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]

Further to her conversation with Duke, Nina was...

Was...

okay, so like, i know you hate the whole prince birthday thing each year but IMAGINE IT in a world where your birthday changed date every year on January 31st and then NO ONE knew your birthdate until you told them?????????????????

Apparently she was texting Noct strange things.

[i_hate_beans]

Well, it wasn't like it was anything unusual.

But why January 31st?

Yes, that was his biggest take-away here.

But he was from an alien planet that still used a Gregorian calendar. You really couldn't overthink it.

[bookbeltof_love]

Because you can't have EVERYTHING for the new year ON the new year!!!!!!!!!!!!! Besides, like, the suspense would kill everyone's enjoyment of the real new year!!!!!!!

Her logic was Nina-sound.

[i_hate_beans]

Which was good enough for Noctis.

Would you HAVE to tell people?

He was thinking he would just keep it to himself, if he could.

Maybe tell Prompto.

But he still felt it wouldn't do much, not with Ignis AND Nina probably wanting it to be the first thing to dig out of him on February 1st...

[bookbeltof_love]

What???????? You wouldn't want to celebrate it even with your friends???????

He could see the sad-girl eyes he was giving him because she was sending him a selfie, looking positively distraught.

[i_hate_beans]

Didn't you start this whole conversation pointing out how much I hate the whole prince birthday thing? The more people know, the bigger a deal it becomes. Too risky.

Although the sad-girl eyes made a convincing argument.

[bookbeltof_love]

Because we’d be celebrating Noct-the-dweeb’s bday and not the royal prince!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Honestly, Noct!

If you think Prompto wouldn’t be your friend if you weren’t the prince then I’m going to come over there and smack some sense into you!!!!!!!!!!!!

[i_hate_beans]

I never said that.

Prompto was the one with the weird hang-ups about that, not him...

And I'm not a dweeb.

He so totally was.

[bookbeltof_love]

You so totally are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, Noctis, in what world were you not a dweeb.

It's okay though, we still love you!!!!!!!!!