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!**

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[bookbeltof_love]

Nina was up bright and early and squinting outside at the... no, she wasn't sure what was going on outside and didn't really want to know either.

Especially not when she still had Miss Dozy and there was no Vette in their room yet.

So, first, Prompto was getting a text:

Are you, like, you today??????????????????????????????????????

And then she was putting stage one of her plan to read all the books into motion by texting Ignis:

Good morning!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'd, like, ask Prompto but I'm pretty sure he'd just tell me to ask you anyway, so I skipped that step??????????? But would you know how I could go about getting a library card for Insomina's public libraries????????????????????

[hashtag_chocobro]

In light of everything he remembered from the weekend, Prompto honestly wasn't sure who he was anymore, and he wound up staring at his phone for a long moment, reading Nina's message, wondering about replying, and then burying himself in his pillows and blankets for a little bit longer. He didn't have class until third period, anyway. If he could put off facing the world in any capacity for as long as he could, he was going to do it.

But eventually, he crawled back out, typed out a response, deleted it, considered something else, got halfway through that before deleting it again, and then just went with his first impulse, but littering it with a bunch of crying emoji to make it seem like he was mostly just joking even though he mostly just...wasn't.

Unfortunately.

So many emoji. So obviously a joke, then, right?

What a weird fucking weekend.

And as for the other text Nina'd sent out, she should hopefully greatly enjoy the well-thought out and detailed information coming to her through several nearly-novel length texts in response that detailed for her all the various libraries around Insomnia, brief descriptions of each with his recommendations for each one focused on which might best suit her needs based on any particular information she might be looking for, and if there was anything in particular she was hoping to discover, to please let him know and he would direct her post-haste toward the location that would best suit her needs for that particular set of data. If she had any questions, here as well were the phone numbers for each one, and an assurance that the staff were all very friendly and eager to help, though to please be mindful that there will be some information not readily available to the public, though he suspected she would be nothing but curteous and understanding should she find herself curious about any of those things.

[bookbeltof_love]

By the time Prompto answered her, Nina was busy reading her way through... man, like, Ignis talked a lot but while she was quietly horrified at the extensive responses to her text she was also rather delighted.

It was so nice to have someone be incredibly helpful and be detailed about it.

Prompto's text derailed her for a bit, as she squinted at his words and his emojis and what she knew of Prompto. Eventually, though, Nina settled on:

It was super weird and I'm glad you're back.

With a pile of hearts, since she didn't really know what to say to him about everything else.

Then she went back to reading through what Ignis had sent her.

Oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!! I really appreciate this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you, like, know which library would be best for history???????????????

Her romance novels she'd figure out which library was best for those on her own.

[hashtag_chocobro]

Of course Ignis knew which libraries would be best, Nina, and he was happy to impart that information to you with far too much detail about specifically which eras and which fields of interest, too.

Prompto, meanwhile, just looked at his phone again in one hand, staring at it, and then staring at fucking barcode on his wrist and realizing that all he wanted to do was get up, take a nice hot shower as if that could wash away the whole weekend, and get it covered up, even though he was the only one there to even see it right now. He didn't want to think about it. He practically wanted to burn it right off his skin. And he didn't want to talk to Nina. If he felt before that she'd be better off not interacting with him, it was doublely true now. Triple true...

...but not responding at all would only make her suspicious, probably, or worse...worried.

So he just quickly answered back with "Yeah, me too" and a smily face and a rainbow and a couple hearts back before shutting off his phone and shuffling toward the bathroom to get ready to face the day and look for some good distractions.

[bookbeltof_love]

And a worried Nina was impossible to get away from, it was true. As it was, Nina considered his text carefully and just... let it go. He was himself again, and texting her, and everything else would be figured out in time, right?

Besides, she had... a lot of reading to do, once she sent Ignis a text about her appreciation of him.

You're the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And a pile of happy emojis, lest he think punctuation was the only thing she could abuse.