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Ch1 Arrival

BPOV

I nervously tugged at the yellow tags on our luggage to make sure they were all still securely fastened.

"You've checked those four times, already. Stop it! You're starting to make me jittery, too. We're on vacation. Can't you relax a little?" Alice's pleading eyes cut through me.

"Sorry." I mumbled and took another step forward as the line moved. The whole process had been nerve racking so far. Rose had almost made us miss our flight to Orlando because she wouldn't leave without her favorite pair of sandals which had mysteriously vanished. I'd had to bribe her with promises of extra time at the straw markets, helping her find a new pair, in order to get her to even leave the house.

Then there was the flight itself. For nearly ten hours I had been sandwiched in between Rosalie in the aisle seat and Alice, whose turn it was to get the window seat. The turbulence was the worst I'd ever experienced. Rose had slept right through it. Alice on the other hand, being the ultimate thrill seeker, had loved every minute of it. She squeeled and laughed each time the plane lurched forward or dropped altitude. My knuckles were white and I was ragged by the time we landed.

Now, here we were, standing in line to check in and get our sea pass boarding cards. We'd been on dozens of cruises over the past few years and knew the routine fairly well.

"Next!" came the call from the available attendant. Alice bounded forward, passport and boarding papers in hand. Rose was still turned around, holding up the line, as she flirted shamelessly with a couple guys a few rows back who were way too young for her. I'd be surprised if they were even seventeen.

"Rose, come on!" I said, getting several dirty looks as I dragged her along by the elbow. She kicked her little suitcases forward, and grudgingly followed me, still in a bad mood.

"I've been looking around at the lines on both sides. There are no hot guys on this cruise and those two pathetic little boys back there are both, like, in love with me or something and will probably follow me around everywhere. Ugh!! This is gonna suck! Why did we decide to do this again? 'Fun ship', my ass!! " She whined.

I turned back and felt a pang of pity for the two teenage boys as they both waved frantically at us. "Come on. That is your own fault. You should've never encouraged them like that. You knew right off the bat that those two were way too young, even by your standards." I scolded.

I wondered if the whole trip was going to be like this. For the first time ever, Alice and I had actually had to outvote Rosalie in the vacation destination. Just because we were triplets didn't mean we were identical in looks or in tastes.

"I still don't see why we couldn't go to California... or Hawaii. Hot men stepping off of their surfboards all around us while we sip on pina coladas, make love on the beach, and eat poi, ..." she sighed and I made a face at the poi comment.

I threw an arm around Rose and hugged her while Alice joined in, trying to help cheer her up. "Come on, Rose. You know there was no way we were going to have enough money to go to Hawaii. Could you imagine THAT long flight?! Besides, don't we always have a great time on these cruises, once we actually get onboard? And "make love on the beach"?!? Gimme a break, Rose. When have you ever made love?!?" It was working. I saw Rose smirk, ever so slightly.

"Shut up." she stuck her tongue out at Alice and laughed.

I handed my papers and I.D. to the disgruntled attendant who was frowning at the amount of talking going on between us. I didn't know why she was in such a bad mood. It wasn't like she would get to end her shift any sooner by pushing us through.

"Hey," Alice quipped. "Remember the last cruise with those Latin men? What were their names? Luis, Roberto, and Marcos... ? They were pretty hot and our salsa dancing has never been better." Rose laughed lightly and shook her head at the memory.

"See. You're smiling! You're having fun already. Let's agree to help each other do whatever it takes to make this the best cruise so far. I think we can do better than Luis, Roberto and Marcos if we try. I've got a good feeling about this ship." I said. "It's much bigger than any other we've ever been on and it's still early. Give them a chance to get here. Everyone knows the hotties don't show up on time."

Rose glared at me. Oops!! Wrong choice of words. "Thanks a lot!! What am I? Chopped liver?!" Rose huffed playfully before grabbing her boarding pass and running toward the photographer who was snapping pictures and welcoming everyone aboard.

