My little basket babies from above

                Kicking open the old oak door of her bedroom, Erica calm walked in with the basket in her arms, the children inside started to stir from the loud kick. Before she could sit down on the bed, she arranged the pillows around the edges so the babies wouldn't fall onto the floor. But before she even put the basket down on the bed she realized she had to do something that couldn't be put off.

She had to pee, very very badly.

"Note to self, before you leave work, don't be a god damn idiot and drink almost an entire gallon of coffee and soda." she grumbled to herself, as she headed for the bathroom

                   . . . . .Then stomping back to the bedroom to set the basket down gently on the bed, cursing herself for being such an idiot. As she was washing her hands she heard one of them start to cry, again, though this crying was softer, and sounded scared. Having that motherly feeling click back into place, she quickly turned off the water and raced back toward the bed to see which one was crying like that.

                 As she reached the bed she realized that the child crying wasn't bubble, like she expecting. He was one of them with wings, except his were canary yellow. As she cradled the light pink haired child to her body, she looked him over to see what was wrong. He wasn't wet, or hungry, his diaper wasn't even full, so why was he crying. Just as she was about to put him down she noticed something shiny under his neck, after a closer look she saw that it was a necklace with  some kind of charm on the end of it.the day I meet the son of a bitch who had the audacity to abandon these kids, WILL GET MY FOOT UP THEIR ASS! A necklace on an infant, was this person sane!?she yelled inside her head as she eased the necklace off. The charm turned out to by a butterfly made of jewels and what looked like gold. Hmm, what's this on the back? It looks like a word or a name. she thought to herself as she wiped the smudges on the back of the charm with the edge of her shirt, the baby in her arms calmly staring up at her with dark turquoise eyes.

      "Aha! Finally, now what does this say? I think its a name, wait, Butterscotch?! Who would name there kid that". Erica said to herself, puzzled at the name choice for the baby cuddled in her arms.

But, she couldn't think on his strange name, for the rest of the babies had woken up and were now bawling their eyes out for attention. Without thinking Erica started to sing a song she had always sang to calm her younger sister.

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Thank the lord in heaven. she thought as they calmed down. The smile dropped from her face as she thought of her sister. Her eyes began to tear up a little as she remembered how close they had been, until . . . . .

Erica couldn't do it she couldn't bring up or talk about what had happened last year, she could never take back those words that had been said, by both her and her sister. Erica put the child in her arms on the bed and buried her face in her hands, not even trying to silence the sob as it came out her throat. How could Amy do that? Why? I lost Lucy because of our dumb fighting. Erica thought to herself as another sob broke out, this time full of sadness and pain of ones lost. Before she let out a wail, she felt many warm bodies in her lap, in her moment of sadness the idea of seven infants watching her breakdown had slipped her mind.

           "It's okay guys" she said to them while wiping her eyes "I just thought of something very sad, and it made me upset, don't worry about me, now lets see if we can get all of you names."

  "Mommy? Mama?"

  Erica froze, she did not just hear infants, who were no older then a few days old say "Mommy", there was no way. She opened her eyes and slowly turned her head toward them, waiting to hear those words. She found all of them staring at her and saw that they all had various eye colors, the strangest were the rainbow haired boy and the boy with dark blue hair and two streaks of pink and purple, the former having rose colored eyes and the latter a deep purple.

"Mommy? Mama?"

There it was again, and it came from the dark blue haired boy with the streaks and another boy with purple hair. Each had necklaces with different symbols on them, which told her that the person who abandoned them was probably a stoner or hippie.

"Either I'm completely off my rocker, or the two of you are very smart. . . I'm going to assume that your really smart." Erica said, shaking her head softly.

    Since all of them were calmed down it was easier to get the necklaces off and find out what their names were. She had to admit, they had the strangest names she had ever seen, and she used to be a mid-wife at the local hospital. The purple haired boy was named Elusive, and had a purple charm on his necklace(All the necklaces were put in the basket so the babies wouldn't choke). The rainbow haired boy was named Rainbow Blitz, and had a lightning bolt shaped charm, although the coloring of said charm was a bold red. Bubble, the pink-haired boy was named Bubble berry, and had a blue balloon  charm on his necklace. The dark blue haired boy with the streaks was named Dusk Shine, and had a strange star like symbol on his necklace. The blonde of the group was asleep in an old Stetson by the time she picked him up. His name was Apple jack, and had a shiny orange apple charm on his necklace.

            As she picked the baby girl, she stole a quick glance at the clock, and was astounded to see that it was almost ten. How long has it been since I came through the door? she asked herself as the girl in her arms giggled. The purple and green haired baby girl in her arms was named Spines, much to Erica's confusion, until she saw that the babe's hair was very spiky, almost resembling the dragon spines that she had seen in old pictures. Spines necklace was a white and black jewels in the shape of an old fashioned quill and pot of ink.

Yawning, she arranged the babies into a comfortable position in the middle of the bed, it wasn't easy, considering that they were all asleep and the wrong movement or sound would make them start crying. She fell into a very light sleep, listening to the sounds of the babies barely a few inches from her.

Many hours later, outside of Erica's house

Eric pulled into his friend's driving, blinking as the first light of dawn came seeping threw the trucks windows, God was he tired, he hadn't even bothered to try and get some sleep, he drove straight threw the entire night. As he stepped out of his truck and went to the front door, he couldn't help but wonder why Erica would need him to come here so badly. Usually if she needed a video edited they would do it over video chat or she would wait a few days until he was free and could come and see her.

"Well whatever it is it must be important enough that I had to miss out on my nine hours." he said aloud, rubbing the faint, yet dark circles under his eyes as he used the hey Erica gave him and entered Erica's home.