-it's ok-okay papa." She mumbled into his shoulder, giving us a wink as he brought her inside.

Did I mention I love her?

All the boys came back out, glaring at us as the adults talked to themselves again and Maria came back running to us, jumping on me as I picked her up.

"'All bark no bite right?'" Selena mocked them, the rest of us laughing in amusement.

"Well technically, you are all bark no bite. Maria got us in trouble," 14 year old Carlos smirked until the ending at which he scowled at his little sister.

"Fine." Selena said, pulling out her black taser and zapping Carlos with it as he let out a scream.

"What?" She smirked, "Who's next?"

Suddenly, the Spanish don had taken the taser and was checking it out, looking a Selena after a while. "Do you wanna go, sister?"

"No. I'm good." She walked backwards as she hit Jordan who caught her, putting her behind his body.

Carlos finally got up, scowling at Selena, picking up a pretzel just to make his sister mad who actually jumped off my hip, punching him and taking the pretzel back to eat it.

"You know what? If you guys leave and don't complain to us, we don't take you but if you guys stay, we tase you." He offered.

"No. How about we stay and eat the food. You guys leave." Jordan smiled kindly at them.

"No." They bluntly answered in unison.

"Stop acting like children. Let's just spilt the food." Sofia suggested, shrugging her shoulders.

"No." They answered again.

"Okay, we'll leave." I smirked as I took two bowls of food, running inside before they could catch me. The four people on my side, followed me, Fernando making it inside before we locked the door.

I just stared at him as we cornered him. "Suck my dick." I smiled sarcastically as I pushed on the pressure point on his neck, making him fall unconscious.

"Hey Danny?" I smiled at him as he nodded, eating a candy bar. "Could you take out the trash please?"

He smirked as he took Fernando's body and there it out the window. The other boys were right outside, trying to find a way in before we finished the food.

The boys looked annoyed and scared.

Good.

We took the snacks into the furnished basement, hoping if they did find a way in, they wouldn't find us in here.

"That's was epic, Arabella! Where'd you learn to do that?" Maria jumped up and down, she was like Jordan in that way.

"School." I said, dusting the sugar and cinnamon from the churro off my hands, looking at her.

"Can you teach me?" She pouted, she was so cute and I could have declined but I just loved her.

A few minutes later, Danny was on the floor of the basement, us laughing at Mar who had just sneak attacked him and pushed on the pressure point that led to the present.

"Good job. Just next time, do it faster." I giggled as her.

She just nodded as the door opened and five people walked in. Five idiots. That were glaring at us like we killed their loved ones.

"What? Fernando didn't wake up yet?" I innocently asked, them taking steps forward.

"No. What the hell did you guys do to him?" Andre question about his older brother.

"The same thing that we did with Danny. Except I love him. We don't like Fernando." Maria sassily responded to her older brother.

"You little brat-" he started, coming towards her as she pushed down on his pressure point when he got close enough, knocking him out, the others boys backing up as she smirked at them.

"I taught you well." I hollered as she bowed towards me.

"What the fuck did you teach out sister?" Carlos spat at me.

"Self defense." I replied, dipping a churro in chocolate.

"She just knocked out my brother!?" Carlos shrieked, backing away as she went closer to him.

"Don't talk to her like that." Maria seethed, pushing the pressure on his neck too.

"This is fun!" She giggled, jumping back into my arms, kissing me on the cheek.

"I know!"

"Who did it?" Danny screamed, waking up and glaring at the four girls in the room.

"Stop being a big baby. You're acting like them." Maria scolded him as he sighed and sat down away from the two of us.

"You know what? I'm leaving these two psychos in the basement." Santiago pointed at me and Maria, a scared expression on his face.

"I'm too annoyed for this shit." Sebastian muttered, leaving the room , Rio stared at Selena for a second too long and then followed Sebastian out.

"I hate you guys!" Danny pouted we giggled.

"Let's watch mean girls! That always gets me into a good mood." He clapped his hands, grabbing the remote of the big screen tv and turning on his favorite movie.

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It was finally 11:50 and we had to be downstairs or the ladies would kick out ass'.

"Princess, did you knock out all your brothers?" Alejandro asked, picking Maria up.

"No. I only did that to two." She mumbled looking down.

"Why?" He wiped some hair from her face.

I wish I had a fucking grandpa.

"They were stealing our food and were threatening to tase us." She pouted.

"Okay. Who taught you?" He raised a brow.

"That would be me. Sorry, but this is obviously self defense. I was once cornered in England and it was very useful for when they tried to force me into things..." I trailed off as he gave me a thankful luck.

"Princess, you can use it but not on your family. Okay?" He smiled.

She just nodded as the countdown was now at 30.

He gave Maria to me and I held her hand, as she lead us to the rose bush.

"They're so pretty." She giggled, picking one up.

'Ouch', looking at her pointer finger she saw it was bleeding from one of the thorns as the countdown started.

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I finished putting on the bandage on her finger after taking out the thorn as we went outside to see fireworks in the sky.

Maria pointed to each one as the adults came towards us.

"We didn't see you guys at the countdown." Matti raised a brow, silently telling me to explain.

"I got hurt. Arabella helped me with my wound." Maria showed them the bandaged finger.

He grandpa gave her a look, "The roses?"

She nodded and Alejandro turned to me.

"Thank you, welcome to the family." He nodded and a warmth filled my heart. The same one that came when Matti told me that.

I smiled gratefully at him as he hugged me.



AN

Should I make longer chapters like this one with less updates, or more updates but shorter chapters?

EXTENDED FAMILY

Samuel Gonzalez- 42-43 Olivia Gonzalez- 43-44 Fernando Gonzalez- 18-19 Andre Gonzalez- 16-17 Carlos Gonzalez- 14-15 Maria Gonzalez- 8-9

Miguel Gonzalez- 40-41 Alexis Gonzalez- deceased Sofia- 17-18 Santiago- 17-18