Our Hill of Stars

by Snotty_Plops

Summary:

Keith’s dad is a veterinarian and one day an old family friend calls him about one of their animals on their farm.

So he brings his family along with him to the McClain farm!!!!!!

And obviously keith remembers lance from his childhood…….specifically one moment that kind of stuck with him……

Also Keith has heterochromia bc I wanted to draw him like that :) There’s fanart btw

Chapter 1: It’s done!!

I finally finished it so here it is

 

 

the link to the fanart post is on each chapter where there’s fanart but here’s the post in case you don’t feel like clicking it again and again :)))

 

First 10 pictures cause tumblr has a limit

 

Next 5!! Plus a funny lil picture for neatness

 

Chapter 2: I did an oopsies

Summary:

For the title, I looked up a book title generator and I thought “our hill of stars” was pretty :))

Notes:

‼️‼️ For lances parents, since they aren’t given names in the show, I looked up “Cuban names” and I chose Pedro for his dad and Camilla for his mom!!!

Literally just the most generic names lol

Also I read somewhere that Heith was Keith’s dads name so that’s his name‼️‼️

so I kinda lost the first chapter idk how but it’s not here anymore

Basically it was Keith and his family going to Cuba and him seeing Lance and avoiding him then they ate dinner and Keith and lance had to share a room and as they were about to go to sleep, lance said “i understand if you don’t want to talk to me anymore”

I don’t really remember what I wrote and if I did I would rewrite it but I’ve been busy lately and I wrote this a while ago lol.

 

I just reread my “strawberry milk” story and oh my god it’s so bad but as a little 14/15 year old I’m not too upset about it.

Im almost 18 now and though I’ve lost the interest in writing these I still have a few stories in my head that I have to get out or I’ll never stop thinking about them. Plus I still do like drawing them.

Anyways here’s the rest of this story I wanted to do this because they’re still people giving kudos to it and I don’t want new readers to be confused.

And if you’re a new reader, hello! Thank you for reading!

And thank you to anyone who has read my other stories my baby self really appreciated it (and I still do)

 

Chapter 3: Chapter 2

“Okay boys, it’s time for bed”

They laughed and tried to run away from Krolia, who easily caught them. “You can’t run from me!”

They giggled as she carried them to lances room and put them down on the bed “It’s bedtime. Tomorrow we need to wake up early so we don’t miss our flight.”

They laughed some more and laid down. Krolia kissed Keith’s forehead “Goodnight, hon”

She tussled lances hair, making him giggle again “Goodnight lance”

”Goodnight ms Kogane”

”Goodnight mom”

She left and before the door closed, lances mom poked her head in and smiled “Buenas noches mi amor, dulces sueños”

”Buenas noches, mamá”

She said goodnight to Keith before closing the door. But they didn’t plan on going to sleep. They waited a bit and then both got up and tip-toed their way to the window.

Lance slowly opened it, trying to be as quiet as possible. And when it was opened enough, they both climbed out. Though, lance had to help Keith a little due to his height. It was a little scary since lances room is upstairs but there were some convenient sturdy vines they could climb down.

When they were outside, they couldn’t contain their giggles as they ran, holding hands. They’ve never done this before but they spent all day planning how they were gonna sneak out and go to the barn at night.

Lance usually isn’t allowed in the barn at night because it’s dangerous but of course, if you tell a kid not to do something, they’ll want to do it even more.

But what’s even worse is that he’s not even going to the big barn. There’s a smaller barn on the hill that hasn’t been used in years. His friends tell him it’s haunted so he always avoids it but Keith convinced him to face his fears and go tonight.

But it’s not that scary since Keith is there. And Keith wasn’t even scared so he was fine with dealing with a slightly frightened lance.

They made it and they crawled inside through a hole in the wall and looked around. It’s really dark so they can’t really see anything but you can see stairs that lead to a second floor type thing.

So they carefully made their way to them and Keith made fun of lance for squealing every time the stairs would creak. “What if they break?”

”They won’t, it’s fine” Keith was holding his hand tight, making him feel extra safe. Even though Keith is smaller than him, lance has always seen him as tougher.

But secretly, Keith is also pretty scared that the stairs will break so he’s holding his hand to feel safer.

When they made it, they looked up and stared in awe at a big hole in the ceiling where you could see the stars. They kept their hands together as they stared at the sky.

They laid down on the wood floor and continued looking at the stars. And after a while of giggling and making childish jokes, Keith got a little quiet.

”Lance…?”

He looked over at Keith, who looked like he was contemplating something. “Yeah?” Keith didn’t say anything for what felt like an eternity. He doesn’t know what he’s doing but he’s seen people in movies do it. Especially with the people they like.

He sat up and when lance did too, he quickly gave him a peck on the lips and then looked scared. Like, he wasn’t sure how lance would react to it. Because he wasn’t. He wasn’t sure at all.

Meanwhile lance is frozen. Absolutely stunned. He wasn’t expecting that at all. It was such a small thing. Such a small peck. But it’s making his tummy do flips and his heart stop. And he couldn’t hold back the smile that was forming on his face.

That made him feel way safer than holding hands.

Neither of them said anything and they just stared at each other, smiling. Then they started laughing. “We’re gonna get in so much trouble!”

Keith nodded, laughing “Yeah we should go back”

They ran back and climbed back in the window and got back in bed, giggling about their little adventure.

 

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The next day, while Keith was packing his things, lance was bored and thinking about last night. He wanted to talk to Keith some more but since he was busy, he had nothing else to do.

And…the more he thought about last night, the more he realized something weird. Most of his guy friends talk about liking girls and kissing girls. But Keith isn’t a girl. What does that mean?

Is that weird? Should lance only be kissing girls? He was actually really happy it happened but……should he be?

When he sees the adults dating, it’s always a guy and a girl…and in movies the main guy always gets with a girl……

Suddenly lance was hit with this feeling of…guilt and regret. Why did he do that?? That’s so weird!

So when the Kogane family was leaving, he tried not to talk to Keith. But he walked up to him and lance looked away, frowning, a little too embarrassed to speak.

”Lance?”

Lance looked at him and kind of felt angry “Guys shouldn’t kiss guys. It’s gross…you’re gross” He ran away and tried not to cry. He felt bad for hurting Keith’s feelings and for what happened.

He’s so stupid! And he never wants to see Keith again.

But soon after he left, he realized really quickly that he regretted saying what he said way more than he did the kiss.

He really is stupid

 

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“Then I’ll understand if you don’t want to talk to me”

He looked like he was about to cry and Keith couldn’t help but feel bad. Lance shut his laptop and didn’t look back up at Keith.

”Seriously, I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have said what I said—actually, I even have friends who are like—you know—like, part of that community, and it’s all like totally fine and not gross at all and—“

Keith suddenly understood what he was saying “Do you think I’m gay?!”

Lance stopped talking and looked genuinely scared. “What?? No! Well— I mean maybe??”

Keith has actually struggled a lot with his sexuality. But ever since middle school where people would call him gay as an insult, all he could do was deny it. And he’s been trying to deny that part of him for a while now.

Because he just knows his life will get a whole lot worse if people knew it was true.

”I’m not gay”

”Oh……I just thought with like—everything that happened and-“

”It was just some stupid kid thing. It wasn’t like some gay awakening for me” Keith said, even though he was lying. He was absolutely lying. That was moment he knew.

“Oh, ok…sorry then…I didn’t mean to like, assume anything…you just seemed like you were avoiding me and I thought that was why…”

It was. But Keith just shook his head “To be fair, I was trying to avoid everyone. I really don’t like being around a lot of people”

”Oh……is that why you didn’t eat?”

”Yeah”

Lance looked down at the container and smiled “Well, we aren’t judgy people so you don’t have to be nervous.”

Keith shrugged “It’s not personal, I just don’t like eating in front of people”

”You ate in front of me?” He smiled kind of teasingly and Keith rolled his eyes “You weren’t watching so it was fine”

”Fair”

Lance moved his laptop to his nightstand and sighed “I should go to sleep, I want to be awake when your dad sees rose”

Keith nodded “Yeah, ok”

They both laid down and after a few seconds of silence, lance spoke “Kaltenecker’s all grown up now”

Keith smiled remembering the baby calf he used to help bottle feed. Kaltenecker was actually a rescue so she didn’t have a mom. When his family would come here, and lance was busy, he would spend time with the calf.

”Is she still here?”

”Yeah, you can go see her tomorrow if you want”

”I do actually”

After another few seconds of semi-awkward silence lance once again, spoke—pretty quietly this time “I’m not gay either……just so you know”

Keith didn’t really know how to respond so he just said “Okay” and nothing else. They didn’t say anything after that and soon, Keith fell asleep.

 

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When he woke up, his back hurt so he stretched and as he did, he saw lance wasn’t there. He internally cringed at the conversation they had last night. He kind of feels bad for lying but he has a pretty valid reason so not really.

He stood up and saw a child standing at the door. He didn’t recognize her, nor did he have time to because she ran away as soon as he looked at her.

That was weird.

He wasn’t planning on leaving the room yet, he just needs to stand up because of his back. Suddenly, Camilla appeared at the door, holding the little girls hand. Keith froze, kind of startled.

She looked upset…did he do something? Should he apologize?

”I swear- I’m so sorry, Keith, you shouldn’t have slept on the floor!”

”No, it’s uh, fi-“

”LANCE!” She yelled his name, making Keith flinch. Lance was there in seconds and looked terrified “Yes?”

”Why was Keith sleeping on the floor??”

Lance looked at Keith and then back at her “I offered to sleep on the floor but-“

”No buts. He’s the guest—you sleep on the floor”

”Seriously, it’s fine-“

She glared at Keith and it was actually pretty intimidating so he shut up. Welp, he’s sleeping on the bed then.

”Me and Keith were gonna go see kaltenecker!”

Suddenly her whole attitude changed and she looked excited “Oh! I remember you used to love her!”

Keith awkwardly smiled and nodded and before he could say anything, lance grabbed his arm and dragged him out of the room.

He didn’t say anything until they were outside of his house “Sorry…”

Lance stopped walking and let go of his arm and shook his head “it’s alright, she’s just all about hospitality and stuff.”

Keith nodded and they started walking again. “Yeah I guess that hasn’t changed”

Lance shrugged “Not much has changed. Except Nadia. She wasn’t born until after you left.”

”I remember Sylvio being a baby…he’s grown a lot”

Lance laughed “Yeah it sucks though because he was an adorable baby.”

Keith smiled “Yeah”

”Talking about growing up, I don’t know why I expected you to look the same but you look……I dunno”

Keith frowned, feeling kind of insecure “It’s that bad?”

Lance quickly shook his head “No! Definitely not! You look like—I dunno, you look like you could be a model or something-“

Keith felt heat rise from his neck to his cheeks. Looking down, trying to hide the blush that’s obviously there, he shook his head “No I don’t”

Lance laughed “You totally do! I’m sure literally all of my friends would agree. Especially romelle—oh god she is gonna go crazy if she sees you—so you might wanna avoid her…and ooh—you remember Katie?—or pidge—when I told her your family was coming, she went crazy, she’s like, super stoked to see you again-“

As lance was rambling about things, they made it to the barn. Lance didn’t even stop talking as he opened the gate so they could get inside.

Keith immediately noticed kaltenecker. She’s not the only cow but he could tell it was her. And he didn’t realize how much he missed her until seeing her now.

Lance stopped talking and walked up to her “She’s gotten a lot bigger, huh?”

Keith slowly followed him and stood next to her. “Yeah…wow”

He rubbed her side, feeling her slightly coarse fur and feeling really nostalgic. She looked at him and mooed before licking him right in the face.

Lance started laughing and Keith wiped off his face “Gross”

”She remembers you!”

Keith smiled and pet her again and lance stood next to him “Your dad already saw rose by the way. He said he needs to get her leg thingy tested before he can properly treat it.”

”Hopefully it’s nothing bad”

”I really hope so. It would suck if she died. She’s my favorite”

”Sorry…”

”It’s alright. If it does happen, at least she’s not like hurting or anything anymore…or something”

Keith nodded, not wanting to say anything wrong. He’s not really good with consoling people.

“Since we’re doing all the reuniting now, you wanna see pidge?”

Keith smiled, actually pretty excited to see her again “Yeah, of course”

Lance laughed and they said bye to kaltenecker before leaving “Honestly, even if you said no, she told me to force you to come see her anyway”

Keith frowned “Why would I say no?”

He shrugged “I dunno. But can I also introduce you to the rest of my friends? They’re at the park with her. But if you only wanna see her, I can text her”

The “park” was just a small forest thing near lances house that had a small slide and a swing set. There was a lake next to it where they used to catch frogs. Keith and pidge would go there and try to find bugs sometimes. And pidge would always know what kind it was and Keith would tease her about it. But not in a mean way. He always thought she was really cool.

Keith shook his head, not wanting to make pidge go to a completely new place just because he was nervous “No, uh, it’s fine”

”Ok cause its gonna be pidge—obviously—allura, hunk, romelle, and nyma. They’re really cool though. You’re really gonna like hunk—he can cook like super good and he’s super nice.”

They walked back to his house and lance poked his head in the door and smiled politely. Keith managed to peek inside from behind him and he saw his parents talking to lances parents. They were laughing but they stopped when they saw lance “Is it okay if me and Keith go to the park?”

He must have been talking to Keith’s parents because his mom laughed “Of course! It’s good to see you two together again”

Lance laughed and nodded “Thank you”

They left and walked to the park which about 10 minutes away. It’s not as hot as it was yesterday so it wasn’t unbearable. But it’s still a lot of walking. And the whole time, he talked about his friends. He told Keith allura was his girlfriend, which he was kind of shocked to hear but he didn’t say anything, romelle was her friend but she’s really cool so she hangs out with them sometimes, and nyma is also pretty cool and he kind of vaguely said that she was the person he was talking about who’s “in the community”.

When they got there, he saw a group of people sitting at a picnic table, well, one of them was sitting on the table and the others were around them. One of them, with short blonde, orange-ish hair was laying their head down, looking pretty annoyed.

”Guys! They’re here!” The big guy said, making them all look at them. Keith instantly felt his heart rate go up.

Suddenly, the person with short hair looked up and at Keith. And judging by the big, round glasses, he can tell it’s pidge. She stood up on the seat and raised her arms “He arrives”

She announced it as if she were talking to a crowd of people. “And damn, he’s tall!”

She jumped off and ran towards him. She slammed into him, hugging him tightly. She was still a lot smaller than him but she still has obviously grown. He hugged her back and she shook him “It’s crazy seeing you again”

”Yeah, I know”

She pulled away and squinted at him and lance “Lance you totally have competition in the height department now.”

”No I don’t, I’m still taller than him.”

She shook her head “I don’t think you are…”

Lance was always kind of known for being tall and skinny. And before Keith’s growth spurt, he was short and definitely not skinny. He wasn’t big but he wasn’t lanky like lance. He still isn’t. But he’s definitely tall now. Probably about the same as lance.

“I have at least a few centimeters on him now”

The rest of the people walked up to them and lance dismissively waved his hand in pidges face “Anyway—everyone, this is Keith”

Keith awkwardly waved a little and they all said hey except for one of them. She had long blonde hair in two pigtails. Then she scoffed at lance “Lance! You didn’t tell me he was gorgeous”

Lance crossed his arms and one of the other girls gasped a little “Romelle!” She had an English accent which lance told him allura had so he guessed that’s who she was. She’s really pretty. She also has long hair but it’s either platinum blonde or just dyed white. He can’t really tell. And her white hair contrasts with her dark skin in a really nice way. He can see why Lance likes her.

“I’m sorry about her! I’m allura by the way” she held out her hand for Keith and he grabbed it and shook it “Uh- hi”

Romelle kind of pushed her to the side and grabbed his hand “Im Romelle, it’s super nice to meet you! You are, just—wow you are very pretty—and your eye is awesome, pidge told us a little about you and it looks so cool! And your hair is literally so amazing-“

It was kind of nice to have people compliment him and not just say he’s faking it for attention or something. Because pidge and lance know it’s not fake so he knows that they know it’s real.

But they already seem to be okay with things like heterochromia because the next girl who introduced herself has vitiligo. Her hair is in braids and she just looks……cool is the only word Keith can describe her as “I’m nyma, it’s nice to meet you”

He nodded and the big buy hugged him “I’m hunk! Here—“ He pulled a container out of a bag he was holding and handed it to him “I made you a thing. It’s just cookies cause I’m pretty sure everyone likes cookies”

”Thank you” He smiled a little and pidge grabbed the container “Why didn’t you make enough for all of us!”

”Cause they’re for him!”

“Jerk”

They all went back to the picnic table and talked about each other, trying to teach Keith pretty much everything about them. And he actually ended up really enjoying talking with them.

But soon, they had to go home so they all said bye and he and lance left.

”So?”

Keith looked at him, waiting for him to say more. Lance smiled “What do you think of them?”

Keith nodded “They’re really nice. And it was nice seeing pidge again”

”I knew they’d like you. But to be honest I didn’t expect romelle to like you as much as she did” he laughed and Keith smiled “Thank you”

”For what?”

Keith shrugged “For introducing me to your friends.”

Lance laughed again “Why wouldn’t I? We’re also friends?”

”…It’s just been a while a guess”

”Well, yeah but that doesn’t mean we’re not friends anymore?”

Keith sighed, a little frustrated that he can’t say what he really wants to say. Which is something along the lines of “Ive thought about you a lot and I really want to kiss you again”. But obviously there’s no way he’s saying that??

“I guess we left off on a bad note and I didn’t know if you’d even want to be near me.”

”I was the one who was a jerk so I was actually scared you wouldn’t want to be near me.”

He kinda has a point there. I mean, Keith didn’t really do anything wrong—except maybe not asking before kissing him—but does it really count since they were both kids?? It’s not like he harassed him?

Lance frowned, probably because Keith wasn’t saying anything. “I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to say ‘oh no lance, you aren’t a jerk and I totally forgive you!’ And then we can put it all behind us”

Keith rolled his eyes, trying not to smile “I obviously forgive you…and…let’s definitely put it behind us”

Lance nodded, smiling “Alright then”

 

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When they got back, it was already getting dark so when they went inside, everyone was in the kitchen, either talking or cooking.

Rachel looked at them and then looked back at her mom “They’re back”

They walked in the kitchen and Krolia smiled “Did you have fun?” Keith crossed his arms and nodded, too nervous to say anything.

”I introduced him to some of my friends. And pidge!”

”Yeah, Matt came by and said she was waiting at the park for both of you!”

“Yeah she’s been talking about wanting to see him again”

Krolia raised her eyebrow at Keith “See? I told you they’d be happy to see you”

“Yeah we’re happy that you’re all back!” Rachel said, turning around. “We really missed all of you”

”Dinners ready!” Camilla started walking to the kitchen, holding some plates of food. Everyone else helped her and when it was all on the table, Lance stopped her. “Can me and Keith eat in my room?”

She raised her eyebrows as if she didn’t expect him to ask that. “Really? You don’t want to eat with us?” She looked at Keith and he just stuttered, not knowing what to say. But luckily, lance did “No, we just have a bunch of catching up to do!”

She smiled and patted his cheek “Ok mijo, but don’t forget bring your dishes back”

”I will”

Lance went back to Keith and pat his shoulder “You can wait upstairs and I’ll bring you your food if you want”

Keith nodded and lance nodded back before turning back around. Keith quietly went upstairs and heard his mom saying “He’s just very nervous around people” so he stopped to listen to what she would say.

And they seemed kind of upset, saying things like “do we make him nervous?” and “did we do something?”

It really makes Keith feel horrible when people think he doesn’t like them when he doesn’t talk—I mean, he gets it—but it still makes him feel like a jerk.

He went up to lances room and sat down on his bed, waiting for him. He doesn’t like that lance is sacrificing time with his family just to make him comfortable.

But he also likes it……like really likes it. He’s not used to people being that nice to him. And it’s nice.

But it also makes him feel like a huge burden.

Lance came in and was holding two plates of food “I assumed you wanted to eat in here cause you said you were nervous around other people so—“as he was talking, he shut his door with his foot and handed Keith one of the plates. He kept rambling about Keith and his family and suddenly he stopped “Oh—sorry, I think I’m talking like, way too much”

Keith shook his head “No, it’s fine”

”Really? Cause I’ve been told it’s annoying. People are always like ‘get to the point’ and I get it but it’s like my mind is just going faster than my mouth so I think of one thing and as I’m saying it, I think of another thing—“ He sat down next to him and Keith felt himself smile at the fact that he was rambling again. About rambling.

Lance noticed him smiling and laughed “What?”

Keith looked down, a little embarrassed “You’re just, uh, you’re doing it again”

”Oh—shoot, sorry”

”No, it’s fine, seriously”

He groaned and then laughed “Jeez, I don’t know when to stop—but besides that, do you wanna watch something? It’s kind of awkward just eating in silence. It’s probably weird, but I’ve been watching euphoria because nyma said it was amazing and I’m on the second season now and it’s crazy—like it’s about this girl who—“

Keith laughed “I know what it’s about”

”You do? Have you seen it?”

Keith nodded “Yep. I’ve seen it all”

”Really?? Is the second season good? Wait—no don’t tell me I don’t want to know”

”Why would I spoil it?”

Lance shrugged, laughing “I know you wouldn’t I was just making sure”

”Well—I’m pretty sure it’s not a show you watch with someone you haven’t seen in a while”

Lance stopped laughing and then covered his face “Oh yeah I forgot it’s like, actually super horrible and raunchy, we can definitely watch something else”

”I mean, I’m fine with it though”

”You sure?”

Keith nodded, chuckling a little “Yeah I don’t care”

”Alright then”

 

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They got comfortable on the bed and started watching the second season of euphoria. 

And it was exactly how you would expect it would be.

Keith was 100% right about it not being a show you watch with a friend you haven’t seen in years. When they were done eating, lance offered to take Keith’s dishes to the kitchen and Keith said he tired and lance had to remind him what his mom said before he got up.

So lance went downstairs, thinking about a lot of things like “oh my god rue” and “oh no rue” and a little bit of “rue why”

But mostly, he’s thinking about something else entirely. Keith. He actually can’t stop thinking about him. 

Even before he came. He’s thought about Keith a lot. And all those thoughts about Keith are a lot more prominent with him actually here.

After he left, he never thought he’d come back. And with the way he’s acting, he thinks Keith didn’t think so either. Or maybe even want to.

And until his mom told everyone the Kogane family was coming back, Lance didn’t want him back either.

Not because he doesn’t like him—He obviously missed him but…he always thought it would be awkward and—he knows it’s a bit of a stretch but—he was worried Keith would still have some type of feelings for him.

And when Lance thinks about it, he feels weird. He knows he would have to decline him but there’s this tiny little voice in his head that he’s ignored for his whole life now, saying ‘what if you didn’t?’

But lance is pretty good at ignoring it so that’s what he’ll do. It’s probably nothing anyway. He doesn’t like Keith. Well—obviously he likes him, but he doesn’t like him…you know?

He’s already thought about it, cause with nyma being his friend, he thought he’d give it try so he thought about kissing a guy and felt uncomfortable. But all of a sudden, he thought about kissing Keith again and “gave up” because he felt “even more uncomfortable” *ahem ahem* gay panic *ahem*

And thinking about it now is still making him feel weird. Especially since he’s in his room right now, looking like a freakin model—

 

”Everything okay?”

He jumped at Veronica’s voice, almost dropping the plates. She laughed and grabbed one of them “Woah, sorry”

Lance laughed, feeling kind of caught. Like she could read his mind or something “Yeah, I’m fine…just thinkin”

”About what?”

Lance shrugged, desperately trying to think of something other than Keith “Just about rose”

She nodded “Yeah……except I know that’s not it”

Lance sighed, putting the dishes in the sink “It’s nothing”

”Obviously it’s something”

Lance turned around, smiling, trying to hide his internal struggling “No I mean it! It’s nothing!”

She looked unconvinced but lance kept smiling “Goodnight!”

He went to walk away but was stopped by Veronica saying “Lance”

He groaned, turning around again “What?”

”Whatever it is, you can talk to me, okay?”

Lance felt a little bad for snapping and nodded

“…Okay”

”Goodnight”

He smiled actually and went back upstairs. And when he went in his room, he saw Keith laying down on his bed, asleep.

He turned off the light and opened his curtains so the moonlight could lighten up his room a little. It also lightened up Keith’s face so lance could see how peaceful he looked while sleeping.

After realizing he was staring, he laid down on the blanket on the floor and closed his eyes, thinking about so many things.

So many things about Keith.

Notes:

I literally can’t describe euphoria with words except maybe “zendaya❤️😍😘🥴😵💫”

Also whoever plays Maddie🥵🥵

 

I also think making them watch euphoria is hilarious so that’s why they’re watching it ☺️

Chapter 4: Chapter 3

Summary:

The F slur is in this chapter!!!!!

Go to the bottom notes to read where it is!! I don’t wanna spoil anything

 

‼️Also there’s fanart for this chapter!! The first two pictures are for this chapter in this post

The next day, Keith felt a lot better since he actually slept on a bed. But he also felt a lot worse since Lance slept on the floor.

And once again, lance wasn’t there. He sat up and rubbed his eyes. He doesn’t really know what to do today. He doesn’t want to keep bothering lance or pidge or anything so maybe he can just stay in here. Or offer to help with something. Maybe he can ask his dad if he can help with rose maybe.

He got up and thought that he should probably take a shower before doing anything. He probably looks pretty rough right now.

But should he ask first? Is it rude to just use someone else’s shower without asking?

Luckily, as he walked out, he saw rachel, who smiled at him. “Good morning!”

Keith smiled and tried to say something but nothing came out. Rachel stopped “You need something?”

He nodded “Uh, could I, um, use your shower?”

”Yeah, of course! You don’t even need to ask! The towels are already in there. Feel free to use any of the soaps or whatever”

“Thank you”

She nodded politely and left and keith got his clothes before going to the bathroom. He’s gonna take a really fast shower because he doesn’t want to use all their hot water.

So he did just that and then got dressed. Before leaving, he made sure his hair didn’t look gross. It’s damp and messy. He usually just leaves it like this but he should probably actually try right now.

He brushed it and messed around with it until he just gave up and let it be messy. He went downstairs and looked around for his dad. He didn’t see anyone so he went outside and went to the place rose was. She was in a separate stable so none of their other horse would mess with her.

His dad wasn’t there though. But he decided to just stay there anyway. He cautiously walked up to rose and when he knew she was comfortable with him, he gently pet her.

He’s been around a lot of sick and/or dying animals but for some reason, it’s extra upsetting with rose. Because so many people care about her. Lance cares about her.

“You know, she likes when people sing to her”

Keith jumped at lances sudden appearance and lance laughed.

Keith didn’t say anything because Lance…looks…he’s wearing a loose tank top with Jean shorts that show off his legs and he…Keith should probably stop staring.

He looked back at rose and lance walked up to them. “Just saying hi?” Lance said and Keith nodded.

”I’m just doing barn chore stuff”

Keith has to force his mind to shut up before he started thinking about things he definitely should not be thinking.

“…I’m not singing to her”

Lance laughed “Good cause I’m pretty sure she speaks Spanish”

”Horses can’t speak”

Lance pet her and she seemed to like it way more than Keith petting her “She can speak” He raised his voice and talked to her like a baby “Sí, puedes hablar cariño~”

Keith ignored the feeling he felt with lance speaking Spanish and rolled his eyes “She’s only happy about it because you’re talking like that”

”Well, at least she’s happy about it”

Keith shrugged, agreeing. “Do you need help with anything?”

”No, it’s fine. It’s all boring and messy anyway.”

”I don’t mind”

”You sure?”

Keith nodded and lance stopped petting rose “alright then, come on”

He followed him to the barn where all the other animals were and they first went to the chickens. They fed them and cleaned up a bit. Then they went to the cows and they stopped when they got to kaltenecker “You wanna milk her?”

Keith frowned “She’s pregnant?”

Lance nodded and gently pat her belly “Yep there’s a little baby kaltenecker in there”

Keith chuckled and shook his head “No…I’m fine—“

”Come on, I have to do it anyway so you might as well help”

They brought her over to the thing that keeps her still and lance sat down on a little stool and Keith crouched down next to him.

“It’s easy, you just do this—“ He showed him how to do it and Keith thought it looked gross but lance made him try anyway.

It felt gross and it probably showed on his face because lance laughed “Here-“

He grabbed his hand and showed him how to do it again and even though he knows it’s all in his head, there was something about it that seemed…………suggestive……which is even grosser to think about.

So he pulled his hand away “I don’t think I can do it”

”Alright then I’ll do it.”

”Sorry…”

He continued milking her and shook his head “No, actually a lot of people can’t do it the first time they try. I’ve just been doing it a lot longer. But not much because we don’t like, try and get them pregnant. It’s just when it happens. And we have to milk them for the same reason that women use those pump things. Well—that’s what Lisa told me when she was pregnant”

”This is a really weird conversation”

Lance burst out laughing and stopped milking her “It really is”

He finished and left to put the milk wherever it needed to go (Keith doesn’t know) and came back “Alright that’s all for today”

”What do you do after you’re done with all this?”

”I usually eat but sometimes I go hang out with my friends”

Keith nodded, not really knowing what to say. He doesn’t want to ask if he can stay with him but he also has nothing else to do.

”You can come with me if you wa—“

”Keith! There you are!” They both turned around and saw his dad. He walked up to them, breathing heavily “I need your help with rose”

”Is something wrong?” Lance said, worried. But heith just shook his head “No! Everything’s fine, I just use him as my assistant most of the time.”

Lance sighed, putting his hand on his heart “Thank god, you scared me. Can I come with you?”

Keith knew he wanted to say no because he can tell whatever he needs help with is probably going to hurt rose in some way.

”Yeah but it’s not gonna be pretty”

”What do you have to do?”

”I need to take a closer look at her leg and—I don’t know why yet, but—it seems like it’s hurting her now.”

”He could calm her down a little bit if he’s there” Keith said, and lance nodded “Yeah, I’ll do that”

They started walking back to rose and lance asked “Why do you need Keith’s help?”

”Cause he gets my work flow. You know how some kids help their dad fix cars? Keith helps fix animals. And I trust his judgment”

Keith honestly thinks he trusts his judgment a bit too much sometimes. But to be fair, he is usually right. One time, when Keith was 13 this lady came in the vet with her pug and he had a weird tumor thing and Keith saw it and said “she’s overreacting, it’s just a cyst” and he got in trouble for speaking about her dog right in front of her but as it turns out, he was right.

And ever since then, his dad has just been getting him to help with the animals. People always complain that he’s just a kid but since his dad owns the vet, they can’t actually do anything. Plus, they know that keith is really good.

And keith likes helping the animals.

Y’know, we love a prodigy.

When they got there, they went into the stable and lance pet her and whispered to her as Keith and his dad looked at her leg.

He poked at it a bit and it obviously hurt her. And when keith could fully see it, he knew it wasn’t good. He’s not superhuman so he doesn’t know if it’s cancer or something but it’s definitely not good.

Because worse case scenario, either this horse has to lose her leg or be put down. But hopefully he’s wrong and everything will be fine.

His dad nodded, standing up.

”Welp, we don’t have to do anything right now but we should call the vet and get her looked at there.” He was speaking confidently, probably as a way to calm lance.

”Is she okay?”

Heith stood up and smiled “I just want to get her looked at in a steril setting before making any judgment calls”

Lance nodded and Keith stood up, not saying anything. His dad looked at him with ‘the look’ “I’ll go call the vet. For now, you two go eat or hang out or whatever.”

Lance frowned, looking worried “I don’t wanna leave her”

”Don’t worry, she’s fine, I’ll stay with her the whole time. I’ll even sing to her” he laughed and bit and lance smiled “Thank you”

Keith and lance left and decided to eat. They also watched a few random movies. But during legally blonde, lance started talking about other things. “So…what do you do?”

Keith looked at him, waiting for him to say more. Lance sat up and continued “Like, do you have any friends? Any hobbies? Except for the the animal thing obviously—but like, anything else?”

Keith didn’t respond immediately. Because the truth is pretty depressing. He has no friends. The kids in his school hate him and he doesn’t do anything. But he doesn’t want to lance to know how much of a depressing loser he is so he lied “U-Uh, yeah, I have friends…”

”Who?” Lance looked excited to hear more about Keith’s exciting life but Keith just shrugged “I dunno, no one in particular”

Lance frowned, obviously not getting the answer he wanted “You have a girlfriend?”

Keith felt his heart skip a beat so he quickly changed the subject “What about you? What else do you do?”

”You already know about me, I wanna know about you!”

Keith sighed, knowing that lance isn’t gonna give it up “I don’t have a girlfriend”

Lance looked a bit hesitant but he quietly said “Boyfriend?”

Keith sighed, rolling his eyes “I already told you I’m not—“

”I know! But you never said you weren’t bisexual! Which is also totally fine”

Keith couldn’t think of anything to say. Either lance just knows Keith is lying about being gay or……well that’s it, Keith just thinks he knows he’s lying. But he’s not giving up that easy.

”Well, I’m not and no”

”Have you ever had a girlfriend then?”

Embarrassed, Keith crossed his arms and looked away “Does it really matter?”

”Yeah, it does! You won’t tell me about your friends so I wanna know about your lovers~“

The way he said ‘lovers’ made Keith’s face heat up. “It sounds gross when you say ‘lovers’.”

”Fine then, what? Your partners? Significant others? Novias?”

