The Roof | Wednesday Morning

[bookbeltof_love]

Post radio, Nina had taken the time to make a parfait in the common room, then she'd grabbed her things and made her way up to the roof.

Like, her brother was spending a lot of time up here, which had given her an idea. She didn't really expect him to be up here this early, especially when there was no class, so working on her idea up here had seemed like a sound idea.

The fact that she could spread out a blanket and lounge on it as she worked her way through the art of designing a new spell in her notebooks was, like, just a bonus?

It was so nice out! If she were anyone else then, like, maybe it would be almost enough for her to forget that a lot of her favourite people were leaving shortly but she hadn't and she wouldn't.

Especially not since her Wednesday update to Noctis had been less an update and more a pile of questions about what Prompto would be doing for him in less than a week's time.

(At least, like, she assumed. Nina hadn't actually asked when Prompto was leaving because she didn't want to know the answer but at the same time the boyos were coming for graduation which… well… she didn't think he wouldn't go with them…)

The weekend was going to suck.

And Noctis, like, was actually paying attention because rather than answering her obsessive questions about her brother, he tossed one back at her instead:

Why don't you finish school in Insomnia?

Like it was that easy.

"Why are boys so stupid?????????????????????????!" she complained, even though the problem was, in this case, that he wasn't stupid at all and she just didn't want to deal. "Uuuuuuuuuuuuugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[Open, of course! Noctis modded with permission naturally! <3 ]

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[cypher_can_fly]

"I... definitely picked the wrong time to go up to the roof," Owen chirped from the stairway, grinning. "That's my gender ruthlessly stomped into the dirt."

[bookbeltof_love]

"You absolutely did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina said, though she smiled up at him from where she was laying on her stomach on her blanket. "But, like, I suppose not all boys are stupid?????????????????"

[cypher_can_fly]

"Ohhh, okay," Owen said, approaching. Slowly. Thoughtfully! "So what do I have to do to qualify?"

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"Well," Nina said, "so far the stupid boys are ones that are leaving right after graduation and those who suggest I do the same?????????????????????"

Hmph.

"So, like, I don't think you're stupid so far today.............."

He was stupid for other reasons but those had, like, kind of taken a backseat due to graduation and her brother's leaving looming.

[cypher_can_fly]

"Wait, are you graduating?" Owen asked, blinking. "Because I didn't think you were. For a while, I mean."

[bookbeltof_love]

"What?????????? No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina said, startled. "I've still got two years----------oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, like, no I'm not, but he suggested that I transfer to a different school???????????????????"

[cypher_can_fly]

"Oh. Well, good," Owen said, relaxing. "You almost gave me a heart attack, you know."

[bookbeltof_love]

"I didn't mean to," she protested, giggling.

[cypher_can_fly]

"You better not," Owen said, dropping himself dramatically beside her. "...Wait, people are leaving? Are you okay?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"I'm fine," she said, though as she leaned against him Nina sighed. "I mean, like, I can't do anything about it???????????????"

She was not fine.

[cypher_can_fly]

"I'm not any kind of therapist," Owen said, stretching his legs, "But those two things don't sound like the same thing?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"They sort of are??????????????" They were not, Nina. "Because, like, there's no point in not being fine if you can't do anything about it???????????????"

[cypher_can_fly]

"Yes, I, too, like to completely repress and annihilate any feeling I have if there's no point to be having it," said Owen, which honestly wasn't much of a lie. "That is definitely a thing everybody does."

[hashtag_chocobro]

Ahhh, nothing like the dulcet sounds of your loud sister's very expressive complaints to wake you up when you maaaaybe may have been staying up on the roof so late at night that you fell asleep up there, albeit it in a convenient, hard-to-really-notice-unless-you-knew-to-look spot that left him a bit unnoticed until he groggily pulled himself back into the world.

"Hey," Prompto complained, emerging sleepily from where he'd been to where Nina currently was, rubbing the back of his neck and trying not to think of what a mess his hair probably was (probably as much of a mess as his back from, you know, sleeping on the roof), "I resemble that remark."

