A Picture Worth Three Little Words

A quick Flashfic from the prompt by @daily-prompts. I changed it from first person. I was having a perfectly normal day, the first I’ve had in quite some time. That is, until I saw it

Fandom: Queen Sugar (OWN)

Word Count: 192

Charley was having a perfectly normal day, the first she’d had in quite some time. That is until she saw it. The picture had somehow got shuffled with the rest of them. She’d been going through the photos she’d found in her office drawer from the Brown Sugar Festival. Darla must have taken them that day. Charley picked the glossy paper up almost like it was made of glass, staring at it and feeling her jaw tighten. What had happened? Why did it feel like this moment was a whole world away from where they used to be?

Charley sighed and put the photo down to pick her phone up instead and typed the text out without a thought but paused before she sent it.

“I miss you,” it said.

Charley looked back at the photo. Nova’s head laid on her shoulder. Charley’s arm secure around her back.

Something still just didn’t feel right and she really wished she knew what it was. Erasing the message and sliding the picture back in the drawer, Charley sighed heavily again before turning her attention to her laptop.

She had to get back to work.