Growing love // Promptis (Noctis x Prompto) // FFXV

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I should really stick to one starting sentence :

6 years later
I woke up with the sound of my phone vibrating on my desk, not stopping no matter how many minutes I waited. I simply groaned as I was forced to pick up. Of course it was Iris. Only she was crazy enough to call me this early in the morning. I checked the time, eyes half opened. Five in the morning? For Shiva's sake!

"Couldn't you wake me up later? I'm tired and I can't even move a single muscle." I brought the cold phone up to my ear after answering. I could hear something going on in the background. "Hello?? Iris??" I tried to speak to her again, but to no avail. As I was about to hang up on her, I could suddenly hear a loudly familiar voice shouting in the top of her lungs. "Wait no! Don't hang uuuuup!!!" I winced at her voice. She had to much energy for her own sake. Letting out another groan, I brought back the phone closer to my ear. "So? Why the hell are you calling for? Can't we just talk at school?" I felt myself falling back asleep, slowly closing my eyes again.

"I knew that you would forget! You changed schools dumbass! You're going to Noct's." She immediately answered and my eyes widened. I totally forgot. Hoping for her to be wrong, I slowly but surely checked the time on my phone as it brightly indicated in white numbers : 5h10. My heart dropped. Fuuuuuu... As if adrenaline got injected into my veins, my body shot up from my bed and dragged me across all the rooms of the house, trying to get myself ready the quickest possible. My hair was messy, my clothes were thrown all over the place, my notebooks were shoved in a nonsensical way into my backpack and even more that I didn't bother cleaning up. I didn't have the time to do so. making sure, I had everything with me, including my trusty old camera that slid into my pockets. Before rushing out my bedroom with my bag swinging on my shoulder, my eyes caught myself in the mirror and I couldn't help myself to stop. I checked out my body from head to toes and smiled. You could say that I lost a few many pounds, even more than I'd dreamed that I would. Quickly pushing a lock of hair from his eye, I realized how I only ten minutes before the bus would pass by my stop and ran out the house, locking the door in his way. Hoping to be there in time, I didn't stopped running once until I reached the stop. 5h40. I sighed in relief since I was two minutes early. I mean, I couldn't be late on my first day to school right? The bus came in sight and as usual, I climbed inside and greeted the driver who seemed surprised to see me at this hour. Being polite as always, we had a small conversation, telling her that I got into a better school and yeah, I settled down in the back as it made its way towards my new high school.

I remembered the day where I met the prince. Looking back, I realized how cute he looked that time and how nice he was compared to how he looked like. I let out a yawn as I thought about how he must look these days. These days, the Citadel seemed to hide anything regarding the prince, so no, I haven't got a good look at him ever since that year. It was most likely the best year he had. Cindy and Noctis, also being the year he met Iris. I still can't believe how she stuck to him even after Noctis changed of schools. Maybe she took pity. There was some days where I would wake up and wonder if this was all a dream. If I was just lonely as I always was, still a chubby pig who spent time alone since I had no friends, but then, I would look down and sigh in relief. I wasn't who I was anymore and somehow, it calmed me. I knew that I was to not be bullied anymore. I finally had friends.

I glanced outside, checking if my stop was soon, but ended up facing my old school, empty as if abandoned. Right, his newer school was starting one hour in advance. I smiled as the school quickly turned blurry and disappeared from my sight. I don't regret this even if I had to wake up an hour earlier.

At school
I regret everything. Bag hanging behind my back, I felt myself shaking as I admired the high school I was to attend. Why does everything look so expensive? I guess it wasn't just a rumour when I heard that a lot of money was given to this school. As I mentally wondered how the school accepted me in, my gaze then fell on a familiar figure which I instantly recognized as the prince. He still looked like he always did back in primary school. I've noticed how Noctis's eyes always seemed to be looking in the distance, as if he was searching or longing for something. They were beautiful to say the least.

I stepped forwards, wishing myself good luck over and over again until I froze. I was so close to the prince and there I was with no confidence left. Why was I so nervous? I've done this kind of thing before, so why couldn't I walk one more step? I was about to abort the mission, but of course something had to go wrong. I felt someone gently push me on the back and me not being prepared for it, I accidentally leaned my hand on the prince's back to not lose my balance. I had no choice at this point. Trying my best to make it look as natural as possible, I made it seem like I've been reaching out to him and plastered a huge smile on my face. He turned around and I was at loss of words. Our faces were so close, close enough for me to see all the small details across his face even if it took a mere second. Then I tripped anyways.

Face right on the ground, I could hear the panicked prince just asking if I was fine over and over again. Yup, sounds exactly like when we were younger. Not as helpless as before, I stood back up in a matter of seconds and brushed off the dirt off of my clothes like it was nothing. I looked up and there I was, face to face to the blue eyes prince I haven't seen in ages, hoping to be friends again.

Sorry if it always takes so long for me to publish a chapter...