Prompto's Voicemail.

[hashtag_chocobro]

"~~Prompto's phone~~! But, aw, man, bummer! You probably juuuust missed me! But don't sweat it, dude, just leave me a message! I'll try to get back to you faster than you can say 'chocobo.' Haha, okay, so maybe not that fast, but you get what I mean. See ya!"

**BEEEP!**

Comments

[bookbeltof_love]

Yeah, about that...

Having met his parents (... their parents, right, right, she had to get used to that now) Nina got the why of that.

SOMEONE has to be on the ball about these things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm taking that as a compliment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hashtag_chocobro]

You should, Noctis texted back, and, since it was text, he could even smirk a little bit about it, too. What did you have in mind?

[bookbeltof_love]

Haven't decided yet, she said blithely, with a pile of cheerful emojis swarming his way. But the island's, like, pretty picky about visitors so if you guys can come, I'm going to move it off-island!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nina squinted in thought.

And don't, like, take that as an 'oh, I shouldn't come, it would be a HASSLE' because, seriously, sight-seeing in someone else's world is NOT a hardship AT ALL for birthday parties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hashtag_chocobro]

You mean like what we did in Hyrule for my birthday? That did seem to work pretty well. We could probably put together something private here, if you wanted, to make it so Vette and Sidon can make it, too. But if you have ideas...

Noctis tapped out that ellipses with a particular thoughtfulness, wondering if that was a good, nice way of saying that pretty much whatever she planned would be fine, especially since he wasn't about to go against her when it came to planning pretty much anything. That would require effort and energy that he just did not have, especially since he knew her a lot better now.

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina was, like, really, really new to the whole family thing. Really new.

But she was still pretty sure she was right about getting her brother's best friend to pay for her brother's birthday party was, like, super tacky.

No, it's cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Actually, I just had the most MARVELOUS idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just need to see if I can swing it in time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because there really wasn't all that much time until Prompto's birthday.

[hashtag_chocobro]

Honestly, a thought like that hadn't even crossed Noctis's mind. But, then again, why would it?

Cool. Let me know if you need help with anything. Keep me updated and stuff.

Good luck?

He...was not great at this, no.

[bookbeltof_love]

Oh, Noctis.

Nina sent him a pile of hearts and stars in return.

Just find out if you and the guys are free that weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hashtag_chocobro]

Again, this was something that was so much more Ignis's thing, but that wasn't going to stop Noctis from making a promise he wasn't entirely sure he could keep, but...well...they'd figure it out.

We will be. Don't worry.

It wasn't like he couldn't handle Ignis's endless exasperation if it turned out otherwise.