01. Fireflies

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"My girls are the toughest girls in the world

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"My girls are the toughest girls in the world."









































Ohio
1995














































Becca giggled as she bent over backwards and Yelena followed her actions. Yelena was slightly younger than Becca and she loved her sister. Yelena giggled at Becca as she looked at the world upside down. They heard a whistle and both of the girls whistled back to the big sister. Natasha jogged over to them and bent over backwards, matching her two younger sisters with a smile. "We're all upside down." Yelena teases her sisters.

"And i bet you're gonna fall down first." Nat teases her youngest sister.

Becca giggles and looks between her two sisters, "I think you will." She teases Natasaha and Yelena giggles with her own agreement to Becca's challenge.

"I can't hold it much longer." Yelena says and Natasha starts making faces at her sisters to make them laugh and lose their focus. All three girls start to laugh and fall down onto their backs.

They all stand up with smiles, "I told you that you would fall down first." Natasha teases Yelena. Becca looks at Yelena and they smirk at each other, they then break into a run, chasing their sister. "I told you! I told you!" Natasha continues her teasing as her sisters chase her around the playset in their backyard.

Yelena trips over some sticks covered by leaves and Becca rushes back to her sister, "Mommy!" Yelena shouts for their mother. Becca wraps her arms around Yelena and looks over her scraped knee as their mom comes out to check on the girls and to see what's wrong.

"What happened?" Their mom asks as she kneels down to their height. Yelena pulls away from Becca as she clutches her knee.

"She fell on her knee." Natasha says from behind Yelena and Becca.

"Oh? You bump your knee?" Melina asks her daughter and Yelena nods, mumbling her reply as she sniffles. Melina bends down and places a chaste kiss on Yelena's knee, "Kiss it better. There we go." She says to Yelena and then looks up at Becca beside the blonde sister. "You always look after her, don't you, Rebecca?" She asks and Becca nods as she sits beside Yelena. Melina wipes Yelena's cheeks with her thumbs as Natasha moves away from the girls and climbs the playhouse. "Come now, Little One." She whispers to Yelena. "Get up, you're okay. You're a brave girl." She tells Yelena as she grasps her daughter's hand and stands up. Becca grabs onto Yelena's other hand and smiles at her. "Your pain only makes you stronger. Right, you?" She says to Yelena and Becca and then looks at Natasha as the oldest daughter swings on the swing set.

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