“You first”

”But—“

“If you want to know about my ‘lovers’ I want to hear about yours first”

Lance squinted and then nodded “Fine but, spoiler, I’m a bit of a player”

Keith rolled his eyes, snorting a bit “Shut up”

He laughed and put his thumb up “There was florona in 7th grade, Navea in 10th—she was actually my first kiss—“ He stopped and laughed “Well—besides you I guess”

Keith’s face immediately went up like 2000 degrees so he just rolled his eyes to hide it, which he wasn’t sure was working.

”There was a few other girls that I forgot but then there was Ezor, who only lasted like a week be cause she turned out to be a lesbian—Then olia, but that also didn’t last long because she was only with me to make her ex boyfriend jealous—But now that takes us to the ever-so-wonderful allura, who is obviously my girlfriend now”

Keith was kind of speechless and lance bowed dramatically. “Thank you”

It kind of makes wonder if it were more okay to be gay in the place he lives, if he would be with as many people as lance……probably not though…

The only “partner” he’s had—if you can even call it that—is James Griffin who, in 9th grade, came out to him and they kissed. And ever since, they both would avoid each other but when they were alone…things would happen. But after every ‘mistake’—as James would call it—he would threaten to out Keith if he ever told anyone so he’s kept quiet about it.

So he obviously never told anyone. Neither did James. Because then Keith could just out him back. Y’know, a ‘you snitch, I snitch’ type thing.

But if he thinks about it, he doesn’t think he would. James has always kind of scared him in a way. Plus, James moved away about a year ago so it would do nothing now.

”Now you have to tell me all the juicy details about you”

Keith thought for a second about telling him but ultimately decided not to “I haven’t been with anyone”

”Really?? You made me say all that just to say you’ve been with no one?!? You have to have at least kissed someone before”

He shook his head “Nope”

“Hooked up?”

Keith sat up, once again feeling embarrassed “Ok, no more- this is getting weird”

“C’mon it’s been so long, I want to know what you’ve been up to” He frowned, lowkey pouting. Shit. It’s adorable.

He sighed and rubbed his eyes, mostly to hide his red face “I haven’t been with, kissed, or hooked up with anyone. I have friends but they’re not that important in my life so there’s nothing to talk about.”

”What about school? How’s that?”

Keith would tell him about the people calling him slurs every day and the fact that for some reason, everyone decided to just hate him. The fact that they all make fun of every little thing, like his eye, his hair, his clothes, the way he acts, the way he talks, the way he lives, just anything.

But he summed it all up to-

“It’s fine”

”Yeah that’s pretty much all that school is” he laughed and Keith chuckled more at lances laugh than what he actually said. But he likes lances laugh.

Soon, they were just silently looking at the laptop screen that was now paused, saying nothing. Until lance spoke up “Is rose gonna be okay?”

He looked at Keith and his eyes were a little watery. Keith is really tempted to lie and say she’s gonna be fine but……he can’t “I don’t know”

Lance nodded sadly and he put his head down on Keith’s shoulder. Keith should probably comfort him now…right? Because he was too scared to do anything else he pat his shoulder.

He just….pat it….again and again.

”What are you doing?” Lance laughed a little and keith stopped patting his shoulder “I don’t know”

Lance unpaused the movie and leaned a bit more into keith “You don’t have to stop”

Keith felt the corners of his mouth quirk up. He continued patting his shoulder until he got tired and ended up just keeping his hand on him.

But it wasn’t as awkward as keith thought it would be. That’s good to know. Touching lance isn’t awkward. Well, saying it like that makes it awkward.

When the movie ended, they played another one and ended up falling asleep.

 

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Their nap didn’t last long because someone came into the room and shook lances shoulder. He opened his eyes and jumped when he saw pidge.

She started laughing and lance looked around and saw that Keith was awake, looking a bit irritated. “When did you get here?”

Pidges laughing died down and she replied “Just now, I wanted to see Keith again! And it’s good to know he’s just as moody”

”I’m not moody” Lance looked at Keith again and pidge snorted “I said he looks like a kitten when he sleeps”

Lance realized he was still leaning against keith so he sat up and laughed “You totally do”

”How??”

“You just look like a kitten, I can’t explain it.” Pidge shrugged casually and sat down on the bed.

”I look normal when I sleep”

”Yeah, like a normal kitten” Lance said, moving his laptop off his bed. Keith pushed him a little, making him laugh “Hey!”

Pidge sighed “I really missed moody Keith”

”Im not as moody anymore”

”I doubt it but anyway, you wanna go out somewhere?”

”Ooh! Yeah we could-“ Pidge shoved him with her foot, shutting him up “Not you, just Keith”

Lance scoffed and crossed his arms, pouting “Jerk”

”You get Keith all to yourself the whole time he’s here! Lemme have this!”

Lance laughed and waved his hand “Fine, but you have to return him. And in perfect condition”

”I’ll even bring the receipt”

”I’m right here”

Pidge and lance looked at him and squinted “It’s gorgeous. Absolutely stunning” Pidge said, nodding.

They looked at him like he was a statue or something. They’ve done this before and it always irritated keith.

”Okay stop that”

Lance shoved Pidge a little, pretend to be shocked by something “Look at it go. Isn’t it just splendid?”

”The craftsmanship is just…astonishing”

”Okay I get it, can we go now?”

Pidge stopped and smiled “Yeah, come on!”

She grabbed his hand and dragged him off the bed and lance tried to say bye but they were already gone.

Lance sighed, immediately feeling bored. Then he started texting hunk about the stuff he always does. Like, food and the weird creatures that could be in the ocean, you know, just regular stuff.

 

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Keith stopped Pidge “Wait, I have to ask my mom if we go”

”Oh yeah, you go do that”

He heard his mom in the kitchen, talking to lances mom. They were just talking about the farm and rose. They stopped talking when they saw him.

”Hey! What’s up?”

“Uh, can I go…somewhere…with pidge?”

”Pidge? Of course! Where?”

”Uh-“

”To the diner near that hat shop. ‘Member?”

Krolia smiled and quickly walked up to Pidge “Hey!”

They hugged and pidge squeezed her tighter before letting go “You still look like a goddess. Definitely where keith gets it”

Keith rolled his eyes, tired of hearing he’s ‘pretty’. He really doesn’t see it.

”And he gets his smarts from his dad.” Krolia laughed and pidge snorted, looking at keith “Oh, he hates this”

His mom also looked at him, smiling “He hates compliments”

”I don’t get why he probably gets them all the time”

”He says he doesn’t!”

”He’s lying”

”I’m not lying”

”You’re lying” Pidge crossed her arms, not letting him make any argument against her. Even though he isn’t lying. The only compliments he gets are from his family—and now lances.

”Ok, I don’t want to waste your time, you can go to the diner”

Pidge nodded and waved as she grabbed Keith’s hand and dragged him out the door. She brought him to a horribly parked car in the driveway.

There was no one in the drivers seat so Keith stopped “Did you drive here?”

She opened the door and shrugged “Yeah?”

Keith motioned at the car, trying to get her to see how she parked. She looked at it and then looked away, slumping her shoulders “Im…still learning”

”Did you even pass the drivers test?”

”With flying colors!”

”The driving part?”

She stayed silent and Keith rolled his eyes “I can drive us there”

”You would?”

Keith nodded and she threw the keys at him. He barely caught them and she was already in the passengers seat.

He got in and she looked happy “Thank god you offered, I hate driving”

”Yeah, I can tell”

She laughed “Moody Keith is back at it again”

Keith smiled, shaking his head “I think I still hate you”

”You know you love me”

He tried to glare at her but he couldn’t stop smiling. Neither could she. He started driving and the whole time, she kept asking him things like “How do you keep the wheel so straight” and being angry at him for being tall enough to see completely out the window.

He parked—perfectly, might I add—and they got out. Pidge took a moment to admire his parking job before going in. “I hate that you can drive, too”

”Too?”

”Yes. ‘Too’.”

They walked in and Keith immediately felt nostalgic with the ring of the little bell above the door and the aroma of all the foods being cooked. He used to love it here. He thinks he still does.

”Well, if it isn’t the little red paladin himself—“

Keith instantly recognized the over-the-top voice and accent. It’s coran. He worked here when keith was kid. And it’s great to know he still does.

He smiled at being called ‘paladin’ because it brought back a lot of pleasant memories. When him, lance, and pidge came here, they used to fantasize about going to space one day and being ‘saviors of the universe’. Lance would be the blue paladin, pidge would be green, and Keith would be red. They had a whole universe created in their heads where they would go around and fight evil aliens.

And coran would always hear them and make their food ‘space themed’ and soon, they included him in their little world.

“Hey coran”

He quickly went to the other side of the counter and hugged Keith. “You’ve grown so much!”

Keith laughed “You look the same”

Coran pinched the end of his mustache and grinned “Us wimbletons age mighty well”

Keith couldn’t help but snort at his name. He’s always thought ‘wimbleton’ was funny. And so did everyone else. But he stood by it being a name of ‘royalty’.

”Yes you do!” Pidge said, leaning on Keith “Coran I swear you’re gonna live for like 10000 years”

”I might! Who knows…”

”You better! Cause the day you die is the day I die” Pidge sounded completely serious and Coran waved his hand, flattered “Come on, you two, anything you want is on the house”

Pidge pumped her fist “Yes. Free food”

“Go sit anywhere, and I’ll be right with you”

They nodded and sat in the booth seat they did as kids. It’s a lot smaller than he remembered. Probably because he was a lot smaller.

”God, I love Coran”

”He hasn’t changed at all”

”Nope, still the flamboyant old man who makes the best food ever.”

Keith propped his head on his hand and sighed. Pidge saw and did the same “Are we sulky?”

Keith rolled his eyes “No, I’m just tired”

Pidge sat up and stretched her legs under the table, hitting Keith’s a little “Me too. But you’re lucky. You got to take a nap.” She nudged his leg with her foot “With lance~“

Keith nudged her back, trying to get her to be quiet. She laughed and did it again “C’mon, they still gotta be there”

Keith frowned “What?”

She leaned in closer to him and whispered “Your feelings”

Keiths face immediately went red and she laughed “Yep. They totally are”

Keith crossed his arms, looking away a little “No they aren’t. I’m not even g—“

”Ok, don’t even say you’re not gay. You are wearing jeans tighter than mine.”

Keith looked down at his jeans, suddenly insecure about his fashion choices. And terrified that it’s that obvious. 

”Which look amazing by the way—“ she added, making Keith a little less insecure.

”I……I really don’t want to talk about it”

Pidge frowned “You told me this when we were kids. And I swear, I haven’t told anyone.”

”I never said I was gay”

She rolled her eyes and laughed “Yeah, except for saying you don’t like girls like ‘normal boys do’. Listen—I remember that conversation because when I went home, I was so happy that you told me that. It really made me feel awesome that you could share something like that with me. It still does”

Keith forgot he told her that. He only remembers telling her that he liked lance. Not that he liked boys. But he’s not that upset. He still trusts pidge with that information.

”Ok…fine. You’re right”

”Yeah, I know”

”And……are my pants really too tight?”

She quickly shook her head “Nooo, they are just the right amount of tight”

”What does that mean…?”

”It means your ass looks great. Which is what most guys like. A nice as—“

She stopped talking when Coran came to their table “Sorry for the wait! What do you guys want?”

Pidge gave him her order, which was a lot but she justified it by saying “you don’t always get free food”.

”I’ll just have bacon.”

”Just bacon? Are you sure? It’s completely on the house”

Keith nodded “Yeah, just bacon’s fine”

”Okay!” He turned around and yelled as we walked away “It’s gonna be the best darn bacon you’ve ever had!”

He returned to the kitchen and pidge leaned back towards Keith “Like I said, guys love—“

”Okay, I don’t care about that”

She stopped and frowned “But—“

”No. No more talking about asses, let’s talk about something normal”

She groaned and pouted “Fine”

”Ok, now say something I can’t think of anything”

”So lance—“

”Anything but that”

”I wasn’t gonna say anything about that! Jeez…”

”Oh……then sorry”

She squinted at him and continued talking “Lance told me that you seemed weird when you were looking at rose. What’s wrong with her?”

Keith sighed, putting his head back on his hand “It looks really bad”

“Really?”

Keith nodded and pidge looked sad “Damn…have you told lance?”

”No way. I’m telling him his favorite horse is probably gonna die”

”Yeah…I wouldn’t either”

”Can we talk about something not so sad?”

“Yeah, tell me about your life! What have you been up to? We kind of only talked about sea creatures the last time we talked……Lance is always talking about fish and shit….but it’s endearing.”

Keith put his face in both his hands and sighed “That’s still sad” He knows he can tell pidge the truth about what’s going on in his life. He doesn’t like it when people pity him. And he knows she’ll just listen and not be careful around him after.

”What? How?”

”I just…ugh” He rubbed his face and she leaned closer “What? Is everything alright?”

Keith shook his head “No, nothing’s alright”

“Go on”

”I don’t have any friends, everyone hates me at my school and I can’t focus on anything so I’m not getting good grades. I’m not even out and people call me a fag. They think I’m wearing a contact lense so they give me shit for that, they say shit about my hair for being long and when I cut it, they say I’m trying too hard so it’s like, no matter what I do, everyone just hates me. And I always fucking disappointing my mom when she sees my grades and the fact that I’m ‘not even trying to make friends’ and I can’t tell her or anyone about anything because I don’t want people tip-toeing around me and I don’t want anyone to know I’m gay—and even though James left I’m still scared people will just figure it out—“

Keith realized too soon that he said way too much and put his head down “Sorry, I didn’t mean to unload all my shit on you”

”No! You don’t apologize for nothin! Look at me—“

She grabbed Keith’s head and made him look at her “All that shit—that sucks. Screw them for not realizing how cool you are. You don’t deserve any of that and you definitely don’t have to apologize for telling your friend about your problems. You can literally talk to me about anything and I won’t ever tip toe around you cause I hate it when people do that me, too” She shook him and bit and got a determined look on her face “You are gonna go back there, and show all those pieces of garbage that you are way cooler than they’ll ever be. And I’ll make sure of it…”

Keith was about to say something but she shook her head “You are way too hot to be dealing with shitty people.”

Coran walked up to their table and looked confused at the position they were in. Pidge holding Keith’s face and shaking him…She stopped and looked at the food Coran was holding “Here you go!”

He put the plate of bacon in front of keith and pidges food in front of her. “Thank you” keith said and Coran waved his hand “Oh, it’s nothing. Now eat your amazing bacon!”

He left and keith took a bite out of a piece of bacon. And of course, it’s amazing.

Pidge also started eating and they talked more about Keith and things that have been happening to him. They also talked about pidge and what’s been going on in her life and basically, he really enjoyed talking to her. It felt just like when they were kids. Just unloading words onto each other. It doesn’t matter if they mean anything or not. They were simply just talking.

When they left, Keith drove them back to lances house and said bye to pidge. “Don’t crash and die”

”You’re gonna jinx it!” She waved as she drove off, hitting their trash can. Keith chuckled and she drove away.

He went back inside and saw everyone sitting an eating. He didn’t want to disturb anyone so he walked to the stairs and made sure to be as silent as he could.

When he made it to lances room, the door was closed. He opened it and immediately covered his eyes when he saw lance and allura sitting on the bed, Allura with her shirt unbuttoned. Luckily, she still had a bra on though.

“Shit—sorry!” Keith left the room and shut the door. He heard rustling in the room and lance opened it after about a minute. He didn’t say anything though.

Keith also couldn’t think of anything to say. Allura walked up to them though, obviously really embarrassed. “U-Um, I should get going now…”

Lance looked at her and nodded “Ok, I’ll uh, I’ll walk you out.”

They left and keith didn’t know if he should just go in the room or wait for Lance to come back. He doesn’t want to be weird so he walked in and just stood there.

Yeah, good job at not being weird.

Before he could do anything, lance came back and was obviously trying to avoid eye contact with Keith. Which, Keith can understand.

”I’m, uh, sorry you had to see that…”

Keith shook his head, feeling equally as uncomfortable and embarrassed “It’s alright, I, uh—shoulda knocked”

”No, uh, we probably shouldn’t have been doing that anyway…”

”I mean, at least it wasn’t anyone in your family…?” Keith laughed awkwardly and so did lance “Yeah, thank god it was you……”

After a few seconds of awkward silence, lance started laughing “Oh god, if Rachel saw that she would never let me live it down”

Keith smiled and started laughing with him “Yeah”

They laughed for a few more minutes before lance gasped “How’d it go with pidge??”

Keith shrugged “We just talked. I saw Coran again”

”Oh my god. Coran!! I bet he was happy to see you”

He nodded “Yeah, he called me ‘red paladin’ again. It feels weird being so nostalgic”

”Oh yeah! I remember that! I haven’t been there in a while…I should probably visit him more often.”

”Why not?”

Lance sat down and shrugged “Honestly…I don’t know”

Keith sat next to him and lance smiled “Is he the same?”

Keith snorted “Yeah, he even looks the same”

”I swear he’s just gonna live forever”

”I hope so. The world needs a Coran”

”Yeah…it does”

Soon after, they both laid down and Keith didn’t close his eyes yet. He heard Lance moving around on the floor and Keith had to prepare himself before saying what he’s about to say.

When he got the courage, he finally did it “You can sleep on the bed if you want to”

“Nooo, it’s fine, like I said, you’re the guest so you don’t have to sleep on the floor”

Keith closed his eyes and then sighed “No, I mean, we can both sleep on the bed.”

Lance was silent for a few seconds, making Keith hate everything and regret saying it. But just as he was about to say never mind, lance sat up “Okay then”

Keith didn’t expect him to say yes but he moved closer to the wall and lance stood up. He sat down on the bed and got under the blanket. Keith stayed silent because he’s sure if he says anything he’s just gonna be a stuttering mess.

”Thanks, sleeping on the floor sucks a lot more than I thought it would”

”Yeah…”

Lance looked at Keith, smiling, making Keith feel the sudden urge to k—ok none of that, Keith is not gonna think about that. He’s scared he might actually do it.

”By the way, I hug my pillows so if my sleepy brain thinks you’re a pillow, feel free to push me off the bed or something” he laughed and Keith tried to laugh with him but thought about lance hugging him while they slept. He should have stayed quiet.

“Well…goodnight…” He turned on his side, facing away from Keith. Luckily because if he faced Keith, Keith would not sleep. But Keith probably still won’t sleep because lances bed is still the same size as it used to be. And it was fine when two kids shared it but now that they’re both grown, it’s a bit cramped.

But soon, Keith managed to fall asleep. But not before trying to make himself as far away from lance as possible.

Notes:

When pidge and keith are talking, Keith says “Im not even out and people call me (f slur)”

Poor Keith!!!!!

Chapter 5: Chapter 4

Lance woke up hugging one of his pillows. He nuzzled his face into it because it smells weirdly great. Kind of like strawberries. And some sort of citrus smell.

But he stopped when he realized it wasn’t a pillow at all. It’s Keith.

He quickly sat up and looked at Keith, who was fast asleep. Thank god. That would have been embarrassing.

He slowly put his feet on the ground, trying not to wake up keith, but before standing up, he found himself looking at keith. He’s facing the wall so he can’t see his face. For some reason he kind of wants to in the light…

He realized he was being weird so he got up and left his room. He went downstairs and went to the kitchen to make a bowl of cereal. Today he’s probably just gonna check on all the animals and then apologize profusely to Allura for yesterday.

That’s all lance can think about right now. He can’t believe Keith walked in on them. They obviously weren’t gonna do anything more but things started to get a little heated so they went a little further…

Lance hasn’t really thought about going ‘further’ with any other girl before. Yeah, he’s made out with them but nothing more. But with allura, he feels like she might be the one…or at least, he hopes so.

But his hopes aren’t that high after last night. At least if they plan on doing anything, he knows not to do it in his room. Maybe they can go to the barn.

Well—no, he doesn’t want to go to third base with a girl in a barn full of animals. I mean, they could go to the other—

He stopped himself before finishing that thought. He hasn’t been to other barn since…y’know, since everything happened. And he doesn’t want to take allura there…

After lance started dating girls, he thought about taking them there as a date but he always made excuses like ‘it’s dangerous’ or ‘girls don’t like old barns anyway’.

But really, he just thinks of Keith when he thinks of that barn. And he doesn’t want to be thinking about Keith while he……is with a girl…

Especially not Allura. Cause he really likes her! He doesn’t want to ruin their moment!

After he ate, he went back upstairs to get clothes and forced himself not to look at Keith because he’s not sure he’d stop.

When he was dressed, he left and just like he said, he checked on the animals and then went to roses stable to call Allura. Rose wasn’t there which made him a little sad but he just ignored it and dialed her number.

She answered pretty quickly “Hello?”

”Hey, ‘lura”

”Oh…hey lance”

He laughed and sat down on a piece of wood. “You didn’t know it was me?”

She giggled “I answered without looking at my phone”

“What are you doing right now?”

”Just some homework. Also some self loathing from yesterday.”

He sighed “Im so sorry, I didn’t think he’d come back so soon”

”It’s alright, just absolutely horrible that someone I barely know saw me in only my bra”

He chuckled “I mean, you looked great so it’s not that horrible”

She gasped, laughing a bit “I don’t want Keith seeing me like that! Only you!”

”He’s not creepy or anything so he won’t be weird about it”

”How do you know?”

“He’s a really good person, trust me, he won’t be weird about it”

“I know, I know. I trust him. Only because you do.”

“It’s like he never even left.”

”How so?”

Lance sighed, a bit scared to say more. He doesn’t know what’ll come out “I dunno, we were like, best friends and it still feels that way. Like I could tell him literally anything.”

”You must really care about him then.” She giggled “Should I be jealous?”

Lance knew she was joking but he felt really defensive “No! I’m not—no…”

“You okay?”

He laughed, trying to hide his embarrassment “Yeah sorry, I just slept bad last night…”

He felt horrible lying to allura. Last night was probably the best he’s slept in a while. But he can’t tell allura that. That’s a hunk thing……maybe even a nyma one…

Definitely not a romelle thing because she would just tell allura. Plus, he’s not really her friend, she only hangs out with them because allura and nyma.

”I would come over but I’m a bit behind on schoolwork so I can’t”

”Can I help?”

She was silent for a bit before answering “It’s reading”

Lance frowned, sighing “Ugh, fine” He can read but sometimes the words just mix together and he can’t comprehend what he’s reading. He always thinks of everything except what he’s reading. It sucks. And it’s something he hates about himself. His teachers get frustrated because his grades. And when he tries to tell them what’s happening, they say he’s just not trying hard enough.

And he knows allura doesn’t mean anything by it but it still makes him feel bad that he can’t help her.

”Sorry”

”No, I’m sorry, if my stupid brain was better I would help you…”

”Don’t say that, your brain is perfect”

”Perfectly annoying”

”No, perfectly perfect”

Lance laughed and looked at roses empty stable, suddenly feeling like he was gonna cry ”Thank you……so is yours. Your brain is amazingly amazing”

”Aww, thanks”

His eyes started watering ”Alright I’ll leave so you can finish your work.”

”Okay then, bye lance”

”Bye ‘lura”

He hung up and rubbed his eyes, not being able to stop the tears. He doesn’t know what just hit him but he can’t stop crying now.

Suddenly, he heard someone and when he looked up, he saw Veronica. When he noticed he was crying, she quickly walked up to him “Hey, what’s wrong?”

Lance shook his head, rubbing his eyes again “Nothing—“

”No, don’t you ‘nothing’ me. Tell me what’s wrong”

She sat next to him and he put his face in his hands. “I just….I don’t know what to do”

”What do you mean?”

”Like—with rose and—“ He almost said ‘Keith’ which even shocked him a little. Why was he about to say his name?

She sat down next to him and put her hand on his shoulder. “Rose is gonna be fine. Even if she…even if she doesn’t make it…at least she’s not suffering anymore.”

That’s something a lot of people tell you to make you feel better about losing someone you love. But it doesn’t feel that good. Because he feels selfish for wanting her to live and possibly suffer more.

”I don’t want her to die”

”None of us do but that’s not in our hands.”

”I know……it just sucks”

She hugged him and rocked a little “I know”

”Can I tell you something?” You can’t tell anyone else.”

”Of course. I’m great at keeping secrets.”

Lance looked at her, not believing her. She scoffed “I am, okay? I haven’t told anyone it was you who broke the window that day”

Lance smiled and sighed, not thinking before he spoke “I keep thinking about k—“

”Uh—sorry…” They looked up and saw Keith, standing there. He looked a little uncomfortable and Veronica smiled “Yeah? Need somethin?”

“I can come back—I don’t really need anything…”

Veronica looked at lance, who was kind of just gawking at Keith. Were his pants always that tight? His hair is in a low ponytail and it’s making lance nervous. “Lance?”

He jumped “Huh?”

She laughed “You spaced out there, you good?”

”O-Oh, yeah, I’m good—what do you need?” He said to Keith, not really knowing what he said earlier.

”I don’t need anything—like I said, I can come back later if—“

He didn’t let him finish before standing up “No, it’s fine! I needed you today anyway”

He didn’t actually but he wanted an excuse to not finish telling Veronica what he was about to say.

”Forget what I said, alright? It’s nothing anyway”

”But—“

”Bye! Seeya later!” He grabbed Keith’s hand and quickly walked away.

”Are you okay?”

”Hm? Yeah? Of course!”

”You're crying”

Lance scoffed and smiled “What? No I’m not?”

”Im not blind”

Lance looked behind him, making sure Veronica wasn’t following them. He didn’t see her so he slowed down “It’s nothing, I’m all good now”

”Are you sure?”

Lance nodded and Keith looked down at the ground “I’m sorry again for yesterday”

Lance laughed and shook his head “It’s alright. I talked to allura earlier and she said it was alright, too.”

”Good, because I feel really bad that I saw her like that”

”I mean it’s not you like her……right? I mean, I hope you don’t like her-“

”No, I don’t—well, I like her as a person, just not like—you know, not like that.”

“Ok good cause this could have gotten real awkward real fast”

Keith rolled his eyes and then frowned “Where are we going?”

Lance stopped walking and shrugged “Nowhere, I just needed to get away from Veronica”

”Why?”

”Just……she talks a lot”

“So do you”

Keiths eyes got wide and lance opened his mouth, a little shocked. But before lance could say anything keith started talking again “Sorry! I didn’t mean that in a bad way! I actually didn’t mean to say that at all—you don’t talk a lot—well, you do—but it’s not bad—it’s actually kind of nice, you have a very calming voice—“

Lance interrupted him by grabbing his shoulders and smiling “I know…and thanks”

“For what?”

”For saying I have a calming voice”

”I said that?”

”Yeah, you did?”

”Oh…sorry”

Lance sighed and then hugged him “I missed you” Keith didn’t hug him back so he kept talking “And you can say anything you want to me I know you don’t mean it in a bad way. It’s like when you used to say I was annoying but you’d do in a weirdly nice way. When you’d say things like that it never hurt my feelings…but if anyone else said them it would…I don’t know why though. For some reason it’s only endearing when you’re mean.”

Keith slowly hugged him back “I don’t mean to be mean”

”You’re not mean. You’re just brutally honest. It’s probably why you and pidge were friends. But she’s worse.”

”Yeah, she is”

Lance laughed and stopped hugging him “You wanna do something fun?”

”Like what?”

“I don’t know, anything”

”What do you want do?”

”Well…my mom asked me to go to the store?”

”Thats fun?”

Lance rolled his eyes “It can be if you join me”

”I have nothing else to do so okay”

”Awesome! Come on”

They went back to the house and lance wrote a note for his mom and they left.

 

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The whole drive there, lance kept on almost hitting things and Keith was getting a little irritated.

“You almost hit that!”

”No I didn’t, it’s fine.”

”You should have let me drive”

”No, cause if you crash my mom would kill both of us and not just me”

”You’re about kill both of us”

“You’re overreacting—“ Just as he said that, he almost ran into another car. The person honked their horn and flipped him off when they passed him.

”I’m not overreacting”

”You can drive home”

He parked in a place where there were less cars just in case and they got out. “You’re just as bad as pidge”

”Ok, I’m not that bad. I can at least be on the road”

”Barely”

They walked in the store and continued talking about how bad of a driver lance is. And Lance defended himself as he got whatever was on the list he brought.

“I don’t remember this place…” Keith looked around and lance continued looking at the list “It’s pretty new. It used to be that arcade.”

Keith actually remembers a janky arcade here. No one ever went there except for drug dealers and homeless people. Probably why they shut it down.

”It’s nice”

”Yeah, it’s convenient too. I don’t have to drive all the way to town to get milk or something”

”Anything that involves you not driving is convenient”

Lance smiled and shoved him a little “Shut up”

He got what he was looking for and they went to the next isle. And while Keith was looking around, he felt someone tugging at his hair. “What the-“

”Be still—it’s been bugging me this whole time” lance took out the hair tie he had in his hair and started brushing his fingers through it. Keith wasn’t sure how he was gonna hide his red face.

”What was bugging you?” He sounded a bit more defensive than he’d hoped to.

”It was so messy.”

”Well, I’m not trying to look good”

”That’s cause you don’t need to. It’s not fair”

”What?”

“Guys like you don’t have to try to look good. While guys like me have to try really hard”

Without thinking, keith said “I think you look good”

He felt Lance stop messing with his hair for a second. “Thanks. But you don’t have to lie”

Keith ignored his face getting hotter and hotter “Im not lying. You look……you look really good”

”You’re such a cute couple!” A woman passed them and keith thought his face was on fire. “W-We’re n-“

”Thanks!”

Keith swears his heart just exploded. She left and Keith tried not to say anything but he couldn’t not say something. “Why’d you say that??”

”Id much rather spend a second saying thanks than minutes saying we’re not a couple”

Keith can’t argue with that. That’s actually kind of smart. “True”

”And I may be just playing with your hair now……”

Keith moved his head away from him “What??”

”I got sidetracked! You have really soft hair……”

Keith scoffed and took the hair tie from lance and put his hair back in a low ponytail. “No wonder she thought we were together”

Lance rolled his eyes and they kept going.

When lance got all he needed, he paid and they went back to the car. Lance gave Keith the keys and he got in the drivers seat.

”If you crash the car, I’ll kill you”

”I won’t”

”We’ll see…”

He started driving and lance crossed his arms. He didn’t talk and Keith wondered if he did something wrong or hurt him in some way.

”Did I—“

”Turn left!”

Keith freaked out and turned left way too fast. Nothing crazy happened but he still pulled over. Lance was already apologizing “Sorry!”

Keith had to take minute to calm down so he sighed and rubbed his face. Lance continued to apologize and Keith kind of just tuned him out for a few more seconds.

Then he started laughing. Lance stopped talking and looked confused. “You can’t do that!”

Lance smiled “I have a really good idea”

“What?” he looked at him, still laughing. He’s never freaked out like that.

”Just keep driving and I’ll tell you when we’re there”

”Ok then”

He listened to him and started to drive.

 

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When they got there, Keith was confused. It’s a gas station. Lance told him to hold on and went in without him. He waited impatiently until Lance came back, holding a paper bag.

He got in the car and gave Keith the bag. “What’s this?”

”Just look!”

Keith looked in the bag and rolled his eyes when he saw what he got “I hate you”

”You like it?”

”No, I don’t”

”Come on! They’re good!”

”Im not eating them”

Its gummy worms. Lance would always eat them and keith would absolutely hate it. It grossed him out so much that people actually made worm shaped candy.

And keith hates bugs more than anything.

”You have to, it’s rude to reject a gift”

”Then I guess I’m rude”

”Please?”

Keith shook his head and went to start the car but Lance quickly took the keys “Hey!” He tried to grab them back but quickly gave up because he doesn’t have the energy to fight him.

”We’re not going anywhere until you try one.”

”I can walk”

”You don’t even know where we are”

”How do you know?”

”Because I chose this on purpose.”

”You’re saying you planned this?”

“Not really……I just remembered this gas station”

Keith sighed and crossed his arms, refusing to budge “I’m not eating them”

Lance took them out of the bag and opened the bag. He ate one and then held one out to Keith “They’re sour~”

Keith moved away from it and lance moved it closer “Just eat it!”

“No”

”Please? For me?”

Keith shook his head and lance frowned “Some friend you are”

”You’re the one trying to peer pressure me”

”So? It’s only a gummy worm”

”Im not eating anything with ‘worm’ in it”

”What if it’s a gummy snake?”

”Its not though”

”Just pretend it is”

”No matter what you say, I’m not eating it”

Lance sighed, probably giving up “You’ll eat one one day”

”No I won’t”

He gave him the keys and he started driving back to lances house. “Why can’t you just take a bite?”

”Ill crash on purpose if you keep asking”

Lance rolled his eyes and started talking about how they tasted and ‘what he’s missing out on’.

Keith just ignored him until they got back. He helped him carry the groceries in and put them away. Then they went to lances room and decided to watch a movie.

But lance instead insisted that they watch a soap opera—well, one of the Spanish ones.

”I don’t speak Spanish”

”I’ll translate”

”That seems tiring”

”You won’t even eat a gummy worm, you can watch a telenovela”

”…Fine”

He found one and it started playing. Immediately people were speaking Spanish and Keith recognized some of the words but he still had no idea what they were saying.

“Our main girl, rosette, is a receptionist and her life at home is messy and unorganized so she’s like ‘hey I’m gonna find me a man’ so now she’s having her glow up scene to find the perfect guy.”

The montage played of her trying on different outfits and soon, she was in a bar. “Ooh, this guy—she likes him.”

The camera showed a ring on his finger and then it showed the girl, disappointed. “He’s married—oh shoot this guy is messing with her.”

