"Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring-quite often the hard way." -Pamela Dugdale

Alessandro walks over to a seat next to the oldest looking man there, who was sitting at the head of the table. Mateo leads us to two empty seats. He sits down on the side and pats the seat in between him and a boy who looked my age who was not only smiling ear to ear, but he was practically jumping in his seat. I give the boy a small smile as I sit down in the seat next to him. Once I sit down, I slowly look up only to see everyone else already staring at me. They all had different emotions in their eyes but the 2 most common was joy and wonder. "Boys, introduce yourselves" the man Alessandro was sitting next to stated. His voice held authority and power. I can now tell as to why he was sitting at the head of the table.

"As you already know I'm Alessandro, 22 and the eldest."

"Leonardo, call me Leo I'm 20, 2nd born"

"Hello Bella, my name is Ricardo, and I'm 18 along with being the third born."

"Hi tesoro, I'm, as you know, Mateo. But you can also call me your favorite brother." Everyone groaned and a smug smirk settled on Mateo's face. "Anyway, as I was saying. I am 17 years old, and I was born as the 4th son in the family." (Tesoro-sweetheart)

"Theo to the family. Theodore to you, 16." Theodore said rather rudely.

"Hey Bello, I am Elijah, 15 and I'm numero sei in the order." (Bello-beautiful, numero sei-number six)

"Hello bells! I'm Ilias, also 13 the same age as you! Did you know that I'm your older twin, by a whole 2 minutes! So that makes you the youngest out of all of us!" Ilias practically squealed. Wow, a twin, an actual twin, to say I'm shocked is an understatement. Wow, just wow. I'm snapped out of my thoughts by the sound of the man at the head of the table.

"Ilias calmed down, calm down. Sorry about him Isabella, he's quite excited about meeting you. Anyway, I'm your father along with all of them. My name is Antonio Romano. Just to give you a heads up your last name is legally Romano also, so for now on introduce yourself as a Romano. These are your brothers that is why you were all introduced." Anton-no dad said with the smile on his face never faltering. I never thought this would happen. I'm sitting in a dining room with a happy family that I can call my own. A dad, I never thought I would find a person to call my dad.

And brothers I never even considered having one sibling let alone more than one. How many are there anyway? Let's see if I remember them all: Alessandro, Leonardo, Ricardo, Mateo, Theodore, Elijah, and Ilias. So that would make seven brothers.