(January 14, 3:00 p.m. Outside of Geremia Wing High School)

The siren to mark the end of the school day rang loudly throughout the area of r03;r03;the institute, the janitor opening the doors so that students who were waiting anxiously to return home would run full of that precious and terrifying youth energy. Chatting with each other, making the idiot and especially taking advantage of taking pictures in front of the renewed vehicle of the giantess. (Calling it a vehicle was the only thing that sounded right, since it was not a car and only part of its former nature as a caravan was preserved)

An expanded reconversion of the largest caravan on the market in a vehicle for the daily life, a difficult process that requires both a fairly high investment of money (Although surprisingly it was still cheaper than Uncle Declan's Ferrari) and Alanna and Erika to take the driver's license of large vehicles. Inside, shelters from the january cold, were mother and little daughter of the family watching one of Erika's animated series sitting on the sofa. (As Erika herself defended with the mechanic, there was no reason to remove the kitchen, bathroom, table and sofas if they could be used)

"Railgun is so hype!" Erika shouted excitedly as Anne clapped laughing. “Do you see that, my sunshine? That is style! I didn't have much faith in To aru majutsu no railgun… but I have to admit that I was wrong!”

“Ragun! Mamma! I wan ragun too!” Anne shouted completely excited despite having no idea what was going on. The toddler was waving on her mother's legs, stretching toward the table in an attempt to reach the screen to see the scene again.

"You? My sunshine wants to be an electromaster, uh?” Anne asked in her most playful voice, raising her daughter until she was able to blowing raspberries in her stomach. “Do you remember what Uncle Addams said? As long as they don't know what you can do, you can be whatever you want, my sweet, sweet sunshine! You just need to prove to Uncle Addams that your NEsPer skills are not any of those premonition nonsense as he is implying!” The answer seemed to please little Anne, who clung to her mother's hair still laughing while the ending of the series sounded.

"My children will be what they want to be, you can be sure of that! ... Although for now what they are is latecomers"

As Erika was noticing, the last students began to leave the school grounds. Leaving Anne on the floor, Erika looked out the large window that surrounded the sofa to see where her children were ... just in time to hear several knocks on the double doors. “Erika! Or Alanna if it's you today, open! We need to talk” Jackson shouted, knocking on the door even more.

“Coming! One second” Erika answered trying to leave the table, looking for her shoes and trying to leave without wrinkling her clothes too much, regretting having decided to come for her children in her “old” sneakers (old in many quotes, the key word for to describe it would be rather super-stretched and shattered).

And among all those regrets, Anne had already reached the door of the vehicle. It wasnt too difficult for the little girl to reach the door handle thanks to her 4 feet and eleven inches high, opening it without any problem or repair. “Äldre syster!” Anne shouted smiling at her older sister, jumping forward to hug her without even checking if Nellie was in front to receive her.

The disaster was imminent, and although the baby didnt stop smiling for a second the face of the other 3 adults passed from tranquility to anguish in less than a second. "Whoa!" To Erika's relief, Jackson was right where he was needed, catching the little big girl right in the air. "How brave we are to jump, huh little Wildcard?"

Anne laughed in the arms of the almost-old man before looking back and seeing her older sister, moving to shake with all her strength to reach her. "Hey hey! Take it easy! These bones of mine are no longer what they were for someone as big as you to shake so wildly!”

“Äldre syster! Äldre syster!” Anne repeated again and again when Nellie took her in her arms. It had cost, but the little girl was beginning to pronounce correctly and even memorize certain words in Swedish.

"These children ... havent missed a second to throw herself to the abyss, huh? Don't be offended, but I hope my granddaughter is not so willing to jump without looking from almost 5 feet of stairs" Jackson had to laugh at the runaway emotion of the little girl, leaning on the wall of the converted giant caravan while Erika joined him sitting on the top of the stairs. I like your new vehicle, you can't imagine how I envy you! My dream has always been to drive a caravan as if it were a normal car! Confessions aside, today I come for two reasons, one neutral and one bad”

Erika was silent, worrying to see how Nellie reacted to the bad word with a little tremor. "Start with the news of Fraje ... I imagine it will have to do with his absence"

Pretending to take off his hat, Jackson pulled out his phone offering the Amazon. “First of all I must apologize, this is my fault after all. All parents are sorted in alphabetical order, so when the science club talk with the Handshake representative had been delayed until 2:15 pm, I have notified the concierge to notify the parents ... and as Alanna begins for A, it is she who has received the message. Fraje will leave in 15 minutes or so”

Erika nodded silently, understanding then that her wife's own meeting was getting longer than expected. While she was thinking of some plan for dinner, Erika's attention went directly to Nellie. (Mainly for seeing a fairly suspicious bruise on the back of his left arm)

"Nellie, do you want to tell me what happened?"