A drunk guy appeared and Keith didn’t have to know what she was saying to know she didn’t like him. But lance told him anyway.

Soon, she left, still disappointed but she tripped on her way out the door. But she fell in the arms of a man, who looked…okay even Keith would fall for him if he was rosette…well he would as Keith too…

But it was very dramatic and the guy smiled and said “parece que te has caído para me”

Lance laughed and rolled his eyes. “He just said ‘it seems like you have fallen for me’.”

Keith also laughed “Really?”

Lance nodded “Yep and she loved it”

”Now he’s saying he will take her home because she’s drunk. But she’s not drunk so she refuses but he’s still insisting they go to his apartment.”

”That’s creepy”

”Yeah but she’s just pining over this guy.”

She said “sí~” and they took a cab to his apartment. Almost immediately they started kissing and they moved off screen, saying things that lance refused to translate.

Thats when the episode ended. And unfortunately, Keith wants to know more. “Are we gonna watch the second episode?”

”Absolutely” lance played it and continued translating for Keith.

This episode started with rosette waking up in this guy’s apartment and he already made her breakfast and gave it to her on a tray in his bed. Lance laughed “If someone did that to me after one night, I would be scared.”

”Yeah, I don’t like this guy”

”She does…”

She happily ate the food and the rest of the episode was just her talking to her friends about him and it ended with her hearing him talk to someone on the phone.

”siempre serás el amor de mi vida”

Lance gasped and Keith looked at him, waiting for him to translate “You will always be the love of my life”

Keiths chest did something weird when he said that. “What?”

”Thats what he said…to the person on the phone”

”Oh…that’s not good”

Keith knew he wasn’t talking to him but he imagined it for a second and instantly regretted it. He would die if lance ever said that to him.

The next few episodes was just rosette trying to find the girl he was talking to but she failed. Like, this girl hired a whole team to find out.

But now they’re on the last episode.

They’re arguing.

”¡Te escuché hablar con una chica por teléfono!  ¡Pensé que me amabas!”

“¡No estaba hablando con una chica!”

“¡Te oí!”

He stayed silent for a second. A tear fell down his cheek and he clenched his heart with his fist “Estaba hablando con la persona que amo...”

She looked really sad “¿Quien es ella?”

“su nombre es…..rodriguez…”

“Holy shit he was in love with a guy the whole time”

”What??”

Suddenly, a guy came in her house “Juan!”

”Rodriguez!”

They started to kiss and the camera panned over to rosette, who looked confused. “¿¿qué??”

It ended and the credits played and Keith was confused. “So he was just gay the whole time?”

”I guess so…”

”Why would he be with her if he was gay?”

”Maybe it’s forbidden”

”But I feel like you can’t just lie about being gay, especially to the person you’re with”

That sentence felt a little familiar to Keith…a little too familiar.

”Yeah…but maybe he wasn’t ‘out’ yet?”

”He’s with a guy, why wouldn’t he be out?”

“I’m sure a lot of gay guys are with people before they come out”

Keith shrugged and looked back at lances laptop “I guess you’re right”

“I kinda feel bad for rosette though. Like, what do you if the person you’re with suddenly is like ‘I’m actually gay’ and has been in a relationship with a guy the whole time??”

”I don’t know”

Lance shut his laptop and turned towards Keith “What if the girl you were with said she secretly had a girlfriend?”

”Didn’t that happen to you?”

”No, she told me and we broke up, then she got a girlfriend”

”What would you do?”

”……I don’t know”

”See? You can’t even answer. It’s not a situation that someone should be in”

”I agree”

They stayed silent for a second then lance smiled, mischievously “Will you try a gummy worm now?”

Keith sighed “No”

Lance groaned and ate the gummy worm. “Fine then. But when you’re starving and you want one, I’m not giving it to you”

”I won’t ask”

They lowkey argued about it for a bit until there was knock on his door. Lance got up and opened it “Yeah?”

It was Veronica holding two plates of food “Here—since you’ve been eating in here lately. Just thought I would go ahead and bring it up here.”

”Oh, alright. Thanks” He took them and she left. He went back to his bed and they ate then they both wanted to go to sleep so they laid down.

Keith felt Lance move and suddenly he saw a gummy worm in front of his face. “What are you doing”

He didn’t think lance was that close but his voice was right next to his ear “I know you want it~“

He put his hand on his shoulder to lean over him and Keith turned his head so he could see his face “Im gonna push you off the bed”

”Then you’re comin’ with me”

He put his arm around him and keith froze, now kind of freaking out that lance is hugging him. “You’re being weird”

”You’re being mean”

”Cause I won’t try a gummy worm??”

”Yep”

Keith tried to push Lance off of him but he was holding on to tight so he gave up and sighed “Fine I’ll try it”

Lance let go of him and sat up “Really?”

”Yeah……tomorrow”

”Why not now??”

”Because”

”Thats not an answer”

”It is now”

Lance frowned and laid down “Alright but you better try it”

Soon, lance fell asleep but Keith couldn’t. All he couldn’t stop thinking about lance hugging him. And playing with this hair earlier. He’s seriously gotta get his gay together.

Because soon, Keith is literally just gonna die

Notes:

Lol i made my own telenovela hope it’s interesting

Our girl rosette has a hard life😔

Chapter 6: Chapter 5

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Notes:

‼️Fanart!!! It’s the third picture :)

The next day was pretty boring, just following Lance around while he did work and sometimes helping him when he asked. He also kept saying throughout the day “Are you gonna try it now?” And Keith would use excuses like “Later” and “We’re doing something right now”

And luckily, lance forgot about the gummy worms after a while so he didn’t say anything before they went to sleep.

 

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Lance woke up in the middle of the night again though, which is pretty common for him. He usually just closes his eyes and falls asleep pretty easily but when he looked beside him, he saw that Keith is facing him.

He’s asleep and lance ignores the fluttery feeling in his stomach, seeing what he looks like so up close. He wasn’t lying when he said he looks like a model. He even looks good while sleeping!! Lance is sure he looks ugly while he’s sleeping. 

Lance knows it’s kinda creepy to just stare at someone while they’re sleeping but he can’t stop. He just looks so peaceful and…well…pretty.

He already knew he looked pretty but he looks prettier up close.

He reached his hand up to touch his face but stopped himself right as he touched his cheek. What is he doing?? He’s being too weird now. He turned around so he wasn’t facing Keith anymore and closed his eyes, trying to fall asleep.

He’s tempted to sleep on the floor again because he can feel Keith beside him. And it’s really not helping him fall back asleep.

But just as he was about to actually fall asleep, he felt Keith’s hand reach around his waist. He looked behind him and Keith’s eyes were still closed so he knew he was still asleep.

Lance didn’t want to wake him up so he didn’t move his hand. And…a small part of him didn’t want to move his hand. Actually a big part of him didn’t want to.

He felt himself smile and he couldn’t stop. He doesn’t know why he feels so comfortable right now. Maybe because of nostalgia?

He fell asleep and he slept better than he ever has.

 

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“They’re gonna to try to remove the tumor today”

Keith had just woke up and lance dragged him to the barn. “That’s good” He rubbed his eyes, scared he’s just gonna fall asleep while standing up.

”Sorry for waking you up I just don’t know who else to talk to. Cause you know about this kind of stuff and I want you tell me that she’s gonna be fine”

”Well, I don’t know”

”That doesn’t help”

”I don’t know how to help??”

”I dunno, lie or something!”

”I don’t want to lie!”

Lance groaned and sat down on a hay bale, leaning down to put his face in his hands. “I hate this”

Keith sat down next to him and pat his shoulder “I know”

Lance sighed and stood up “Okay I don’t wanna think about it right now. Everyone wants to hang out today so we can go do that…if that’s okay with you”

Keith stood up and shook his head, trying not to yawn “yeah, ok”

”Alright then, we’re going to the park again so we can walk. Unless you want to drive”

”Either way is fine”

Lance looked around him and shrugged “Eh, it’s easier to drive. And we’ll get there faster”

Keith nodded and lance asked his mom if he could use her car and at first she said no because she doesn’t want him driving unless he absolutely has to but he told her Keith would drive so she said yes.

But she also said Keith would be in big trouble if he crashes. But he’s confident he won’t crash.

They went to car and he drove the park. When they got there, they somehow ended up talking about Britney Spears. And they were arguing about which song is the best.

Lance says toxic and Keith says criminal. Lance says toxic is more ‘iconic’.

”It’s not about how ‘iconic’ it is, it’s just about how good it is”

”It’s iconic cause it’s good”

”What’s good?” Pidge appeared out of nowhere, startling both Keith and lance. Lance quickly recovered and glared at Keith “What’s the best Britney Spears song?”

“Oh—womanizer”

Lance rolled his eyes and she scoffed “Toxic is not the best one”

”Keith says criminal”

Pidge nodded “Thats pretty solid but womanizer is better”

”I disagree”

”You only like because you’re a bad boy with a tainted heart” Lance was still glaring at Keith. Keith rolled his eyes “No I’m not”

Pidge snorted “You are—anyway, everyone’s already here and Lance when did you learn how to park so good??”

”Keith drove”

”Oh, that makes more sense”

Lance scoffed again and they went back to the picnic table they were at the other day and nyma, hunk, and allura was there.

They didn’t even sit down before lance said “What’s the best Britney Spears song?”

Nyma pointed at him, excited “If you seek amy”

Pidge snorted again “That’s cause you’re a lesbian”

She shrugged, smiling “I like the meaning”

”I only know toxic” hunk said, obviously confused”

”See? That’s how good it is. Someone who doesn’t even listen to her knows it”

”Thats just because it’s popular” Keith said as they all sat down. Keith ended up sitting next to allura, who politely smiled at him.

”I think the one about the criminal is the best” Allura said and Keith couldn’t help but smile. “See? Even your girlfriend agrees”

”You think so too?” She smiled at him again and he nodded, now feeling a bit anxious.

”Okay criminal has two points so it wins” Pidge sat down on the actual table instead of seat and lance scoffed “Hunk said toxic!”

She shook her head “he doesn’t count”

He rolled his eyes and they immediately started talking about something else.

Then nyma suddenly gasped “I forgot!”

They all looked at her and she waved her phone “You’ll never guess who texted me yesterday asking to meet up”

”Who?” They pretty much all said.

”Rolo”

Everyone looked disgusted and Keith was confused. Luckily she looked at him and explained “I used to date him before I came out. He was kind of an asshole”

“Oh…sorry”

”No, it’s fine now, I said no and he was all like ‘I just want to say sorry’.”

”I swear I’ll find him and punch him in the throat if I see him” Pidge looked upset and nyma waved her hand “Don’t bother, I blocked his number. But if he comes here, then you can punch him in he throat”

”I might just do it anyway”

She laughed and allura looked at hunk, smiling a bit mischievously “So hunk, have you asked shay yet?”

His face immediately went bright red and they all laughed “I will!”

”Yeah but when??” Lance groaned and hunk crossed his arms “I have to figure out a way first…”

”Just ask. All you have to say it ‘shay, you wanna go on a date?” Lance said and allura laughed “Just like I did with lance”

He scoffed and pouted “I asked you!”

”No you didn’t. Even though I gave you the most obvious signs.”

”Sitting close to me isn’t a sign”

”She did way more that you dumb” Pidge said, now laying down on the table.

”Like what??”

”You know, things like staring at you a bit too long, touching a lot, sitting way too close, spending a whole bunch of time with you, it’s telltale signs of a crush” Pidge sat up and allura giggled “I asked Pidge to help me that’s why she knows so much”

“Those are just friend things??”

”None of us have done any of those with you. Not the extent that she did”

Lance glanced at Keith and looked like he was going to say something but he sighed and laid his down “Ok fine, I’m stupid”

”You’re not stupid, you’re just…oblivious” Allura hugged him and he laughed, glancing at Keith one more time.

Keith thinks he didn’t say anything because he’s done all those with lance. They’ve both stared at each other, touched way more than friends should, sat super close to each other, and they’ve spent everyday with each other. Keith suddenly feels like his huge crush for lance has been revealed. To lance.

I mean, Keith has even kissed him before. It’s so obvious now. He really hopes lance is just as oblivious.

”Keith, what about you? Do you have girlfriend? Or boyfriend—I’m not one to judge” Nyma said, laughing. They all looked at him and he looked at Pidge who frowned. She can’t help him now.

”Uh, no…I don’t”

”Really? I bet you have people lined up though” She kept laughing and Keith looked down, really nervous “Uh—not really”

”Keith is actually a weirdo so the girls avoid him” Pidge laughed and Keith didn’t really appreciate it. “What??”

“I’m kidding—He’s just quiet—which is why he needs to put himself out there.” She squinted at him and he squinted back. He thinks this is her way of encouraging him to come out. But there’s no way now that he thinks lance knows about his crush. Saying he’s gay now will just confirm it.

”Yeah, I’m sure people say shit about your eye, right?” Nyma said and keith was suddenly hit with relief. Someone finally understands. It was so sudden, he just nodded, not being able to think clearly. No one has ever even guessed that it could be a problem.

”People always said I looked weird and they were like ‘why don’t you cover it up with foundation’ and for the longest time, I did. Only on my face though. But I was sick and tired of hiding it so I just went to school one day with no foundation and…well people were mean but I also got a lot of compliments.”

”People suck—that’s the moral of the story” Pidge laid back down and hunk frowned “What do they say about it? If I saw you in school, I would be like ‘woah you’re so cool’.”

Keith looked at Pidge who smiled at him, making him feel a little less nervous. He feels like he can trust these people. And later, he’ll tell them about being gay. Just…not right now.

”They say it’s fake”

”Why would you fake something like that?” Allura said, sounding sympathetic. But not in a pitying way. Just…in a caring way.

He kinda feels bad that he has a giant crush on her boyfriend.

”I don’t know…they just do”

”Can’t you just prove that you’re not faking it?” Hunk said, but Keith shook his head “I tried to but no matter what I did, they didn’t believe me.”

”What’s he gonna go? Take his eye out?” Pidge laughed and hunk rolled his eyes “I don’t know? Maybe like touch it a little”

They looked at him and Keith shook his head “I don’t want to touch my eye”

”Ugh I hate it when people touch their eyes” Pidge cringed and allura laughed “It’s not that hard, I wear contacts”

”I know and it’s disgusting seeing you take them out or put them in”

”I think it’s lances fault you hate it” Keith said, a little proud of himself that he spoke without stuttering or anything!!!

She started laughing and pointed at lance “It’s totally your fault”

Lance laughed and allura, hunk, and nyma seemed confused so Pidge explained “He used to be like ‘Look I can touch my eye’. It was disgusting.”

”Ew why?” Nyma said and lance shrugged “I thought it was cool! And thanks Keith for calling me out like that” he squinted at him and Keith smiled but looked away because of the whole crush thing…you know, don’t wanna stare at him for too long.

Suddenly, lances phone started ringing so he answered it. “Yeah?”

He was silent for a minute and then stood up “Uh, Keith, we gotta go—“ He tugged at his arm and pidge sat up, worried “What’s wrong?”

”Are you okay?” Allure also seemed worried and Keith stood up, tuning out everyone else. Because he’s obviously worried too.

”Sorry—I have to go I’ll text you all later” He grabbed Keith’s hand and started running towards the car.

”What happened??” Keith stopped him and lance looked at him with watery eyes “Mom said rose is in surgery now. And I want to be there”

Keith just nodded and they continued running to the car. When they got in, Keith tried to be as fast as he could.

”Is she ok?”

Lance rubbed a hand down his cheek and shrugged “I don’t know”

”I’m sure she’s fine”

”I hope so”

 

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They went to lances house, where his family was waiting for him. Keith decided to stay home because he didn’t want to be in the way of anything. Just in case something happened. He doesn’t really know rose that much so he doesn’t feel like he can be there.

So he just went up to lances room and sat down on his bed. Pidge was already texting him so he texted her back.

 

Pidge

What happened??

what’s wrong?

is lance ok????

 

Keith

There was an emergency with rose

shes in surgery

and he said he wanted to be there

 

Pidge

oh no !! Is she ok??

I hope so lance loves her

Keith

I know and I don’t know

But they all left to go to the vet

 

Pidge

so like

on a more happy note

im rly proud of u

 

Keith

Why?

 

Pidge

Cause!! You talked to everyone

and you were talking about ur feelings n stuff

 

Keith

oh yeah

thanks

 

Pidge

Cause u can talk to us

cause obviously we don’t give a shit that ur gay or have an awesome purple eye

nyma is literally like a girl version of u lol

 

Keith

its not purple

 

Pidge

it is you dumb dumb

 

Keith

and I know

Im just not used to talking about stuff like that

 

Pidge

yoh should just move here honestly

does ur mom and dad know ur being bullied?

 

Keith

no and I don’t want to tell them

 

Pidge

????!!

you need to tell them keith

cause I don’t want anything happening to you

i care about u too much!!!!

and now hunk nyma and allura care about u so you have to say something

 

Keith

Ok I’ll tell them

 

Pidge

you better

Or I’ll punch u in the throat

 

Keith

Why do you want to punch so many in the throat

 

Pidge

idk it sounds fun

 

Keith

i hate you lol

 

Pidge

Also btw I haven’t told anyone about u being a lil fruit cup

 

Keith

????!

 

Pidge

I wouldn’t do that to u

But like I said if u do decide to tell everyone nothing will change

well……

i might call u fruity every once in a while

But that’s obvious

 

Keith

I actually hate you now

Pidge

I know you love me~~~~~~

Keith

nope

 

Pidge

:(

 

After that, they just talked about random stuff. Everyone else decided to go home so Pidge texted him as she was being driven home by hunk.

And when she got home, she told him to call her so he did and they talked like that for a while. Until they ran out of things to say.

Well, Keith did. Pidge had one more thing to say.

”So…are we gonna talk about lance? Or is that just something you don’t ever wanna talk about. Cause like, even after all these years I can still tell you are absolutely gone for him”

Keith sighed “There’s nothing to talk about…He’s got a girlfriend. And it’s allura who is like, really nice”

”I know. Nothing has to happen but you have to talk about it some day”

”Ok then let’s talk about it now”

”Really?”

”Yeah”

”Ok so—do you still like him?”

”Yeah”

”Like…how much?”

Keith didn’t want to answer, but she’s right. He has to tell someone. And it might as well be pidge because she already knows.

”A lot”

”Do you think you can still be his friend…?”

”Of course I can. I’m never actually gonna tell him. Unless something horrible happens and I have to” 

“Something horrible like what?”

”I don’t know like he gains the ability to read minds or something”

Pidge laughed and responded “So you’re really not gonna tell him? I mean you’ve simped over this guy for so long”

”I haven’t ‘simped’ over him”

”You have but i don’t know about not telling him”

”If I tell him then it’ll ruin our friendship”

”Lance is nice that wouldn’t happen”

”Thats why it would happen. He’s so nice that he’ll try to still be my friend and pretend that I don’t have a huge crush on him until it all blows up and he calls me gross again or something”

”Lance wouldn’t say you’re gross”

”I know……but what if he says I’m gross for liking him. And not some other guy”

”He wouldn’t”

“I still don’t think I’m gonna tell him”

”Ok that’s your call but what are you gonna do if things get awkward?”

”Why would it get awkward if I don’t tell him?”

”Cause you’ll still like him. It doesn’t matter if you don’t say anything it’ll still be there”

Keith didn’t say anything back. Because once again, she’s right. He can’t be friends with Lance if he doesn’t tell him. It’ll just be awkward all the time and it’ll be completely Keith’s fault.

And lance might think he doesn’t want to be near him for no reason. But then again, what if lance doesn’t want to be near Keith after he tells him?

Frustrated, he laid down and groaned “This all sucks”

”Yeah I know. But it’ll suck even worse if you let it fester”

”I know…”

”You don’t have to tell him now or tomorrow but you should probably tell him soon because you’re not gonna be here long”

”Ok I’ll tell him…maybe”

”That’s good enough—“ suddenly there was a loud crash and Keith heard mat yelling “Pidge! rover got out!”

”What?!?—keith I gotta go sorry—what do you mean ro—“ she hung up and Keith tiredly put his phone down. He intended on just laying there in silence but there was small knock on the door.

He sat up and the person walked in and it was Acxa. “Hey” she walked up to him and sat down on the bed.

”yeah?”

She seemed like she was being….cautious. She smiled and grabbed his hand. He tried to pull it away but she held harder and gave him a serious look so he let her hold his hand.

”Keith…I want—no, I need you to know that whatever you do, no matter what, we will always, always—“

”You’re freaking me out” 

She rolled her eyes and sighed “I was gonna talk to you about something else but…I heard you on the phone and…”

Keith pulled his hand away, already freaking out. “You were listening??”

”I didn’t mean to—“

Keith backed up, trying to avoid crying because he’s seriously freaking out now. How much did she hear?? Was is everything?? Like everything everything??! Oh god…did he literally just out himself??!

”Whatever you’re about to say—don’t.”

”Keith…”

”No—I don’t want to hear it”

“You’re my brother, I don’t care if you’re—“

”Stop.”

”Keith you can tell me anything”

”You’re wrong. Im not g…you’re wrong”

”Keith I’m not stupid I heard you”

”You shouldn’t have even been listening?!”

She lowered her voice and leaned towards him a little “I came right when you said you have a ‘huge crush on L—“

Keith waved his hands, making her stop talking “Be quiet! You misheard—“

”I’m still not stupid”

Keith tried to think of something he could say to convince her that’s she’s wrong but he couldn’t. He can’t say that she’s stupid or crazy or something.

He sighed and pulled his legs up to his chest, already getting teary eyed. “I can’t—I’m not doing this—“ He tried to get up but Acxa pulled him into a hug.

“Keith it’s not a big deal. It’s fine”

Keith still couldn’t think of anything to say so he just hugged her back. His eyes kept getting more and more watery and he tried to look up and not blink so he wouldn’t start crying but it was too much. He couldn’t stop tears from just spilling out of his eyes. He sniffled and Acxa hugged him tighter.

”It’s alright. And……me too”

Keith frowned “What?”

”I swear gay runs in the family cause it’s both me and shiro. And it’s ok that I’m telling you this I’m sure he’d be happy if it helped you.”

Keith pulled away and scoffed “Are you joking”

“Nope. We’re both gay. Super gay. And now you! So now we’re all gay….which is freaky cause I don’t know how mom and dad will handle all the gay….”

”Stop saying gay—and what the hell”

She shrugged “Yeah it’s kind of crazy”

”don’t tell anyone, especially anyone in lances family”

She smirked and Keith shoved her “Don’t say anything. That is something I absolutely do not want to talk to you about”

”Okay~ but if you ever need to talk, you can talk to your family. We all love you”

“Ok—“

The door slowly opened and they both looked and saw lance. He looks like he’s been crying. “I’m gonna go—remember what I said” She got up and smiled at lance before leaving and shutting the door.

Keith sat up a bit more and lance walked over to the bed, sat down, and turned towards Keith. And without saying anything, he just laid his head on his shoulder.

He didn’t do anything because honestly, he has no idea what to do. Lance is literally just crying on his shoulder.

But he guesses he should at least try and comfort him so he hugged him.

”She didn’t make it”

Keith nodded and started rubbing his back “Im sorry”

Lance laughed and shook his head “I don’t know why I’m so sad over a horse.”

”Well—she was more than just a horse”

”Just—people lose their parents. And here I am completely broken over a flippin horse”

Keith frowned and grabbed lances shoulders to make him look at him. “She still mattered to you. So don’t think like that”

Lance looked confused and then rubbed his cheeks with his thumb “Are you crying?”

Keith forgot he was crying earlier so he quickly rubbed his eyes “Sorry—it’s nothing”

”Are you sure?”

Keith nodded and lance hugged him. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

Keith froze. He heard him. Shit—what can he say-

”Uh—what do you mean…?”

”That people were mean to you at your school. All you said was that it was fine”

oh…maybe he didn’t…he sighed and hugged him back.

”Sorry”

”It’s fine I just—“ he sighed and hugged him even tighter “I just really care about you”

Once again, Keith was crying “I really care about you too”

 

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That night keith and lance ate dinner with everyone else. Keith knew Lance would like being with his family. And it actually wasn’t that bad. He even ate too, but only when he was sure no one was looking at him. It’s still progress though.

And when they were done, they went to lances room and laid down. It was silent for a while but Keith felt lance tap his shoulder so he turned around “yeah?”

”Can I do something kinda weird?”

Keith frowned “What?”

”Like—it’ll seem weird but…I don’t mean it in a weird way”

Keith hesitated before nodding and lance moved closer to him and hugged him. And definitely not in a way friends hug.

Keith hugged him back and lance laughed a little “Would it be weird if we slept like this?”

Keith did too and nodded “Yeah…”

“Should we stop then..?”

Keith hugged him tighter “…No”

”Ok……good”

After that they fell asleep. But Keith couldn’t stop thinking about ‘I don’t mean it in a weird way’. Like—what does that mean? Would it be weird if he liked him?? He quickly stopped himself because he’s definitely reading too much into that……right?

He hopes he is.

Notes:

There’s talk of animals passing away :((

Chapter 7: Chapter 6

Summary:

‼️Fanart alert!! It’s the fourth picture, baby :) I drew it a while ago though so the art style is pretty different lol

‼️Also the fifth and sixth ones but they’re not that old (though I drew all these like last year)

Yeah kind of a lot of art for this chapter

All day, lance has been way quieter than he usually is. Which is not at all. He’s a very loud person.

Not that Keith doesn’t like that he’s loud—it’s actually something he really likes—so it’s weird seeing him so quiet.

And when Keith asks him if he wants to talk about it, he just shakes his head and continues doing whatever.

But now it’s starting to worry Keith. Because part of him thinks he might be awkward because of the hugging thing last night. But he doesn’t want to say anything because what if that makes it more awkward??

As lance fed the animals, Keith helped and stayed quiet. Until he got a little fed up “Seriously lance, do you want to talk about it?”

He shook his head again and Keith grabbed his arm before he could move. Lance sighed “I don’t want to talk about it. I’ll just get sad”

”Then get sad?”

“I don’t want to—“ He looked around him and then smiled at Keith “Let’s do something fun”

”What—“

”Shh! Come on—“

He started running and Keith could barely keep up and had to stop to catch his breath, making lance laugh “Come on, we’ve been running for like, 2 seconds”

”Well, I’m not an active person”

He grabbed his hand and continued to run until they got to a field with a lot of flowers. Keith doesn’t think he’s seen this place before. It’s actually quite beautiful.

Lance must have seen the awe on his face because he laughed “Pretty, huh?”

Keith nodded “Yeah…”

Lance threw the bag he was holding on the ground and laid down and Keith frowned “What are you doing?”

Lance laughed and looked at the sky “Come on, lay down”

”I’m not laying down on the ground……with the bugs”

Lance looked at Keith and then the ground beside him “I don’t see any bugs”

Keith rolled his eyes and sat down next to him “I’ll sit but I’m not laying down”

”Alright that’s good enough”

Suddenly, lance sat up and took off the jacket he was wearing and put it next to him “There—you can lay on that”

Keith still didn’t want to but judging by how much he’s asking him to lay next to him, it seems like he really wants him to.

He rolled his eyes again and laid down on the jacket.

“If a bug crawls on me I’m never talking to you again”

”It won’t, bugs fear me”

Keith chuckled and lance pointed up at the sky “That cloud looks like a weird dog”

Keith squinted, not being used to staring right at the bright sky. It kinda hurts his eyes. But he can see the cloud he’s talking about.

”It looks more like a fish”

He laughed “You’re right”

”That one looks like a snake” he pointed to another one and lance snorted “or a gummy worm”

Then he sat up and scoffed at Keith “You never tried one!!”

Keith smiled at him and lance scoffed again before laying back down “I’ll never trust you again”

”You’re the one that forgot”

”But you should have reminded me!”

”Why would I remind you about something I don’t even want to do?”

Lance laughed “I don’t know…cause you care about your friend?”

”I can care about you without eating a gummy worm”

”I won’t believe it until you do”

”Really?” Keith didn’t believe him and lance frowned, pouting a little “I won’t!”

“Well, I can’t eat one now, there’s no gummy worms”

Lance squinted at him and huffed “Fine but when if get home and you don’t try one, I won’t”

”Ok”

They stayed there for a while and watched the clouds and talked about gummy worms. Until Lance sighed “we’re gonna have a small funeral for rose later”

Keith looked at him and frowned “Sorry”

“It’s fine…” He looked at Keith and laughed “You have flowers in your hair”

Keith blushed and tried to get them out but Lance sat up and looked down at him, smiling “Here—“

He started to mess with his hair and Keith tried to sit up but lance laughed and pushed him back down “Hold on! I’m doing something”

”What?? I thought you were getting them out of my hair??”

”Yeah but I’m having fun putting them in your hair now”

Keith couldn’t bring himself to stop him because I mean, hes gay his horse just freaking died…plus he’s gay. There’s no denying it at this point.

Lance laughed again “You look like a fairy”

Keith squinted at him “You look…” Keith moved his head and lance gasped “Hey!” He grabbed a flower and put it in lances hair “Now you look like a fairy”

“You have long hair so you’re more…fairy like…?”

”I feel like fairies have short hair”

”Yeah…I guess tinker bell has a pixie cut—oh my god”

”What?”

”She has a pixie cut because she’s a pixie”

Lance looked completely shocked and Keith snorted “You didn’t get that?”

”No! That’s so clever though!”

”Or because she’s a lesbian”

Lance laughed and nodded “Yeah probably…wait—is tinker bell a lesbian?!”

”No—I'm joking…kind of…honestly it wouldn’t surprise me if she was”

“Yeah—now don’t move, I’m putting pretty flowers in your hair”

”I don’t consent to this”

”Too bad, I’m already doing it”

He laughed as he picked more flowers and put them around Keith’s head. And every time keith would try to move Lance would stop him and adorably ask him to stay still.

”Alright—hold on” He moved and reached for his bag and pulled out a Polaroid camera. Keith’s heart started to beat faster, realizing that he wants to take a picture of him.

”No pictures—“

Lance pouted at him and smiled “But you look so pretty! I want to remember this!”

”Then take a mental picture”

”No one has to see it?”

“Then why would you take a picture??”

”For memories”

Lance pointed the camera at him but Keith didn’t smile or anything and lance huffed “Smile!”

”If you want a picture you’re gonna have to deal with—“

Suddenly, lance was grabbing at his sides and tickling him. When they were kids, lance would always tickle him when he refused to smile or if he seemed like he was in a bad mood. And he still hates it apparently.

”Hey!” There was flash and then Keith sat up, making lance fall on his side, he shook the flowers out of his hair and there was another flash. Lance was pointing the camera at him again and Keith crossed his arms “If you take another one, I’m breaking the camera”

Lance laughed and quickly put the camera back in his bag. “Ok fine—no more pictures”

Keith fixed his hair and lance moved next to him, sitting probably way too close. But it seems like that was his plan because he put his head on his shoulder and started picking up flowers on the ground randomly. “Why are you so touchy today?”

Lance didn’t move and shrugged “I get like this when I’m sad…and you haven’t said anything about it yet so I thought it was fine with you”

Keith just nodded and joined lance in messing with the flowers. “You better not show that picture to anyone”

Lance snorted “You wanna keep your bad boy persona?”

He smiled “Yeah and flowers are for the weak”

”But girls like pretty bad boys”

Keith chuckled and shrugged “Then I guess they won’t like me”

”Don’t worry, you don’t need flowers to be pretty”

Keith knew his face was red now so he kept looking at the ground. And lance looked up at the sky and sighed “I think we should get back now”

Keith nodded and they stood up. Keith got lances jacket and held it as they walked back to his house. 

When they got there, everyone was in the living room talking and they told lance and Keith that they were gonna have the funeral now so they went to roses stable and did pretty normal funeral things(?) like talk about her, mourn, and be reminiscent. But Keith stayed out of the way because he still doesn’t know the horse enough to say anything.

“Lance? You wanna say something?” Rachel said, looking around for him.

But he didn’t say anything so Keith also looked and didn’t see him anywhere. Rachel frowned “Where the heck did lance go??”

Now they were all looking around and not seeing him. “He’s probably in his room” Camilla looked at Keith and smiled “Would you go check on him?”

Keith flushed a little and nodded “U-Uh, yeah, ok”

She thanked him and he went back to their house and went upstairs to lances room. But he wasn’t there either.

And the first thing that came to his mind was a time when they were kids and lance told him when he was feeling sad, he would go to the beach near his house. He wonders if he’s there…

I mean, there’s no harm in checking, right? It’s only like 10 minutes away…

 

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Lance doesn’t know if he can handle all this. This past week has been full of so many things and emotions that he just wasn’t ready for. First—with rose dying, which obviously sucks. Second—with Keith where—he honestly doesn’t even know how he feels about him…because earlier when he took that picture, all he could think about was how he looked…

And in a pretty not platonic way.

Which is making him question pretty much everything because what if he sees Keith in a not platonic way?? What would that mean? Lance doesn’t even like boys?!

But…when he thinking about being with Keith…it makes his head spin. And he gets butterflies. For Keith!! A boy!!

He looked at the sky and took a deep breath, trying to clear his mind. The evening sky has always been his favorite. Especially at the beach. And it usually calms him down but he’s thinking just way too much right now.

He walked close enough to the water where it would only touch his feet and sat down. And lance feels kind of messed up because he’s thinking more about Keith than he is about rose.

But to be fair, Keith will probably be an ongoing problem in his life and rose can’t really be that…since she’s not here anymore…

Even if Keith goes home and never comes back, lance will still have to live with the fact that he thought about him in this way—AND they kissed. Cause even if he tries to tell himself it doesn’t count, keith will always be his first kiss.

