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<span class="mu-s">Part 3 — Call with Vivienne.]</span>
This probably was a mistake… on Vivi’s part! She pressed the wrong button, what a silly goose. You’ll call her again and make it a video call to boot. That surely will cheer her up.
“<span class="mu-i">Neuville speaking...</span>” Vivienne sounds wary. Either she’s expecting a call or has to answer to any query, otherwise there’s no reason to keep answering the phone without hesitation. Her camera is totally dark.
“It’s me again! I think you hung up by mistake.” You take no offense.
“Who gave you this number?” Vivienne softly speaks.
“Take a guess.” You get playful.
“<span class="mu-i">Carol...</span>” Vivienne takes the hint immediately. “I’m far too occupied to spend time talking, I—”
“Sorry, before you continue, this is a video call. Can you pull your phone out of your ear?” You guess this is why you can’t see a thing. As to why you thought about making it a video call? Fun. That’s the answer most of the time.
“…” Vivienne rushes to some place.
After an awkward minute of listening to her walk, Vivienne’s face appears on camera, it’s a mixture of half-annoyance and anxiousness. She’s in a pristine bathroom stall for some peace and quiet. Also, you were wrong, the phone was in her pocket. Not an important detail, but Vivi loves her fancy earpieces.
“There we go! Hey there!” You like what you see!
“Speak.” Vivienne is too shy to stare at the screen for too long, yet she tries to act imposing.
“Sorry, I couldn’t visit to check on you, had a busy hectic week.” You start by apologizing. “But if you have a free day soon, maybe we can set a date to meet up?”
“Don’t get the wrong idea. What happened last time was a one time thing. A mista—” Vivienne tries to shut you down, but...
You hear a loud camera noise, like <span class="mu-i">coming out straight from the phone</span> loud. It makes you think she grabbed a screenshot, but with her earpieces, it shouldn’t be this loud. Unless Vivienne managed to do the impossible. Maybe you heard it from somewhere else!
“…” Or maybe not. Vivienne starts blushing harder than ever before, you heard the desperate tapping of her thumbs on the device…
Vivienne doesn’t look like she’s tech illiterate, so it may be an honest mistake...
<span class="mu-s">What do you do?</span>
>“Vivi, you okay? Why did you stop talking?” Pretend nothing happened, then tell her about where Flint is, or you should say, isn’t.
>“Huh, you can grab as many pics as you want, but you should’ve asked first.” Hey, you have boundaries too, what a concept.
>“You look so cute when you’re so red.” Tease the Vivi. She deserves to be teased.
>“What was that sound?” Act clueless. Give her an out and pray Vivienne doesn’t dig a deeper hole for herself.
>Write In.
