A/N: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge on the AMF, Section A prompt #051 – write a drabble of exactly 200 words.
Letters From Her Mother
She gets letters from her mother every now and then: relatively detailed and telling her lots of little things she'd no doubt have known anyway, if they lived together. Things like what her mother wore that day to work, what she had for dinner – sweet little nothings that meant the world because Misaki couldn't be there to see her mother's life go on.
Often, she has to catch herself from pleading back for her mother to come and take her too – not that she hates her life with her grandparents. On the contrary, she loves it, but her mother is her mother and she misses her. But she knows it's important for her mother to be away for work without her there to distract her – she knows it, and that's why she holds those desperate words back and fills her letters with sweet nothings like she receives: what she did at school that day, what new thing her grandmother taught her to cook her or her grandfather taught her how to play.
Her mother gets such letters from her and responds in kind, and they go on: learning little things about each other's lives but not what's going on inside.