Author's Note: For the photograph challenge prompt on xoxLewrahxox's Bellatrix forum. It's 106 words… =X
Disclaimer: I'm only guilty of perhaps having an obsession, but that doesn't mean I own any of it.
BLOOD CHOICES
When she misses her sisters, she slips quietly from her husband's arms. She kneels in front of the toy box in the nursery and opens the lid.
She digs.
She digs until she feels the familiar tattered edges of the photograph.
She pulls it from its hiding spot.
The three of them, at school, huddled under a tree during winter. The mug they're sharing is supposed to contain hot chocolate, but Bella filled it with firewhiskey by "accident".
They're all laughing.
She runs her fingers from the glossy picture.
The back reads: "Sisters by blood, friends by choice."
They've forgotten her by now.
A tear falls.