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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part II

The weather was warm, the food smelled good, and there was a good chance the new folks were a little extra glittery. What else could go into a perfect day for the picnic?

[OCD is up! This is the picnic post for general mingling. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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It started out simply enough; Prompto went to go grab his food, loading up a plate, figuring, hey, he'd had a really busy and dramatic and maybe even slightly traumatic weekend so far, he could splurge just a little, but then, just as his plate started to get a little bendy with the suggestion that maybe he was pushing his plate limits too far, he got a fresh whiff of deja vu, a faint whisper of a Careful there, cowboy. You got all that, or do you need a hand?

Aaaaaaaand now he was sad.

Cool.

Super cool.

Good thing he had all this food now! Excuse him while he went to find a good spot for eating your feelings!

Hard to miss those emotions. Or all that food.

Lana smiled and steadied his plate with the Force. "Good afternoon."

Oh, hey! Prompto wasn't quite sure what he did, but it looked like he managed to find that perfect way to balance his plate! Nice! He was really worried some of those cookies were going to be fed straight to the ground.

"Hey, Lana," he said, feeling only triumphant as he grinned over at her. "How's it going?"

"Not too bad, thank you. I haven't seen you around much; how have you been?"

"Just a lot going on, I guess," Prompto said with a shrug. Which wasn't really an answer to her question, but he clearly didn't have any intention of going back an amending that. "You get a chance to meet many of the new students yet?"

"Not yet," Lana said, "but I haven't been here long. You?"

"Mostly just my new sib and my new roommate," Prompto said, grinning excitedly. "Gonna be kind of weird, having a roommate again, but he seems pretty cool. His name's Grog Strongjaw," seriously, best name pretty much ever, "and he's almost as tall as Sidon, Lana, so you can't even miss him, and just think of how easy it'll be to get things on the top shelf of the closet now!"

And he was just really, really, really glad he was going to be alone this semester.

"And then," he continued, "my sib? He's on, like, the complete other end of the spectrum, and you're not going to be able to miss him, either. His name's Kuybey, and he's tiny and looks kind of like a cat, but cooler, and he's from Japan. And he's awesome. And, like, so soft, Lana. So soft."

"I'm glad you're doing well on that front." Lana was not going to ask why it mattered that his roommate was soft. To each their own. "I have a little sibling, but I haven't met them yet."

"Oh?" Prompto's head tilted. "Late comer? Or you just haven't found them yet?"

"Well, I haven't found them yet, so maybe they're a late comer? I'm not sure. At least I know my roommate, though; Nell and I aren't going anywhere."

"Well, that's good," said Prompto, who maybe had to put a little effort into getting his grin to the right amount of crookedness, kind of preferring not to think about people going elsewhere right now.

He wasn't doing a very good job with it.

"Hey," he said, grabbing onto the first other topic that floated to his head, "do you know what classes you're going to be taking yet?"

Lana nodded. "Terrain, law enforcement, ethics, self-defence, bad-ass bitch, and civics. Are you all right?"

"Proooooooooooomptoooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Was Nina maybe going to bounce right on over to him? Why yes, yes she was.

The only reason he wasn't getting mauled with a hug was due to his food. Dammit, food.

"Did you get the pictures Vette and I sent you?????????????????????"

Of their masterpiece?

Dammit, food, indeed! Prompto would absolutely not mind being mauled with hugs at all right now, but the sheer force of Nina's excitement would work pretty well, too, and he grinned at her.

"I did," he gushed, "and, ohmygod, Nina. Nina." He chanced upsetting the balance of his food to lift a hand to his kiss his fingers and dance them out in a expression of having tasted true, pure creative genius...and then quickly moved his hand back just in time to catch a sandwich from toppling off the plate. "Magnifique! You guys did a seriously great job. Did Bus Dean absolutely love it?"

"He, like, hasn't found me yet, so I don't know," she said, craning her neck to see if she could spot me.

"But, like, from what I spotted he looked very... festive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

So, so glittery. So glittery.

"I know it's probably definitely not how it went down at all," Prompto declared, "but I just want to let you know, all I'm picturing now is that he totally took some of those flowers, and he's absolutely wearing them in his hair right now."

................. ......... ... .

"No matter how it turns out now that's, like, also going to be how I picture it going down too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"I knew you'd be able to appreciate my vision," said Prompto, chuckling, grinning crookedly at her. "But, seriously, you guys did a great job. We gotta really think of something big to do for the spring semester."

Especially since it was probably going to be his last one, but they didn't need to think about that.

"Did you get all my pictures of the big boy's birthday bash??"

"I'm so tired," she admitted, giggling. "It took ages to get it just right and then I was too wound up to sleep and then oh my gooooooooooooosh your pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Those... those had not helped her sleep.

"You all looked so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Everything had looked so good!

Prompto's grin took on a sheepish sort of quality as he chuckled. "I'll have to pass on the good news to the boys," he said, and then laughed again, shaking his head. "It was...I'm not even sure the pictures could even do it justice, Nina, they really went all out. Noctis hated it, of course, Ignis spent the whole time fussing over everything, and you know that's the first time I've ever actually been in the Citadel?" He shook his head, stars in his eyes just remembering it, even if the end of the evening did dampen it a little, but he was trying to focus on the rest of it. "Amazing. Absolutely amazing."

"It looked amazing," she said and was proud of herself for not sounding wistful or disgustingly envious that he'd gotten to go and she hadn't. (She was both, even though she also totally understood... feelings were stupid.) "Poor Noctis, though, having a birthday party that he hates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Yeah, right," Prompto definitely knew where Nina was coming from with that, but he still had to snort a little. After all, Prompto had never even had a birthday party before, not unless you counted his sad little birthday cupcakes by himself. "It must be so hard on him...."

He was just shy of rolling his eyes, but he shook his head a little, because he definitely didn't mean anything malicious by it.

"Seriously, though," he added, "we really do need to get on planning that other party for him, now that everything'll hopefully get settled in for fall and stuff."

Nina... Nina would definitely not have turned down a birthday ball for herself either, so she wasn't as sympathetic as she could have been. Especially since, like, at least Noctis had family that loved him enough to do that for him!

She blinked.

"Oh!!!!!!!!! That!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just, like, can you find out what dates would be good for him and the guys????????????????????" she asked, since it would probably go better and be met with less suspicion than if Nina just tracked down that information herself. "Sidon and I have, like, totally got the whole party covered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"You and Sidon?" Prompto asked, with a surprised, but amused, chuckle. "Really? When did this all happen?"

"We were just, like, watching Beaker cook something horrifying in a common room one day and it came up?????????????????? And we were all, like, well obviously if we planned the party it would be totally great and also one less thing for you to worry about, so............??????????????????"

Had they been wrong? Had they over-stepped?

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