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Nina dropped her pen in surprise.

"Youuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And, like, she'd get on his case for eavesdropping except, like, wow that hair.

"You're sleeping up here?????????????????????"

[hashtag_chocobro]

Hey, she should know better than anyone that one didn't exactly just wake up with hair as fabulous as theirs!

Prompto gave Nina a crooked, rueful smile. "I didn't exactly mean to..."

Like, yeah, he was doing a whole thing about getting as many sunsets as possible in before he left, but why would anyone want to sleep on a roof when there was a nice comfy bed they could be in instead?

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She rolled her eyes and then, well, had to laugh.

"You're just proving my point!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina said, wriggling over so that he could plop down on her blanket if he wanted.

Her work, well, even though it was for him she wasn't worried about it spoiling the surprise. It was all arrays and collections of various configurations of runes and ancient languages at this point. He could look all he wanted.

[hashtag_chocobro]

Yeah, when Nina was working on her magic, Prompto's concern wasn't usually what she was doing so much as it was just worrying about whether or not she was overdoing it and taking care of herself afterwards. But it didn't seem like she was working on anything too rigerous, and if she was going to scoot over, then he was definitely going to flop there beside her on that blanket. And then lean in a little, because he was still sleepy and she was comfy.

He didn't really understand any of that stuff, anyway, a point that was made crystal clear when he blinked blearily at her work and didn't even bother to decipher it. Just like he didn't bother to wait for the yawn he failed to stifle was finished before he asked, "What'cha working on?"

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He was also comfy and she was going to miss him so much so when he leaned into her, well, she was going to lean back too.

"Mostly, like, just doodling???????????????????" she said, which wasn't entirely a lie. "Like, poking at various things I could improve for class and playing around with a few ideas I haven't figured out how to make gel yet................"

[hashtag_chocobro]

Prompto's head tilted as he gave the doodles another look, and then quickly realized he was definitely not going to get anything out of them when he was still in half-sleep mode. But he did give a soft sound like a laugh.

"You'll have to send me updates on those adventures," he said.

And, you know, updates on...everything, but that went without saying.

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"Promptoooooooooooooooooooo," she whined, deflating. "I was trying not to mention that whole................... thing............."

Maybe if she ignored it long enough it wouldn't happen?

Like, okay, she knew that wasn't going to work but the alternative was facing and accepting the fact that the only family she had was leaving the island.

[hashtag_chocobro]

Man, Prompto felt the need to make sure Nina hadn't turned into a bear just then, with pause that big...

He winced a little, though, and tried to cover it by just sinking against her a little more. "Sorry," he said, quietly. "It's kind of hard not to, you know, think about it..."

And hard, too, because he couldn't really talk to her about it, and it was weird having something they couldn't talk about, especially when he knew he definitely couldn't admit that, sad as he was to leave this place, he was really eager to just get back home again, and be with Noct, and finally earn his real place in the Crownsguard...

[bookbeltof_love]

That was the worst part, too, was that she knew he had to be excited about so many things and, really, she couldn't blame him, but...

Well.

It sucked being left behind. A lot.

"I know," she said simply. "And, like, I'm happy for you, I'm just............."

Nina was not the slightest bit happy for her.

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Yeah," Prompto said, moving in quickly to fill in the space left by Nina's trailing off, and he shifted so he could put an arm around her shoulders and give her a little reassuring squeeze. "I know."

But what he didn't know was what to say after that, especially since anything that presented itself as a possible topic of conversation pretty much had to deal with everything going on with graduation or getting things ready to head back home.

So he just let out a soft breath of a laugh, grinned at her softly, and apologized again. "Sorry, my and my big mouth, right? Maybe I should do us both a favor and go find some food to stuff in it instead. You hungry at all?"

[bookbeltof_love]

And the topic was totally going to come up again, it really was.

There wasn't much avoiding it at this point.

"I could eat," she allowed, with a bit of a laugh herself. "But if you don't come back I'm going to hunt you down, for the record!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Don't think she couldn't!