Room 303; Saturday Afternoon [05/25].

[hashtag_chocobro]

Well, this week had been one hell of a ride, hadn't it? Prompto always did have a problem with getting all wrapped up in his own head sometimes, but last weekend and the events that followed meant that he'd been mired in even deeper than usual. And, in light of certain events, he found himself in a situation where he couldn't just ignore and avoid certain people for their own damn good. Which meant that he'd have to do the other thing to do when things got like this, the thing he didn't really like to have to do, the thing he tried to avoid at all costs, but the more he thought about it, the more he realized that it was the right thing to do.

He really needed to talk about it.

And since treats always made talks easier, he remembered an unfulfilled idea to go get milkshakes at some point and latched onto that. Of course, getting around the island was a pain in the ass for nearly everyone except Sidon, and while the thought of commandeering Sidon for a trip had crossed his mind, he didn't even know whether any of the good milkshake spots in town were flooded or not, and he didn't want to bother with figuring it out when he could just make milkshakes himself and his room would be more private for all this crap, anyway. So, with more trouble than there should have been (he decided to blame class yesterday, somehow. After blending all those CDs, blending milk and ice cream and fruit seemed suspiciously smooth-going), he managed to make one strawberry one for Nina and one banana one (he was going for a yellow color, which he did not really get, but whatever), found fancy glasses to put them in, even whipped cream and a cherry (thanks, mysteriously accommodating refrigerator!), and then brought them back to his room where he could take a picture and send her a text:

If you're not up here in five minutes, I'm totally drinking your milkshake.

He figured that would do the trick, so he settled in comfortably on the floor, leaning against his bed, contemplating sending her a picture every minute or so with a little bit of her shake sipped away each time to prove that he was serious.

[[ mostly for the one, but can be open if anyone wants to swing by after Nina! And the fact that they met to talk about stuff is a-okay, but if the nitty-gritty deets of the convo could be NFB, I'd greatly appreciate it, squirrels! ]]

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[bookbeltof_love]

Nina giggled.

"I didn't mean that part," she protested. "Though, like, it doesn't sound like a bad vacation to me............."

She was, after all, the one who'd thought it'd be great fun to spend a week in a monster infested castle SO.

[hashtag_chocobro]

"I think you need to take more vacations," Prompto decided.

Not that he was anyone to talk, considering his summers up until recently mostly just consisted of video games, fast food, and photography.

Which wasn't bad, really, but they did seem a little lame once he'd realized just how much else there was out there to see and do.

[bookbeltof_love]

"Where would you suggest I take a vacation to then????????????" Nina wondered, amused and also honestly curious.

Was there, like, a super great vacation spot she was missing?

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Well," said Prompto, grinning a little wistfully now as his head tilted and he looked up toward the ceiling a little, "all the water here right now had gotten me thinking about how I've always wanted to visit Altissia. Travel there's pretty hard with the war, but I bet we could figure out how to get a portal. And you and Vette still have to come visit Insomnia; there's no lack of things to do there, believe me, but we might have to figure something out with Vette. We don't really have anything like Twi'leks on Eos that I know of; would make it hard to keep a low profile, y'know?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"And Vette doesn't really like not being herself," Nina said, frowning a little. "So it'd be really unfair to ask her to disguise herself as a human or something for a vacation."

For an emergency rescue, now, Nina would have zero issues asking Vette that and, she was pretty sure, Vette would do it. For an emergency.

She grinned, though, and held up her phone.

"Bet I could get us a portal to Altissia, though, no problem."

[hashtag_chocobro]

And Prompto took a second to look at Nina's phone being held up like that, grinning before rolling his eyes. "I could just go and do that too, you know," he said. "But maybe I'll just let you do it. Wouldn't want to deprive you of the satisfaction."

[bookbeltof_love]

"Yes, but could you get the portals for free??????????" she asked sweetly. "Because I can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

It was totally a bribe, on Portalocity's part, to try and make her go away.

[hashtag_chocobro]

Prompto quirked a brow at her. "Free, huh?" he asked. "How'd you pull that one off? Mercilessly badger them about a discount until they just gave up and went all in?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"Rude!!!!!!!!!" But she had to laugh, because that wasn't that far off either. "And, no, I'll have you know that I spent, like, ten days," literally, "badgering them about Vette's world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

A beat.

"This was an attempt to make me go away. It, like, did not work, but it's really nice of them??????????"

[hashtag_chocobro]

And now Prompto was eyeing Nina a bit speculatively, half wondering exactly how much time she did spend in the Portalocity office, assaulting those gnomes with punctuation and demands.

"How long do you think you've got," he postulated, "before they realize it really isn't working and they revoke it because what's the point if you're still bothering them?"

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina flapped one hand at him.

"I've, like, hardly bothered them since they gave it to me," she said airily. "They did give me what I wanted, after all, and so long as I keep contact with them to a minimum, I rather think they'll just leave it as is, since they don't want me to come back!!!!!!!!!!"

Nina. Nina, that was probably not a thing you should sound proud of.

"And, like, the local office here never had much to do with me????????? They just passed me on up and up and up the line. The big bosses probably do not want me barging in on another board meeting................."

Yes, she'd done that.

[hashtag_chocobro]

And it was...all too easy to picture that, really.

And, since Prompto hadn't been there nor was he a big boss in any sense of the word, it was impossible to picture it without a chuckling a little.

"You're a certifiable menace," he informed her, "you know that?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"If they'd given me what I'd wanted in the first place I wouldn't have had to go to such lengths," Nina protested, though she was grinning. "Like, I was very polite about it, right up until the end, since barging anywhere isn't that polite................"

She shrugged a little.

"And, I'll note, that you're stuck with me!!!!!!!!!!!!"