✩WHITE LIES BEHIND THE CURTAINS✩ || Lyney x Reader

2 || The price of attention

READER'S POV

Charlotte was just dragging me across the court of Fontaine at this point. I told her multiple times that I could walk by myself, however she did not seem to care at all and instead dragged me even faster.

After almost bumping into half of Fontaine, we made it to the most crowded street at the moment, AKA the Vasari passage. (AN: For lazy people: it's where the big shining ball is)

"Here! Perfect!" - Charlotte said in excitement while taking her kamera in hand yet again

I took a moment to look around. There were a lot of people around no doubting that... Just a moment later, Charlotte was already giving me the juggle balls.

"Hey let me breathe for a second at least will you?" - I said with a worried expression. I truly did not expect THIS many people to be around. Especially now. I mean who the heck wants to walk on THIS exact street during THIS specific time.

The questions in my head were dumb, because actually the more people there were, the more people could witness what will be in the newspaper so... after taking a deep breath I took the balls from Charlotte and stood in front of the waterway hub (AN: For lazy people again: It's where you can get on the elevator to the aquabuses)

The reporter girl backed away a little so she can get the perfect angle with her kamera and get ready to take pictures of me. I took yet another deep breath and then raised the balls, then threw them in the air as I tried to ignore all or any things which could disturb me.

At first I did not really do tricks, because I had to balance myself from the excitement I had and I kept sweating constantly which ALMOST made me drop the balls just after a few seconds into playing. After I could finally say I balanced myself properly, I started to do a 1 up 2 up trick.

CHARLOTTE'S POV:

I ran a little backwards from Y/N to the perfect angle I could take pictures from and waited for Y/N to begin their performance. When they started to do tricks with the juggle balls I noticed that a few people started gathering around them, mostly children who were looking at their tricks in awe. And some adults looking from afar just to see how things will turn out during their play.

My smile widened as I saw more and more people gathering around Y/N. However I don't think they noticed the people around them THAT much, because they were too focused on doing tricks with the juggle balls, which was a fair reason due to them not really preforming in front of an audience before.

Then something caught my attention. I realized that the aquabus from the port just arrived, so I saw a group of people leaving the waterway hub. Luckily, Y/N decided to do the juggling JUST in front of the hub, so the people coming from there also checked out their performance.

Now that there were enough people around, I started to snap photos for the Steambird. The awestruck crowd and the happy children were all visible. Good thing I am such a professional at picking angles huh!

Every picture just became better and better. As Y/N continued on with their tricks. They also became more and more comfortable as they got used to the crowd.

...

Y/N as expected, ended it with a final spin trick and then bowed to the crowd. The shock on their face was just amazing as they realized that just exactly how many people gathered around to watch them preform. The audience begun to clap. They looked down at the amazed children who were jumping up and down as they were clapping. They couldn't help but smile.

Y/N then looked at me and I gave them a thumbs up. When the crowd left, they rushed over to me.

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