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

[hashtag_chocobro]

yeah, absolutely! I mean, that's totally understandable. I can see how it would kind of be a lot right now

And the last thing anyone needed, really, was for Liz to get overwhelmed and burn down the bar to start the New Year...

Several anxious drumming of his fingers on his phone and a good deal of fidgeting later, he added:

maybe we could do something, just the two of us?

And as soon as he sent it, doubt flooded in like a broken dam, and he quickly added:

if you wanted! Idk. Maybe? You can totally think about it! No problem if not, that's fine too!

[flamesburned]

Liz also really didn’t want to start the New Years being arrested again. Especially after being arrested twice in the last four months.

I …I would like that, just the two of us spending time together. I mean

There was a hesitation and then she added I would understand if you’d rather go the party though

[hashtag_chocobro]

There was a good chance that Prompto was going to make his lip bleed, the way he chewed on it with indecision about what he wanted to say next, ultimately reasoning with himself this if it ended up going badly, he could just claim one of the guys had stolen his phone and wrote what followed:

what would be the point, if the one person i'd want to be there with wasn't there too?>

[flamesburned]

Liz stared down at the message, debating how to respond.

oh…

Then there was another pause and she tried writing again.

I…

I …I didn’t- I don’t want to make things awkward for you.

Well she had probably just made things awkward but on the plus side she hadn’t started crying so that was progress at least?

[hashtag_chocobro]

Prompto blinked a few times at Liz's message, frowning a little as he reread it a few times to make sure he'd read it right, because he thought he made it pretty clear that...

Then he read it with his message and groaned a little, realizing how maybe text wasn't exactly the best way to get a certain tone across.

No, it's not awkward! At least i hope it's not! What i meant was it does matter what we do, all i care about is that I'm doing it with you

And THAT he was preparing to blame on his phone being usurped if she STILL protested, because, okay. Yeah, message received at that point!

[flamesburned]

oh…. Liz tried again and realised that she was repeating herself but she wasn’t good at articulating herself in normal conversation let alone a text message so she spent a few minutes longer before she added.

oh I mean …then yes I still want to spend new year’s with you, I…I’d like that a lot :)

[hashtag_chocobro]

And those few minutes longer between that first oh and the rest of it were brutal, as Prompto spent the whole time pretty much staring at his phone, wondering it that oh was it, and if that oh was it, then what did it mean? Was it a good oh? A bad one? Should he say something more? Would she just rather be alone on New Year's and was just trying to be polite and not hurt his feel--

And then the rest of it came in, and Prompto's breath left him in a relieved gush even before he read what she'd sent, and the relief bolstered itself once he saw and processed the actual words.

Ok good. cool. 😊 then it's a plan? And I'll see you Friday?

[flamesburned]

It's a plan :) I'll see you Friday... just as she hit send, she considered something and then she quickly sent another text I...I'm looking forward to it :)

It also gave her something else to think about and distract herself from everything else that had been going on.