Chapter 1: When Everything Looks Normal

It was basically a normal day on the snowy island of Club Penguin, with the same unmoving clouds wedged stuck in the blue sky and the same old monotonous weather that was typical of the island. Many various coloured penguins waddled along the forever snow-covered streets of the Town as they hooted and honked, trying to make themselves heard above the earsplitting din unsuccessfully. Hollers and screeches rose in a swarm of jumbled speech balloons.

"Say 1, 2, 3 to have me!"

"Party at my igloo. BE THERE!"

"Meet me at the Dance Club!"

In the midst of this chaotic commotion, a turquoise penguin seated at the table placed in front of the Coffee Shop sipped lazily at her mug of extra creamy Java coffee. Looking serenely calm against the foreground of babbling mayhem, no one could detect the swirling thoughts behind those large jet black eyes. Only the occasional twitch of her flippers and tipping of her mug showed that she was not a real life statue put there for display.

"Oi Lanny!" A cheerful yell broke the azure female out of her reverie. The caller, a young dark green penguin, waddled over to her side and seated himself at the opposite table.

"Sup Larry," she greeted her other twin back with an acknowledging nod. "When is Linny hopping in?"

Larry fished out the box of sea food pizza he had made in the Pizza Parlor kitchen and offered her a piece before replying. Lanny didn't hesitate as she helped herself to a generous piece of cheesy goodness. Larry wasn't called the Best Chef for nothing.

"Don't think she's coming anytime soon. I saw her at the Stage."

There was a silence as both siblings knew what that meant. Their youngest sister must have gotten so carried away with her soaring acting career that she had totally forgotten that it was the trio's "sib time". Again.

Lanny stuffed the remaining half of her pizza into her beak contently and absent-mindedly washed it down with the last of her coffee. Her face scrunched up at the weird taste.

"Workaholic," she muttered as she recovered from the unpleasant aftertaste lingering on her taste buds.

"T.W.O.P," her brother added after a brief silence.

"What's that?"

"Totally-Work-Obsessed-Penguin."

"Nice one."

Silence drifted around them like a smoky wreath. Lanny let out a sigh that dispersed the comfortable pause between them.

"Well she'd better not forget that it's her turn today to look after the Triplets and take them out for their walk."

"So what we gonna do now?" Larry asked his twin, packing the pizza box to be taken and deposited into the Recycle Chute.

"Looks like we'll have to change it to another day. We'll meet tomorrow in the Book Room for a wild round of crazy mancala," Lanny suggested as she headed into the Coffee Shop to return the mug with Larry trailing after her. "And whoever loses will have to pay for a pizza feast," she added smugly. Larry gazed back at her confidently, a grin on his beak as he accepted the challenge.

"Well, I know that it won't be me."

"Watch me make you eat back your words tomorrow then," Lanny chuckled. "And remember to tell Linny when you go past the Stage. See ya!"

"Sure I will. Cheers!"

They gave each other a farewell flipper smack and then departed ways. Yet on an unknown impulse, Larry looked back, catching the last glimpse of Lanny's back as she most probably headed for the Cove to go surfing before she was obscured by the busy jam-packed crowd.

It had never crossed his mind, as he entered the Gift Shop, that it might be the last he would see his sibling in a very long time…

*End*

Author's note:

Ok, there's my first chapter. I'm really nervous about it…

What do you think? Is Lanny too, um, boyish a name for my main character? Do they seem too unnatural?

I haven't gone on CP for quite a few months now, so if there are any major changes in Club Penguin, I'm completely clueless…

Please review and give me some constructive criticism! =)

*The Triplets are the puffles they (Lanny, Larry, and Linny) own and take turns to care for.

Additional after-note: (1/06/2012)

Silvers45 has recommended that I align the text to the left, instead of the center, which I usually do because my sentences barely form paragraphs.(And it's one of my weird habits =w=;) Here goes...!