And that cute little display of bravery in the face of Actually-Being-Serious-About-Something Prompto was encouraging, and probably exactly what Prompto needed for his own little push toward being brave himself. It would be easy to just back out of it, to make something up, to convince himself that she didn't need to be burdened by his problems or his sad stupid future, but it was more than that. And she did need to know, because if she didn't...

He'd gone over this so many times in his head already, so many different ways, but he still just didn't know where even to start.

"Okay," he ventured, "so...."

Seriously, where did you even start with something like that?

Probably with poor, unfortunate, definitely breakable him, really.

"It's probably safe to say that I wasn't fooling you at all with that whole 'I've got a cold' thing last weekend, right?"

Ohhhh, this was going to be fun.