Mistaken

Chapter 3: Boys

The first thing in the morning Prompto did was dig into the Hunters' Ragout dish for a hearty breakfast. The rest took it easy and had Meat & Onion Skewers, still feeling quite full from eating the meat pie yesterday. Gladio's chuckle and the raised eyebrow that greeted Prompto when he looked up at the royal shield told him everything; he knew what Prompto was bulking up for.

A few loud revs of a heavily customized off-roader gained the attention of everyone present in Meldacio. It didn't help that the dining area was outside the cottage, so the revs were louder than any human or beast could manage, the fumes made Prompto sigh in relief that he and the rest already finished their meals.

"Great. Why would Sol's boys be visiting us for?" One of the older hunters, Marcus, from what Prompto remembered, grumbled to the female waitress who sighed.

"You'd think they'd have better things to do that disrupt the peace here," The waitress complained, "It's not like this place is a race course or anything,"

"Excuse me Miss?" Ignis called to the waitress. Prompto was impressed with the girl's hearing, considering 'Sol's boys' were still revving the engines loudly like spoilt little teenagers. "Would be so kind as to bring us some more water? And another order for a black coffee?"

"Of course," The waitress replied with a charming smile.

"Even during this racket, Ignis still manages to make the girls swoon," Gladio sighed loudly, making the others laugh.

"Those young men make any male here look like a knight in shining armor," Ignis commented wrinkling his nose from the fumes.

"Maybe we should record it Iggy," Prompto suggested.

"Now why would you suggest something like that?" Ignis looked almost appalled.

"You should use it to wake up Noct in the morning," Prompto snickered, making the Prince roll his eyes.

Ignis directed a smirk towards Noctis. "Not such a bad idea at all," Gladio and Prompto laughed harder than ever when the revving stopped just as Ignis pulled out his phone. The smug triumphant look on Noctis' face was priceless. This is much better.

"You boys seem to be in better spirits this morning," Dave greeted warmly.

"Much better," Ignis agreed.

"I do apologize if the racket disrupted your breakfast. I must admit these kids haven't done this in a while," Dave apologized with a grimace. "Sure as hell don't know why they are back,"

"Ayeeeee! Aimee-baby!" One of the boys catcalled from the oversized vehicle. There is no way that is legal on the roads. Prompto looked down on the road to see the off-roader width took up almost one and a half lanes. "Won't you be a darl and pack us som' of dat meat pie for us?"

"Might as well pack yourself while you're at it. Lookin' like a mighty fine snack n' all!" Another called out.

"Ugh..." The waitress groaned.

"As far as I'm concerned fellas. You haven't paid a cent of your supposed 'tab' yet," Marcus growled, "So as long as that 'tab' ain't paid, Aimee will be serving you lot nothing!"

This clearly didn't please the trio in the car. Jumping down from their off-roader one by one, the first guy who catcalled, cracked his knuckles as he made his way over to Marcus. Marcus stood his ground, as the three of them sized up against him.

"You wanna say that again ol' man?" The first one growled.

"Split his head in two Dalon," The smaller of the bunch jeered, giving a hi-five to the taller male to the left of 'Dalon'.