And he doesn’t want to stop being Keith’s friend because even if his feelings for him are complicated and messy, he at least knows he cares about him a lot as a friend. And so does Pidge so she probably won’t want to stop talking to him either.

Suddenly—he remembered last night where he asked Keith to hug while they slept…probably not something he should have done but when Keith hugged him back, he didn’t want to stop…like, ever. There’s something that’s just so comfortable about Keith.

And if he’s being honest, he would mind sleeping like that forev—

“Lance?”

He jumped and turned around. Keith was there and he looks concerned. “Oh—uh, hey”

He smiled, making lances heart skip a beat. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you”

“No, it’s fine! I just didn’t hear you coming” he laughed and stood up, so he didn’t have to keep looking up at Keith. But also because he’s wearing shorts and Keith has…well…he has very nice legs. And lance is all weird right now so he doesn’t want any distractions.

“I uh—Camilla asked me to check on you and you weren’t in your room so…” He laughed a bit awkwardly “I don’t really know why my first instinct was to check this place”

Lance smiled, a little flattered that Keith knew he would even be here. Not even allura would have guessed. “Well, you have good instincts then”

Keith smiled back and then looked at the ocean. And feeling a little poetic, lance can’t help but notice the way the waters reflection shimmers in his eyes. It’s so pretty…

”I can go if you want to be alone right now…”

Even though lance did come here to be alone, he doesn’t want Keith to leave. He actually likes that he found him. He shook his head, laughing a little “No…I actually don’t”

”Why’d you come here then?”

He shrugged and looked at the ocean “It’s calming”

Keith just nodded and looked back at the water. And lance grinned, getting an idea. He grabbed Keith’s hand and without warning started walking toward the water.

”Hey—What are you doing?”

Lance laughed and continued walking. The deeper the water got, the more he had to drag Keith with him.

When the water got up their knees, lance stopped but since Keith was still pulling, he pulled lance into him and they both fell down in the water.

When lance stood up, he immediately felt horrible but before he could apologize, he heard laughing. And it was coming from Keith.

He was still sitting down and his hair was all in his face. He looked up at lance and moved his hair out of his face, still laughing.

Lance didn’t say anything because the way Keith is laughing is exactly like how he used to laugh when they were kids. And it was one of the things Lance liked about him…he remembers doing literally everything he could to make him laugh.

And seeing him now, laughing like that is making him forget everything about how awkward he feels about him.

He started laughing with him and he held out his hands to help him get up “Sorry”

”I didn’t expect you to stop so suddenly” He grabbed lances hands and stood up. Lance smiled “Well maybe if you weren’t pulling me we wouldn’t have fell”

Keith ran his hand though his hair and raised his eyebrows “You’re the one who dragged me out here”

Lance tried to ignore his heart going a million miles an hour because of keith’s hair being completely out of his face. And without thinking, he reached out and brushed his fingers through it, laughing a bit “Sorry for messing up your hair”

”I mean, it didn’t look good in the first place anyway”

Lance frowned “You’re like, one of the only guys I’ve seen that can pull off long hair”

”I’m just too lazy to cut it”

”Don’t cut it” He didn’t mean to say that as fast as he did but he laughed and shook his head “It looks good”

“Thanks…” Keith reached up and tussled lances hair “You should grow your hair out then”

Lance laughed “No way. I’d be way too powerful”

Keith snorted and moved his hand “How?”

”I’d be too attractive” lance pretended to do a hair flip with his short hair and Keith chuckled, rolling his eyes.

”We should probably go back. Everyone might be worried”

He agreed and they left and when they got inside, they tried to sneak upstairs but his mom caught them “Where did you go?”

He turned around and she looked and him and Keith and frowned “Why are you wet?”

”I went to the beach…and we kinda fell in the water”

She shook her head and laughed “Ok you two go and change your clothes. And then come back downstairs to eat. Everyone already ate so you can eat in your room again”

They both nodded and went upstairs to the room and lance closed the door. “It’s kinda weird that she didn’t get mad that I went without telling her”

”She probably knows that you went there because you were sad”

Lance nodded and they both got clothes and faced away from each other as they changed. When lance was down, he glanced behind him and saw Keith as he was putting on his shirt.

He quickly looked away and waited for Keith to tell him he was done. But obviously seeing Keith without a shirt is really making him feel…you know, just feel.

He only saw his back but…he kind of wants to see more……ok ok ok no more of that stop thinking about shirtless Keith, it’s weird.

When they were both down, they went downstairs and got the food and ate before laying down.

But lance couldn’t sleep. Well—not with Keith next to him. And not while thinking about him the way he is…it’s distracting. And Keith is still wearing shorts so he can feel his leg touching his. And it’s even more distracting.

He tried to turn on his side but he’s never really been able to sleep like that so he laid on his back again. He opened his eyes, giving up on trying to go to sleep.

He looked at Keith, who was asleep. He doesn’t want to spend all night just staring at him so he slowly sat up and just as he was about to get up, Keith wrapped his arm around his waist and hugged him tightly. He looked at him, freaking out but stopped when he saw he was still asleep.

Well, there’s no way he’s getting up now so he sighed and looked down at Keith. He gently moved his hair out of his face and smiled, seeing how he looks while sleeping again.

He didn’t move his hand and started to play with his hair. And being too tired to fight his thoughts, he started to think about how much he likes this.

How soft his hair is. How soft his face is. How pretty he is. How he makes him feel. How he made him feel that night they kissed. How he wants to feel that way again. How he wants to kiss him again. How terrified he is that he just thought that.

He moved his hand and moved Keith’s so he could lay down again. Keith didn’t put his hand back and soon, lance fell asleep.

Chapter 8: Chapter 7

Summary:

‼️Fanart! It’s the seventh picture!! I drew quite a bit lol but I had a lot of fun :)

Notes:

May or may not have projected a teeny tiny tad bit in this one 🫠🥸🫣

And TW read the end notes for the specifics!!!
And please tell him if I’m doing the trigger warnings wrong. I don’t wanna mess anyone up :((

When Keith woke up the next day, it was actually before lance. But now he’s in a pretty awkward situation where he can’t get up because he’d have to go over lance and he doesn’t want to do that for obvious reasons.

He doesn’t want to wake him up either. And he can’t go back to sleep so his only option is to stay there until Lance wakes up.

Or……maybe he could move around and maybe wake him up “on accident” and then wow all his problems are solved, no awkward climbing over him while he’s sleeping and him waking up and being like “yo why are you on top of me” and Keith having to explain—but maybe it’ll be like “Ooh, now we have tension so I guess we like…..kiss now??” And then they like, kiss or something and—

“Are you ok?”

He jumped at lances sudden voice and looked over at him “huh?”

Lance smiled and Keith might have died a little at the sight of lance, having just woken up with his hair all messy and his voice all tired. And literally what the hell was he just thinking about??

“You’re staring at the ceiling all weird”

Lance was still smiling and Keith wanted to—no—needed to look away but it was already too late because now he can’t.

”Oh—uh…sorry…Yeah I’m good”

”Good…oh—good morning I guess” he laughed and looked at his nightstand and then at his phone. Keith didn’t realize until it was too late that he was reaching over to fix the back of lances hair.

Lance stopped moving and so did Keith. What is he doing??? Is he crazy?? This is why he doesn’t trust himself when he’s tired. He does stupid shit like this.

But lance looked back at keith and was smiling “Sorry you have to see me all gross. I usually have time to get pretty before you wake up”

Keith moved his hand and sat up “You don’t look gross…”

Lance sat up with him and laughed “I definitely do but thanks anyway” He fixed his own hair and rubbed his eyes “What made you wake up so early anyway?”

Keith shrugged “I don’t know”

”Wait—what day is it?”

He shrugged again and lance looked at his phone “Oh yeah! Today is the summer break thing”

”What?”

He looked at Keith and smiled “The school I go to has these summer things where you can meet up with a bunch of people and basically it’s just a lame get together where you can eat a bunch of stuff and talk to your friends and I like to go to them. They also do these weird performances that suck but are funny to watch”

”If it’s lame why do you go to them?”

He laughed “Cause its an excuse to see people I went to school with. Sometimes you see people and they look completely different, it’s so neat.”

”Oh, I guess that makes sense”

Lance laughed “Do you wanna come? Everyone’s gonna be there…but pretty much the whole school goes so there’ll probably be a lot of people”

Keith shrugged again, feeling a little nervous “Yeah…sure”

Lance smiled “Ok, cool!”

He looked around his room and then stood up “Crap I have to find something to wear, I forgot it was today”

”Is there a certain way you have to dress?”

”No but you want to look good so other people are like ‘woah he looks good now’ and maybe you can make them jealous”

”Oh…well I guess it’s good that I don’t have anything they can compare me to”

”Yeah you’ll just go there already looking good and people will be like ‘woah who’s that’ and you can be all dark and mysterious”

”I’m not gonna do that”

”Too bad you’re already all dark and mysterious”

”No I’m not?”

Lance laughed “You are. Ask pidge, she would agree”

”I’m sure she would”

Out of nowhere lance gasped and got his phone again “I gotta text allura! She always helps me with fashion stuff”

”She does?”

”Yeah I would ask nyma but her style is too alt for me”

”You don’t like alternative fashion?”

Lance laughed and sat down “I do just not on me”

He texted her for a few minutes and then turned off his phone “She’s gonna be here soon. While we wait, we can find something for you to wear.”

”I can just wear what I usually wear”

Lance frowned and sighed “You can’t just wear a t shirt and jeans, you have to dress to impress”

”I don’t need to impress anyone”

”I know…but it’s fun?”

Though Keith still wanted to say no, he sighed and crossed his arms “Fine but I’m not wearing anything crazy”

Lance smiled excitedly and stood back up “Ok what did you bring?”

Kind of embarrassed, Keith shrugged and looked away “Not that much”

”Ok then you can wear something of mine” he went to his closet and Keith stood up, already blushing “I don’t have to! It’s fine—“

”No, you’re gonna be the best looking one there—I promise you”

”I think you look best in purple because it brings out the color of your eye—“

Keith blushed even harder but before he could say anything, Lance laughed “aha!” He pulled a purple sweater out of his closet and handed it to Keith. It’s soft.

“That sweater was a gift from Marco one year. I used to wear it all the time but then I realized purple just isn’t my color”

The idea of wearing a sweater that lance used to wear all the time is making Keith’s heart rate go up. But he’s doing his best not to show it.

”What is your color?”

Lance smiled and posed in a pretty way “blue~”

Keith nodded and chuckled “Yeah”

They spent a bit kind of just talking about colors and which ones look good on each other, I know, a very heterosexual conversation. Until there was a knock on his door.

Keith kind of freaked out because he remembered lance inviting allura over and one-he’s still in his pajamas. Two—his hair is messy. Three—he’s horribly horribly insecure.

The door opened and it was only Rachel “Hey—allura’s here.” She smirked at lance and wiggled her eyebrows “And she’s dressed really nice”

Lance laughed and shook his head “Where is she?”

”Im right here! She won’t let me in!”

Lance groaned and walked up to the door “Rachel, let her in!”

She laughed and made kissy noises “What? You wanna kiss or something?~”

”No! Keith is here!”

Rachel stuck her head in the door and smiled “Oh yeah, hey Keith I forgot you were in here—I was just making sure lance wasn’t gonna do anything weir—“ Lance stopped her and pulled Allura in his room “Okay bye!”

He shut the door and allura looked at Keith and giggled “Sorry—did you just wake up?”

Keith blushed and tried fixing his hair “Is it that obvious?”

She laughed and shook her head “No! It’s just really early”

”Also yes. It’s obvious” lance smiled at keith and allura frowned at him “Thats not nice.”

Lance walked over to Keith and started messing with his hair “Friends are supposed to honest”

Allura giggled and shook her head “Yes but he looks fine”

“And so do you~“ lance put his arm around Keith and smiled at allura, who is now blushing “Oh, be quiet”

”Before you got here, we were talking about colors and I think yours is pink”

”My…color?”

”Yeah! The one that looks the best on you”

”Oh…” She smiled “I mean, it is my favorite color as well”

”Yeah, I know”

Keith felt like such a third wheel but he also can’t get over that lance is putting his arm around him……he can’t be all flustered by lance with his freaking girlfriend right in front of them.

So he’s trying his best to act cool……which is probably making him look weirder. And gayer.

But he started paying attention again when he heard his name “Keith’s color is either purple or red”

Allura went like “Ooh” and nodded “It is!”

Keith couldn’t say anything, which made them both laugh “We should pick out your outfit now, and then we can pick everyone up”

Lance agreed and him and allura went to his closet and started talking about what he should wear. Keith just sat down on the bed and got on his phone but Lance suddenly threw clothes at him “Here! Go put these on and come back”

Keith looked at what he gave him and nodded “Ok” He didn’t want to argue about his choices in front of allura.

He got up and went to the bathroom with the clothes. It took him like 3 minutes to put everything on but when he looked in the mirror he really didn’t like what he saw.

His hair is really messy and he doesn’t think he looks good in the sweater lance picked out. And he remembered Pidge saying his pants were tight and now he’s wondering if they’re too tight. Like, does he look gay? If lance sees him like this will he figure it out?

As he was thinking about it, he realized how ridiculous it sounds to worry about if he looks gay or not. Lance is the one who picked out this outfit so if anything, it would be lances fault that he looks gay.

So after another few minutes of fixing his hair, he left and went back to lances room. He heard allura and lance talking about their friends and kind of didn’t even want to walk in. He doesn’t want to ruin their moment of talking but it would probably be worse if he just stood here so he walked in.

They both turned around and Allura smiled “You look so g-“

He immediately tuned her out, seeing Lance. The whole time he’s been here, lance has really only wore casual clothes so now seeing Lance all dressed up is making him……feel things.

Because wow he looks good.

He felt like he was staring too long so he looked at allura, who was looking at lance now.

”We should probably…go now” lance looked at allura and smiled. She nodded and they all left. When they got outside, allura laughed “My father dropped me off here but I can drive us there, if your mother is fine with us using her car.”

Lance waved his hand and shook his head “Noo, you don’t have to drive, I can”

”I will” Keith said, not wanting lance to drive. He couldn’t help but smile a little “I don’t trust you to drive”

Lance gasped and allura laughed “I don’t either—but I’m seriously fine with driving”

“You’re both meanies”

”I’d rather be a ‘meanie’ than dead”

Allura laughed again and they got in the car. Allura sat in the front because Lance said it’s “for the important people”…and because allura is better at giving directions.

“Ok then. Me and Keith will gossip without you”

”Come on, ‘lura, you can’t leave me out of the juicy gossip”

He moved closer to the space in between the two front seats and pouted at Allura. She looked at Keith and smiled “Should we let him listen to our gossip?”

Before he started to drive he squinted at lance, who was now pouting at him. He so badly wants to say yes but he also wants to tease him so he shook his head “Nope”

Lance gasped again and Keith started driving, making him fall back in his seat. “Pidge is closest so we can pick up her first”

Keith nodded and he drove to her house. He remembered her address which impressed Allura.

He parked and she was already standing outside. She immediately ran up to the car and opened the back door and just jumped in, right on top of Lance. “Ow! Why do you do that??” Lance groaned and she laughed “Cause its fun”

She sat up and shut the door and then leaned forward to talk to Keith “What a gentleman not letting the ladies drive”

”No, he’s just a jerk” lance crossed his arms and pidge rolled her eyes “No, you just can’t drive and you’re jealous”

”You can’t drive either!” As they argued, Allura told Keith where nymas house was and by the time he got there, they were already talking about other things. Like Disney and how the women characters in the older movies are horribly written. But they’re pretty good now.

Pidge had to text her that they were there and when she got in, lance immediately asked her “do you think tinker bell is a lesbian?”

She shut the door and Keith felt his face get red. No one knows he’s gay so if he says shit like he thinks tinker bell is a lesbian it’ll just come off as homophobic. And lance will probably say that Keith said it.

But she just shrugged “Probably, I dunno. Elsa definitely is though”

Pidge laughed and nodded “Yeah but nooo she’s ‘independent’. I think having a gay princess is better than an independent one. There’s already a lot of independent women characters”

”I agree”

Then allura said hunk was being driven there by his mom so he could drive straight to the place. And the whole time, they talked about Disney.

 

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When they got there, they saw hunk sitting on a bench on his phone. He was smiling and lance gasped “oooh, he’s probably talking to shay”

They all got out and lance snuck up to him and got behind him “Hey watcha doin?” He scared him, almost making him drop his phone “What the heck??”

He pinched his cheek and made kissy noises “You were talking to shay weren’t you~”

Hunk moved away and smiled “No………maybe”

They both laughed and everyone walked up to them and hunk stood up “Someone calm lance down he’s in a mood”

”He’s always in a mood” Pidge said, laughing.

”What’s that mean??”

Allura walked up to him and grabbed his hand “They don’t mean it in a bad way, you’re just unapologetically…you”

”I feel like I should be insulted but you’re too nice to be mean”

She smiled “Thank you”

”No, thank you~” he gave her a bunch of tiny kisses on her cheek, making her giggle and playfully shove him away. Suddenly, Keith felt someone kicking the back of his foot. But didn’t say anything when he saw it was Pidge “you’re staring”

He looked at Pidge and crossed his arms, feeling defensive “No I’m not”

She raised her eyebrows “Yeah you are and you’re lucky I stopped you before you cried or something—“

“Shut up!” He shoved her arm and she laughed “God I love this”

”Love what? Torturing me?”

She smiled menacingly “Yes”

Keith glared at her and she pretended to be scared. But he suddenly felt the need to say “It’s embarrassing” quietly.

”What is? Pda? Because yes I agree”

Keith rolled his eyes and moved away from everyone so he could talk to Pidge alone “No, the fact that I’m actually jealous right now.”

“Ooh” she glanced at lance and allura and pat Keith’s shoulder “I hate to say it but I can’t help with that. Also……it’s adorable that you’re telling me this”

Keith scoffed and she laughed “What? It’s cute! But you’re gonna have to deal with it because they’re always like this”

”It’s not like it’s gonna ruin my day”

Pidge looked unconvinced and snorted “It looks like it already has”

”What? It does??”

Pidge snorted again “No, it’s fine, let’s just have fun today and we can worry about your fruity little feelings later”

Keith ignored the “fruity” and nodded “Ok”

They joined everyone again just as they were about to find somewhere to sit and pidge easily started talking. Keith didn’t want to just insert himself into the conversation so he stayed quiet.

But they quickly included him, which made him feel good. And part of their friend group.

They found a picnic table near some bushes and all sat down, still talking about random things.

”Seriously Luca is such a gay movie.” Nyma said and everyone agreed and lance gasped and stood up “And even if people make the argument that it’s not even lgbt, they would be wrong because of the angler fish uncle. Only female angler fish have the light thing so he must be trans”

Pidge snorted and shook her head “of course you’re gonna bring up sea creature facts. I hate you”

”It’s interesting” he sat back down and allura looked behind her “When is everything going to start?”

”I think in about 30 minutes”

”I wonder if Emily is gonna sing again” Nyma laughed and so did everyone else. But Keith didn’t get it so Pidge told him that she’s just someone who can’t sing but is passionate enough to continue.

And that turned into everyone telling Keith about the crazy things they’ve seen here.

”So all grades come here so one time when we were in middle school, we saw a high schooler that was pregnant and the next year she came with her baby. And he was actually adorable”

”Speaking of Luca—look at luKa” Nyma said, jokingly fanning her face.

They all looked at her and Keith could see that she obviously looks pretty but he has nothing else to compare it to so he wasn’t as shocked as everyone else. But she suddenly looked at them and they all looked away, giggling “Shit! She saw us!”

Keith looked at her and he could tell that she was upset now so he shook pidges arm “I think she thinks we’re making fun of her”

Pidge frowned and allura must have heard because she gasped “You think so?”

”What?” Lance looked at him and looked concerned “Keith thinks that she thinks that we’re mocking her or something”

Now everyone knew his concern which is embarrassing but they also seemed concerned “What?? We gotta tell her!” Hunk said.

”But how?” Nyma added but Pidge seemed like she already had an idea because she stood up on the seat and cupped her hands around her mouth “Hey Luka!”

Luka and her group of friends looked at them, now all upset.

“You’re hot!!”

Lukas face immediately got bright red and her friends started to laugh and wave at them. Everyone was telling Pidge to sit down and she couldn’t have looked prouder of herself. And Keith was proud of her too.

”You’re so stupid!” Lance said, even though he was laughing. They all playfully reprimanded her for it but Pidge looked behind them.

And then Pidge smirked “She’s coming~”

They all looked and her and her group of friends were walking towards them—well, more like dragging her over here.

They were giggling and telling her to thank them, and say something else. But she just looked flustered.

They stopped at the end of the bench and everyone looked at them “Uh—thank you…um…for the…uh—yeah”

One friend was about to say something but gasped “Holy crap—lance??”

Lance looked like he was thinking for a moment and then he gasped “Woah! Florona??”

Keith remembers lance telling him about them being together once. He glanced at allura who was smiling. She doesn’t look jealous at all.

”You remember me telling you about florona, right?”

Hunk gasped “Yeah! Your first girlfriend”

He nodded and laughed, jokingly flipped his hair “I was a heartbreaker back then”

”Yeah I was totally ruined” She said sarcastically but laughed. Allura gestured at the empty seats next to them “Sit down! The more the merrier”

”Oh—okay!”

They sat down and and Luka was about to sit down somewhere but they quickly made her sit next to Keith. He was confused but ignored it.

“We we’re just talking about how everyone has changed.” Pidge said.

Florona shook Luka and smiled at them “We told her she was hot in this outfit”

Allura smiled and nodded “You look so pretty! You changed a lot from last year”

Hunk also nodded “Yeah, you like a completely different person!”

”I think we had chemistry together once, right?” Nyma said and Luka nodded, still obviously flustered.

Nyma smiled “Yeah, I could barely recognize you—but like, in a good way. Not to say you weren’t pretty before—“

She smiled and looked down at her lap “Uh, thank you”

”Shut up Nyma, your gay is overflowing”

Nyma rolled her eyes and florona whispered something to her and her face got even redder and she quickly shook her head “What?! No way—don’t you dare—“

But the friends ignored her and looked at Keith, who obviously hasn’t said anything. “What’s your name? Are you new?”

They all looked at him and he immediately froze up “U-Uh..it’s Keith and uh…no—i just uh…visiting…”

They nodded and smiled, trying to get Luka to say something but she still refused. Keith is just confused now.

“Well it’s really nice to meet you”

Keith smiled and nodded, politely “You too”

And after a while, they started talking about other things until florona giggled and looked at keith “So keith—are you single?”

Lukas face once again became red and she awkwardly laughed towards Keith “You don’t have to answer that…they’re just—“

”I mean, I seriously doubt it—just like Luka said, you’re super gorgeous”

Luka covered her face and keith kind of felt bad that they were putting her blast like this—until he realized what she said. 

“U-Um—uh, thank you…” He looked at everyone, hoping one of them would help but they were just smiling at what was happening. Jerks. Especially Pidge who knows he’s not interested.

”Of course! So are you??”

He looked back at her and then at Luka, who was still covering her face. “Well, uh—I don’t—“

“Welcome everyone to the summer—“ Someone, who was probably a teacher, started talking in a mic, unintentionally saving Keith’s ass.

He felt Pidge nudge his leg a little and he nudged her back…spitefully. And as the teacher talked and said what was happening, he could feel how uncomfortable Luka was now. Because he honestly feels the same.

“I’m sorry…they don’t know when to stop” she laughed awkwardly and was being really quite, probably so no one else would hear her.

Keith matched her volume “No, uh, I’m sorry…”

“Why?”

”Just uh…I don’t know”

She giggled a little and Keith didn’t know what to do so he looked back at the teacher but she kept talking “But uh……she wasn’t lying…”

He looked back at her “What?”

She looked down, blushing “You’re very handsome”

Keith still doesn’t like compliments but he can’t be his usual snarky self so he just awkwardly smiled “Uh—thank you…you’re uh…very pretty”

She laughed and then sighed “Sorry—I’m so bad at this”

”At what?” Keith said, confused. She sighed again and lowered her voice even more.

”I was wondering if you would like……want to hang out some time……like a date….or something…?”

Oh.

Keith is kind of an idiot. Oh god. How does he say no. Does he say yes?? He needs pidges help. But he can’t just ask her right now??! Shit—what does he do—oh no he’s freaking out—he doesn’t want to hurt her feelings?? Will she think he’s a jerk if he says no?? Without thinking at all, he spit out—

“I’m gay”

He knew no one else heard him because he’s sure they would say something but they kept talking and listening to the teacher.

She froze up and so did Keith. He can’t believe he just said that. She’s gonna tell people!? He started to freak out.

”Y- uh—I don’t—you cant—don’t tell anyone—“

She still seemed shocked but she became even quieter “Wait—really?”

“Seriously—please don’t tell anyone” he gave up on trying to be polite and kind of begged her.

She shook her head and looked around and then back at him “I won’t—sorry—I didn’t realize—that’s so embarrassing! I’m so sorry!” She laughed and Keith felt his heart exploding, he still thinks she might tell people. He feels like he’s gonna cry “Please don’t tell anyone”

She seemed genuinely concerned and shook her head again “I swear—I won’t tell a soul—I actually have two moms”

”Really?” Keith didn’t mean to say it but she just laughed “Yeah, everyone knows but you’re new so there you go”

Keith nodded and looked up at everyone again, because the teacher stopped talking “Thank you”

She pat his arm and started talking to everyone else. But Keith is still freaking out. Even if he trusts her not to tell anyone. He told someone.

That could have gone horribly, he’s really gotta watch his freaking mouth. “You good?” Pidge said, laughing a little. But she stopped when he looked at her. She leaned towards him, concerned “Woah, wait—seriously what’s wrong”

Keith couldn’t say anything at first because he told someone. He actually just did it. And it was stranger. But he did it. He literally did. And it wasn’t horrible. He couldn’t stop the smile forming on his face and he whispered in pidges ear “I just told her I was gay and it went well” and he kept smiling and she gasped and laughed “Woah really??”

He nodded and she hugged him. And obviously, everyone noticed and was confused. Lance spoke first “Woah what are we celebrating?”

Pidge stopped and shook her head, trying to act cool “Nothing”

”You sure?” He squinted at them and they both shook their heads. Before lance could question them more, the teacher spoke again “First is Emily Garcia singing a cover of Como La Flor!”

”Told you” Nyma said, before she started singing. And like she said, it wasn’t that good. But he could tell she was trying, which he can respect.

After it, Pidge stood up on her seat and looked for people “I can’t find zethrid—I think she might be performing”

”I hope so, she’s actually good” florona said and pidge snorted “Yeah”

Lance joined her and she scoffed “get your tall ass out my way”

He turned around and smiled “You know what?”

He sat down on the table and got behind Allura, who laughed “What are you doing?”

He put his head on top of hers and snorted “I’m getting comfortable”

She put her hand on his leg and turned to look up at him “You’re gonna be in pidge’s way”

”Good”

”Jerk” Pidge leaned forward and smacked the back of his head “Ow!”

Allura just laughed and turned back around, keeping her hand on his leg. Keith tried to focus on the next person but his eyes kept going back to them. He never imagined himself as the jealous type but he clearly is…and he hates it.

So he tried to look at everyone around them and ignore everything else. But as he was looking around, he made eye contact with someone. Someone. Someone he recognizes. Someone he recognizes very well.

Someone who knows who he is. What he is.

He looked away and tried his best to cover his face without looking suspicious. He has to leave. Like—now. “Pidge”

She looked at him “hm?”

”I have to go”

”What?…What’s wrong”

“I—Please Pidge, we just—“

”Heey!”

They looked up and Keith didn’t, knowing exactly who it was. Or more specifically—who was with him.

Nyma was the first to speak. She seemed annoyed “What do you want lotor”

He laughed and Keith heard the person laughing beside himself “I see you found another one, huh?”

”What the hell are you even talking about”

”Keith! It’s been a long time. I bet you missed me” Keith didn’t look up. He can’t. He just looked at Pidge, who seemed to have realized who it was.

James griffin.

”Come on, you can’t act like you don’t remember me”

”Who are you?” Lance said, and James laughed “You haven’t talked about me? Ouch. I’m an old friend”

”More like an ex though” lotor added, also laughing.

James laughed “Yeah, I came out when I moved—and it seems you have too”

Keith still didn’t look up.

“You’re James, right?” Pidge said, and James scoffed “Yeah? So he told you about me?”

”Yeah, he did. And you’re lucky I have self control or else you’d be dead right now”

He gasped and then laughed “Woah, someone’s not a fan”

”Seriously, what is going on, who is this?” Lance was probably talking to Pidge. But she didn’t answer him.

”Dude, what are you doing?” He heard Nyma stand up and they started talking about something. And soon, Nyma was going off. And so was Pidge.

He felt a hand on his shoulder and heard lance whisper “Are you ok?”

He didn’t realize it but lance must have moved next to him while they were arguing. He looked up at him and lance looked only concerned. Not disgusted or anything. But…he still…he still can’t do this. He stood up and James started talking to him again “You’re leaving? Why don’t we talk, you know, catch up—“ He walked in front of him, stopping him.

Keith so badly just wants to deck him right here but he’s not going to. Keith has always seen james as stronger than him…which scared him.

”You’re not even gonna say anything? Look at me? Nothing?”

”Keith—come on, let’s go” Lance grabbed his arm and James scoffed “This your boyfriend? You got over me real quick, huh?”

Keith ignored him and tried to walk past him but was stopped.

”Yeah, Keith, go. Leave me again. Go and hook up with more guys and then suddenly decide you don’t want to anymore.”

”You know why I didn’t want to”

“I never hurt you, you could have told me to stop if you wanted me to”

“Could I have?” Keith glared at him and James stepped closer to him and scoffed “What? Do I scare you or something?”

Keith felt Lance move his hand down to his hand. He squeezed it a little “Keith…come on”

”You never cared about me Keith. You only used me because I was the only one who would give you the time of day. You know sure as hell no one else would have”

Deep down, Keith was hoping someone would come and get James to stop talking to him but everyone else was fighting with lotor for outing keith. Especially Pidge and nyma.

Then James looked at lance “Be careful with this one, he’s gonna get tired of you quickly”

Lance scoffed and pulled Keith’s hand “We’re leaving”

Keith didn’t move though. Theres so much he wants to say. So much he’s thought of saying. He’s imagined this confrontation ever since he told James he didn’t want to see him anymore.

”What? You have something to say? Say it then.”

But given the opportunity, it turns out, he doesn’t want to say it. He doesn’t want to give him the time of day. He’s already spent way too long worrying that James would come and ruin his life one day.

And he was right.

But also wrong. Because he imagined it would happen and he would have no one. No one to turn to. But he does. And one is holding his hand right now. And the others are literally fighting for him. Even the ones that barely know him. He has people. And he fucking told someone earlier that he was gay. And it was fine. James has no way of hurting him anymore? Even at home because he’s not even there and now he can talk to shiro and Acxa.

He let go of lances hand and scoffed, walking past James, bumping his shoulder, hard. He wants to be alone. So he walked to lances car but decided to just walk home. He’s hoping it’ll calm him down a little. Before having to confront Lance when he gets back.

But he didn’t have to wait because he heard yelling behind him “Hey! Wait!”

Keith didn’t stop even though he still heard Lance trying to catch up with him. And obviously he did because he’s running and Keith is just walking.

”Hold on—stop” he grabbed his arm and Keith stopped walking. Lance was breathing heavily from running and had to take a second to catch his breath.

”Who the heck was that?? What was that??”

Keith looked down, suddenly feeling like he’s gonna cry “I didn’t want to tell you”

“Tell me what? That you had a jerk ex or that you were into guys?? Keith I don’t care about that crap—well—obviously I do but only in a good way!”

“No—I didn’t want to make things awkward!” Keith is feeling a little defensive now. That happens a lot actually. He’s starting to think he’s a defensive person. But he should tone it down.

”Why? Cause we kissed once, when we were kids?”

”Uh, yeah?? And because were both guys? I don’t know—there’s a lot of reasons”

Lance sighed and rubbed his face “Im sorry…I’m just—ugh” Without saying anything else, lance hugged him.

“Come back to the car so you don’t have to walk home”

”I don’t know if I’m ready to see anyone else right now”

”Do you want me to walk with you then?”

Keith shook his head “I think I could use the alone time.”

”Ok, well—just—I really care about you”

Keith nodded and hugged him back. “You too”

Lance nodded too and then pulled away “Be careful—don’t get kidnapped or anything”

Keith smiled “I won’t”

”Ok…I’ll see you later then”

”Yeah, I’ll see you later”

Lance left and keith continued walking. He didn’t go to lances house though. He needed to be alone for a bit longer.

 

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When lance got back to the car, everyone was there and they all looked worried “Did you find him?” Pidge looked the most worried and lance shook his head “Yeah, he said he wants to be alone. He’s fine though”

”God, I hate lotor so much.” Nyma looked angry and pidge shook her head “I should’ve killed him—I should’ve just broke his ugly nose”

”It’s alright—Keith is gonna be fine” hunk pat her on the shoulder and she sighed and put her head in her hands “I just feel so bad—I hate that James guy so much”

”Let’s agree we all hate him” florona and Luka were there and both looked equally as worried. “I think we should go home now” allura walked up to lance and grabbed his hand. “I’ll drive”

Lance nodded and they all said bye to florona and Luka before getting in the car. Lance sat in the front and allura drove.