The huge teenager was silent, so tense that even Anne stopped fiddling. Erika knew her daughter well, understanding the lack of words like that it had been something really serious that was devouring her inside. "Nellie has had a fight today on the team ..." Jackson explained in a much lower tone of voice after the conversation stayed between them.

“The coach notified me a while ago when both Nellie and the other player have left the infirmary. I'm going to let you solve this among your family, Erika. No matter how much Nellie counts as a neohuman, I don't see the matter so serious as to notify Handshake”

Putting the imaginary hat back on, Jackson began to walk back to the institute. “All I need is for Nellie to write a 10-page reflection on what has happened! See you soon, family”

"Jackson" Erika shouted rising from the caravan, she is still big enough to have the Amazon in the shade. “From me to you, thanks” With a nod, Jackson returned Erika's gratitude.Silence dominated the street once the education counselor returned to the building, only interrupted by the occasional barking of neighborhood dogs. Leaving Anne on the floor and holding her hand, Nellie entered the caravan followed by her mother who locked the door behind her.

One of the advantages of being too large for conventional vehicles is that the interior space was much more similar to that of a room than that of a car, allowing them to hold important conversations without having to return home before. Nellie sat at the bottom of the sofa, raising her legs and hugging them while she waited for her mother to fill the gap beside her.

And that was what Erika planned to do, leaving Anne already on the couch while preparing a quick snack with the little food left in the fridge. "Äldre syster ..." Anne whispered crawling on the cushions until she clung to her sister's legs, hugging them in an attempt to confront her as she liked to be done.

"Jag är ledsen, min lilla syster (I'm sorry, my little sister) ... making you worry about nothing" Nellie whispered rubbing Anne's orange hair.

Taking advantage of the distraction, Erika left the soft drinks, the juice of Anne and toast spread with the remaining roquefort on the table, sitting next to her daughter. “Du behöver inte be om ursäkt, vet du? Din familj kommer att vara här för alltid, för det goda och det dåliga (You don't have to apologize, you know? Your family will be here forever, for the good and the bad things)"

Without saying anything else, Nellie dropped on his mother's arm hugging him. "I know that you wouldn't get into a fight for yourself, Mim varg ... so you can tell me what happened without worrying"

While Anne took the opportunity to move from leg to leg until she could sit on her mother's knees to reach her juice, Nellie sipped the last of her tears freeing herself to speak. "I don't want to, but they're making me hate basketball ..."

Nellie's words were terribly painful to hear for Erika, who had seen how since her childhood Nellie had loved that sport over everything. If they were so painful for her, Erika thought, for Nellie to say they must be absolutely devastating "They use me to solve any situation, they try nothing more than to pass the ball to me to solve ... no longer try to throw for themselves ..."

"Hence the fight, right?" Erika rubbed her elder daughter's cheek gently with one hand, using the other to handle the television remote and put Anne on the next chapter of the series they were watching.

Nellie nodded without leaving her mother's arm. “We were playing a training match against the men's team when I had to stop to tie the cords of my sneakers. The play was following normally ... when Isla, without even waiting for me to get up, has throw me the ball"

Erika didnt interrupt her daughter, slowly running her hand over her crown finding a rather large bump. “When the game is over we have entered the locker room and I have gone to ask why she passed me the ball when I was crouched on my back busy with my cords. And it turns out that Isla was furious because I had lost the ball and the play had ended in the men's team getting 2 points! I told her that it wasnt so bad and she started shouting very closely that we had lost our 300-minute streak without receiving any points because of me ...”

"Push? Because I don't think you went straight with a punch!" Erika asked quickly, stroking her daughter's hair. Unfortunately the question got the opposite effect, to silence Nellie. “Min varg… I am more than proud that you havent stood still in front of someone who is clearly not right. Don't be ashamed to admit that you have taken action to prevent them from using you!”

...

"I just wanted to push her a little so she stopped yelling at me so closely-"

“And you didn't know you were so strong right? Min lilla varg… I know that story perfectly! If only they would give me one dollar for every time that happened to me in the last year ... maybe I could pay the weights of 100 kilos that I broke the other day without telling your mother about them” Erika laughed bringing two of the roquefort toast to them, almost putting one directly into her daughter's mouth. “The world is running small for the Barlow Holm family! In a completely literal sense too! Do you know that they are asking me to let me know in advance when I go to my old gym?”

The news caught Nellie by surprise, who after a few seconds snuggled slightly more apart from her mother so she could eat her toast. "Is that why you now train in the home gym?"

