Eyes Wide Open (But Keep Your Mouth Shut)

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A pre-canon, back in the day Queen Sugar fic.

Fifteen-year-old Charley is visiting her eighteen-year-old sister, Nova at Tulane for the weekend and learns a secret. 

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The red, jean shorts Fatima had on hugged in all the right places and Nova couldn’t help but appreciate the way that her hips swayed.

“Can I come in? Just for a little while? We can keep the discussion going.”

Nova smiled wide, rubbing a hand across the fresh shape up at the nape of her neck, wishing her locs were already long enough for a slight hair toss against her shoulders instead. That would have been so much smoother than having to rub the nervous itch away by hand.

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