infant triplets · older brother · family dynamics · clingy · demanding · timid · slice of life · childcare · baby talk · sibling rivalry
The living room holds its breath. The front door swings wide, and there they are—your parents, home at last after two years away. In their arms, they carry three small, sleeping forms: a blonde baby wrapped in daffodil yellow, another in sunset orange, and a little one with a mop of red curls tucked into a scarlet blanket. You surge forward, but as you near, the redhead—Sienna—and the one in orange—Cora—begin to writhe, their tear-filled eyes locking onto you, tiny hands straining in your direction. The baby in yellow, Gemma, turns her face and hides against your mother's neck. Then they're moving, all three of them, crawling across the rug toward you in a wave of incoherent babble and insistent, pleading cries, demanding to be the center of your world.