“It's the reason, yes. Who does Akanni think he is to tell me that I am dangerous because of the intensity I exercise while training?! I'm already careful enough with my size not to cause any disaster! And you also have no right to tell me that I am a walking show that relantizes the exercise tables of others because they stop to look at me! I got him the job! That ungrateful son of ...” Anne's intense stare completely stopped her mother's speech. "Witch. Son of a witch"

The complaints of his mother who was not even stopping to swallow before continuing to speak brought a smile to Nellie's face. Nor is it as if it affects me a lot, the gym machines we have at home are much larger and more comfortable to use. Besides not having to worry about too low ceilings helps! At least, not having to worry about roofs for now! At the rate we are growing we may have to use the large rooms!”

“Can I confess one thing, mamma? I have already had my first problem with a door”

"Really ?!" Erika missed a silly giggle, opening the two sodas and starting to drink. "Tell me tell me! I want to know my daughter's first time! .... that has sounded terrible. The first battle with her amazing height of my daughter! Yes, that sounds… not too worse”

“It was this morning ... after the break. Professor Logan the long has asked Fraje and me to go for some blank pages for a surprise test-”

"Punctuation?"

“85/100” Without needing another word, mother and daughter raised and clashed their fists, first between them and then with Anne. “As I was saying, the professor had sent us for a few blank pages to the teacher's classroom… with the bad luck that they had none! We have been given two options from the teachers' lounge, going to the secretary or to the warehouse of the old building. As Fraje was too excited, they gave me the key to the store while the teacher took Fraje to the secretary”

“The old building… Did you know that this is where your mother studied when she was young? Until about two years ago they were still teaching preschool there”

"Seriously? I can hardly believe it with how small the doors are! Or rather, now I understand why the doors are so small ... I thought that as the door frame climbed much more could enter without problems, but as I was distracted with my phone I havent seen that the top of the door was stuck and it was just decorative… it hurt a lot… hehehe”

"The first time it always hurts, the doors and frames are much heavier than they seem! And if you think that has hurt wait for the day where you try to stand straight and hit your crown against the ceiling! I spent a week with a sore neck"

Now that Nellie's return to good humor was complete, Erika and even Anne relaxed completely, the little girl going from her mother's legs back to her sister's neck. "Mina döttrar, I know that from the outside it may seem that our life seems to be more and more difficult as we grow .., But I don't want there to be a doubt in your hearts!" Erika smiled hugging both of them. “Being bigger will make us stronger in the face of adversity and help us build a better Brightside! And it will be our strength that will unite us much more than any other family or city will ever be! United for something stronger than blood or destiny!” Erika's words were simple and not too well thought out, but for Anne (who only understood her mother's tone) and Nellie harbored a feeling too warm to be overlooked.

"Min varg ... I can't promise you that your teammates will change their gameplay ... nor can I promise you that basketball will continue to be a challenge when you grow up a little more" Swallowing worried about her mother's words, Nellie under her head ... to instantly have her raised again thanks to Anne's abnormal force holding her older sister's chin."But there is something I can promise you!"

"What, mamma?" Nellie asked as Erika got up from the couch, running until she was at the door.

"And that a new day always dawns" Opening the door slamming and turning to her daughters, Erika placed her hands on her hip radiating confidence and hope. “A new day full of opportu-”

CRASH!

The sound of something hitting the sidewalk completely stopped the entire scene, and the ensuing murmur of pain killed her completely. Slowly Erika looked out, with Nellie and Anne peeking out from under her. There, lying on the sidewalk on his backpack and with a completely red face, lay the teenager formerly known as Fraje.

The 45 students and teachers leaving the highschool after the Handshake talk were frozen on the site, their faces in total disbelief adding the icing on the cake. No one said anything while Erika slowly left the caravan, and no one thought to interrupt when the mother took Fraje in her arms, entering the caravan again and closing the door behind her. A silence born of the shock that did not fade until, skipping virtually all traffic laws affecting the street, the Barlow Holm family vehicle left the scene exceeding the speed limit by almost double.

(5 Hours later. 20:30 p.m.)

"I'm back, family!" Alanna shouted, smiling like a fool, feeling fulfilled having won an important contract for Bright Side Industries. “God, how good it feels to do things right! Where are my favorite boy and girls and my beloved wife?!”

"Having dinner on the couch!" Erika shouted with all her boredom might, indirectly confusing her wife.

"Having dinner on the couch?" Alanna asked herself as she took off her suit jacket and left it next to her briefcase in the elevator. Just as Erika had shouted, she and the children were having dinner for what the smell seemed to be pizza while watching what at first glance was a chapter of Good Girls. "Aren't we supposed to eat spaghetti on Tuesdays? And why are we on the sofa? Dinner with a movie / series is Friday, Saturday and Sunday?" As nobody seemed to listen to her because of the volume of the television, Alanna decided to go directly to the sofa. “What's why change in the menu- MY GOD! What happened to you Fraje?! Your face!”