The ride to everyone’s houses was silent. It wasn’t awkward but it wasn’t comfortable either. Everyone was just upset for Keith.

Soon, it was only lance and allura and instead of driving to her house, she drove straight to lances house. “I’ll stay with you for a bit”

Lance nodded, wanting the company. They went behind the barn and sat down in front of a tree.

He put his head on her shoulder and sighed “I just…should I have known? He never told me about that guy…but he told Pidge. Does that mean he doesn’t trust me?”

”It’s obvious he trusts you. Maybe he didn’t want things to be awkward?”

”Thats what he said, but why would they be awkward? We just—“ he stopped himself and sat up. He sighed and brought his knees up to his chest and hugged them. “We kissed when we were kids”

Allura looked at him, confused “What?”

”When we were kids, we went to that old barn and he kissed me. That’s why he said things would be awkward. And because ‘we’re both guys’. As if that matters. And he said there were a lot of reasons but he didn’t tell me them.”

“Lance…”

”Like—It makes me wonder if he thinks I would judge him—oh crap—it’s because of what I said. Before he left, the day after he kissed me, I told him he was gross…oh god that’s why it would be awkward. It’s my fault. I mean, I apologized to him but he also told me he wasn’t gay so maybe he was lying because he didn’t believe my apology—“

”Lance—he still likes you”

Lance froze and felt heat rise to his face “What??”

Allura was smiling “It’s so obvious. The reason he thinks it would be awkward is because it will be. For him at least. Because he likes you.”

”No he doesn’t…I feel like I would’ve known if he did…”

”Earlier today when I saw the way he was staring at you, it was blinding—it was so obvious.”

”He wasn’t staring at me? Like I said, I think I would have noticed.”

Allura rolled her eyes “You’re just as oblivious as you were with me. He still likes you, Lance.” She smiled and put her hand on his shoulder “and…I think you like him too”

Lance once again, felt a whole bunch of heat go to his face. He can’t be talking about this. Not with his flipping girlfriend.

Wait—why does allura think that??!

”What?! What gives you that impression??!”

”The way you look at him…”

”Ok…Woah Woah Woah—slow it down—I don’t like Keith—not like that at least. I like you. You and you only. Romantically.”

Allura kept on smiling and she shook her head “Lance I know you. I can tell when you like someone. We’ve been friends for a long time. And I’d much rather stay friends than be in a useless relationship.”

”A what??”

”Not in that way. I mean if you like him then why would we stay together? You’d be wasting both of our time. It sounds harsh but it’s the truth. I love you as a friend and a partner but I love you more as a friend. And I don’t want to ruin that.”

Lance laid his head back down on her shoulder “But I love you”

”I know but I think you might love Keith more”

He jolted up hearing ‘love’. ”Ok woah, you barely know him, how could you know that”

”Because you’ve talked about him before. Before he came and when we were kids. You would talk about him a lot. And how you ‘used to do this with keith’ and then we’d do them. It’s glaringly obvious you both love each other. Honestly……I kind of get why people hate our pda because it’s sickening how gone you are for him”

“If you knew then why didn’t you break up with me sooner?”

”Well—I didn’t but after today all the flags raised up”

”There were red flags??”

”No—more like rainbow flags” she laughed and lance shook his head “I don’t…I don’t know about any of this…”

”That’s ok but don’t waste time denying your feelings. Spend time thinking them over and if things don’t work out, then you’ll have knowledge that you didn’t have before”

”What knowledge?”

”That you like guys, lance”

”I like you and you’re not a guy”

”Then you like both. It’s as simple as that”

”Well……if you put it like that….”

”You don’t have to complicate it. You have friends that will love you no matter what. And don’t forget that I’m one of them. I don’t care who you end up with—I just want you to be happy.”

Lance hugged her “I want you to be happy too”

”I know. And I will be.”

”Even if I leave you for Keith?…Or some other person”

She laughed “You won’t leave me for him.”

”Then—“

”Because I’m breaking up with you.”

Lance would say ‘omg why no’ but he just nodded and laughed “Ok fine I’ll give you that”

”No, I’m taking it. No man will leave me for someone else.” She snapped her fingers and lance copied her. “And I won’t leave anyone for someone else”

“We’re both the winners in this situation then”

”I feel like a loser though. I just lost my girlfriend and I’m about to lose my mind.”

”Why?”

”Because I like guys?? Well—I like a guy—but still??!”

”So you do like him?” She was smirking and lance felt himself hardcore blush “Holy crap I just said that—out loud—and I don’t know!!?”

”Awe! Ok I know I should be crying or something over our breakup but now I’m rooting for you!”

”It was amicable though……right?”

”Yes, it was. And now we can be besties!”

”Lura…are you sure……? That this is right?”

”I think so…Obviously I’m not Cupid or something but I at least know you like each other”

”But……you’re not gonna like, hate me after this right? Because it would really suck if you became all resentful…cause I still love you, you know”

”I know, and I won’t be. Like I said, I love you too and I want you to be happy. And I know you want me to be happy as well and I will be! I’ll find someone.“

”And it’ll be easy because you’re gorgeous”

”And because my personality”

”That too! Obviously”

”Now I guess I’ll have to deal with your and Keith’s pda”

”Hey! No you won’t! We’ll make sure to publicly display our affection away from any of our friends.”

She smirked again “So that means you want to publicly display your affection to Keith?”

”What?? No! I mean—ugh!! I’m so confused!”

They spent a while talking about what’s gonna happen next and lance freaked out a bit, cried some, and laughed some—it was just a wild day. And soon, he (carefully) drove allura home and got back. He didn’t feel like eating so he went straight to his room, expecting to see Keith, but he wasn’t there. He probably just wanted more alone time. Which lance understands.

So he laid down and texted Pidge, making sure that he wasn’t with her. She said he wasn’t so he sighed and turned off his phone.

But he wasn’t planning on going to sleep. He was thinking about what he would say to Keith. How would he say anything to him. And if he would even be able to. Or if he even should.

He wants to tell him that he has no idea about anything and he’s kind of having a quarter life crisis. He had told Keith he wasn’t gay. But I mean, he technically didn’t lie…he’s not gay. He just might be bi.

Which lance knows is fine and not gross or anything. But he never said expected to actually be it. But if he is……he thinks he’s fine with it. He’s already been judged his whole life for having adhd so what’s being with a guy?

Except for like, hate crimes and stuff…

Ok—he’s not gonna think about that. All he’s gonna think about is keith and how he’s gonna say—

Suddenly, the door opened and he froze. He wasn’t facing the door so he didn’t know who it was so he didn’t move. But they sighed and he could tell it was Keith.

But he still didn’t move.

He thought Keith was about to sit down but he never felt the bed move and then he heard blankets rustling on the ground. Is he gonna sleep on the ground??

He waited to see if he was actually going to and when he never felt him sit down, he spoke “Are you sleeping on the floor?”

He turned around and Keith was sitting on the floor. He looked tired and like he has been crying. Lance hates seeing him cry. And he’s only seen it twice now.

”Yeah—I didn’t know if you’d be fine with—“

Lance didn’t let him finish and he got up and sat in front of him so he could hug him. “Seriously—you don’t have to—“

”Shut up” he hugged him tighter “Put on comfortable clothes and sleep on the bed. Im not letting you sleep on the floor and in jeans”

”Ok…” lance got back up and sat down on his bed. He wanted to wait for Keith to change before laying down because he usually sleeps on the side closest to the wall and he doesn’t want to make Keith climb over him.

When Keith got back, lance smiled, and blushed a little seeing him in an oversized shirt and shorts.

”What?”

”What?” Lance said, not being able to stop smiling.

”Why are you smiling like that?”

”Im not smiling in any way!”

Keith just rolled his eyes and sat down on the bed. He didn’t lay down and frowned “Are you sure you’re fine with me on the bed?”

Lance groaned and laid down “I already told you—I don’t care. Just lay down”

Keith looked like he wanted to say more but he laid down anyway, facing the wall. Lance laid down too and closed his eyes. But he could immediately tell he won’t be able to fall asleep.

But he doesn’t want to keep Keith up with his thoughts that literally don’t matter. But after a few minutes, he couldn’t keep it in “Keith?”

He thought Keith was asleep but he actually quickly answered “Yeah?”

Lance turned to face Keith and Keith looked behind him. But lance frowned “Turn around, Jeez”

Keith sighed and turned around completely so they both faced each other. “Yeah?”

Lance didn’t say anything though. He was planning to but he couldn’t. So he decided to speak with his actions. He moved his hand up and……………poked his chin.

Keith frowned “What are you doing”

He couldn’t bring himself to fully commit to touching his face so that’s all he could do…

He poked his chin again and Keith swatted his hand away “Stop that”

Lance smiled and poked his chin again. Keith squinted at him and poked his chin.

They semi-aggressively poked each other’s chins for about a minute until lance gave up and stopped. He wanted to say so much, but couldn’t so all he said was “Goodnight”

Keith frowned and poked his chin again “What was that?”

Lance laughed and moved his hand “Nothing—just—goodnight” He turned around and after a few long seconds, Keith did too.

“Goodnight”

Notes:

TW FOR ABUSE from an ex

James, Keith’s kind of ex boyfriend is at the party thing and turns out, he was kind of abusive.

And Keith tells Lance that he would pressure him into things.

Chapter 9: Chapter 8

Summary:

‼️ Girl you already know I have fanart! It’s the eighth and ninth pictures!!

Keith woke up in a full on crisis. He doesn’t know if yesterday was a dream or not. And if it wasn’t—what if lance hates him now or something?? It felt real…? But he’s had dreams like that before??

He got up and tripped over something on the floor—he’s gotta get it together. If it didn’t happen and lance sees that he’s all weird, he might never recover.

Lance isn’t here right now……which could mean a number of things. It didn’t happen and he’s just being normal or it did happen and he’s avoiding Keith at all costs.

He could go out and look for him……or he could also avoid him……yeah he’s gonna avoid him. He got up and got dressed to go outside and lazily put his hair in a low ponytail. He might already be out now so what’s the point in making sure he looks decent. It’s not like lance will actually like him back……

He went outside and went straight to the barn where kaltenecker is. She wasn’t in the actual barn though, she just in the field doing……cow things………??

He walked up to her and started to pet her. And maybe talk to her a little—who knows.

 

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‘You stupid idiot—you like him and you won’t even talk to him. You couldn’t even say anything yesterday. You know he likes guys and apparently you too so what’s the hold up??’

”Shut up Juan, you don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re just a chicken”

Lance is literally glaring at a chicken right now. And actually arguing with it too. But to be fair, Juan was 100% giving him the stink eye. He can see the judgement in his beady little eyes.

He huffed and looked at Keith, who was busy petting kaltenecker to notice he was even there. Or maybe he did notice and he’s ignoring him. Which sucks. Because Lance WANTED to say good morning but Keith wouldn’t wake up. Freakin Juan……

He doesn’t know if Keith is avoiding him or not. Because if he is, he obviously did something horribly wrong and Juan is right, or he’s not and just an oblivious jerk…just like lance so he can’t really be mad about it.

He stood up and walked towards Keith. Keith jumped and looked scared “Uh—good morning”

Lance smiled, trying to be…cool “Good morning! So you uh……whatcha doin?”

He looked at kaltenecker and shrugged “I’m just petting her”

Lance nodded and leaned on her a bit “Yeah, I was just talking to Juan……uh……the chicken over there…”

Keith looked at Juan and chuckled “You were talking?”

Lance crossed his arms “Yeah……about politics actually……very interesting stuff. He knows a lot………I read a study once that talking to your animals makes them happy so it’s not weird”

Keith smiled and shook his head “No—uh, to be honest, I was talking to kaltenecker…”

”Then why were you judging me??”

”I wasn’t…well, except for the politics…that’s pretty boring”

”Hey! There’s a bunch of really important stuff in it! Like……voting………? Ok I don’t know anything about politics”

”I do…and it’s boring”

”You do?”

”Yeah, and it’s all just upsetting and like I said, boring”

Lance sighed and leaned on kaltenecker again “Pidge texted me and she says she worried. I haven’t been able to tell her if you were ok or not but…you might wanna text her back or she’s gonna come here”

”Oh……I didn’t know she texted me, my phone died while I was walking back”

”Have you charged it?”

He shook his head and lance rolled his eyes “Then let’s go and charge your phone, then we can talk to Pidge and tell her if you’re okay or not……or just you, I don’t mind”

Keith nodded and pet kaltenecker one last time before leaving with lance. They went to his house and back in his room to plug in his phone and call Pidge.

She quickly answered “Is he ok??”

Lance laughed and put the phone on speaker “Yeah, he’s right here”

”I’m fine”

”Keith—I will find him and punch him right in the throat if you want me to—and why the hell haven’t you answered me you jerk”

”My phone died”

”Oh…well are you ok?? Like—I mean really, not just ‘yeah I’m good’ even though you’re not actually, I mean are you actually freaking okay”

Lance looked at Keith who looked like he either didn’t want to answer or couldn’t. And he kind of feels like it may be because of him “I can leave if you want to talk alone”

Keith quickly looked up and shook his head “No—uh, sorry—Uh, yeah I’m good” Keith laughed a bit but lance could tell something is upsetting him.

”Alright if you don’t give me an honest answer I’m going over there”

”I’m actually good. I swear”

”You swear?”

”Yes. I swear”

”Ok cause if you’re not good I will find you and punch you in the throat”

”Then I would be extra not good?”

”I don’t care”

”Ok well like I said, I’m good. I promise.”

”Ok……do you want me over there?”

”No, I’m fine”

”If you need me literally just call and I’ll be there at the speed of light I promise you”

”Ok…thanks”

”Ok……just know all of us hate them for you. Nyma cussed lotor out it was awesome”

”I’ll have to thank her later then”

”No, it’s just what friends do. We’re all your friend now. Whether you like it or not”

”Thank you”

”Ok…I love you alright?”

Keith laughed “Ok”

”Alright………lance make sure he’s alright”

”I will!”

”Ok thanks, love you, bye”

They both said bye and lance hung up. He laughed as he put his phone on his nightstand “Pidge told me what Nyma was saying and it—“ He looked back at keith and saw that he was crying.

”Woah! What’s wrong?”

Keith shook his head “Nothing—sorry—“

Lance put his hand on his shoulder and tried to get Keith to look at him “No—tell me what’s wrong”

“It’s just—“he shook his head again “I’m just sorry I lied—I feel kinda bad” he laughed and rubbed his eyes and lance frowned.

”What? Why?”

”I lied to you and I feel bad”

”You didn’t have to tell me you were gay……you have nothing to be sorry about” He pulled keith towards him to hug him.

”Sorry—“

”Stop apologizing” lance hugged him tighter and Keith just nodded and didn’t say anything. He pulled away, still holding his shoulders “What do you wanna do? We can watch a movie, go outside, eat, sleep—anything”

He shrugged “I don’t know…”

”I don’t have anything to do today so we can literally do anything”

”Then what do you want to do?”

”Whatever you want to do.”

“I don’t know what I want to do”

”Then we can do nothing”

”Ok then”

”Ok…”

Keith nodded and lance squinted at him, waiting for him to say something but he didn’t so he sighed “Let’s watch a movie”

”Ok, what movie?”

”I don’t care”

”What’s your favorite movie?”

Keith didn’t answer and lance noticed he looked a little embarrassed. “What?”

Keith looked down and shrugged “Uh, it’s kinda……it’s kind of stupid…”

”Come on, I doubt that—what is it?”

”Well…it’s called land of the lost……”

”Then we can watch that”

”No—we don’t have to it’s like—it sucks—“

”Nope, we’re watching it” Ignoring Keith’s arguing, he got his laptop and looked it up. When he found it, he played it and hushed Keith so he could watch it.

 

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When the movie ended, lance looked at Keith, who looked really embarrassed “I told you, it’s a horrible favorite”

Lance shook his head, almost speechless “No…that was probably one of the best movies I’ve ever seen”

”No it wasn’t…”

”I swear, it absolutely was”

Keith looked away and smiled. Lance laughed “You have to show me more movies you like”

”They’re still really bad”

”I don’t care, I wanna watch all the bad movies”

”I just think bad movies are funny…”

”They are. They’re great. Actually—one of the best worst movies I’ve seen is called sharknado—“

Suddenly, Keith looked like he was trying not to laugh. Lance frowned “What??”

”Thats my second favorite movie”

”No it isn’t”

Keith nodded “It is”

Lance started laughing too and it turned into a conversation about the best-worst movies and they decided to watch all of them. Just a bad movie marathon.

They watched things like, llamageddon, velocipastor, arachnophobia, and many many more old horrible movies.

And when the last movie finished with horrible cgi of a weird goo guy, it was night. Lance has no idea how it got so dark so quickly.

And he also has no idea how close him and Keith were getting. Or when Keith fell asleep. On his shoulder.

Without his permission, his mind started to race with thoughts. Thoughts about how adorable Keith looks asleep, with his face all squished on his shoulder. How his hand is just out and how he could easily just reach out and grab it. How much he really really wants to hold his hand and sleep while doing so.

Maybe allura was right……maybe he is gone for him.

He sighed and Keith moved a bit and then sprung up “Did I fall asleep??”

Lance laughed, hoping it was too dark to see his red face “Yeah, you missed the grossest part”

Keith looked at the laptop and then rubbed his eyes “Sorry…”

“You didn’t actually miss that much, it was really repetitive. But in a weirdly great way”

Keith smiled a little and lance felt his stomach drop and he couldn’t stop himself from smiling back. He tried looking down to hide it though.

“I’m gonna take our stuff downstairs—“ His mom gave them food during their marathon and he felt like it was obvious he was blushing like a idiot so he needs to leave.

”Ok…I’m gonna take a shower”

Lance immediately had to clear his thoughts “Ok…” They both got up and went separate ways. Lance went downstairs with their plates and put them in the sink. But he still felt…gushy…so he decided to wash them now.

After he washed their dishes, he instinctively started washing the other dishes. He didn’t notice though until Veronica came in and scared him “Watcha smilin’ about?”

He jumped and she laughed. He wasn’t smiling….? Was he?

”Im not—What are you doing up so late?”

”I could ask you the same thing”

”Me and Keith were watching movies and I guess I got carried away”

”You did? Just you?”

”Yeah he fell asleep” He looked down at the dishes, unable to stop himself from grinning.

”Why are you doing the dishes?”

He shrugged “I felt productive”

”Yeah because you just feel productive. What’s up”

Lance laughed “Nothing!”

”You were just smiling like a little goober just now…washing dishes. And you hate washing the dishes.”

”First of all: I don’t appreciate being called a goober, second: people change and now I like washing the dishes”

”Okay…you goober”

”You’re the goober!”

”Thats what a goober would say”

Lance just rolled his eyes and turned off the water “Says the goober”

”You’re lucky Im tired but that doesn’t mean this won’t continue tomorrow you goober”

”Ok! Goobnight”

She laughed and started walking out of the kitchen “I hate you, goodnight you goober”

 

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After Keith’s shower, he went back to lances room but he wasn’t in there. Maybe he finally realized how weird it was they were sharing the room and is sleeping downstairs.

Or maybe not because right as he thought that, Lance walked in. “Hey—Sorry, I ended up washing all of the dishes.”

Keith chuckled and sat down on the bed and lance followed him “And Veronica kept calling me a goober”

”A what?”

”A goober”

”What’s that”

”I don’t know, it’s just a goober”

”Is it bad?”

”More or less”

”What??”

Lance waved his hand and laid down “It doesn’t matter, goodnight”

Keith also laid down and rolled his eyes “Goodnight”

After a few minutes, he heard lance moving and then he felt something tugging on his hair. He reached back to stop whatever it was but he felt lances hand and lance laughed “I’m braiding your hair”

”What? Why?”

”I dunno, it’s just calming. I like braiding hair”

”You didn’t even ask”

Lance laughed again “I thought you were asleep”

Keith frowned and looked behind him at lance, who whined a little that he messed up the braid “You would’ve braided my hair while I was sleeping??”

Lance shrugged, smiling “Yeah?”

”What if I woke up with braided hair and had no idea how it happened”

”I would’ve left a note”

Keith laughed “Saying what??”

”I braided your hair”

Keith sighed and turned back around, immediately feeling lance brush his fingers through his hair, which he embarrassingly loved the feeling of.

”Do you not want me to?”

Keith wanted to say yes but he accidentally spit out “I don’t mind”

And he let lance mess with his hair and it was super calming so he fell asleep really quickly.

 

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“I think I need to figure out a bunch of things before I even mention the idea of liking any guy to Keith” 

‘Dude, you don’t even know how long he’s staying, just get it over with’

”I can’t! It’s waaay easier said than done! Would you tell Henrietta that you liked her if you weren’t sure how she felt??”

‘I did and now we have like a bunch of kids…that you gave away witch I’m still mad about’

”Juan, that was so long ago! And it wasn’t even my decision! For the record, I begged my mom not to give them away…but anyways—you’re a freaking chicken why am I talking to you about this??”

’why are you talking to me in general? You know I don’t actually know what you’re saying. You’re basically talking to yourself. So stop botherin’ me about your issues and let me lay in my nest with Henrietta’

”You’re right…sorry Juan…”

Juan walked away sassily, and lance put his head in his hands and sighed. This is all so stupid. Why can’t he just tell him? It doesn’t have to be ‘hey I love you I think?’. It could literally just be ‘I think I’m bi’.

But what if it’s awkward because now they’re both into guys and sharing a room—a bed—and what if the tension ruins their friendship??

And what if allura isn’t right and he doesn’t even like him?!! Because that would just be horrible. But Allura just seemed so sure…and allura wouldn’t break up with him because of a ‘hunch’.

So there has to be something…right? He really hopes so.

But should he?? What if this is all stupid and wrong and he should just wait until Keith leaves and forget about him??? But he can’t do that because he cares way too much.

He slumped down even more and sighed. This is frustrating. Maybe this is what all gay people go through. Maybe it’s normal to be so frustrated that you don’t know anything about yourself.

Or maybe lance is over complicating everything…No he’s seen a lot of people talk about how hard their self discovery journey was……and lance freaks out easily so maybe it’s fine.

Yeah…it’s all fine……everything is fine……

”You good?”

He groaned and didn’t look up. “No, but I don’t wanna talk about it”

Veronica sat down next to him and laughed “So……are you thinking about what you’ve been thinking about a lot recently?”

He looked up and frowned “How’d you know?”

”Cause something’s obviously been on your mind…and I haven’t forgotten when you almost told me something.”

Lance remembered and put his head back down “I said forget that”

”You know I won’t…but do you wanna tell me now?”

Lance groaned again “I don’t know……it’s just…it’s complicated and I don’t even know what to think about it……”

He lowered his voice “…and……it’s kind of embarrassing…”

”Oooh, so it’s about that, huh…listen…if you’re ready for the hanky panky, just make sure you’re saf—“

He quickly sat up and shook his head “No no no no no no—it’s not about that! Jeez!”

”Its not…?”

”No! Not even close!”

”Is it about…boy problems…? Because that’s normal—“

”Stop—just—stop talking—it’s nothing like that. It’s just about—uh—it’s just not about that type of thing…”

”Oh…then what’s it about?? If something’s bothering you then you should talk to someone. It doesn’t have to be me—it can be Luis, Marco, dad, mom, your friends, hell—Keith—“

Lance must have made a face or something when she said that because she stopped. “Not Keith?”

Lance looked at her and tried to say something but nothing would come out. He just felt his face getting hotter and hotter.

Veronica looked confused “Is it about him?”

Lance felt like his face was gonna melt at any moment. He still couldn’t say anything. But as Veronica’s face slowly changed into an “I see what’s going on here” expression, lance looked away and quickly said “no”

“Lance……”

He didn’t answer and looked away, to hide his obviously red face.

”You like Keith? Thats what you were going to tell me that day, right?” Her voice was purposely quiet and lances heart started to either race or stop completely.

He shook his head “Pffftt, noooo, I don’t—you know, it’s just—it’s what you said earlier, boy problems, I should probably talk to dad about it—“

”Lance, it’s fine.”

”And—that day, I wasn’t—I wasn’t gonna say that! I was gonna say I like k……kar……koalas…?”

”You already liked koalas. Why would that bother you”

”Not koalas! It was—uh……” desperately, trying to think of a word that starts with K that wasn’t ‘keith’, he realized how dumb he sounded.

He slumped back down and sighed. He gives up. Like allura said, he shouldn’t waste his time denying his feelings.

”I don’t know!!”

She rubbed his back and chuckled “So it’s that type of issue.”

”Im just frustrated and messed up”

”What about Allura?”

”We broke up”

”What?? When?”

”The day before yesterday. And it was because of Keith. Because she told me she saw that I liked him…and that he liked me.”

”So……are you gonna do something about it?”

”No! Well…maybe? I don’t know…”

”Why not?” She suddenly laughed and shook him a little “Is this why were grinning like a goober last night?? Cause you were watching movies with him??”

Lance sat up again and frowned “You’re the goober”

”Aww!! You were grinning like an idiot for him!!”

“No I wasn’t!”

”You were~“

Lance couldn’t stop himself from laughing so he pushed her away “Shut up! No I wasn’t!”

“Ooooh, I bet you cuddled all up last night~” She poked his side and he pushed her away “We didn’t!”

”I bet you wanted to~“ She poked him again, knowing it would make him laugh more “Stop! No I didn’t!”

She stopped and suddenly just hugged him. “Thank you for telling me”

He pouted and didn’t hug back to be petty “You kind of just found out I didn’t even tell you”

”You were about to tell me that day”

”Yeah but……ok fine” he hugged her and she squeezed him “I love you”

”Ew don’t be cheesy”

”I can be cheesy, this is an important moment”

”Ok…fine but only this once”

”I think I’m gonna cry” she pretended to cry and lance rolled his eyes “Shut up, it’s not that emotional”

”Are you gonna tell him?” She pulled away and lance shrugged, sighing “I don’t know…should I?”

”Uh, yeah?! If you like him, you gotta tell him. You don’t know how long his family is staying. So if it goes horribly you don’t have to worry about seeing him every day?”

”Wow that helps”

”It’s just a silver lining, alright? But I don’t see why it wouldn’t go alright. You’re awesome and he would be crazy not to like you”

Lance rolled his eyes and put his head on his palm “I don’t even know how”

”Just like how you would any other person you like”

”But…this is…different……”

”Why?”

”Cause he’s a boy? Cause I feel……cause I don’t want to ruin our friendship? I like, super care about him…and I don’t wanna mess anything up.”

”If he doesn’t feel the same, you’ll find someone else and it won’t be awkward. It’s only awkward if you make it awkward.”

”But—“

”No buts! You should go for it. And soon because like I said, you don’t know how long he’s staying. And you don’t wanna tell him right before he leaves.”

”Ok how do I do it then?”

”How did you tell Allura?”

”I…well, we were gonna go to prom as friends but I told her I wanted to go as a date.”

”Oh…yeah I guess you can’t do that—which is adorable by the way—I never knew that story—maybe you could just tell him?”

”When?? Like—when would it not be awkward?”

”Maybe plan something romantic? Is there a place you used to go to a lot?”

”Its not like I’m proposing”

”It’s kind of like it? Listen—you asked me and that’s my answer. Just freakin do it”

”Ok you Nike goober”

”Ok—you gay goober—“

”You can’t say that! Plus, I’m not gay……just bi….probably”

She laughed and sat up “I gotta go back to work but listen—there’s no reason not to tell him. And if anything goes wrong, it’s alright you have friends to talk to and your family. And…I think I’m pretty allowed to say it.”

”Huh? Why?”

”Bye you love goober~” she walked off.

”Wait—you’re—what?!”

He just sighed and slumped back down. Soon, Juan came back though. Probably to make fun of him some more. That’s all he does these days…

’So? I was listening and……I guess I’m proud of you.’

”Huh? Really?”

’Yeah, you told her. That’s pretty sick. I still hate you but…good on you. Also she’s right. You need to just tell him. No matter how you think it’s gonna go. Stop sitting around like a goober and do it already. It’s getting tiring.’

”You’re still a jerk but…thanks……and I’m still sorry about the kid thing…I didn’t want to give them away.”

’Whatever, I don’t really care that much, I wasn’t attached. But anyway I gotta go, bye and……good luck’

”Thanks Juan…”

He left and lance stood up, feeling a surge of…determination? I guess, I don’t know but he’s gonna tell him….he just doesn’t know how……but it’s gonna be now……hey, that rhymes.

He walked to his house and stopped at the door. He can’t. He can’t do it. He walked back to the barn and got his phone. But he didn’t want to talk out loud here so he moved to a place no one would know. Nowhere Keith would know.

He dialed Allura but she didn’t answer and he remembered that she had a tutor thing—she tutors other kids by the way—so he called the next best thing—

”Hello? This is hunk”

”You still haven’t set my name in your phone?”

”Oh, sorry, hey—and I keep forgetting!”

”Yeah sure, you’re just too busy texting shay~”

”Hey! No I’m not! I don’t even have her name! I only have my mom and dads name…which is just mom and dad…so anyway, why’d you call?”

”So uh……how are you gonna tell shay you like her?”

”Ugh!! I don’t know, I might make her cookies. She really likes my cookies.”

”Thats adorable. She’s definitely gonna like that.”

”You think so? Cause I’m really on the verge of breakdown thinking about how I’m gonna tell her.”

”It’s fine! She likes you, so what’s the holdup?”

”I don’t know…I’m just nervous. Not that she’ll reject me…just that…I don’t know she won’t like me after we date for a while”

”How could anyone not like you??”

”Maybe she’ll think I’m boring or something.”

”Hunk, you are anything but boring. You’re freakin awesome. And if she doesn’t see that—which she will—then she’s just gonna miss out”

”Aww, thanks. That means a lot”

”No prob, bob”

”Corn on the cob”

“You’re a snob”

”ouch—I’m gonna sob”

”I’m part of a mob”

”I feel like that’s something you should’ve told me, rob”

”We’ll it’s my secret job”

”I’m gonna call the……cob…s…?”

”Ha! I win”

”I got ROBBED of that win”

”Ok that gave you extra points, you win now”

“Woo!”

”But uh, I actually called you for a reason though……”

”Oh? What is it?”

“I uh……” he sighed “This is actually pretty hard to say—uh, I think I like…uh…guys…?”

”Oh, really?”

”I think so…and I didn’t know who else to tell”

”Thank you for telling me! That means like, so much! And it’s fine!! I don’t see you any differently…or anything—sorry no one’s ever came out to me so I don’t know what to say, but I’m super happy you did!!”

”Thanks but uh…there’s one guy in particular that I like and it’s uh……it’s like…super inconvenient”

”Who?”

”Uh………Keith……?”

”What about allura though?”

”We broke up. She noticed how I felt. But we’re still friends. So, she uh, she knows…”

”Oh good—but are you gonna tell him??”

”Yeah actually. Cause I don’t know when he’s leaving and I should get it over with. Even if it goes bad.”

”Yeah, that’s a good idea. And I’m sure he’ll like you. Like you said about me, you’re awesome. And Keith’s life will definitely not be boring if he’s with you.”

”Yeah I know” he snorted “He’s like, super shy so I kind of wanna help him be more open”

”That’s nice, but what if he just doesn’t want strangers to know his business?”

”Not in that way, I mean, not be so anxious. He told me he doesn’t like eating in front of people and…I don’t know…that kind of worries me…”

”So cute!”

”What??”

”You're already talking like you’re together!”

”No I’m not! It’s totally normal to be concerned about your friend!”

”Yeah but you just told me you have crush on him so……” he laughed and lance scoffed “You hang out with pidge too much.”

”Awww, come on, pidge is good.”

”I know, I know”

They talked for a while and soon, it was starting to get darker and colder so he went back to his house. He had already said bye to hunk so he went straight to his room, where Keith was…nt.

He assumed he was either doing something else or in the bathroom so he sat down but felt something so he quickly sat up. It’s a piece of paper. Well—it’s a note.

’Im going to the barn on the hill so if I’m not back by the time you are, I’ll be back so don’t worry about me :)”

He smiled at the little smiley face he drew and then realized what the note actually said. He’s where??!

The barn…frick, he’s at the barn…the old one……and it’s like super old! What if he’s hurt or something?! And it’s like freezing outside!!

He quickly got his jacket and left his room. He almost tripped going down the stairs and almost forgot to close the front door before leaving.

And by the time he got to the barn, it was so dark he could barely see and it was even colder. What’s up with how fast the sky goes dark??

He entered and didn’t see him so he’s probably on the top thingy. He walked to the stairs and carefully stepped on one. The wood is literally soft but it was sturdy enough to hold his weight so he went up another step, praying that the whole barn doesn’t just collapse.

He was halfway up the stairs when— “Lance?”

He looked up and saw Keith, but before he could say anything, the stair he had one of his feet on, broke and his leg fell in a hole. He caught himself before he fell down but Keith was quickly at his side. “Are you ok??”

Lance laughed and held out his hand “Yeah but I’m stuck.” 

Keith snorted and grabbed him and helped him up. He helped him up the rest of the stairs too. When they got up to the platform type thing, they sat down and Keith used the light of his phone to look at lances leg. He moved his leg a little, which made Lance die a little bit he managed to hide it.

”It’s just a little scratch, does it hurt?”

”No, not really, it’s fine.” He rubbed it and it stung a little but not enough to need help.

”So…you saw the note?” He laughed and lance did too, nodding “Yeah, and I got worried because it’s super cold”

Keith is still wearing the oversized shirt and shorts he wore last night which worried him even more.

