Finding Home

The Triplets

Opening the door I was hit by the sound of Kelis' song 'Milkshake' blasting through the apartment. Catiously I stepped over the threshold and into the house. Turning the corner I saw...Alli, in only a tank top and a pair of bright blue sweatpants sliding down the hallway in a pair of fuzzy socks shaking her hips enough to put Shikira to shame.

"My milshake bri-" seeing me standing at the end of the hallway she froze.

"Oh, uh I didn't expect you to be home so soon" she stuttered, a slight blush covering her pale cheeks.

"Do you want me to pretend I didn't see that?" I asked.

"I'd prefer if you did" she answered quickly.

"Ok, I need help with the groceries" I said, quickly turning around so she wouldn't see the wide grin on my face.

Walking down the stairs to grab the last bags I was caught off guard when three bodies came barreling towards me. Cheese,bread and other items went flying across the floor as the bags were thrown out of my hands.Whipping my head around I glared at the three strangers who had stopped in the middle of the hallway,staring as if they weren't the ones who caused the mess. Turning away to pick up the groceries I did a double take. Looking back over at the girls I realised they were triplets. All with golden skin that hinted at an Italian background and dark brown, almost black hair that fell down to rest a couple inches below their shoulder blades it was nearly impossible to tell them apart. Except for their eyes. One,who seemed to be the tallest had a pair of eyes the color of melted chocolate.The other, who seemed to be quietly watching me, had dark forrest green eyes and the last one who seemed to be filled with excitment had a pair of dark blue eyes. All were equally beautiful. All were equally as stunned.

"Oh my gosh -"one said but was quickly cut off.

"Let us help -"one countinued

"you,we are so sorry!"the other finished.

Still slightly stunned,I could only watch as they all dashed over to my side and quickly started gathering all of the fallen groceries. When they finished one of them handed back my bag and they all turned to face me.

"Sorry about that, I'm Tansy" said the green eyed one smiling at me.

"Yeah me too, I'm Calla" the brown eyed one said grinning at me.

"And I'm Poppy!" said the blue eyed taking me by suprise and giving me a tight hug, as if we had been long lost friends.

"I'm Minx" I answered back,stupidly.

"Oh wow, that is such a pretty name!" said Poppy excitedly as she bounced slightly on the tips of her toes.

"So are your names, aren't all of your name's herbs or something?" I asked as I thought of their names.

"No we're named after flowers, sadly" chimed in a new voice.

Turning around I came face to face with a tall lanky boy with the same hair color and skin tone as the girls.

"Who are you?" I asked politly.

"Ignore him, he's just our idiot brother" said Calla glaring at him.

"Are you still angry about that?" the stranger asked irridiculously.

"You turned my hair blue!" Calla all but yelled.

"You could hardly even tell though!"

"I'm done talking to you" Calla said turning her back on him.

"Uh..." I trailed of awkwardly.

Turning his light brown eyes on me he grinned.

"And who might you be?" he asked giving me a wink.