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The Photo Hut - Thursday

Liz still couldn’t believe that she’d sung karaoke at the bar last night and that it was twice in one week she’d sung in public. The Liz from two months ago definitely wouldn’t have been able to do that and now she also had another date night with Prompto tomorrow that she was looking forward too.

At first Liz hadn’t noticed anything unusual when she went to open up the Photo Hut but when she turned on her computer she noticed that the screen was displaying some kind of Yule log and when she went to try and get into her emails she found that she wasn’t able to past the fire display.

She found that oddly amusing.

Her phone at least was working so once she opened the store she opened up her email on her phone and started checking them.

[the Photo Hut is open!]

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Sure, they had a date tomorrow, and, yeah, by coming in that afternoon, Prompto was really tempting fate toward pushing Liz to starting to get annoyed with him, but that day, he really couldn't help it. He'd go crazy trying to find something else to do to distract him to keep him from going to go see her at the shop that day, so he had to. After last night, there was no other option.

When he did come in, he did so with exaggerated nonchalance, humming a certain tune to a song that he hadn't heard before a certain bartending co-catsitter sent him a video, but that he'd heard many, many times since because he couldn't help just watching it over and over again. He was humming that lightly as he came in, took an idle look around, and then slowly moseyed his way over to the counter.

Where he stopped humming (maybe lightly singing a few beats, too), flashed Liz a grin, and asked, "You hungry?" He held up a paper bag. "I brought some sandwiches. Ignis made 'em, too, so you know they're good."

Liz definitely recognised the tune and wondered if Summer had sent Prompto a video because she had noticed her filming or if Prompto happened to be a Beatles fan and happened to be singing the song she had sung last night.

It could totally happen right? It wasn’t that much of a coincidence…

She smiled, feeling the heat rise to her cheeks, the blushing was starting early it seemed, “that actually sounds great, thank you,”

That would be an interesting coincidence, now, wouldn't it?

And Prompto, who was pretty sure his face was now going to permanently be splashed with a warm dusting of red and freckles, was more concerned about how those blushing cheeks of his were going to be sore from the grin he couldn't seem to keep off his face as he leaned his lanky self against the counter after relinquishing the sandwiches over to Liz.

"Good day so far?" he asked.

Liz grinned as she accepted the sandwiches, “it hasn’t been too bad, apparently Fandom thinks we need to be surrounded by a Yule log,” she indicated her computer screen, “it wouldn’t be so bad if it would let me past the screen though,”

There was a pause as she took out the sandwiches and took a bite out of one of them, “it’s kind of ironic in a way,” she had to admit.

She shook her head, “oh, I have photos I took of Rain the other day, everyone was stuck wearing Santa hats and Rain now has a collection of them as toys and she was adorable playing with the hats, did you want to see them?” she was pretty sure she knew what the answer was but she felt it didn’t hurt to ask.

Prompto had to give a soft smile at Liz's assessment of the yule log screen, now in the process of grabbing his own sandwich, and his mind was starting to shift into how to bring ip last night's performance again when it found a very acceptable detour.

"Ummmmmm," he said, snorting with a laugh, "yeah I want to see them! I'd be crazy not to!"

Liz grinned as she got out her phone and brought up the photos of Rain.

“She was quite excited about the hats, I ended up keeping them for her,” she said with a smile.

"I meeeeaaan," said Prompto, leaning in for a closer look, "you'd've had to! Just look at her! How could you have not kept them around when she look so cute?"

He grinned over at Liz. "Maybe I'll swing by Furnado before I head back to the apartment," he mused. "See if they have any leftover, so Issa can have one, and they can match!"

“I’m sure I can get Rain to part with one of hers if there isn’t a spare one,” she said with a grin, “she ended up with quite a few of them,”

"Did you have a hat, too?" Grinning over at Liz as he pictured it, Prompto absolutely had to ask, because, you know, that wa quite possibly even cuter.

It was, admittedly, though, a pretty close race.

“I did,” Liz grinned and then there was a search for another photo and brought it up because Liz now knew what selfies were and had maybe taken a few of them in her hat, “once I realised it wasn’t coming off it wasn’t that bad really, I’m pretty sure this happened a few times when I was a student,”

"I bet the picture doesn't even do it justice," Prompto noted, although, honestly, that picture was pretty great and he almost wanted to ask Liz to send it to him, but he was worried that might be a little weird, or osmehting, as if he didn't already have a ton of the pictures of her that he took at the party now plastered on a board (not just her! But...you know...a good amount, all the same) in his room back in Insomnia right now. "I'm sorry I had to miss that one..."

He trailed off a little, before tilting his head and giving her a somewhat curious, slightly mischevious sort of look, because he thought he finally found the hook to bring it back around to the thing that sort of inspired him to come bug her today when he got in in the first place.

"Seems like I missed a few really good things this week..."

Liz would not object to sending the photo or the ones of Rain either, since funnily enough she had quite a few photos of Prompto as well.

Strange how that worked.

She put her phone down and started going red, “I …uh went to the bar yesterday?” she tried, that was pretty unusual in itself maybe that was what Prompto was referring to.

Maybe. She could hope.

"Yeah," Prompto said, chuckling a little, perhaps a little sheepishly for his teasing her, for his sort of dancing around it, and for maybe being a little embarrassed for his clandestine knowledge of such an event, "I saw."