”It’s fine, it’s not that bad”

”Here—“ Lance took off his jacket and put it over Keith’s shoulders. He chuckled “You don’t have to give me your jacket, I’m not that cold”

”You’re wearing shorts, I don’t believe you”

”So are you?”

”You’ve been outside longer”

Keith shrugged and put on his jacket. And lance couldn’t handle how good he looked in his jacket.

”How long have you been here?” Lance asked and Keith shrugged “I don’t know, like a few hours.”

Lance looked down and nervously picked at a broken piece of wood on the ground “Why’d you come here?”

Keith sighed and laughed “I don’t know, I guess I wanted to be alone”

Lance looked up, feeling bad “Sorry—I can go if—“

Keith shook his head, chucking a little “No, I was getting lonely anyway”

”Oh…good—well—not good that you were lonely—“

”Are you ok? You seem…weird”

Lance laughed “Wow thanks”

”I didn’t mean like—“

”I know, sorry—I don’t know…I’m just…frustrated…I guess” he sighed and laid down, looking up at the giant hole in the ceiling where you can still see the stars.

Keith laid down next to him, also looking up. “Why?”

Lance thought this would be a good time to say ‘because I think I like you’ or something like that but he just said “I don’t know…I guess a bunch of things”

”Like what specifically though?”

Lance looked at Keith, who was looking at him. He froze. The light from the hole was shining on them, and so were the stars, making his eyes sparkle. And needless to say, it was really really pretty.

”You’re really pretty”

Lance quickly looked up at the sky, embarrassed that he just said that. Because he absolutely did not mean to.

Keith didn’t say anything, which made Lance freak out. But he stayed quiet. And they stayed silent for a few minutes, but it felt like hours.

”That didn’t answer my question but thanks”

Lance instinctively smiled and couldn’t stop it. Probably because of the way he said thank you. It seemed…happy. And not upset or weirded out or anything.

He looked back at keith and saw him smiling at him. Which was even prettier than him just looking. He doesn’t understand how one person can be so…beautiful??

”You too”

Lance froze again and felt his face get super hot. And his own wandering eyes were not helping. Because his eyes flickered down to his lips and all he could think about was kissing him. Kissing him a lot. And Keith kissing him back. It’s sending shivers down his spine.

“I want to kiss you”

He didn’t actually mean to say it but once he did, he knew there was absolutely no going back. He didn’t want to look at Keith, scared that he might be upset.

“Ha ha”

Lance looked at him and Keith looked unconvinced.

“I get it, I’m gay and it’s funny” He laughed and rolled his eyes and lance couldn’t believe him.

He scoffed “You’re so stupid”

”What?”

”I say I wanna kiss you and that’s how you respond??” Lance at least expected him to blush or be flustered or something. But he doesn’t even believe him?!

Keith sat up and frowned down at lance “Wait, you’re being serious?”

Lance scoffed again “Why would I joke about that??”

”I don’t know??”

”Yeah I would casually joke about cheating on allura, who—by the way—I’m not dating anymore because she noticed how much we freakin stare at each other”

”I don’t stare at you?? And you broke up?!”

”You do and yes”

“Because of me?!?”

”No! Well—yeah…but it was amicable!”

”What the hell does that even mean??”

”It means I like you, dumbass” He sat up and huffed.

Keith froze and honestly lance didn’t even expect himself to say that. But he did and well—it’s true.

”I like you” Lance said again, clarifying. You know, just in case he didn’t understand it the first time.

They we’re kind of whisper yelling before but Keith got quiet and regularly whispered

“Really…?”

Lance loved the soft expression on his face but nodded, still huffing, because he’s still upset he thought he would joke about that.

“Duh”

Keith didn’t say anything for what felt like hours but soon, he smiled and shook his head.

“You are……the most confusing person I know”

He started to get up and Lance opened his mouth, not able to say what he wanted to. He did not just—there’s no way he—that jerk!!

”What the heck?! You can’t just leave??” He grabbed his arm to stop him and Keith looked at him, now upset.

”You can’t be straight and then be into me the next day”

He let go of him and frowned “You still don’t believe me?”

”Lance, I know you’re a good person but you can’t joke like that…especially with what’s happened.”

”What? Us kissing?”

”Yes—“

”Or the fact that you still like me”

Keith laughed dryly “Did Pidge tell you or something?”

Lance smiled to himself, now knowing that he actually does like him. But he can’t be petty right now—so he shook his head.

“No, she didn’t. Allura did”

”So allura is jealous or something?”

”No, she isn’t. I wasn’t lying when I said we broke up. I wasn’t lying with anything. I…I can’t believe you! Why would I do something like that to you?? Or to allura?? What kind of person do you think I am?”

For some reason, it really hurt lance that Keith thought he would do that. He felt his eyes start to water and he looked away, just in case he actually did start to cry. He doesn’t want Keith to see that…it’s kinda embarrassing.

”Wait…Lance” Keith moved closer to him and lowered his voice “ you’re actually being serious?”

Lance nodded and Keith moved even closer. “You're not joking? This isn’t some elaborate prank, or a dream or something…?”

Lance laughed and sniffled “You dream about me? That’s so sweet”

Keith actually blushed and lances insides just blended all up. Or that’s what it felt like. And it was great.

”Shut up”

”I’m confessing to you, you shouldn’t tell me to shut up”

”You can’t talk while I kiss you though”

Lances whole body imploded but just as Keith was about to kiss him, he turned away.

Now he can be petty.

He accidentally kissed his cheek instead “I actually hate you”

Lance smiled and put his hand up “You’re too late. You missed my kissing hours. Just closed actually”

Keith took a deep breath and put his face in his hands “You’re so dumb”

”It’s not my fault you arrived too late”

Keith sighed and dropped his hands, seeming frustrated. Then he smiled, reluctantly “What are your hours then”

He didn’t think Keith would go along with it which made him laugh. But he’s still gotta give him an answer.

“From confessing time to after you accuse me of lying about it.”

“Closed forever?”

Lance tried not to smile and looked away “Depends…”

”On what?”

“On if I can kiss you first. You kissed me before now I want to kiss you”

Keith smiled “That’s it?”

Lance nodded and pushed him down “That’s it”

”Then go for it”

Lance smiled and instead of kissing his mouth, he kissed his cheek. But it was slow, he made sure of it.

”Is that all I get?” Keith rubbed where he kissed him, and lance laughed at his cheeks getting pink.

”No, I’m not done”

He kissed his other cheek and Keith smiled “What are you doing?”

”Im being like the people in movies. It’s called fore play right?”

Keiths whole face got red and lance was confused “That’s before people…you know…get intimate”

Lance thought about it for a second and then covered his face to hide how red it was “Oh my god, I totally misunderstood that”

Keith also covered his face and laughed “I can’t believe you”

”I thought it was just a fun thing people did!”

”I mean it is but not before they kiss”

Lance snorted “I mean, it kinda is before they kiss though”

”Yeah but also other things”

”So should I just kiss you then?”

Keith shrugged “I mean…I didn’t hate the cheek thing”

Lance laughed and kissed his cheek again “You’re so cute when you’re all soft and wholesome!”

“What about my bad boy persona?”

”Its a facade. I know the true you”

”What about you? Your facade.”

”Im all me. No facade goin on here”

”Except for the one that doesn’t want to kiss me right now”

Lance laughed and gave him a peck on the lips. “There”

”What?”

”Come back tomorrow. I might have more kisses in stock then. I gave you all I have”

”I have more”

Lance smiled “Then gimme”

Lance closed his eyes, waiting for him to kiss him. But it never happened so he opened his eyes. Keith was smiling and then he gently pushed lance away from him “I forgot, I don’t have any either”

”Ok no—you can’t do that”

”You did it first”

”So?? Come on!” He leaned down to kiss him but Keith moved his head, making him only kiss his cheek again.

Lance was about to say something but he saw that Keith seemed upset again “Hey—what’s wrong?”

”Just—“ he looked at him and lance noticed his eyes were a little watery now “Are you sure? You’re not joking or just…I dunno—confused or something?”

”Im not joking. I would never do that to anyone…especially you”

”Like—you really broke up with allura? When? And how did she know I even like you?”

“We talked about it after the thing happened with lotor and that James guy…and she said she could tell you liked me and that she thought I liked you back…and after thinking about it for a while, I realized she was right…like…really right…I think……I think I’ve liked you for a long time but I just didn’t know it. But now that I do, I didn't want to miss the opportunity to tell you”

“So……it’s not like a ‘I broke up with my girlfriend and now I’m gonna kiss one of my friends because I’m sad about it’ moment?”

Lance snorted and shook his head “No, you aren’t my rebound”

”Just sloppy seconds”

”No, you’re my very neat seconds.”

”But emotionally I’m all over the place so sloppy makes more sense”

”Ok fine, you’re my sloppy seconds” He went to kiss him again but Keith still didn’t let him. “Wait…”

When lance pulled away, he immediately started talking.

”You know if we end up together, you’re gonna have to come out to people. As either gay or bi or whatever—are you sure you wanna live like that? Being gay is a lot harder than it looks…”

”Keith…”

”Seriously it’s a lot to think about—people call me the f slur all the time and they don’t even know I’m actually gay—what’ll happen if they find out they’re not wrong? And what if it starts happening to you?? I don’t want to be the reason people treat you badly—“

Lance sighed and put his forehead on Keiths, making him stop talking. “Keith I don’t care about any of that…I know how people are. But I don’t care what they think because I have friends who’s opinions I do care about. Plus people in my school are pretty tolerant so you don’t have to worry about how they treat me.”

”But I feel like it’s all happening so fast…like, you just broke up with allura and now you’re immediately telling me you like me……so what if you’re just sad and confused?”

Lance moved and laid down next to him, putting his head on his shoulder “Im not confused…I mean, maybe a little but not about liking you. Only just everything else…like how to tell people and how to deal with it but I know I can do it……and I wouldn’t care if I was with you”

”What if it doesn’t work out? Or you find out you don’t like who I am now or—“

”I like who you are.”

He turned around on his stomach to look at Keith “You don’t have to worry about that. We know each other—yeah, it’s been a while since we’ve seen each other but I still know a lot of things about you that are still true. Like how you like space and cats. Or like how you sleep like a kitten and have great horrible taste in movies……and I want to know more because of how much I like about you. Even if I learn things I don’t like, I’ll still like you”

”How do you know that?”

”Because it’s you. Because if it were anyone else I would think they’re just a wannabe ‘bad boy with a soft heart’ or some weirdo anime villain but I know you’re not like that…and it’s all just charming….and adorable. And I could say the same thing about you! What if you don’t like who I am??”

”You haven’t changed that much and I liked you before.”

”You haven’t changed that much either…and like I said I think I’ve liked you for a long time. Cause when you kissed me before, I remember being so happy but I let my thoughts of ‘being like the other kids’ get to me.”

”I did too”

”How?”

”I denied feeling the way I did for years because of kids in my school calling other kids gay as an insult. And one time, a kid came out and he was bullied so bad he moved schools and I didn’t want to burden my parents with having to move for me so I never told anyone……except for James”

”I doubt your parents would see that as a burden”

”I didn’t know if they would have or not so I went with the safest option.”

“Do you have friends to talk to? You told me you do but I kind of don’t believe you”

Keith laughed and shook his head “No, no one wants to be friends with the weird, probably gay, emo kid.”

”They do here……you saw how it was with Luka and florona. They were equally as worried for you as my friends were—who already like you a lot.”

”Well, I can’t move here”

”Why not?”

Keith looked at lance and frowned “Where would I live?”

”With me!”

”You tell me you like me and now you want me to move in with you? That’s a bit fast” Keith chuckled.

Lance rolled his eyes and sat up “Fine—what about Pidge? I’m sure her parents would be fine letting you stay with them!”

”I don’t want to ask to live with anyone”

”Then tell your parents how the people in school are treating you.”

”I can’t…I don’t want them to worry. Cause when they worry they never let anything go and—“

”Thats what parents do. They get worried”

Keith sat up and shook his head “You don’t understand because you have a bunch of siblings but when it’s just one, they go crazy over the smallest things”

”Yeah, because of how much they care about you—and you also have siblings??”

”We barely lived together! I was born when shiro was about to go to college and Acxa was 12 so I only remember a few years of living with her.”

“Ok well……still you should tell them. It’ll only lead to good things”

”Ok fine I’ll tell them”

”Ok…good”

Keith looked up at the ceiling hole “I actually came here to see the stars”

Lance looked up with him and laughed “The hole’s gotten bigger so it’s easier to see”

Keith laughed “Maybe I can live here.”

”I’ll come by every day with food—and we can fix it and make it into a house!”

”But we should leave the hole”

”But what if it rains—ooh, we could make it a glass roof, that would be cool”

”Or one of the car things where you press the button and the top opens” he snorted.

”That would awesome but it’s probably out of our skill level”

”We could hire someone…or maybe Pidge could make it, she’s good at that stuff”

”Yeah, she could and it would probably be even better than what we asked for”

“Ok—“ Keith looked down at lance “We should go back, it’s really cold”

”Also air conditioning so you don’t freeze to death”

They stood up and looked up at the hole one more time “Keith?”

”Yeah?” He looked down and lance put his hands around his neck “Your eyes look like the galaxy” He leaned in to kiss him and this time, Keith actually let him.

It lasted for like, half a minute and when they pulled away, Lance laughed and put his head on his shoulder “I think my heart might explode”

Keith didn’t say anything and hugged him. After a minute, lance realized Keith was crying

And he finally said “Thank you”

Lance moved back a little and rubbed his cheeks with his thumbs “Why are you crying??”

He shook his head and rubbed his own eyes “Sorry—I just—I never thought this would happen—its a little overwhelming”

Lance smiled and tucked some of Keith’s hair behind his ear “I know, it kinda is for me too”

“Ok we should seriously go, it’s so late”

Lance laughed and grabbed Keith’s hand “yeah”

They left and when they got back to lances house, they decided to climb in through the window so they wouldn’t wake anyone up. Plus, the door was probably locked and Lance didn’t bring a key.

When they got in his room, they stood there for a moment, both wondering what to say. But lance decided the silence was probably worse than anything he could say right now “I can sleep on the floor if you don’t wanna like……sleep in the same bed now……”

”Why wouldn’t I want to?”

Lance looked down, trying to hide how much he was blushing “You don’t think it would be kinda inappropriate?”

”We aren’t planning on doing anything…weird…?”

Lance froze at the thought and then quickly shook his head “You’re right, let’s just go to sleep”

Keith nodded and got on the bed and lance followed. They both laid down but lance didn’t close his eyes. And he didn’t even try to get comfortable.

Keith was facing the ceiling and equally not asleep and when he looked at him, he was flooding with thoughts he absolutely should not be having “Ok—Im sleeping on the floor—my conscience is getting to me—“

He went to get up but Keith grabbed his arm “What do you mean??”

Lance stopped and tried to think of a reason that wasn’t so freaking embarrassing that if he says it he’ll throw himself out the window—but failed miserably.

He lowered his voice and spoke quickly “I can’t stop thinking about kissing you—and I’d rather not do that with my entire family in the same house…and yours!”

Keith sat up and lance expected him to be sad or upset but he was smiling “You’re forgetting something”

Lance frowned, confused. And Keith moved up to his ear and whispered “They’re all asleep”

Lances heart stopped and it didn’t start going after Keith kissed his freaking ear. Crap, how the hell is he gonna stop him?!! He doesn’t even think he can talk right now!!?

And uh…he kinda doesn’t want to….but he should!!

But just as he was about to say something—Keith stopped “Ok—you can sleep on the floor if you’re not comfortable on the bed”

Lance looked at him and he was still smiling. And genuinely too. It wasn’t a ‘I’m sad but I’m not gonna show it’ smile.

Even though he so badly wanted to kiss him again, he noticed something that made him actually consider throwing himself out his window.

”I uh…I have to use the bathroom—“

Keith frowned “Was that too far? Should I not have done that?”

Keith looked like he thought he did something wrong so Lance reluctantly and quietly said “I mean no……but not for the reason you think…”

Keith looked confused so Lance groaned and just got up and went out of his room and to the bathroom. He couldn’t stay there any longer. 

And if you haven’t caught on to what’s happening, then use your imagination to think of what happened next. 

Notes:

Ok but actually watch land of the lost it’s so funny

Chapter 10: Chapter 9

Summary:

‼️ Last picture on this post! Tumblr only lets me put 10 pictures

Notes:

There’s a pretty steamy make out part in here but nothing super graphic <3

It always takes me so long to write scenes like this bc I don’t know how to make it good DX
So it kinda sucks lol

But y’know I’ll only get better……..if I ever add this much detail again

We gettin sessy tho

After lances……uh….journey……he came back (word choices) and saw Keith asleep. Feeling a bit too awkward to lay down next to him, he laid down on the blankets on the floor and fell asleep.

 

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Keith woke up with the crushing feeling of guilt and regret and every other bad feeling ever.

First of all, because Lance isn’t here and he thinks he went too far last night—second, he didn’t tell Lance the true reason he went to the barn last night.

He’s leaving today. Well—tonight. They have to get to the airport super early in the morning tomorrow so they have to pack today and leave at like, 1am.

And he didn’t want to tell Lance because he didn’t want to ruin their moment—and he may have gotten a little too ambitious because all he could think was ‘I might never see Lance again and I want to milk this moment for all it’s worth’…but he didn’t even think about how lance felt…he’s such a dick. He’s gotta apologize. But what if lance doesn’t even want to talk to him?

He got up and decided to take a shower before even trying to talk to Lance. He needs a moment to think about what he’s gonna say. He can’t ruin this more than he already has…he hopes……

 

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After his shower, he dressed like how he usually did, just jeans and a plain shirt. If he ever goes anywhere else again, he’s gonna pack way more clothes because he felt really boring the whole time.

The most he dressed was when he wore lances sweater. And don’t even get him started on his hair. It was probably a mess the whole time. But he just put it in a low ponytail to avoid looking completely crazy.

He did the same today, not feeling like doing anything special.

He left and walked downstairs. Keith’s family and lances parents and sisters were all in the kitchen.

He didn’t see Lance though.

His mom was the first to notice him “Good morning! Hopefully you get up this early when we get back, too”

Acxa snorted “I doubt it. He wouldn’t get up if the house was on fire”

”Hey, come on, you weren’t any better. You were late all the time in high school” shiro added.

”You’re not even part of this!”

Veronica laughed and shoved a grape in her mouth “Ok you’ve been drinking—that’s enough”

”So early??” Lances dad said, laughing and Acxa giggled, shrugging. Krolia shook her head “I hate that my kids can drink now”

”I think it’s funny” heith added, earning a hit on the arm. “Its not.”

“Anyways—Keith, do you know where Lance went? He’s was supposed to be helping but he was super dodgy when he said he was going to the barn so uh…maybe you could check on him?” Veronica said, picking out grapes from the bag and feeding them to Acxa.

”Uh—no—but I can go check on him…”

”Ok, thank you—tell him to come back as soon as he’s done doing whatever…you too! We’re gonna all eat together one last time. Even the holts are coming so it’ll be a lot of cooking.”

Keith just nodded and said bye before leaving. He really messed up didn’t he……

He walked to the barn and saw Lance sitting on a hay bale, talking to one of the chickens. He’d like to not bother him but he kept on walking anyway.

When lance noticed him, he felt the urge to stop walking and leave but against his better judgment, he stopped in front of him.

Lance didn’t say anything and looked upset. Keith honestly has no idea what to say. He’s sorry? That doesn’t feel like it would be enough…he seems really upset.

So what he decided to say was…nothing. He just sat down next to him and looked at the ground, feeling the worst.

They sat in silence for a few minutes and Keith couldn’t handle it anymore “I’m sorry—“

Immediately, lance started talking “You should be!”

Keith was about to say more but lance shook his head “Like—seriously? You knew and didn’t tell me?! Especially after we—Ugh!” He slouched down, putting his head on his hands and Keith frowned, now confused.

”Wait…what are you talking about…?”

He sat up and scoffed “What??”

Now feeling a little defensive, Keith scoffed back “What do you mean?”

”You knew you were leaving and you didn’t tell me! I asked your mom and she said she told you yesterday—before you left.”

”That’s what you’re mad about??”

”Of course?! What else would I be mad at??”

”Last night! I went way too far!”

After a few seconds, lance calmed down and then laughed “That’s why you thought I was mad?”

Embarrassed, Keith nodded and lance sighed “Why would that make me mad?”

Keith looked away to hide his face getting red and shrugged “I got a little too excited and I feel like I made you uncomfortable…and that’s why you left…”

”Oh…” Lance looked away, basically confirming Keith’s worries. He did make him unc—

“I didn’t leave cause you make me uncomfortable……”

Keith looked back at him and frowned “Then why’d you leave…?”

Lance slouched down again and laughed “Because I also got excited…”

Realizing the major mistake his mind made, Keith—not expecting to—laughed.

Lance sat up, blushing “Don’t laugh! It’s so embarrassing!”

“So you’re not mad that I did that?”

”No! I wanted to go on…but I got nervous!”

“You…did?”

Lance nodded and Keith stood up, grabbing lances hand to take him with him. “What are you doing?”

“Hold on—“

He started walking out of the barn, keeping lances hand in his own and lance laughed “Where are you going??”

Keith just chuckled and kept walking. And lance just followed to where he was going, sometimes giggling, making Keith die and want to get there faster.

Soon, lance seemed to understand where they were going and let go of Keith’s hand to walk in front of him. “We’re going to the barn? Is the new one not good enough for you?”

“It’s less private” There was tall grass and other types of big plants on the ground but keith got distracted by lance and tripped a little. But they both started laughing and lance stopped walking “I thought you knew the way here”

Keith rolled his eyes “I do, I never said I didn’t have this problem last night. And the grass used to be shorter”

Lance grabbed his hands and started walking backwards “Well, now you have me so you don’t have to worry about it”

 

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They continued walking and when they got there, they went in the old entrance and stopped to look around. You can actually see it now that’s it’s not pitch black. And it’s really petty. There’s plants everywhere and the sunlight shining through the wood really helps it look less…depressing.

Keith looked confused “You know how this place looks, it shouldn’t be shocking”

Lance looked at ground “Well…I actually haven’t been here since you left”

”Why not?”

“I dunno…just denying feelings I guess”

Keith grabbed his hand again and started walking towards the stairs. Lance laughed as they cautiously walked up them “I feel like I’m a princess and you’re leading me somewhere, y’know, like how princes do”

Keith snorted and grabbed his other hand “This way, your majesty”

Lance smiled and looked down, scared that he’d fall again. But he felt Keith’s grip get tighter “I got you, it’s fine”

Lance looked back up and, feeling impatient, he started going faster and of course, tripped. But Keith caught him and tripped backwards but they were already at the top so he just ended up landing on top of him.

And still just as impatient, lance started kissing him. Keith started kissing back and they sat up, still smoochin away.

They had to move away from the stairs so they stopped for a moment and once they got where they wanted to go, Lance put his hands up Keith’s shirt, lifting it a little and feeling around. Ok, he didn’t expect him to be kinda like…fit.

Keith leaned in to kiss him but instead of actually kissing him, he slid off his button up shirt that he only had on for fashions sake. So it was already unbuttoned. 

He started to kiss his collar bone and lance felt shivers all over his body. He lifted up his shirt more and Keith stopped. For a second, lance thought he made a mistake but Keith only stopped to let lance completely take his shirt off.

So he did and before continuing, he took off his own tank top. Keith didn’t kiss him though and looked down. Lance suddenly felt super self conscious so he laughed nervously “Sorry, it’s probably underwhelming”

Keith looked back up at him and frowned “Why are you apologizing?”

”Cause you might’ve expected me to be…I dunno……good looking…?”

Keith continued kissing him but went up to his ear and softly said “I think you look amazing” and kissed his ear again.

”For the record…I think you also look amazing” He could barely talk but he still tried “Like—really amazing”

He ran his fingers through Keith’s hair, taking out the hair tie “And I really like your hair—I’ve always been jealous of guys who can pull off long hair—“ Keith started using his tongue.

“But—I think I was just really attracted to it”Instinctively, he arched his back and moved, tugging his hair a little. Lance felt him moan while kissing his neck.

It tickled but it also felt…y’know.

Then he realized how much he’d been talking “Crap—sorry, I’ve been talking like—way too much”

Keith shook his head and lance looked at him and was speechless. His lips are a bit pinker and he’s breathing kinda heavy. And he has this really wholesome yet…something more look in his eyes.

”No—tell me how you feel” Without looking away, he moved his hands down to his waist, stopping at the top of his shorts. Tell me if you want me to stop”

He moved his hands down a little further to the top of his thighs. Lance didn’t say anything because freaking obviously he doesn’t want him to stop.

And lance hadn’t realized how impatient he was until now because without warning, he kissed Keith and moved his hand down for him. 

And you can imagine what happened next cause I’m not writing that biz!!!

 

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After their little……escapade……lance remembered something incredibly important. “Crap!! We have to help cook! I completely forgot!” He got off Keith’s lap and grabbed his tank top and put it on. Keith did the same with his shirt and looked equally as frantic.

”Shit—Im so sorry! I was supposed to bring you back!”

”We’re gonna have to think of one great excuse to explain why we were gone for so long”

They quickly walked to the stairs and lance added “And why we look the way we do”

”We look fine?”

Lance looked back and smirked “Ok, Mr. hot and bothered—“ in his effort to cool and nonchalant, he tripped. Jeez!!! He hates these freaking stairs!!

And this time, Keith didn’t help. “That was deserved”

”No it wasn’t! You totally look hot and bothered!”

”So do you”

”I never said I didn’t”

They left the barn and lance looked down, suddenly really flustered “And we have to change cause uh……y’know….in an old barn and stuff….we probably look dirty”

Keith smirked at him, knowingly.

”Shut up”

”I didn’t say anything”

They continued going through the woods and the candy cane forest (missed something huge there) but lance stopped right before they got to the field “Wait—we can’t just go in there and change??! They’ll ask questions and I’m not that prepared!!”

Keith looked around for a second then back at lance “Say you fell in a puddle”

”But I didn’t—“

Suddenly, Keith pushed him down into something wet.

Did he just—

He didn’t……

………

He did!!

”Did you just push me in a puddle??!?” He gasped.

Keith crouched down and held out his hands “now you can say you fell in a puddle.”

Lance grabbed his hands “So can you”

”What—“

He pulled Keith towards him and he fell on his knees right in the puddle. Jerk.

”I was trying to help you!”

”You don’t help people by pushing them in puddles!!?”

”The solution to our problem involved you falling in a puddle—not me!”

”We could’ve made a plan or something! I would have fallen myself into a puddle!”

”Its really hard to be mad and say puddle!”

Lance snorted “It totally is”

”Come on, we have to get back” Keith got up and lance let him help him up without pulling him into a puddle. He’ll let it go……for now.

 “Well, now we both have reasons to change”

Keith just rolled his eyes and they walked back to his house. When they got there, lances mom immediately opened the door looking worried/like she wanted to damn lance to hell for eternity.

”Where have you been??” She started scolding him (and a little bit of Keith) in Spanish until she noticed lances—now muddy—pants.

“¿Por qué tus pantalones están tan sucios?”

“He pushed me into a puddle!”

Keith looked at lance, looking slightly betrayed “You fell in the puddle!”

Lance frowned and crossed him arms, remembering they actually had to have a plan…but no! He’s still mad! “You also fell!”

”Because you pulled me in after you!”

”Yeah, only cause you pushed me!”

“Okay!” His mom said—stopping them. Lance thinks they both forgot about the plan for a second……luckily they didn’t say anything else though.

”You both go change and hurry up so we can finish cooking! And make up! There’s no fighting while we eat!”

They both nodded and she let them inside. As they went up the stairs, Keith whispered “I thought we had a plan??”

Lance huffed “That was before you pushed me without telling me first”

”I didn’t think you’d let me!”

”Well, for future reference—I would have!”

They got to his room and started to change. And lance, even though he didn’t think Keith would mind, he made sure to look away.

”Yesterday, I told hunk that I liked guys”

Lance was in the middle of putting on his pants when he felt Keith get beside him “How’d it go?”

Lance smiled and looked at Keith “It actually went really well. I also told Veronica because—well…” Keith didn’t have his shirt on and it was kind of distracting. “A few days ago, I was gonna tell her that I thought I liked you but then you interrupted……I also told hunk and they both said to tell you……”

Keith smiled back and moved closer “I guess you have thought about it”

Lance laughed and leaned in to kiss him again but they both jumped at a knock at the door. They looked at each other in panic before quickly continuing to get dressed “Hold on!” Lance yelled out, trying to put on his pants as fast as he could.

”It’s me, Pidge! Let me in!”

”I said hold on!”

”What are you even doing??”

”We’re getting dressed, hold on!”

”I know, your mom told me! I don’t mind!”

Keith rolled his eyes, already fully dressed, and walked to the door and opened it so she could come in. “Ugh, finally”

She walked in and closed the door then squinted at them “You’ve changed in front of me before…?”

Lance put his hands on his hips “Well Keith hasn’t and I didn’t know if he’d okay with it”

”He knows I’m ace and don’t care if he’s ugly or something”

”Ow??”

”Not that you are ugly. I seriously doubt it”

Keith rolled his eyes again and pidge sat down on the bed “By the way, I seriously think mat is into shiro. It’s kinda freaky.”

Lance realized he didn’t get a shirt so he walked to his closet “Why do you think that?”

”Cause every time he sees him he’s all ‘Ooh shiro look at this’ and he’s got those googly eyes”

He got one and put it on and pidge hadn’t said anything so he turned around and saw them aggressively whispering to each other.

They both stopped when they saw that lance was looking at them, which made him even more confused……and worried.

Keith glared at her and she looked looked conflicted and mouthed to him ‘I have to’

”Ok—what’s going on?”

”I couldn’t help but notice—“ Keith stopped her and lance shook his head “What??”

She glared at Keith back and he stood up, taking her to the door and opening it “You wait outside”

He moved her outside and she crossed her arms and pouted “Hurry up you jerks”

He closed the door and locked it and quickly went back to lance and started moving the collar of his shirt. Lance looked down confused and Keith bit his bottom lip “Shit”

”What?? You’re both being super cryptic right now and I’m confused”

”You have hickeys!”

”Huh?!”

Lance looked where Keith was pointing but couldn’t see anything so he ran out his room, ignoring Pidge and going straight to the bathroom. Of course they followed him in so he whisper yelled “Shut the door!”

Keith did and lance looked in the mirror, seeing very obvious freaking hickeys. Oh god…

”Why didn’t you tell me earlier?!” He looked at Pidge and she shrugged defensively “Keith told me not to!”

”Because I was gonna tell you!”

”Why would it matter who tells him??”

”Because—uh—“ Lance saw Keith struggling to answer so he sighed “Because they’re from him”

Pidge pursed her lips “Ooooh”

Keith covered his face and lance looked back in the mirror.

Pidge kept talking “Soooo, you finally realized how gone Keith is for you, huh?—Ow!”

He assumed Keith hit her in the arm but he was too focused on the marks on his neck “What do I do?! I’ve never had a hickey before!”

“Allura never given you one?—Oh shit! Allura! Listen—I’m all about helping out my friends but you know I don’t agree with cheating—“

”I’m not cheating on her! We broke up”

”Oh……then great!…I guess…I’m so happy for you two!”

”Ok—enough of that, we have to figure out how to hide them!” Lance looked at them and Keith’s face was super red. But he ignored how adorable he found it.

”Makeup?” Pidge suggested, so lance looked in the cabinet and saw Rachel’s makeup bag…she wouldn’t mind if he used some of her foundation……right? He hopes so.

They were both at his side when he looked through the bag. Here! He pulled out the foundation but frowned when he saw it was almost empty.

But it should be enough. Sorry Rachel.

”Jeez, what did you two get into?? It’s late so how long were you—and changing clothes?! Damn I didn’t think either of you were that freaky—“

”It wasn’t like that!” Keith said and lance nodded “I fell in a puddle and pulled him in with me, that’s why he had to change”

“Yeah sure”

”It’s true!” Lance was already half done but she was starting to really fluster him with all the observations. How can she know so freaking much?!

”Ok but why’d you pull him in with you”

”Cause I freaked out and grabbed his shirt”

”Was this before or after you two started getting freaky”

”Can you stop saying it like that??” Keith once again, blushed and Pidge snorted “What? Only truly freaky people give other people hickeys—so I guess it’s Keith that’s the freaky one”

”What??”

”But then again it might have been just pent up lust with years of longing—“

”What the hell??”

“Sorry, I’ve been reading a lot of romance books”

”Why? You literally don’t care about romance” Lance said, finishing with the foundation, feeling bad that he ended up using the rest of it.

”No, I just said I don’t feel it. But it’s super interesting…and kinda fun to make fun of”

Lance turned to Pidge and she squinted at his neck and nodded “I don’t see them anymore”

”Ok good”

She opened the door and walked out and Rachel was there “Hey Pidge!”

Lance quickly put away her makeup and walked out too “Hey lance…”

Then Keith followed “Keith…?”

”Hey, we were just getting ready, y’know we wanna look good for everyone’s last day here”

”Keith too?”

”Yeah! He’s here for uh….moral support!”

Keith nodded and she squinted “Ok…well moms pretty mad at you so you should go downstairs”

Lances heart skipped and beat and they all quickly walked downstairs. Scared for his life, he slowly walked into the kitchen, where his and Keith’s mom were talking.

 

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They both looked in their direction and frowned “How long does it take to get dressed??” His mom started and Lance’s mom looked at Keith “And why did you push Lance??”

