The Photo Hut - Thursday

[flamesburned]

It was Liz’s first day in charge of running her own shop.

Today’s shift mostly involved unpacking her equipment and general tidying since it looked like the store hadn’t been used in a good while but she was also taking the opportunity to run inventory and figure out if there anything she needed to order. She also had several boxes of stock that had been delivered recently to the store that had looked like they had been building up for a while and when she opened them realised they were holiday themed prints and decorations.

She supposed it was October and yes she knew her previous job had involved battling the forces of the supernatural and Halloween had played a big part in the festivities at the BPRD but these decorations seemed a little excessive.

[Photo Hut is open!]

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[hashtag_chocobro]

"....whoa," said Prompto, eyes going wide as he noticed some activity going on inside the Photo Hut building when passing it by, as he had a million times before, and tried the door this time instead of just passing it by with wistfulness, "is this place actually open?"

[[ there's a good chance I may disappear, but I haaaaaaad to! ]]

[flamesburned]

Liz had been in the process of sorting out all the new prints and decorations when she heard a voice, she glanced up, “hi,” she called with a wave, “yes, we’re open, first day running the place actually,” she said with a smile, “I’m Liz Sherman,”

[no worries! :)]

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Prompto," he offered back, an eager grin blossoming on his face as he came into the store a little more and started looking around, with his wandering gaze finally finding Liz again. "Prompto Argentum. And this is great! I've always been kind of curious about this place, but it always looked so...I don't know, abandoned, I guess?"

Which, to be fair, he felt that way about a lot of the random shops scattered throughout the island.

He then noticed all the boxes and the stuff slowly making their way out of them.

"Need any help with any of that?"

[flamesburned]

“It’s nice to meet you Prompto,” she said and glanced around the shop, “I found it a bit strange when I moved in, there always seemed to be people working when I was a student here admittedly that was over ten years ago though,” she shook her head.

She glanced at the pile of boxes that she still had to go through, “actually I’d appreciate the help, I wasn’t expecting so many boxes to be here already,”

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Yeah!" Prompto said, following Liz's eyes and then jumping into action immediately, bouncing on over to one of said piles. "No problem! I've got nothing else to do, really, anyway!"

He laughed a little, then seemed to hone his focus in on exactly where to start and, once a box had been selected, he grinned back over to her. "You used to go to school here, too? That's awesome; me, too! Except," he laugh went a little sheepish, his cheeks a little pink, as they usually did when reminded of how he was still kind of pretty young around here, "it's closer to two years ago than ten..."

[flamesburned]

“Thank you,” Liz smiled, as she continued sorting through her box, “yeah I was here for a few years … I meant to keep in touch but work got …well it got a bit chaotic at home,” well that was one way of putting it, “the opportunity came up to run this place and move back here so I thought I’d take it,” she said.

She paused, tilting her head as she looked at Prompto, “how long have you been into photography?” she’d figured based on his reaction to the store being open it was safe to assume he was passionate about it.

[hashtag_chocobro]

Prompto was about to sympathize with knowing how that went, things being chaotic at home, despite the fact that he had no idea yet just how chaotic they could get, but then that last question swept it all away, flooding him with eagerness as his face lit right up.

"Oh, man," he said, shaking his head as if marveling over the idea, "ever since I was a little kid! Photography was everything to me, I'd take pictures of my whole neighborhood, my school, pretty much anything that would sit still....and a log of things that didn't."

He chuckled a little, looking down into the box with his nostalgia now touched with a little sadness, because, well, for the longest time, his camera was pretty much his only friend...

But not wanting to dwell on that, he started taking things out of the box and tilted his head at Liz. "How about you?"

He, too, assumed that if she was going to be running the shop, she'd at least have a passing interest.

[flamesburned]

“Same,” she nodded, “we moved around a lot when I was a kid and when I wasn’t with my brother - “ she hesitated slightly at that because she hadn’t mentioned him in so long and there was that familiar twinge of regret and guilt, “I was alone a lot of the time… well I got a camera for my tenth birthday and haven’t looked back,” she explained.