And, just to sort of drive the point home a little, he ducked his head head a little, feeling his own blushing creeping up on his face. Then lifted his eyes to look at Liz as he softly started singing. "I look at you all...see the love there that's sleeping..."

”…while my guitar gently weeps, I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping, still my guitar gently weeps,” Liz sang the next sentence, her blush deepening and her smile widened, she really couldn’t help herself … there was a reason she had picked the song after all.

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Prompto was pretty sure he couldn't have asked for a better response than that, and he was just going to watch Liz quietly, appreciatively, as she sang, until it faded out, while his smile went tender.

"Man," he then breathed out, "I really wish I could have been there for that..." He definitely owed Summer big time for sending him the video, though! "Such a pretty song..."

Sung by such a pretty person, no less.

Liz’s blush went even redder, “it’s my favourite Beatles song,” she revealed shyly, “well I have a lot of favourite Beatles songs but that one’s my absolute favourite,”

There was as pause.

“I’m pretty sure it’s now going to be a regular thing? I think that’s what it sounded like…I’m not sure how Summer convinced me to get up and sing let alone agree to do it regularly,”

She hadn’t even had that much alcohol really.

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"Summer just sort of has this...way about her," Prompto said, shaking his head and marveling a little at his own experiences in that one batshit crazy class of her he'd taken that one time, "to get people to do the weirdest stuff...But..."

More impotantly...

"Regularly, huh?" he asked, grinning again. "Guess I'm gonna have to shift my schedule to start coming back on Wednesday nights now..."

What a hardship!

It was going to be such a hardship!

Liz just smiled shyly and maybe a little bit hopefully up at Prompto, “I wouldn’t want to interfere with your work schedule, I know how important your work is,”

Still, if there was at least one familiar person she knew in the crowd …

"If it's that big of a deal," Prompto said with a scoff, because he was pretty sure the only person who would have an issue with it would be Gladio, and, well, Gladio decided to just be a hardass about everything with this relationship now, so Prompto was so not even going to let himself care, "we can just shift my shift here to, like, Friday or whatever and give Mondays back to training or something. But I definitely wouldn't mind getting up on that stage a little more myself. I do not get to karaoke nearly enough, Liz, you have noooo idea."

Liz grinned at him, “I’m more than happy to change your shift if it helps,”

She didn’t want to give his friends any more reason to doubt their relationship, since she figured she probably hadn’t convinced them that she wasn’t just a complete emotional wreck.

Liz had no idea about what the island had in store next weekend…

“You know…” she said, unable to believe that she of all people was suggesting this, “maybe we could even sing a duet…I mean..if you’d like to…” she stammered.

"I'd love to do that!" Prompto said, almost before Liz had even finished, because she'd pretty much had him at duet. "Would you have a song in mind? Should I try to figure something out? Should we just leave it to fate?"

“I…I don’t really have anything in mind,” she told him with a shy smile, “maybe leave it to fate unless you find a song we could sing?”

"I'll think on it," Prompto promised, and, by 'think on it,' he pretty much meant obsessively research potentially great karaoke duets until he found that elusive perfect one that would just create the ultimate magical moment... "We've got some time to figure it out."

It would not be nearly enough time!

Liz grinned, “I’ll look forward to seeing what you choose if you find something,” so absolutely no pressure there at all Prompto.

She paused, “oh before I forget did you have a particular favourite pizza that you would like me to order for tomorrow?” she had meant to ask earlier but ~~the mun forgot~~ had managed to forget until now.

That was so crazy that she asked that, because ~~the mun~~ Prompto had also totally meant to ask that ~~and then also forgot~~!

"I actually figured I'd bring it with me," he told her, with a grin and a little swell of....something, for just....this synergy that they seemed to have going on, "and I was going to ask you the same thing! Because, I mean, I'm pretty much good with anything."

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Liz smiled then at that, “what’s the saying…great minds think alike?” she said with a laugh, “but that sounds great, I also don’t mind what pizza we have,” she told him.

"If great minds think alike," Prompto mused with a glowing sort of chuckle, "then we obviously have pretty much the best minds. I'll surprise you, then, but I have a feeling..."

A warm, fuzzy, awesome feeling almost akin to walking on air right now.

Over pizza.

Yeah, he was pretty deep in at this point.

"...that you'll like it. Just to be safe, though, any one-hundred percent no-goes? Like, are you going to kick me out forever if I show up with pineapple on it?"

“I’m pretty good with pizza toppings in general so you’ll be safe if you show up with pineapple on pizza,” she assured him with a smile.

If it weren't for the fact that Prompto would actually still agonize over his choices for the toppings on this pizza despite the words literally coming out of Liz's mouth right now, that would be a good way to have him show up with one with just a whole-ass pineapple right smack dab in the center. Because hilarious.

But also not even remotely worth the risk!

Still...

"Oh, sure," Promtpo half-teased, a precursor to later actually worrying about the exact thing he was joking about, "you say that now..."

“Still.. you’re pretty safe from being kicked out,” Liz assured him warmly, “I wouldn’t do that to you,”

She was pretty sure that was one sure way to make sure she would never be able to redeem herself to his friends.

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