They both looked at each other and started explaining “It was an accident!”

”Yeah, he tripped on something and pushed me and I fell in a puddle!”

”You weren’t just stalling?”

Lance shook his head “No!”

“Ok—just—come and help us. Keith, honey, you and pidge can go back to his room if you want to”

Keith kinda felt bad that she was upset with lance “I can uh, help…?”

”Are you sure? You don’t have to?”

He shook his head “No, it’s fine”

She smiled and motioned towards lance, who was now next to Veronica, cutting something “Can you help lance then?”

He nodded and walked over to lance and Veronica smiled “Hey Keith~ you here to take over?”

He remembered that lance told her that he liked him so he guessed that’s why she was all smirky right now. He doesn’t think she knows that anything happened yet.

”Please do, she’s being so annoying”

Keith chuckled and nodded “I guess so”

Veronica handed him the knife and moved out of the way “Have fun~”

Keith stood where she was standing and lance didn’t look up and whispered “I’m regretting telling her. She’s never gonna let me hear the end of it”

Keith smiled “I told Acxa…and I told Pidge but that was when we were kids”

”Really? So she wasn’t lying when she said years” He snickered and Keith nudged his arm a little “Shut up”

”Are you gonna eat with everyone? Cause I’m fine with going in my room.”

”I think I have to……but I’m fine with it”

”Ok good.” Lance smiled and Keith glanced at him “And sorry for not telling you I was leaving.”

”It’s fine. We can still talk to each other”

”Yeah but I still should’ve have told you”

“Seriously, it’s ok. It’s not like I’ll never see you again”

”I’m not good with texting though…so what if it’s always really awkward”

”Then we can call each other! And obviously visit. Don’t even think about never coming back here”

Keith chuckled “I will one day”

”You better. And if not for me, then for everyone else. We all really care about you”

”I will…and thank you”

Lance looked like he was about to say something but he frowned. “Your hair”

He grabbed the hair tie from Keith’s wrist and took it off and got behind him.

”You can’t cook with your hair down. Especially with how long it is” he started to put his hair in a ponytail

He finished and continued cutting. Keith reached back and fixed it “Sorry, I forgot”

“I told you your hair‘s getting too long!” Acxa shouted out and they looked back at her. Veronica sighed and grabbed her shoulders “Mamá, I’m gonna take her to the living room”

Camilla laughed and nodded and Veronica and Acxa left the kitchen. Keith just rolled his eyes and continued helping with the cooking stuff.

And the whole time, lance and keith stayed together, talking about random crap. Also about how they noticed what Pidge did when Matt talked to shiro. And now knowing that shiro is gay, he’s noticing that shiro looks just as love struck.

And though no one said anything, he noticed how Acxa acted around Veronica. Ok, what is up with everyone suddenly being gay?!!

And how are lances parents gonna react if not one, but two of their kids are gay?? But—he thinks lance is bi, since he’s been with a lot of girls. Not that that means he’s also into girls but Keith also noticed how happy he was with allura.

Which also makes him really nervous because what if they don’t end up being that happy? What if when he leaves, everything goes to shit, just like last time. Like—what if lance realizes he was wrong and regrets—suddenly, he felt lance put his hand on his arm “Hey, you okay?”

They were done helping at the moment so they were just standing on the side, not doing anything. And just as Keith was about to say something, his mom said “Hey Keith, have you packed yet? Because if not, you should go and do it”

Keith shook his head and she nodded. He and lance then left and he noticed Pidge was busy saying something to Mat—probably teasing him—so he didn’t bother asking if she wanted to come with them.

Once they got to his room, Lance said again “Are you okay?”

Keith shut the door and sighed “Are you like…really sure? I don’t want to keep asking cause I’m sure it’s annoying but I want to make sure. Obviously I’m not thinking about the future future but……what if this was all a mistake and…I don’t know……”

Lance walked up to him and kissed him. It didn’t last long though because he pulled away and looked at Keith with a super determined expression “It’s not a mistake. And I’m sure. I’m very sure.”

”But you seemed so happy with allura, are you sure you wanna throw that away?”

”Keith, I’ve done more with you than I have with allura in the year we’ve been dating. I haven’t even kissed her the way I want to do with you.”

”What if that’s all this is?”

”Its not. I promise you it’s not. Because when I think of the future I see way more than kissing or…whatever…And if I do think about the future future, I can still imagine us being together. Yeah, it’s probably too early to think that but I can’t help it! Ever since you came back, I don’t think I’ve ever been happier…and that’s kind of embarrassing to say but I’m gonna say it anyway”

”Me too…”

Lance smiled and then kissed him again. But Keith stopped him “You might rub off the makeup”

He looked down and laughed “Oh yeah—ok, I’ll help you pack”

They put a few shirts in his bag and…well…they were done. “Is that all you packed??” He looked in his bag and Keith grabbed it, embarrassed. “I wasn’t planning on impressing anyone”

”Not even me?”

Keith rolled his eyes, blushing “No, I was gonna avoid you but then your mom kind of ruined that”

Lance laughed “Well—that worked out for you, didn’t it”

He chuckled “Yeah”

”I’m glad it didn’t though”

”…Me too”

“Ok what do you wanna do now that we’re done”

Keith looked around and then shrugged “I don’t know”

”We can go say bye to the animals? I’m sure kaltenecker will miss you”

Keith smiled “Ok”

They left and saw Pidge standing at the end of the stairs on her phone “Hey pidge, you wanna come out the barn with us?”

”Animals are gross though….and scary”

”No they aren’t, come on!”

”UGH, fine but only for Keith”

They all went outside and walked to the barn and pidge covered her nose and stayed away from the animals.

Keith walked up to kaltenecker and pet her. “I’ll send you pictures of her baby”

”Expect me to be in every single one. Baby animals are way better than the adult ones”

Keith laughed and pidge slowly walked up to them, with a grossed out face.

”Just pet her she’s not gonna hurt you”

”What if she hates me and goes crazy”

”Thats not how cows work”

”No one knows how cows work”

”If you want to be around her baby, she’s gotta like you first”

She frowned at him then cautiously put her hand out and pet her. Kaltenecker mooed and she squealed and jumped back. Lance laughed and gestured at kaltenecker “Come on! Just try!”

She did it again but this time, she didn’t moo and pidge continued petting her. And soon, she ended up loving her.

And lance got a text from his mom saying they needed to come back but it took a bit to convince her to leave kaltenecker.

And when they got back, they saw another car in the driveway and Keith recognized it as Luis and Lisa’s.

They walked inside and it already sounded a lot louder than before. How can kids be so noisy??

The one Keith remembers, Silvio, ran up to them and grabbed smiled “Lance!!”

He hugged him and lance laughed and pat his head “Hey! Where’s Nadia?”

”Shes in the kitchen with mommy”

”Ok—let’s go then!”

They all went to the kitchen and Luis and Lisa saw them “Hey, have you seen Nadia? I looked away for a second and now she’s gone.” Luis said, looking exhausted.

Lisa sighed “Thats her special trick. Just disappearing.”

”I’ll go look for her” lance went back to the living room and Keith followed him “I usually find her the quickest…I don’t know why, I’m just really good at it”

”I can look upstairs if you want?”

Lance nodded crouching down “Yeah if she’s up there we’ll just find her faster”

Keith nodded before walking upstairs and looking down the hall. She wasn’t there so he went to the farthest door and knocked but no one answered so he slowly opened it. She wasn’t there so he closed it, feeling a bit awkward.

He checked in the bathroom and she wasn’t there either so he went to the next room and knocked before checking. And someone actually answered but it was Veronica “Yeah?”

”Uh…is Nadia in there?”

”No…did they lose her again? Dang, she’s always wandering off…but uh, no she’s not here—ow!”

He heard laughing and recognized it as Acxa’s. Wait, isn’t she drunk? Should he check on her?

”Is Acxa there with you?”

”Um…yeah…she drank a little too much and now…well……now she won’t let go of me”

Keith tried not to laugh “…Do you need help?”

”Kind of?”

He opened the door and saw Acxa sprawled out on the bed, gripping Veronica with all her might.

”Do you know how to wake her up? I was gonna stay with her anyway but I at least want to get comfortable”

Keith shook her and she didn’t budge at all. Alright, he’s gonna have to do it. He jabbed her in her side and she jolted up “Im up!”

”How did you—“

Acxa looked at her and her eyes got wide “Woah……you look…like…extra beautiful right now……”

Veronica blushed and Keith wondered if he should leave…this is getting……weird……

Veronica glanced at Keith and laughed nervously “Uh, thanks—but you should go back to sleep”

Acxa leaned up and cupped her cheek “Let’s cuddle”

Alright that’s enough—Keith isn’t about to watch his sister flirt with someone. “I’m gonna go now……good luck”

He left and shut the door. Gross.

The next room on the other side of the hallway was lances so he opened it and shockingly, he saw Nadia sitting on the floor, pressing down on soft pillow that was on his bed. It was one of those fluffy ones.

She didn’t say anything and just continued messing with the pillow.

”Uh…your parents are looking for you…” He has no idea how to deal with kids. I mean the last kid he talked to, he threatened…so…

But she still didn’t answer.

”They’re uh…worried, you know…”

She sniffled and Keith realized she was crying. But that doesn’t make it easier to say anything. It makes it a million times harder.

“Are…are you ok?”

She shook her head and sniffled again. He continued “What happened?”

”I lost fluffy”

”…fluffy?”

”My toy bunny. He was fluffy like this pillow”

Keith sighed, relieved that it wasn’t like a dog or something. He’s seen way too many kids crying over their pet dying. And it’s always really sad.

He sat down next to her and hugged his knees. “He was important to you?”

She nodded and Keith looked at her “You could ask your parents to get you a new toy?”

She looked at him and shook her head “No! He was my favorite!”

”Oh…then where do you think he is?”

She also hugged her knees and put her head down “I don’t know…”

”Where did you have him last?”

She stayed silent for a second and then huffed “In the car”

”Then he’s probably in the car”

”No I looked! Under the seats and everything!”

Oh….well……uh…he freaked out and gestured towards the pillow “Then take the pillow?”

She looked up at him with a hopeful glint in her eyes “Are you sure?”

He somehow couldn’t say no so he nodded “Yeah, I’m uh—I’m sure lance won’t mind”

”Thank you!” She hugged him and stood up, hugging the pillow. He stood up with her and she smiled at him “I wanna go show mommy!”

He smiled back awkwardly “Ok…”

She grabbed his hand and they went downstairs and passed Lance who looked shocked and proud, but when he saw her holding the pillow and his hand, he got confused.

Keith quickly tried to mouth “help” but this little girl is stronger than he thought. So she pulled him into the kitchen. Well—he thinks her will is stronger than her arms.

”Mommy! Daddy! Look what Keith gave me!” She held up the pillow and looked at Keith, confused. But they looked down at her when they saw how confused Keith was as well.

Soon, lance was beside him and be whispered “Thats my pillow??”

Keith whispered back “She was crying about her toy bunny thing!”

“I lost fluffy so he gave me this!”

”Nads, fluffy is in the car, daddy found him”

She gasped and smiled “Really??”

Lisa nodded and then Nadia looked down at the pillow and then at Keith “Can I still keep this, please?”

Not knowing what to do, keith just nodded and lance scoffed “What the heck?!”

”Thank you!!” She ran off into the living room and they all looked at Keith, confused “She was crying??”

”Aww, she was? I didn’t know that thing was so important to her”

”Yeah, she loses it all the time”

“You would think that would make her realize how we feel when we can’t find her”

Keith looked at lance who looked just a little betrayed “You’re lucky I love my family or else I would’ve fought you and then her for my fluffy pillow”

”No, you wouldn’t have” Luis smiled and lance scoffed “I love that pillow! Allura gave it to me!”

”Aww~ your girlfriend gave you the pillow and you love it?” Luis said, obviously teasing him. Lance crossed his arms “She gave it to me when we were younger”

”Awww~~~” he started making kissy faces and lance crossed his arms and looked at Keith “Now, you owe me a pillow”

”I don’t have a pillow right now?”

“Then you better bring one when you come back”

”Ok, I will”

“Hey, what’s goin on here?” Suddenly, marco showed up and lance pointed at Luis “he’s making fun of me—“ then he pointed at Keith “and he stole my pillow and sacrificed it to the devil”

”I’d appreciate it if you didn’t call my daughter a devil” Lisa said, laughing a bit.

”Well—she’s part devil” he glared at Luis but he just rolled his eyes, chuckling.

”I’d also appreciate it if you didn’t call my husband the devil” she grabbed his arm and smiled “Even if it is a little true……for both”

”Ouch”

“You know it’s true” she kissed his cheek and laughed again “I’m gonna go help some more, you should too”

”Uuuggh ok”

They left and talked to lances mom. And lance squinted at Keith “Im not joking about that pillow”

Keith rolled his eyes and they both waited in the living room with everyone until his mom was done cooking.

 

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And soon enough, everything was done and it was time for everyone to eat. Almost instantly, everyone started talking about a little bit of everything. 

They talked way more than they even ate. And it was already petty late so it was time to start putting all their stuff in the car.

Keith helped but suddenly, lance grabbed his arm and laughed as he pulled him back inside and up to his room.

Keith laughed since Lance was laughing “What?? We have to leave soon!”

”I know! I just wanted to do something one last time”

”Wha-“

He smiled and kissed him, putting his arms around his neck. It took Keith a second to process but when he did, he kissed him back.

Lance pulled away and locked the door before leading Keith to his bed “Lance!”

He laid down, bringing Keith with him “Come on, I don’t know when you’re coming back. I’m gonna miss you”

Keith frowned then rolled his eyes, a little flustered that he was on top of lance now, super pressed together. “I’m gonna miss you too”

”Then kiss me you fool!” He pulled Keith’s face down to kiss him but Keith couldn’t stop his laughing, making lance laugh too.

”Stop laughing! This is totally serious!” he whisper yelled.

”You’re laughing too??”

“Yeah, cause you’re laughing”

“Because you’re stupid”

Lance gasped, dramatically “You’re so mean!”

”Do you think we’ll see each other again?” Keith said, not really laughing anymore. I mean, it’s a serious question. Albeit probably a little silly.

Lance stopped laughing too and cupped his face “Of course, why wouldn’t we?”

”I don’t know……like I said I suck at texting…and I don’t know if I’ll end up texting too little or too much……I don’t wanna be annoying”

Lance leaned up a little and kissed his nose “You could text me all day every day and it wouldn’t be annoying”

”That seems annoying though”

”Not if it’s you”

Keith smiled and kissed him again “You could do the same”

Lance ran his fingers through his hair, which Keith really liked the feel of, and smiled back “Good, cause I might text you in the middle of night when I can’t sleep. And it’ll probably be about crazy sea creatures or something”

”Then I guess I’m gonna be learning a lot about the sea then”

”And you can text me when you can’t sleep. About animals or stars or something.”

”What if we called each other instead…it seems a little easier”

Lance laughed and shook his head “I mean I’m fine with either one so that’s up to you”

Keith remembered that they actually have to freaking leave so he started to get up “Shit, we should go”

But lance pulled him back down, looking serious “Wait—kiss me one last time…and make it count cause I don’t know when the next time we kiss will be”

Thinking of ways to ‘make it count’ Keith smiled then moved down to the bottom of his shirt and lifted it up a little. Lance looked nervous but he smiled when Keith kissed right below his belly button.

Then, he did the Jules/Eliot thing from euphoria because why the hell not? He’s ‘making it count’ and he’s glad he did because he can tell lance liked it.

He went back up to his face and lance was smiling “That was the best way you could’ve made it count”

They kissed regularly one last time then jumped when they heard Acxa yelling “What are you doing??! We have to go!”

They looked at each other, both shocked then started laughing as they got up. Lance quickly went to his closet and gave Keith the sweater he wore to the school thing “Here—say you forgot this”

Keith smiled and nodded and as he was unlocking the door lance hugged him from behind “I’m really gonna miss you”

Keith smiled more “Me too”

”I can’t wait till you come back…or I visit you…either way I don’t care”

“Come on!!!” Acxa screamed again and lance gave him one tight squeeze before letting go.

They went back downstairs and they were looking at them “Sorry—I uh, forgot this”

His mom smiled and rolled her eyes “Ok, well everything’s in, so come on”

They walked outside and Keith got in and so did lance “You’re coming?”

Lance scoffed “Duh?”

They all sat where they sat last time and Acxa was a little less drunk so she was wide awake. And Keith so badly wanted to tease her but he doesn’t want to out her.

Camilla started driving and Keith is happy that it’s dark outside because Lance held his hand. But suddenly Acxa turned the car light on so they quickly stopped.

Veronica was beside her and she was smirking at lance and Acxa was smirking at Keith. They would be non stop teasing them if they knew they were right. And Keith doesn’t think he’d mind it.

Lance leaned up and flicked Veronica on the forehead “What’re you staring at me like that for?”

She wiggled her eyebrows and so did Acxa, but at Keith. Shiro looked at them, confused “What are you two doing?”

”Shh! We’re teasing our little brothers!”

”Why….?”

Theh both gave each other a look that Keith knew meant ‘they’re so gay’ but he ignored it.

“It’s just what big sisters do……make fun of their little siblings…?”

”That doesn’t seem right”

“That’s cause you have ‘morals’ or whatever”

”You dont?”

Acxa smiled innocently “Nope! Anyway—Keith we barely talked during this, what were you doing the whole time?” She looked crazy and Keith thinks she might have been drinking more.

Keith leaned up and smiled back, just as innocently “I don’t know, Acxa, what about you? Who—sorry—what have you been doing?” He glanced at Veronica who looked away, with wide eyes.

Acxa leaned forward more, still smiling innocently “Hmm, let me think…oh! What about you, lance??”

Veronica grabbed her and chuckled nervously “Ok, that’s enough”

”But I was—“

”I know, but it’s enough”

She pouted and sat back, leaning on Veronica. Keith noticed lance was on his phone. Then his phone dinged. He looked and saw a text from lance.

 

Lance

what was that about???

 

Keith

she knows

 

He heard lance chuckle a little and nudge his foot.

 

Lance

Are you gonna come out to your family? Like when you get home or something?

 

Keith

Yeah I think so

 

”Acxa turn off the light, it’s way too bright”

”Uuugghh” she groaned and reached up to press the button. When the light was off, lance grabbed his hand again and leaned in and whispered in his ear “I think I am too. Like, tell them I’m bi”

Keith smiled and whispered back “I’m proud of you then”

“I’m proud of you too”

Lance sighed and laid his head on his shoulder. And since it was literally 1am now, they both ended up falling asleep.

 

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Lance was awake before they got to the airport but Keith was fast asleep. Well, lance had fallen asleep but woke up to a horrible feeling in his back and it turned out that the handle was digging into him the whole time so he had to move so he put his legs up and hugged Keith, smiling while remembering that this is how they first were when he came back. And then he went back to sleep.

But now he’s awake again, and so is everyone else but they all seem too tired to question why he’s hugging him the way he is.

He looked out the window and saw the airport so he shook Keith a little. He opened his eyes then looked around. Probably realizing where he is, he sat up and looked behind him at lance.

Then he looked at everyone else, who seemed just as tired and out of it and sighed. Lance moved his legs down and Camilla parked the car and they all got out, barely talking.

And after they got their luggage out and onto the thingy, it was time to say their goodbyes.

They all hugged and lance noticed Veronica and Acxa hugging a bit longer than they probably should have. And soon, it was time to say bye to keith.

He hugged him and Keith put his chin on his shoulder. Lance sighed “I don’t want you to leave”

Keith hugged him tighter “I don’t wanna leave”

Lance gave him the tightest squeeze his tired little body could do and let go “Text me when you get home”

Keith nodded and lance wanted to kiss him but some people were already staring at them weird, probably for how long they hugged.

But he doesn’t care, he just doesn’t want his family to know yet. He’s gonna tell them soon though.

As they walked away, lance felt his entire heart shatter and fly away. But he quickly felt better because he remembered that he’ll literally see him again?? It’s not that sad of a moment, he’s just going back home, for now.

Once they were out of sight, they went back to the car and Lance groaned when he got back in. Veronica smiled at lance, a little sadly “I’m sorry lance”

”For what?”

She lowered her voice “I know it sucks seeing him go”

He kind of forgot he told her so he freaked out but only for a second. He frowned, now feeling sad “He’ll be back”

”I hope so. Because guess what?”

”Hm?” He closed his eyes, ready to go back to sleep. But she whispered “Me and Acxa have been together for a while now”

Lance sat up, gasping. But she shushed him so he stayed quiet “What??”

”Those trips I took, they were all with her. She hasn’t told her family either”

Lance smiled and laughed “Me and Keith kissed”

She gasped, equally as loud and lance had to shush her “Be quiet!!”

”I told you telling him was worth it!”

”It totally was”

”Now we just gotta tell our parents……and everyone else……”

”How though….?”

She smiled and sat up “Like this—“

Lance gasped and she leaned up towards the drivers seat and Camilla, who was sitting in the passengers seat, smiled “I hope they come back!”

”Me too……and mamá…?”

”Yes, mija?”

”I like women…like romantically……I’m gay”

Lance watched, holding his breath. This could make or break like……everything.

But because not everyone is sitting by, watching the word burn with laughing, she smiled and cupped her face “Oh, mija. I don’t care, as long as you’re happy”

Pedro laughed “Sí, we kind of guessed so anyway”

Camilla gasped “Hey! Don’t say that! We love you and all we want is for you to be happy”

She hugged her from behind the seat “I love you, mamá”

“no llores mi amor!!”

“Sorry, I didn’t think I would”

Lance sat back, and got out his phone. He knew obviously Keith couldn’t text back now but he couldn’t contain his excitement.

 

Lance

 

Veronica came out!!!!! 

and they were like

super supportive

so don’t crash and die on that plane because you HAVE to be alive for when I do

and you have to be alive to come out to your family

Obviously

dont forget to text me!!!

<3

He put his phone away and couldn’t stay awake so he ended falling asleep. And his dream was about Keith and it may have gotten just teensy tiny bit R rated. But that’s not important. And it’s completely Keith’s fault.

 

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When they got on the plane, he almost fell asleep right when he sat down but he had to at least wait until they were in the air.

Luckily different people sat down next to him and they seemed quiet so thank god for that.

They started flying and instead of falling asleep, he wanted to look out the window for a bit at the clouds and the lights that were on.

Its actually quite pretty so he ended up watching for about half an hour. Then he remembered lance telling him to text him so he started thinking of what he could say when he gets home.

Just like ‘hey’ or is that too bland?

As he thought, his eyes started to close and soon, he fell asleep. But he’s really gotta figure that out.

 

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After many many exhausting hours of sitting and walking and everything else Keith doesn’t want to do, he’s finally home and ready to sleep for the rest of the summer.

But something about the fact that now, he has something to look forward to—it’s really making him not want to go to sleep.

He laid on his bed and turned his phone off airplane mode and saw 8 texts from lance. He looked at them and sat up, laughing at what they said.

He quickly texted back without thinking

 

Keith 

Im not dead

 

Lance texted back almost immediately

 

Lance

Hey!!!

Dang that flight must have been long

 

Keith

And exhausting

 

Lance

Im sorry :((

you should sleep then!! We can talk tomorrow

 

Keith

I think that’s what I’ll do

 

Lance

lol ok

talk to you tomorrow <333

 

Keith

ok

 

He didn’t even turn off his phone and closed his eyes. He heard his phone ding one more time so he looked right before falling asleep

 

 

Lance

goodnight :)

Notes:

Consent is so sessy ngl😏😏

Chapter 11: Chapter 10

Summary:

‼️Fanart!! 2nd, 3rd, and 4th pictures on this post! And the last one if you wanna go ahead and look at it (it’s the last one for this whole fic)

A few months later, school had already started and honestly, it’s not as bad as last year. Mostly because Keith had people to talk to. He ignored people who picked on him and soon, they realized that it wasn’t working anymore and stopped.

Until one day, while he was not really paying attention in his math class, someone tapped his shoulder and he was going to ignore it but against his better judgment, he looked over and it was the girl sitting next to him.

He didn’t recognize her but was pretty quiet so he didn’t think she’d say anything bad. And luckily, she didn’t.

”Do you have a pencil I can borrow?”

Keith didn’t really expect that question but he nodded anyway and handed her the pencil he was holding. She smiled and took it and he got a new one from his bag.

He also didn’t expect her to keep talking “I’m Ina Leifsdottir by the way”

He looked back at her and tried not to show too much emotion “Keith”

”I know—“ she looked away “I hear people talking about you a lot and I don’t think it’s fair”

He knew they wouldn’t get in trouble for talking since they were at the back of the class, but she was still quiet. And Keith didn’t respond because he didn’t know how to. No one here has ever really talked to him before.

”Sorry for being so upfront—I don’t really have a filter” she looked at him and laughed a bit “I just know how it feels to be bullied for something insignificant”

”Like what?” He also kept his voice down.

”Well—I’m on the spectrum and when my old school found out about that, they called me all sorts of things.”

Keith looked away, feeling a little awkward “Uh—sorry”

”It’s okay, I’ve stopped caring what other people think.”

Keith nodded, smiling a little “Me too”

”Good. People here are just as bad as my old school but now that I don’t know them, I can at least try to make new friends”

Keith nodded again “Yeah”

”So……do you want to be friends…?”

She looked at him and Keith could somehow tell she wasn’t joking or fucking with him or something so he nodded “Ok……yeah”

She smiled and laughed “So do you want to eat lunch with me? I also have another friend, his name is Ryan Kinkade”

Keith recognizes that name. He was also quiet and he never really talked to Keith. Mainly because they had no classes together. They’ve only said hi to each other once in the bathroom as Keith was washing his hands.

But it was more of a nod so they haven’t ever talked to each other. But uh…he doesn’t really think about those times because he was with James.

”Uh—yeah, sure”

“Good!”

They continued talking until the bell rang. They walked out together and went to the cafeteria. Keith didn’t get anything, still a bit too nervous to eat in front of people. She seemed concerned but he just said he wasn’t hungry.

They sat down and Ryan smiled “Hey!”

”This is Keith, he’s nice” They sat down and he pointed at him.

”Yeah, I’ve seen you before!”

”Ive uh…seen you too” he laughed nervously and Ryan gestured towards the students that would give Keith the most shit “They have this like—target on your back, huh”

”I think they might be jealous. You are a lot better looking than anyone there. So they probably see you as competition or something. You know, just useless high school drama.”

”Thanks but uh—I doubt it”

”No, they think they live in some sort of movie. They really need to grow up already. Like who even cares if someone is gay??”

Keith was shocked that he said that and he could tell that he was too. He covered his mouth “I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to say that”

Keith would have just gotten up and left but……he’s sick and tired of this “No, you’re right.”

They both looked at each other, shocked. Then Ryan sighed, seeming relieved “Oh thank god that would have been so embarrassing if I was wrong”

”So you’re gay? Do you have a boyfriend?” Ina said, casually eating her sandwich. And Keith actually nodded. Lance had talked to him for about an hour about if they were boyfriends or not but he stopped when Keith just said that it didn’t matter and he’d be fine with it.

”Uh—yeah—but he doesn’t go here”

”Where does he go?”

”I don’t know the name but it’s in veradero”

”Ooh, that’s pretty far away, how’d you meet?”

They talked about it for a bit and Keith learned that Ryan was actually bi. And he had a girlfriend but she wasn’t at school today.

And basically—it was a good day.

 

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When he got home, he laid down and got out his phone and saw a few texts from lance…some very excited texts.

 

Lance

IT HAPPENED!!!!

SHE HAD RHE BABT!!!!

 

Keith

Slow down what happened

 

Lance

Kaltenecker had her baby!!

Look!!!!

 

He send a picture of himself with his cheek pressed against the baby cows cheek. Needless to say, it was adorable. And Keith let him know.

 

Keith

that’s adorable

 

Lance

i know right??

she’s precious

 

Keith

oh yeah the cow too

 

Lance

😳😳😳🤭🫣 stooooop (tell me more)

 

Keith

Tell you what

 

Lance

Uh how absolutely stunning I am?? How much you like me there’s a lot

 

Keith

I have no idea what you’re talking about

 

Lance

You’re such a meanie😖😖🥺

 

Keith

Ok fine you’re stunning and I like you a lot etc.

 

Lance

🥹🥹 i like you a lot too

 

Keith

I told someone at school I have a boyfriend

 

Lance

omg

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

Ok now I’m gonna tell everyone that I know that’s it’s officially official with us

 

Keith

ok you do that

 

Lance

I think i wanna tell my family I’m bi today

its just been a really good day

(and that just made it 1000x better)

 

Keith

Ok tell me how it goes then

 

Lance

I will

I’m actually doing it now

ill call you when it’s over

I might be crying

but ignore it’ll probably be good crying

byeee

 

Keith

Good luck :)

 

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Lance had to take a moment to gather his courage and strength to walk downstairs. He’s gonna tell them during dinner. Other than Luis, Lisa, and their kids, everyone decided to come over today. So it’s kind of perfect.

As he was walking downstairs, he felt with every step, his heart rate speed up.

Obviously he knows that they’ll accept him—I mean, Veronica even told them about Acxa, which they were really excited about.

But what if they think it’s too much?? Is it too early??

Is it too much gay for one family???

No. He’s gotta get it together. Everything will be fine.

He saw his mom in the kitchen and everyone else was already at the table, talking. And of course, Rachel was already snacking. He walked up behind her and snatched the bag of chips she was eating from “You know how mamá feels about eating before dinner!”

”Who’s eating before dinner??”

They pretty much all said Rachel and she walked in the dining room, frowning “You’re gonna be full!” She grabbed the bag from lance and Rachel groaned “But mamá—“

Lance sat down next to Veronica and peeked at her phone, since she was texting. She laughed and hid it “Hey! Keep your eyes to yourself!”

He smiled and whispered “I’m gonna tell everyone after we eat”

She gasped and whispered back “Really??”

He nodded and she hugged him “I’m super proud of you”

He groaned and pushed her away “Stoooopp”

They talked for a bit until the food was ready and they started to eat.

Lance didn’t say much though, thinking about how the heck he’s gonna tell them?! I mean, he knows but still…

”Do you think we should invite the Koganes again? I think It’d be really nice to have them over” his mom said, making him freeze.

Veronica noticed and nudged his leg a little “Yeah! They could look at kaltenecker jr. Or we could just say that as an excuse to get them over here” she snorted and Rachel smirked “I bet you just wanna Acxa again~”

Veronica shrugged “Yeah……maybe a little~”

“What about Keith? Doesn’t he have school?” She added, looking at lance. Ok putting him on the spot.

”I mean, I think he’s about to have a spring break”

”So then it’s perfect!” They all looked at her and she laughed. “I know, I’ll call them tomorrow”

Lance smiled, thinking of seeing Keith in person again. And that’s all he could think of. He thought if it so much that during the whole time, he completely forgot to tell everyone that he was bisexual.

So uh……maybe he can tell them tomorrow.

After helping with the dishes, he went back up to his room, but not before he was stopped by Veronica “You didn’t say anything?”

Lance waved his hand and shrugged “I’ll them tomorrow”

She squinted at him and then smirked “I bet you’re excited to see Keith again~”

Lance tried not to smile and walked away but she kept going “I know you are!!”

He jokingly glared at her before going in his room and shutting his door. He immediately got out his phone and called Keith.

 

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After turning off his phone, Keith left his room and saw his parents standing in the kitchen, talking about something. They looked at him and smiled “How was school?”

He shrugged and opened the refrigerator “It was fine.”

They were silent for a bit too long so he looked at them and they both had that ‘we need to talk’ look.

”What?”

They sighed and his mom talked first “We’re worried about you. We’ve noticed how you seem sad when you get home.”

He sighed and looked back in the fridge, not wanting to cry in front of them. Luckily, he’s not crying yet though. “It’s fine”

”And that. You always just say you’re fine. You never talk to us.” She walked up to him and put her arms up on the fridge door “And we’re worried that something is wrong…”

Keith sighed again and shut the door “I’m gay”

”We just want you to know that—wait what??”

Keith crossed his arms and looked down. He couldn’t bring himself to say anything. He can’t tell if she’s disappointed or something.

Nothing happened for about a minute so he was about to turn around and leave but his mom stopped him by hugging him.

”Keith…why didn’t you tell us?”

He shrugged “I don’t know…”

He saw his dad and looked away, thinking that, especially him, would be disappointed. His dad is a pretty……traditional kinda guy. I mean, he likes sports and stuff like that. And when Keith showed no interest in them, he said it was fine but he could tell he was disappointed. And he kind of thinks that’s what’s happening now.

But he just laughed “Don’t expect me to lower my standards for your partner now that he’s gonna be a guy”

Krolia laughed “Yeah, we’re gonna be just as crazy obsessive and weird”

Keith rolled his eyes and they both laughed again “And you better also be just as safe when you—“

He pushed her away, groaning “Ok you made it weird”

”I told you! We’re not gonna change that!”

He was already walking back to his room and as he was about to open his door his mom yelled “Wait!”

He looked at her and she smiled “Thank you for telling us”

He smiled back a little and went in his room. That was kinda stressful. But not bad! Now he’s just gotta wait until Lance calls him.

And after a while, he did.

He wasn’t crying though, which Keith was grateful for.

”Hey”

He heard lance fall on his bed “Hey, guess what I just didn’t do” he sounded kind of upset so Keith frowned “What?”

”Come out. I got totally distracted and forgot to.” He laughed “I literally forgot to come out to my family because I was thinking of my boyfriend”

”Well……I did”

”Yeah? How’d it go?”