"Wait for us!!" Alice yelled as we took off after her down the hall. We crowded into the picture together as we'd done so many times before and made the weirdest faces we possibly could. It had become our dumb little tradition. There were always such an over-abundance of pictures taken that we usually only bought the formal ones, anyway.

"Smile, ladies!" the photographer said. We ignored him and kept our faces squished together and grotesque. "Ok..." he shrugged as he realized this was as good as it was going to get.

Alice was the first to hand over her sea pass card and gain access to the beautiful Carnival Glory. I enthusiastically handed over my card next. Bing! The crewman handed me back my card and looked at me like I had two heads as I giggled stupidly over the excitement that that one little sound evoked.

Rose was last to hand over her card. She didn't wait for the crewman to hand it back before she was standing on his side of the computer admiring her own picture that had popped up on his security screen. "Yep...That's a good one!" She said, pleased with herself.

He gulped and shakily handed the sea pass back to her while looking for an excuse to keep her there longer and talk to her. "Just remember to take good care of that. It's the only way off and back on the ship. I wouldn't want a pretty thing like you left behind on one of the islands because you lost it or something..."

He had a big stupid grin on his face, and was in no way attractive. He was in his late thirties and already had a receding hairling and spare tire. I knew Rose well enough to know that he wasn't her type. He could've been the most exciting, brilliant, innovative man on the planet, and without the looks to back it up, she'd never even give him the time of day. I was flabbergasted when instead of recoiling, she leaned in, batted her long eyelashes and asked "You wouldn't really leave me all alone on an island, would you? " I saw him fan himself and pull at his tie as he stammered.

"Yeah, that'd be a real shame, wouldn't it?" I said, dryly as I pulled her away and heard her laugh. "What are you doing? Do you realize you were flirting?! With him?! Have you lost your mind?" I stared at her.

"What? Pffft.. That wasn't flirting. Look- I say if we don't find any cute guys on this ship, we make it our mission to see how many admirers we can gain, instead. So far it's Rose - three. Bella and Alice - zero. What? Don't look at me like that? You were the one who told me I needed to have more fun and make this the best cruise ever. Besides, I won't lead them on too bad or leave them completely crushed or anything."

"It's too early for me to get sea sick. Make her stop!" Alice cried.

"Rose, we've played that game a million times and we know you always win. Can't you just try, for one week, to not break the heart of every man you see? "

She looked at me as if I'd asked her to stop breathing. "Oh, you're no fun. Come on - I'll even limit myself. No men under nineteen or over twenty nine. And no married ones. If we're gonna be stuck on here for seven nights, I need something to do. Of course, if, like you seem to think- this ship will be infested with hotties pretty soon, then there's no need for me to play. ok?"

Rose was the oldest of us, by four minutes. She had always been the most needy and was definitely the one most obsessed about her looks, out of the three of us. She always joked that the gene pool ran out of tall and blond by the time Alice and I popped out. Alice was the youngest and the quirkiest. Everyone who ever met her, immediately loved her. She had wittiness and style galore. It also didn't hurt that she was strikingly pretty in a porcelain doll sort of way. And I...well, I was just Bella.

"Ok." I reluctantly agreed, having nothing to use to counter her argument. The ship was set to disembark in a little over two hours. I prayed the hotties would show up before then.

A/N: Oh, don't worry. The hotties will definitely show up. hehe. So, here I am writing this new story..and an all human staory at that. Something I didn't think I'd ever do. Don't laugh, but this came to me in a dream last night.. almost word for word what I just wrote. And a lot more. Thewhole story played out and I decided - what the hell.. It was kinda interesting -maybe I'll write it and see how it goes over. P.S. Don't worry I haven't abandoned my other story. I will try to juggle them and alternate.

I am going to immediately post chapter 2 just because I love you guys and because no good story can truly start without an appearance from our favorite man!! I am hoping this one will be as succesful as my first story. If it is, please let me know.

If not -well, let me know that too, so I don't waste my time.. Much love to all of you:)