Enchanted Forest

Chapter 1: The Beginning

"A new beginning always start at the end—"

"Attention passengers of the plane, we will arrive at the airport around 45 minutes by now. There will be a few disturbances because of the bad weather. Current local time 4:20 pm."

When the flight attendant's voice rang through the entire plane, cyan eyes opened. Lee looked outside of the window, narrowing when he noticed the darkening clouds. Mukhang masama ang panahon.

"The flight attendant did say about bad weather." A voice murmured on his side, turning his head Lee found himself staring at carbon copy of him. Light colored hair that is crop short and cyan eyes. Parang tumitingin lang siya sa salamin, sa tuwing tinitingnan niya ang kapatid. The three of them are triplets looking exactly as the mirror image of each other. Sometimes ginagamit nila ang pagiging triplets sa kalokohan. Having a look-a-like had a lot of perks.

His brother, Yue, grinned, hands reaching to cover the window. 

"Xing was still asleep and Mom said we're almost there." Yue informs voice almost giddy with excitement at the thought of finally seeing this friend of their mother. Hindi pa nila ito nakikita ngunit sa tono pa lang ng pananalita ng nanay nila ay mukhang napakabait nitong tao. At ang maganda ay may anak itong kaedaran nila.

Lee hummed in answer closing his eyes, as he listened to his brother babbled about their mother's friend and only daughter.

"Do you think she'll like us?" Yue whispered to his ear.

"Why do you ask?" Lee asked out loud, eyes still closed.

"Shh. Not too loud. Mother might hear us."

Lee opened his eyes and turned to his brother whose face is rather close to him. He pushed him off a bit, trying not to look like they're fighting.

"So, why do you ask?" he asked, voice barely audible.

"Well, we're..." Yue rubbed his right cheek anxiously "different."

Lee stared at his brother thinking of what he had said. Even he was starting to be anxious. Paano kung isipin nitong weird sila? You know, looking alike each other? What if this friend of their mother will not accept them or worse won't help them at all? They got nowhere to go, right? Their father will tear everything in his way in order to find them.

"We'll find about it when we arrive." He sighed, leaning hard to his seat. He understood his brother's anxiety. They never had friends before aside from their servants; they could even hardly call as friends, they're only doing their duty.

The plane started to rocked, Xing was startled awake from his sleep and Yue grabbed Lee's arm in surprise.

Rin chuckled in amusement at the sight of her triplets.

"What's happening?" Xing, the youngest of the triplets, asked rubbing his eyes from the sleep.

"Bad weather." Lee answered, the oldest, trying to pry his brother's hands off him.

"It's quite bad." Yue comments, gripping his brother's hand when the plane rocked violently.

"It will be over soon. Once we arrived." Rin smiled reassuring her sons. The triplets let out a relieved sigh and trying their best to look tough as the plane continue its rocking.

Rin Bairong never meant those words as a lie. She believes that they'll arrive unscathed in the promise place in time. But it seems like she underestimated the forces in the world who badly wants her sons aside from her husband.