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The boys sat in the private room of one of the most luxurious karaoke bars of inner insomnia, they'd all had a little to much to drink and were flushed and giggling. Prompto was half leaning on ignis' shoulder and his knees kept bumping into nocts but overall he'd say he was pretty comfy.
Noct sure wasnt kidding when he said this place was luxury karaoke, not only did they have their own room but where they sat the couch was a crescent shape flush to the curved walls and led lights swished rainbow colors at the base of the stage across from their seating area. The stage came with a microphone and on the wall was a built it touch screen for selecting your song. Behind prompto and noctis heads was a screen reading the words for each song.
Gladio had just finished his rendition of "i need a hero" and sat heavily in his seat grabbing his cold beer, perspiration foggying the glass when it came into contact with his flushed skin.
"alright Blondie your turn" the well muscled man grinned.
Ignis scooted out of his seat to let prompto out of the curved booth and settled back in leaning his head on top of noctis' own. He watched fondly and the blonde stumbled to the stage and wobbly climbed the small set of stairs. He slowly approached the touch screen and looked at all the songs. He didn't recognise many of them until he scrolled upon one he knew by heart.
"hey guys is it fine if its a more serious song?" he asked.
"dude of course"
"whatever you want blondie"
"of course darling"
"alrighty then" he smiled to himself, lately he'd been doing a bit better with his eating habits, the therapy ignis suggested really helped. He knew his boyfriends wouldn't mind if he sang about his eating disorder, he was at the point in recovery where he could talk about it daily and still be making progress.
He clicked on the icon and the familiar opening notes of "self fulfilling prophecy" started up. A wave of nostalgia washed over him but he pushed it away. He moved to the center of the stage and grabbed the cordless mic from its stand.
"Self hatred grows in me like cancer!~
I can't locate its whereabouts but it's feasting on its host."
Prompto placed his hand on his chest dramatically.
"I expected him to have the answers~
I thought I taught him how to love me now
He fears me like a ghost."
Prompto looked at them from beneath his eyelashes and fake winced his head away.
"Self-fulfilling prophecy,
You're the only guaranteed loyalty
In this town"
He made a large sweeping gesture with his arm
"Full of violent mothers"
He fake flinched back.
"Cheating fathers"
He placed the back of his hand dramatically over his eyes in a swoon like gesture.
"Leaving lovers~"
He moved his hand from his eyes and covered his mouth like he was holding back a sob.
"I swear to you, I'll never love again."
He turned his back to the three, all very enraptured by his performance.
"This hunger grows inside me like a tumor~"
He snapped back around to his loving audience.
"The dizziness just compliments
This failure of a boy."
He fake stumbled back hand on his forehead and swayed as if hit by an actual dizzy spell.
"aww prom" noct said, he knew for a while prompto probably did believe that line for himself.
"hush noct"
"shh"
"I'm settled now
This show of mine consumes me"
He fluttered his eye lashes at them.
"But every pound I shed speaks volumes of my lack of self control."
He wrapped his arm around himself and his eyebrows knit together as if he was struggling not to cry.
"Self-fulfilling prophecy
You're the only one that dare speak the truth about me
In this town,"
He looked up to the ceiling brows still knit tight and mouth strung into a wobbling frown
"With well intentioned mothers."
He hung his head downwards and tilted it to the side.
"Starving children"
He moved his free arm from where it was wrapped around his chest and moved it to wrap around his stomach.
"Worried lovers"
He tilted his body to the side arm still wrapped around himself and looked over his shoulder at his boyfriends
"I swear to you,"
He turned to face them again
"I'll never eat again."
He fell to his knees, arm stilled wrapped around himself and he curled forward slightly.
"Self-fulfilling prophecy, You never fail to comfort me"
He looked up and straightened to sit on his feet looking more alert.
"In this town, filled with
Violent mothers"
He scrambled back suddenly, leaning most of his weight on his free arm.
"Cheating fathers"
He titled his head to the right sharply as if he'd been hit
"Leaving lovers"
He tilted his head to the left mirroring his previous action
"Angry brothers"
He let himself fall roughly out of his crouched position and roll To lay flat on his back with his side facing the boys.
"Starving children
Starving children"
He moved his free hand to once again wrap his arm around his waist.
" Worried lovers"
He tilted his head from looking at the ceiling to looking at the boys.
I swear to you, I'll never trust again.
He let the arm holding the microphone fall the his side, mic laying limp in his hand and he lay in a classic death pose as the music faded out.
A few seconds passed as the music ended and then he heard an eloquent
"holy shit"
He snorted a laugh at the reaction. Looking at them and smiling for a second before he sat up.
"so~ was it good?" he asked worriedly.
"i-prom wow " said a very obviously starstruck gladio.
"wow indeed, that was absolutely stunning darling" ignis said with a small smile.
Prompto scooted off the stage and wobbly bounded to the booth, before ignis could scoot over he simply plopped himself on the taller mans lap.
"where the hell were those acting skills when mr Truman caught us making out behind the bleachers freshman year?!? You could have saved us two weeks of detention" noctis whined.
"haha, sry bud. But i just got them over the summer, remember i wanted to try acting after we graduated and actually had time for stuff." prompto said with a blush on his face. " besides it wasnt that great"
"yes it was love it was splendid" ignis smiled at the boy on his lap.
"yeah" gladio said dreamily.
"gladio really has an actor fetish or something" noctis gauffed.
"please i think we all enjoyed the little performance" ignis said.
"mhm now i definitely have to rent a room here more often." noct agreed.
Prompto layed his head on ignis' shoulder, head floaty still from the alcohol he consumed. Maybe it was ok to be more open with his boyfriends. Yeah, he smiled it really was.