The Photo Hut - Thursday

[flamesburned]

Yesterday Liz had handwavily had a singing doll appear, that she hadn’t worked out what language it had been singing but Rain had been rather fascinated and kept playing with it and Liz now had a lot of photos of as a result, which she was sorting through now.

So she wondered if anything was going to happen today and she got her answer straight away in the form of a polar bear who came into the store and automatically Liz went to take a photo. The polar bear walked up to the counter and handed Liz a bottle of soda and then left.

She blinked and stared down at the bottle in her hand. She was pretty sure the polar bears had been around back when she was a student. So it seemed that nothing had changed in that regard.

Well she had wanted a distraction from thinking about the party tomorrow, it just wasn’t the kind that she had been expecting and she now also had a photo of a polar bear holding a bottle of soda, which was certainly not something that she ever thought she’d be adding to her photos.

[the Photo Hut is open!]

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[hashtag_chocobro]

Okay, yeah, sure, they totally had plans for hitting up that party together tomorrow night, but, well, Prompto was back on the island today, and Liz was working at the Photo Hut, so why not just swing by and see her now instead of just waiting until tomorrow, right?

Especially since he had a very important photography question.

"Ummm, hi," he said, as he came into the shop, looking confused, like he'd never even been there before and looked around curiously, before his attention shifted back over to Liz, and his confused act was a little spoiled by the crooked grin he couldn't keep off his face, "I was wondering if maybe you could help me? You see, I've got this new camera," and here, he pulled from his pocket the most adorable pink pig toy camera ever and held it up with a confused look on his face, "and the weirdest thing, whenever I try to take a picture," and here, he lifted it up to focus it on her and pressed the button like snapping a shot, only to have bubbles come out of the 'lens,' "I only get bubbles! I think it might be faulty, could you have a look?"

Did he go and buy an adorable toy camera that blew bubbles instead of taking pictures just for this bit?

Yes.

Yes he absolutely did.

Sure, he probably could have just come in and said hi without the theatrics, buuuuut...

Look, Liz had to know by now what she was getting into, and what she was getting into was a complete and total hopeless nerd.

[[ probable sp warning, but who cares, lol ]]

[flamesburned]

Liz was trying to pretend to be serious as she listened to Prompto explain about the camera but she was trying really hard to not laugh as well.

“That is a rather unusual problem for a camera to have,” she was failing pretty miserably at the keeping serious part as she walked around the counter (sorry Prompto Liz wasn’t very good at hopping over the counter)

“Let me see if I can take a look at it,” and that was when she started giggling.

[lol it’s all good, sp is amazing!]

[hashtag_chocobro]

Liz! Don't laugh! This was a very serious and dire situation, here!

Forget the faint chuckle that managed to slip out of Prompto for a brief moment before, cheeks going a little pink with the pleasure of success, he managed to rein himself in for at least one more moment of a Very Serious Expression before handing her the camera.

"Thanks," he said, then the Very Serious Expression melted away into a soft smile. "I really hope you can figure it out; it's a very important family heirloom that's been handed down for generations, pretty much since the time of the Astrals."

[flamesburned]

Sorry Prompto Liz was trying to take this seriously and failing miserably.

She somehow managed to take the camera without completely losing it, “I promise to take very good care of it,” she assured him and then
another giggle escaped.

[hashtag_chocobro]

"I knew I could trust the Photo Hut with this sort of thing," said Prompto, his nod grave, but only for a fleeting second, because, okay, so, when he thought of this whole silly performance, he had not been counting on Liz's reaction to it being so absolutely adorable, and....he also really hadn't planned any of it further than the initial gag, so, for a moment, all he could do was just sort of grin like a triumphant idiot before suddenly realizing he had no idea where to go now.

He felt his face going red at an incredibly frantic pace, as he tried to figure out what he could do....what he should do or say next, kind of had an urge to swoop in and kiss her cheek or something, but they really hadn't....not since Homecoming...and that was just at the stupid booth...and now it was all he could think about, and he licked his lips nervously, and tried to find anything, anything at all, to say....Something to justify his wasting her time now or even just existing in general now that the joke had sort of run its course...

"So, uh....um, ready to the party tomorrow?"

[flamesburned]

Liz wasn’t aware of Prompto’s narrative or she might be blushing harder than she already was but she wouldn’t necessarily object to any kind of kissing as such.

“I think so,” Liz said, still holding onto the camera awkwardly and she smiled shyly , as she tried not to think about all the different ways she could make a fool of herself at the party, “it …it should be a good evening,” at least she hoped or she’d feel even worse since she had invited Prompto to go with her.

[so sorry work has been chaotic and I’m staying back a couple of hours, so I’ll be on extreme sp for a few more hours!]