The teenager finished his piece of pizza to not be rude talking with his mouth full, taking advantage of the seconds of chewing to pause the series (Since apparently he was the one who had the command). Careful that the ice pack that covered his nose didnt fall to the ground, Fraje got up offering his mother the place next to Erika.

“Nothing important, mamma! Relax and come to eat pizza and see one of the great fiction works of current television, starring the most perfect woman in the world of acting! Your options are my favorite 6 cheese pizza recipe, handmade by our dear mom Erika, or Giannino's barbecue pizza! But make sure you don't fill your stomach too much, because we have stracciatella ice cream for dessert!”

Slowly nodding Alanna stepped behind her two daughters, each with a more boring face than the previous one, sitting between Erika's legs. "Should I ask?" Alanna whispered as she kissed her wife, receiving a guilty denial in return.

The magic of the Barlow Holm family was such that there was no need to say a single word, Alanna accepting the situation and getting comfortable on her wife's stomach. While she was grabbing one of the barbecue pieces, Alanna's eyes quickly went to the corner of the screen of the huge movie crew that served them as television.

Chapter 3 of 10. The night was going to be long.

And of course it was a long night.

(01:00 at night)

"How much does Fraje have to wear those bandages?" Alanna asked as he finished taking off his suit, joining his wife in bed. Each one lying on its respective side, faces crossed while the two stared at the ceiling exhausted.

On the other side of the room, Anne slept peacefully, the only one who managed to get rid of the Bad girls marathon thanks to falling asleep in the middle of the fifth chapter. Her daughter's sweet snoring helped both mothers stay awake, enjoying their respective companies for the first time throughout the day. "At least 3 days according to the doctor, the inflammation of the nose is the only thing relatively large... beyond himself. I took advantage of the fact that we were at the doctor to ask them to measure Nellie and Fraje: 6 feet 6 inches (1 meter and 99 centimeters) for our brave wolf and 6 feet 3 inches (1 meter and 90 centimeters) for our future scientist"

Two sighs later, the two wives looked at each other. "Am I a bad mother and older sister?" Erika asked without knowing whether to cry or not.

"What? No! It was an accident! Not even Fraje blames you! It has been something irresponsible to open the door so suddenly knowing that the doors of our caravan are especially large and heavy? Yeah. Can I blame you after the other day I caught my father's hands with that same door? That would make me a hypocrite and that is the last thing our children should learn" Extending her hand to take her wife's, Alanna squeezed and pulled her to get her favorite Amazon seated.

"We are taking the never traveled path of life, my love. These things happen even in the best families! The most important thing now is to think about what to do with the Nellie affair ... I would hate if because of growing up she misses the opportunity to practice her favorite sport ... but we are walking on a thin line"

"Jackson and I have been talking with the organizers of the league and have already warned us that when they pass the 2 meters and 5 centimeters they won't let her play, at least in the junior categories" And two other sighs to release the pressure that filled the room.

"I understand perfectly that they don't want the other players to be discouraged ... and seeing what coach Charlie is doing I don't like anything either. That woman thinks I don't recognize the representatives of the teams in the area ... I really don't I recognize them, but Jackson has shown me his photos and I have memorized their faces!" Although both originally believed they were going to snuggle and sleep peacefully until the next day, the reality was being very different for both mothers. Too many doubts and fears in their heads, a somewhat remarkable fear of what they would have to do if they kept growing ...

And then came the salvation accompanied by three knocks on the door that served to spare to identify the kind person behind.

"Go ahead, Mim varg" Erika and Alanna whispered at the same time, sitting on their bed.

Slowly so as not to wake her little sister, Nellie tiptoed to her mothers bed. "I don't interrupt anything, right?" With a smile from ear to ear his two enormous mothers denied at the same time. "I came to ask ... if it would be good if tomorrow came out early- and it isn't because I don't want to face the coach! I know that around 1 in the afternoon is when Jackson, Mr. Hai and General Black usually come to train with you, mamma Eri ... and I was wondering if I could join you! To test if I like all that you four do! And it's not like I'm giving up on basketball! I plan to keep fighting! I plan to try to recover my original position! Surrendering is not a word that our family knows how to use ""

It was more than obvious that Nellie was also preparing for a possible dark future, and the marriage doubted for a second if her eldest daughter had heard the rest of the previous conversation or if the dialogues with the organizers of the league had arrived, from some way, up to your ears. Alanna and Erika looked at each other for a second too much in love with their daughter's determination, until Erika began to move to the edge of the bed opening her arms, directly receiving Nellie who did not lose a second to imitate her little sister jumping into the abyss

"I would love you to join us, min stora och söta varg"