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These holidays were always very interesting due to the number of personalities filling up that one house, especially in the younger kids. Gabe and Vittorio always got along, and they were always running around the house investigating and making new experiments and practicing spells, reading books and inventing stories even. Chiara, being a bit of a tomboy and less than a year younger than the two, always tried her best to tag along with the two boys though sometimes found that even she couldn't keep up with the pair that were always adventuring and doing something new. But she definitely did not spend her time with Jackie, the oldest of her cousins at fourteen, as she seemed to be the complete opposite of her own personality. And Jackie's personality was quite something, she was definitely daddy's-little-girl, no doubt about it. She had grown up just as spoiled as always, though toned down just slightly from her very early years of three and under. But she adored her father (as he adored giving her whatever she wanted and quite obviously loved her just because she was his little girl), and it was only natural that she grow up with the title of being daddy's favourite.
Add those four with the personalities' of their parents and then their grandparents, and you have a huge group of people with very contrasting interests and motives. But they all loved each other and every holiday spent together was warm and happy, filled with laughs and crazy games of quidditch played by the whole family. Every conversation was interesting and the food was always amazing; the large family, though filled with completely different personalities, meshed very well with one another and created quite the group of people.
Get-togethers were always looked forward to, that house was always filled to the brim with something fun going on, and every member of the Montgomery/Vincenzi clan always seemed excited to get back to the Vincenzi home. They were all a big family. Jenny and Nathaniel Montgomery were only really directly related to Ferris, Vianna, and Gabe. But that didn't matter in the slightest, as over the past few years they'd pretty much become standing Vincenzis. They seemed to be the grandparents to every one of those kids no matter if they were actually related or not. And that was just how it was, making those celebrations and holidays even more warm and fun for everyone involved. Aunt Rachel usually made appearances whenever she could as well, popping in with her very French husband for a couple days during the holiday season (with permission from Victor and his family of course, as it was their home). And Nathan was most definitely a familiar face to the Vincenzi home during holidays and parties, there was no doubting that he was part of the family. Not only was he extraordinarily close to the Montgomery side with Ferris, Vianna, and Gabe, but he'd grown quite familiar with Vince and Victor and all of their children as well. He was known around the board as 'Uncle Nate', not blood-related to even Gabe but that didn't matter. He was twenty-four now and still incredibly youthful, grown up quite a bit over the past decade of time. He was a great uncle to Gabe, always around the Montgomery home whenever he could and hanging out with the young boy who had learned to look up (but also grow faintly amused) by his Uncle Nate. Nathan was quite the ladies' man to be completely honest, but he was a gentleman as well, something that Ferris couldn't help but be completely proud of. Afterall, Nate was pretty much his younger brother, and it was nice to see that he'd grown up into such a good guy. Granted, he loved to date and flirt, but he wasn't a pig about anything he did despite his natural good looks (goldenly tan, wavy hazelnut-toned hair, foresty green eyes, you get the picture). He was a gentleman and only dated women that he legitimately wanted a relationship with, something that Ferris could admire after seeing Vince in his teen years. Nate thought of the Vincenzi/Montgomery clan as his main family (as his own parents were always travelling in their retirement and hadn't really settled down in any one spot for the holidays or anything), and they were; everyone appreciated Nathan's light-hearted presence and happy-go-lucky nature.
Despite the fact that letting Gabe go off to school was difficult, the Montgomery parents managed once again for the second semester of his first year (after celebrating his eleventh birthday, of course). And Gabe returned for Easter and every other possible holiday in the school year that the students had off, allowing his parents the time they always wanted to have with him whenever they could. And then of course, there was summer. And during the summer, Fervi found themselves with flooing kids all over the place. You see, during the summer their little Gabe wanted some time to himself, but he also wanted to hang out with Vittorio, the cousin that had quite obviously become his best friend. And so most days of the week and weekends, either Vittorio was flooing into their own home to run around with Gabe or Gabe was flooing over to the Vincenzis. It could be chaotic at times, but amusingly so, as they were never quite sure who they'd be housing for dinner since Chiara could often get bored at her own home and tag along with Vittorio when he flooed into the Montgomery home. Sometimes they were having dinner with their son, their nephew, and their neice, and sometimes they were just by themselves, aware that their son was over at the Vincenzis enjoying a meal because he and Vittorio's latest invention/story/anything really hadn't been completed in time to get home for the meal.
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