”It just kinda……happened. They told me they were worried and I didn’t want them to say anything about school so I just said ‘I’m gay’.”

He laughed again “Thats one way to change the subject.”

”Speaking of changing the subject—why were you thinking of me?”

”Because my mom was talking about inviting you guys over again…and I starting thinking about you…for obvious reasons”

Keith smiled “So are you?”

”She said she’d call your dad tomorrow.” He groaned “I wish you could be here right now though”

”Me too”

”I don’t know if this is weird to say but I kinda miss sleeping next to you. You’re a very warm person”

Keith felt his face heat up. And even though, he wanted to, he didn’t change the subject again “Well, you’re a cold person”

”Exactly. We need each other to balance out the hot and cold”

“And uh—it’s not weird to say. I miss it too”

”Good cause when you come back, expect me to nonstop cuddle you all the time”

Keith laughed and once again, felt his face heat up 1000 degrees “I guess I’ll look forward to that then”

“You better”

 

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Once the spring break started, lance got the call that Keith’s family was getting on the plane. His heart burst and he immediately called Pidge, who answered pretty quickly.

“It’s happening”

”Huh…? Lance? It’s 4am…” she sounded tired.

”He’s coming over!!! In like, a few hours”

He heard her quickly sit up “Huh?!?”

”Yeah!!”

”Im coming over!!?”

”Yeah!!!?”

”Yeah!!!!? I gotta see him!!?”

”You might wanna wait—“

”Nope, keep your window open or I breaking it”

”You’re gonna sneak in through my window??”

”Yeah, obviously—ok I’m gonna get some stuff and I’ll be over in like, 10 minutes”

”Ok, I’ll see y—“

She hung up and lance laughed and opened his window. He sat down on his bed and looked at the sky. He’s happy that he can see the stars from here. They remind him of Keith.

Plus, they’re just really pretty……like Keith……ok he’s not gonna become that type of person.

He closed his eyes, kind of drifting off until suddenly there was a crash and he saw Pidge falling in his window.

”Shh! You’re gonna wake everyone up!?”

”Sorry! I tried to be quiet”

Lance closed the window and saw Pidge holding a box that was wrapped. “Is that the gift? What’s in it?”

When Keith told Pidge that he was coming, she immediately insisted that she was gonna give him a gift. But she refused to tell anyone what it was.

”You’ll see when he opens it!”

”Why can’t you just tell me now??”

”Because he’s gonna open it soon!”

She also had a blanket and a pillow “Why’d you bring that?”

She got on his bed and wrapped it around her “Because it’s 4am and I don’t like sharing blankets or pillows”

”You’re going to sleep?”

She laid down and nodded “Yep. I gotta be fully awake when he opens the gift”

Lance nodded, agreeing “Yeah, me too”

He laid down and they started giggling “I’m so excited to see him”

Pidge nodded “Yeah I can’t wait to see the outfit I sent him.”

”The what?”

She pursed her lips and looked away “I may or may not have sent him an outfit to wear when he comes back just to mess with you.”

”What??”

”He’s totally in on it so you can’t only be mad at me”

”What outfit??”

”I saw it on Pinterest and I was like, woah lance would totally freak out if he saw Keith in this and I forced keith to let me buy it for him.”

”And he let you??”

”No……but when it arrived at his house he agreed……mainly because I threatened him”

”How’d you threaten him??”

”You don’t wanna know”

Lance actually didn’t want to know so he just rolled his eyes. Then Pidge turned around “Alright good night”

”Goodnight”

 

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Getting to the airport, not dressed in what Pidge told him to wear, he was kind of surprised not to see Lance there. But he wasn’t upset, just confused.

Lance nonstop talked about the airport moment they would have where he runs up to him and jumps in his arms or whatever but Keith is too exhausted to even carry his own luggage, let alone a whole human.

So they walked to the car and there wasn’t nearly as much bags as last time—probably because there wasn’t a dying horse—so it wasn’t as cramped. But the smell of the car made him happy.

It smells kind of like lances house so it’s nice.

The drive was quiet, except for Acxa talking to Camilla about Veronica and shiro talking to their parents.

And soon enough, they were at the house and the same amount of people came out to greet them. Except for lance.

Did Keith do something wrong? Is he mad at him??

After semi-awkwardly saying hi to everyone, Camilla told him he was staying in lances room again, which he was now nervous about……what if it’s like last time?

His mom gave him a funny look and he rolled his eyes, knowing what it meant. Maybe he shouldn’t have came out. Then Camilla told him that he could bring his stuff up to his room so, a little hesitantly, he walked upstairs and slowly opened his door.

And it all made sense when he saw Lance and…Pidge?…both sleeping on his bed, looking very comfortable. He almost feels bad that he’s about to wake them up. 

Because obviously, he’s gonna wake them up.

He quietly closed the door and put his small suitcase on the ground. He took a moment to appreciate how sweet they looked asleep before crouching down to their level.

Luckily, lance was facing him already so he could see his face up close. He smiled, finally seeing him again. He’s been waiting so long. Too long. He doesn’t even care if he sounds like he’s in some corny romcom. He’s been waiting for this ever since he left.

”Hey…lance”

He poked his cheek and lance didn’t move at all. He knows he’s alive, seeing that he’s breathing. And he just talked to him before the flight.

He ran his fingers through his hair, something that lance told him that he likes and ‘couldn’t wait for him to do’.

That seemed to work because he whined a little. Keith smiled “Lance”

He slowly opened his eyes and closed them “In a minute…”

Then he opened them again, but this time really wide. “Keith?!!”

”I—“

Lance, literally at the speed of light, sat up and hugged him, falling onto the floor. He heard Pidge sit up really fast “Huh??!—Keith!!”

She moved to the edge of the bed and Keith looked at her and he was gonna say something but lance started kissing him all over on his face.

”Lance!! You Keith hog!”

Lance ignored her and grabbed his face “I’m so sorry! I was gonna go to the airport but I fell asleep!”

Keith laughed “I like this better than the running into each other though”

”Me too” He kissed him again until Pidge got off the bed and pulled him off Keith. “Hey!”

”You're already gonna get Keith all to yourself! So you can hold on!”

Keith sat up and a box was being shoved in his face. “It’s the gift”

Keith grabbed it and and squinted at her, not really trusting what’s inside it. She just rolled her eyes “Oh my god just open it!”

He hesitantly did and laughed when he saw a little red lion plushie. “Where’d you find this??”

”You left it at my house and I was cleaning my room—“

Lance interrupted her “You cleaned your room?”

”Shut up—I was cleaning my room and it was like, all the way under my bed……don’t worry I washed it”

Lance sat down next to him and laughed “I remember that! I still have mine—“ He got up and got a box from his closet and took out a blue lion plushie. He sat back down and Pidge snorted “I have mine too but I didn’t bring it”

”I forgot about it”

He looked at it and then Pidge scoffed “I can see you’re not wearing the outfit”

He rolled his eyes “I wasn’t wearing that on a plane”

”Fine then put it on now”

”No, I’m way too tired”

”Then you better wear it tomorrow when we go see everyone. They’re also excited that you’re back”

”Ok fine”

”Lance is gonna die”

”Ok what outfit is it?!”

They both looked at him, smiling. Keith liked the idea of messing with lance in this way so he’s kind of excited.

”What is it, lingerie?!”

”What?! No!”

Pidge snorted at Keith’s face getting red and shook her head “No, I wouldn’t do that to you…or Keith”

”It’s just a regular outfit. I don’t even know what’s so special about it.”

”Oh, you’ll see………you’ll see”

She smirked as she creepily started laughing and getting up. She walked to the window and opened it, still creepy laughing.

Lance reached behind him and grabbed a blanket and pillow “You forgot these”

She stopped being creepy for a moment and grabbed them, thanking him……then she started again and climbed out the window “Enjoy your lonely time……”

She got out and started going down the house and when she got to the ground, they watched as she walked away. She turned around and waved “Bye losers!! I’ll see you tomorrow!”

They both waved and lance shut the window. And……now what?

Lance laughed a little awkwardly “Sorry for like, jumping on you—I got excited…”

Keith remembered something and went to his suit case and opened it. He pulled out the pillow that he brought and handed it to Lance.

Lance looked confused and Keith laughed “Since I ‘sacrificed’ yours”

Lance looked at it and smiled “Is this one of your pillows?” He probably guessed because of how janky it looks.

Keith nodded and lance held it to his face and smelled it, pretty aggressively. He put it down and was still smiling “It smells like you”

“You seem happy about that”

Lance rolled his eyes and hugged him “Thank you, I shall cherish this pillow for as long as I live”

“What about me? What do I get to cherish”

”You still have my sweater”

”It doesn’t smell like you anymore though”

”Then you can cherish me. I smell like me”

”I smell like me too”

”Then I’ll cherish you”

He hugged him tighter then pulled away. But immediately just leaned in again to kiss him. It was more than just small kisses all over though, he was properly kissing him.

He ran his fingers through his hair again and lance laughed “I like that”

”I know”

They started kissing again, this time moving to the bed, laughing a bit when lance fell down and Keith fell on top of him. But they just kept on kissing, still slightly giggling.

But as they were just a smoochin away, the door flung open. “Lance don’t think you don’t have to help—“

They both freaked out and stopped, but as they both tried to get up at the same time, keith just ended up falling off his bed, onto his back. “Ow…”

”Don’t you knock?!!”

He wondered for a second why he wasn’t freaking out that they were caught until he saw it was only Veronica. But still, she didn’t know that they were together yet.

”Ooooh~~~ So you told him???” She whisper yelled, smiling.

Lances face was beet red ”Get out!”

Keith sat up, wincing at the pain in his back.

”I get it—you’re 17 so it’s fun and new but still—you should probably—“

”Veronica!”

She laughed “Fine. I’ll leave but you better be downstairs in 10 minutes or I’m coming back. And I will say much more embarrassing things”

”Ok—I get it—now get out”

She rolled her and then looked at Keith “And Keith?” He looked at her and she was glaring at him. She didn’t say anything but he could tell she was telling him that if he hurts Lance she’ll kill him blah blah blah Keith just nods, a little terrified.

She shut the door and lance looked at Keith, a little panicked. But he laughed “We shouldn’t do that here”

Keith smiled, shaking his head “No, we shouldn’t”

Lance got up and helped Keith up before they went downstairs.

 

---

 

They ended up hanging out with everyone for a while and it was already nighttime. And they all met baby kaltenecker (who lance named flor) together and then all went back inside to eat and then go to sleep.

But when lance and Keith got upstairs, they both laid down and lance immediately hugged him. Keith just laughed, too tired to say anything. I mean, you don’t get that good sleep on a plane. And he’s been up all day. Plus, he doesn’t mind this.

Lance laughed tiredly too and Keith turned around, to see his face. Lance smiled and moved some of Keith’s hair out of his face “Tomorrow, let’s go to the barn”

Keith nodded, not able to keep his eyes open any longer. He heard lance laugh again and he moved closer and hugged him again. And that’s how they fell asleep.

 

---

 

About a week later, they were sitting in the barn, petting flor and letting her sit on their laps and stuff. Lance was laughing because she was kind of obsessed with Keith. And Keith was equally as obsessed with her.

”She just loves you!”

Keith laughed and pet her head “What, you jealous?”

Lance scoffed “Uh, yeah?? I want her to love me!”

He sat beside Keith and hugged his knees, pouting a little. Keith just snorted and shook his head.

Then lance put his head on Keith’s shoulder, looking down at flor. “Do you think they’ll hate it? Like—that I’m bi.”

”No, why?”

”I dunno, like, what if they think I’m confused or something.”

”They’re fine with Veronica so why would it be different for you?”

He shrugged and Keith put his head down on his “They won’t mind. Your family is pretty awesome.”

“Yeah” he laughed “They are”

“What are you two love-birds up to?”

Lance groaned and sat up to look at Veronica “Stop calling us that!”

“It’s true though!”

Acxa was with her and she smirked at Keith “I thought Keith wasn’t the mushy gushy person but he’s worse than me”

”No, I doubt it” Veronica laughed and acxa rolled her eyes “Can’t you be on my side?”

Veronica just laughed and looked down at flor, who was now asleep “Aw, she freakin loves you”

Keith laughed, a little embarrassed “Yeah”

”It’s not fair!”

Veronica smirked “Why cause he should be loving you?~~~~~”

”Yes!”

They all looked at him, and Keith’s face was as red as the blood his heart is pumping out at ten million miles per hour.

“What—oh—did you say he?? I thought you said she!!”

Veronica started laughing super hard and Keith smiled, trying not to laugh too much.

”Shut up! I didn’t mean it like that!”

He crossed his arms and Veronica started to calm down a bit “Alright alright sorry, I know what you meant”

”Anyway—we came here to tell you that Lu—“

”KEITH!!!!”

Suddenly, a little girl was running up to them, with a very fluffy pillow in her hands. She stopped, breathing heavily and smiling wide.

She spooked flor and woke her up and flor got up and went over to kaltenecker to be fed or whatever.

“Look! I lost a tooth!” She pointed to her mouth, where there was a gap where one of her front teeth would be.

Keith nodded, not really knowing what to say or do. Luckily lance could see that he was struggling so he gasped “Woah really? Lemme see!”

She turned towards him and showed him. “Ooh, has the tooth fairy came yet?”

She nodded excitedly “Last night! She gave me 5 dollars! Mamas holding it though”

Lance nodded, looking impressive “Must’ve been a good tooth”

”Yeah mo—uh, the tooth fairy only gave us a quarter when we lost teeth.” Acxa looked at Keith and he laughed, remembering when his mom would let him believe in the tooth fairy. Which in hindsight, the idea of the tooth fairy is kind of weird. But who cares, it’s fun to lie to kids I guess.

But only about cool things.

”Yeah so did ours but they only have 2 kids so they have more money”

Nadia didn’t seem to understand what they were even talking about and was still showing Lance her missing tooth.

And then lance looked down at the pillow she had and looked at Keith “You know, she carries that thing everywhere now, right?”

Keith snorted “Really?”

”Yep and it reminds me of what I’ve lost” he was joking and Keith knew it but it still kind of hurt?

”What? Allura?” He didn’t mean for that to sound so…insecure…

But instead of making any deal out of it he just squinted at him and pushed his forehead with his thumb “No, my pillow you jerk”

”Ok as much as I love seeing you two flirt, it’s getting kind of disgusting so we’re gonna go” Acxa grabbed Veronica’s hand and Veronica laughed.

”How do think we feel? Seeing you two all over each other all the time”

”Ok fine you two can be all over each other too, no judgment”

”That’s not what I meant!”

Veronica picked up Nadia and they left, saying bye.

Lance walked with them for a bit, defending himself and Keith but gave up and came back to sit next to Keith.

He sighed and stayed silent for a bit too long.

”Sorry, I didn’t mean to say that” Keith looked away, nervous that he was upset.

”Is that why you haven’t seen everyone yet?”

He looked at him and was a little confused “What?”

”Do you not wanna see Allura? You know, she’s fine with everything—“

”I don’t know, I’d be pretty pissed if the person I was with left me for someone they barely even knew”

”But I know you?”

”Yeah, but it was almost 10 years since we saw each other and suddenly we’re like, into each other? If I was her I would be livid”

”At me or you?”

Keith sighed and shrugged “I guess both” then he laughed and put his head on his hand “But especially the bastard they left me for”

”She knows the whole story though. And we still hang out regularly. Actually not much has changed…”

”Maybe she feels like she can’t be mad…like she’s scared that she’ll hurt your feelings or something…or maybe even that you’ll think she’s homophobic I guess…?”

Lance frowned and then shrugged “We’re good friends and she’s been mad at me before…so I’m pretty sure she’d tell me.”

“Well she doesn’t know me so she could hate me for all I know”

”She doesn’t hate you, I swear”

”Has she told you that?”

Lance was silent for a bit and then pursed his lips “I mean, she’s said you seem like a really great person”

”Ok then she hates me”

”What?? That’s pretty much the opposite of hating you??”

”Its a little passive aggressive”

”It’s not, trust me”

”Ok…but if she hates me I’m blaming you”

”You’re the one that stole her boyfriend!”

”Exactly!”

Lance rolled his eyes and pushed him “Shut up”

”So, when’s the next time we can meet them? I actually liked talking to them…”

Lance smiled and nodded “I told you you’d like them. And they’d like you. And they understood why you didn’t talk to them after the whole incident.”

”Yeah……sorry about that”

”Don’t apologize it’s literally only James’ fault.”

”Yeah but my shit ruined that day for everyone”

”No it didn’t—come on” he grabbed Keith’s arm and they both stood up. He didn’t say anything else as they walked out the barn and to—wherever else lance was taking him. It ended up being the old barn so Lance could kiss him and tell him how he didn’t ruin that day.

 

---

 

A few days later, they walked to the beach and when they got there, Lance just laid down. Keith didn’t and squinted at him. What are you doing?

”Im contemplating”

”Contemplating what?” He sat down and looked out at the water.

”On whether or not I want to see you in the outfit or not”

Keith laughed and looked at him “What?”

”Pidge told me it’s breathtaking so I’m kind of nervous.”

”She exaggerating by a lot”

Lance smiled “But you’re already so pretty! So I’ll die if you get prettier”

”Shut up”

Lance sat up and put his hands on his shoulders “But it’s up to you so…are you gonna wear it?”

Keith sighed and shrugged “I don’t know…”

“Oh come on, you’re only making me wanna see it more!”

”Its sleeveless!”

Lance raised his eyebrows and pursed his lips. Keith noticed he was trying not to laugh “What??”

”Listen—“ He got really close to his face “When we get home, you’re putting it on”

”No! Now I feel like you’re making fun of me!”

”No, I swear I’m not. I just……”

”You what??”

”I need to see you in it”

”Why??”

”Because!! Pidge never told me it was sleeveless! I told her in confidence that—uh…actually nevermind forget I said anything—“

”What? No, finish that”

”What? Finish what? I didn’t say anything?”

”What did you tell her?”

Lance looked away and whispered something that Keith didn’t hear “Huh?”

”That I like your arms! They’re really nice……and I mean, I’ve seen you shirtless so like………ugh! This is so embarrassing!”

He laid down and covered his face and Keith laughed “Why’d you tell her that?? Why not me?”

Lance crossed his arms and frowned “It’s not easy to say ‘hey Keith I like your arms lol anyways’ it’s embarrassing!”

”No it’s not?”

”Then why don’t tell me how amazing I am if it’s not? Because obviously I’m awesome”

”I’m not great with compliments so they always come out weird.”

Lance looked away “I mean, you don’t have to if you don’t want to…”

”When you wake up, you do this thing where you close your eyes really tight before opening them…and uh…I like it….?”

Lance smiled “That’s not weird”

”It felt weird saying it”

”It’s adorable”

“No it’s weird”

”adorably weird”

Keith rolled his eyes “Fine”

”Ok let’s go back I wanna see that outfit”

 

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The next day, lance was salty that Keith wouldn’t put on the outfit so he made it a point to not say good morning. That’ll show ‘em.

He also ‘accidentally’ squished him while getting off the bed. Keith just rolled his eyes though and went back to sleep. Jerk.

Lance took a shower and after he was dressed, he walked back and opened the door and—WOAH

Keith turned around and was wearing the outfit. And it’s everything pidge told him it was. It’s gorgeous.

Its simple, yet effective. Faux leather pants with a black tank top type shirt…and the shoes are…well they’re more like heels and they’re absolutely stunning. (Tbh just wanted to draw Keith in this :D)

And to top it all off, he’s wearing a red jacket. A puffy one.

“Uh, I noticed you were upset…so I put it on”

Lance didn’t say anything and shut his door, locked it, and walked to his bed and laid down.

”What are you doing”

Lance put his hands on his face and groaned “I swear I’m living in a simulation or something.”

”What? Are you o—“

”Like—what the heck did I do to deserve that” he gestured towards Keith and Keith laughed a little uncomfortably “It’s that bad?”

Lance wanted to roll his eyes but he didn’t want to seem mean right now “Come here”

Keith walked up to him and lance motioned for him to get closer so he leaned down and lance grabbed his face “I don’t deserve you. You’re way too awesome. And I’m just……bleh”

Keith looked like he was thinking and then his eyes sparkled. It was super pretty. Then Keith took off the jacket and sat down on the bed and took his shoes off and put them on the ground. Lance didn’t move and even though he was confused, he didn’t say anything.

Keith moved to the other side of him and laid down on his back. “Let’s just lay here for a bit”

”But we’re going to hang out with everyone soon”

Keith nodded and moved his arm under lances head “We can wait a bit longer”

”Why’d you take everything off?”

”Because I didn’t want to lay down with all of that”

”Oh yeah…that’d be pretty uncomfortable”

They laid there silently for a few minutes and Keith started to mess with lances hair.

”Lance?”

”Yeah?”

”I think you deserve so much more than me…honestly, I’m not even that much.”

Suddenly lance realized that Keith did all this to make him feel better……ok nope he definitely doesn’t deserve it. Wait—no, oh—welp now he’s crying. Tried to stop him.

“I hope we last a super long time”

”Me too”

”Like, if my life was just this for eternity I’d be happy”

”My arm would be numb though”

”We can take turns”

”Ok, we’ll take turns then”

Lance looked at him and smiled.

”Thank you. And you’re a lot more than nothing. Like you make me really happy. Even when you’re not even here. And pidge too. And everyone else once they get to know you more”

Keith didn’t say anything for a few long seconds. Then he looked at him “Sorry”

”Why?”

”Because I know I’m a lot to handle. And you shouldn’t have to deal with that”

”We’re both a lot. So we’re stuck with each other. He smiled and lance sat up and looked back at him “Alright, ok. Let’s make a deal”

Keith sat up too and and frowned “for what?”

”We both deserve each other. So we can’t say ‘I don’t deserve you’ anymore. Because I think you deserve a lot and you think I deserve a lot so we deserve each other.”

He held out his pinkie and Keith looked down at it with sparkly eyes. Then he hooked his pinkie around his and they shook their hands.

”So I totally deserve you. Even in that outfit”

Keith laughed and looked down “I think I look ridiculous”

”Ridiculously amazing you mean. Like I said, you have good arms! Like……really good arms…”

”Ok you’re getting creepy”

”But your aaarrrmss” he fake cried and Keith gently pushed him “Arm creep”

Lance moved closer to him and grabbed his arm “Guess I’m an arm creep then”

”Or just a creep creep”

”Yeah, for them arms”

He kissed his arm and Keith laughed and tried to pull his arm away. So Lance grabbed his hand and kissed it instead.

Thinking of something exciting, Lance gasped. It startled Keith “are you ok??”

”What if we were like Gomez and morticia??”

”huh…?”

”You know……like from the Addams family?”

Keith shook his head “No—I know, but what do you mean?”

”They have an awesome relationship and no one can even deny”

”Yeah…they do” Keith was squinting at him and lance kissed his hand “I could call you cara mia.”

Keith pulled his hand away and scoffed “I’d be morticia??”

“Yeah?? You can be my hot goth boyfriend and I can be there to support whatever goth stuff you wanna do”

“I’m not goth”

”I know but also I can basically speak Italian since it’s pretty much the same as Spanish”

”I don’t know about that”

Lance shrugged and laughed “Well, you’re morticia no questions. You have long black hair anyway and you’re super pretty”

”Do I have to learn French?”

Lance pursed his lips and then nodded “Yeah…yeah you do”

”Ok fine”

”Awesome! Now we just need to be absolutely obsessed with each other and get into some super freaky stuff”

“I don’t know if we can handle what they like”

”Yeah, you’re right we can just get into slightly freaky stuff.”

Keith rolled his eyes and smiled “You’re so dumb”

Lance laughed and then sighed, kind of dramatically “I’m tired, but we should definitely go see everyone”

”I mean…we could just…not do that…?”

Lance squinted at him and then shook his head “Nope, you’re not backing out of this”

Keith laid down next to him, really closely and lance tried not to seem like he was super happy about it. He’s gotta get him to see everyone! They’re waiting for them! And they’re excited!!

”We could lay down for a bit longer…?”

Lance turned on his side to face him and tell him they were going but……I mean……how can he not take up this offer???

“Ok fine but only for a little longer”

Keith nodded and lance decided to put his head back on Keith’s arm because it was comfy. And Keith didn’t seem to mind.

Lance kept facing him though. He’s nice to look at. Especially when he’s all wholesome like this.

And like he’s said before, he’s really warm.
………soon, without even realizing it, he dozed off.

 

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“Ugh! Do I have to? I’m busy!”

”Come on, mija, go check on your brother”

”Ok fine but I’m not happy about it!”

Rachel got up from the couch, passive aggressively shoving her phone in her pocket. She also made sure to glare at her mom before going upstairs.

She knocked on the door and there was no answer so she opened it but, of course, it was locked. So she knocked again “Hey, you know how mamá doesn’t like us locking doors! It’s sketchy!”

There was no answer so she groaned and walked to the bathroom, where there was a hair clip she could use to unlock it.

She went back and before unlocking she made sure “I’m unlocking the door so if you’re doing anything gross you should tell me to stop!”

She waited a few seconds and when there was still, no answer she opened the door and—oh he’s asleep—OH MY GOD

Rachel tip-toed towards the bed and tried to not giggle, so she wouldn’t wake them up. Lance has always been a hugger when he sleeps but she didn’t expect Keith to be one as well.

Also, she ignored the really fancy pants he had on. But they look good! She quietly took out her phone and took a picture. This is some top tier blackmail. She’s sure lance would be embarrassed if anyone saw him cuddling so sweetly with his friend.

But she also couldn’t help but notice how…close they were cuddling. Like, when lance was a kid and he used to sleep in Rachel’s bed, he would just put his arm and leg around her but this like, how straight up couples cuddle.

But that just makes it even funnier and embarrassing for Lance because she knows Lance is definitely not with Keith.

She didn’t want to interrupt their adorable cuddle session so she quietly stepped outside and closed the door, making sure to lock it.

She’s a good sister, she’ll lie for him……plus it’s just another favor he owes her >:)

She walked downstairs and her mom looked at her, then frowned not seeing Lance.

”He said he feels sick and I think he has a fever”

”Isn’t Keith with him?”

She looked away and shrugged “They both feel sick”

She squinted at her for a few really long seconds, then sighed “Ok fine, I’ll let him rest.”

She nodded and walked over to Veronica “Hey—“ Veronica looked at her and raised her eyebrows, letting her go on “Look at this picture. She took out her phone and showed her. Veronica immediately covered her mouth with her hand, snorting “Oh my god”

”I know right?? They’re honestly kind of adorable”

Veronica just nodded, still laughing behind her hand.

After a few seconds she calmed down and started walking to the stairs “I’m gonna go wake them up. They aren’t sick”

”Oh come on, let them cuddle!”

She snorted again and continued walking upstairs. And Rachel just let her cause she’s already got what she needed…plus lance is grumpy when she wakes him up.

 

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Suddenly, lance jolted up and kicked keith. Right in the balls. And it took a second to realize but when he did……a world of pain. keith doesn’t know if he’s ever been in this much pain.

Besides for the fact that he’s gay, he’s definitely never having his own kids.

“Oh my god—I’m so sorry!”

Keith tried to gesture that it was all fine but he physically can’t move so he just nodded, getting into the fetal position. He’ll never move again.

”That must’ve hurt” He heard Veronica say, only making the pain worse. Of course she saw them sleeping the way they were.

But honestly, fuck that, this is the worst.

”Are you ok?!”

Lance put his hand on his shoulder and this time, Keith shook his head. No, he’s not ok. His whole body is on fire.

”Just give it a minute. All my guy friends say it goes away…also lay on your back”

“Why’d you have to wake us up like that??”

”Because?? Rachel came in here and saw you two.”

”She knows now?!”

“No, she’s bad at reading signs so she definitely doesn’t know”

As they were talking, Keith laid on his back and just sat there, while his guts were being torn from his body. If he talks he may throw up.

”You good?”

Keith kept looking at the ceiling “It’s getting better”

”I’m so sorry, Veronica really scared me!”

”Alright—you gotta get up now and come downstairs. I’ll give you a minute but if you’re not there in 10, I’m sending mamá up here.”

”Ok, we’ll be down, jeez”

”Also Keith I like the outfit” she smiled and walked out and when he closed the door, Keith covered his face. It doesn’t hurt as bad anymore. Laying on his back did help.

”Seriously, are you ok?”

Keith sighed and then started laughing.

”What??” Lance started laughing with him and Keith shook his head “Yeah—sorry, I’m fine”

”We’re still going to hang out with everyone. Your stalling didn’t work”

”It did for a bit”

”Yeah but not long enough”

After a few more moments of hurting, it stopped and they got up and Keith put the outfit back on and lance dressed up with him because he felt weird being dressed up.

And when they went downstairs, Rachel was smirking at them all weird but they ignored it and told Camilla they were leaving.

They also found out that Rachel lied about them feeling sick but lance told her the truth because he said if they were sick, they wouldn’t be able to go out.

So after all that, they left and walked to the park.

 

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Keith’s nerves were through the roof when they got there. Because first of all, the last time they saw him, he was being outed by his ex boyfriend. Second, the outfit he’s wearing is ridiculous. Third…well…he’s dating their friend and he wants them to be okay with that…

oh yeah and Allura. Who most definitely hates him.

They walked up to everyone and pidge was the first to say something—well, she gasped “You’re wearing it!!!”

Hunk, Nyma, and Allura all stood up as they walked up to them. “It’s even better than I imagined.”

Keith just nervously laughed and tried not to look at Allura.

”Hey! It’s great to see you again!” Hunk hugged him and nyma just looked shocked “Pidge, where’d you get that outfit?”

”Amazon, why?”

”I want those pants”

Keith looked down and even though she said something nice, he still felt self conscious.

”They were expensive. And there were only two left in stock”

Nyma frowned and Keith laughed again “I mean, I doubt I’ll ever wear these again”

”What??? Oh yes you will!!” Pidge scolded him and without thinking, he glanced at Allura who was smiling. And it wasn’t a weird smile. She didn’t seem mad or anything….but she could be faking.

”You wanna get something to eat? You two took so freaking long”

”Keith wouldn’t wake up!”

Pidge rolled her eyes and grabbed Keith’s hand “Come on, you losers”

They walked all the way to Corans diner and he laughed when they all walked in “There they are!!”

He ran up to them and gasped a little when he saw Keith “You’re back!”

”Uh—yeah…” coran ignored the awkwardness in Keith’s voice and smiled at everyone.

“You can sit anywhere you want—as usual”

”Do we have to pay?” Pidge said, a little too excited.

He squinted at her and then shook his head, seeming a little defeated “No, you don’t”

”Yes!”

They sat down at one of those corner booth seats and Keith made sure he sat at the end where he could easily get up if something when horribly wrong. But Pidge made lance sit next to her and hunk, meaning Allura was now next to Keith.

He had told Pidge about how he thinks she hates him. So he knows this is on purpose.

Jerk.

After they all ordered food (Pidge ordered food for Keith even though he said no thanks probably because she knows he’s just nervous) they started talking and Keith only really talked when they asked him something.

Allura seemed pretty normal…she even looked at Keith when he talked and sometimes she would talk to him. But his mind is still telling him that she hates him so he’s not feeling any less nervous.

When the food came, they just continued talking while eating but keith didn’t eat anything since he’s only feeling worse as they keep talking. Especially now that they’re talking about relationships.

Nyma talked about her girlfriend and hunk talked about shay. Lance teased hunk about her until Pidge mentioned Keith’s outfit.

”I knew he would look good in it. I keep telling him to dress up more!”

Hunk nodded “Yeah, I like the dressy Keith—not that I don’t like regular Keith, he’s still awesome”

”I’m sure lance likes it~” Nyma made kissy noises at lance, making him laugh “It’s pretty!”

Nyma sighed and put her head on her hand “I love not being the only gay one…and person with a visual…difference”

“Oh my god you’re the same people” Pidge pretended to be scared and held on to hunks arm. Keith just awkwardly laughed, still not being completely used to openly being gay. But Lance seems fine with it…and he still has no idea what Allura thinks. She hasn’t said anything but she’s been laughing.

Keith’s foot started bouncing, thinking about Allura. He’s such an asshole, right? I mean, he literally stole her boyfriend. And he kind of ruined everything?? Like, lance told him that he loved her so he ruined that because he doesn’t even know if lance loves him. Obviously Keith loves lance, I mean, he has since they were kids but there’s no way in hell he’s telling him first—and this early. They’ve only been together for a few months. I mean yeah, they have history, but still he has no idea how lance feels.

He’s honestly scared to ask because what if lance doesn’t feel the same way? What if he only got with him because he figured out keith was gay mess and he felt bad? Or what if it’s all just some huge joke? No, he doesn’t think lance would do that. But it’s still in his mind. Every possible bad outcome is in his mind.

But the one he can’t stop thinking about is how he ruined a perfectly fine relationship. Allura loved lance and lance loved Allura. And then keith came and fucked it all up.

He tuned back into the conversation for a second and they were just talking about coran now. But Allura was looking at him weird. When he glanced at her she leaned in and whispered “Are you okay?” She sounded sweet and not upset at all but it still flipped a switch in Keith’s brain.

He muttered a quick “excuse me” and stood up, immediately walking to the bathroom. Luckily, he remembered where it was from all the times he used to come.

It looks the same, just a little older. But obviously it’s going to look older. Keith is just trying to distract his brain right now. He walked to the sink and looked beside the mirror, wondering if the writing was still there. 

He felt a little calmer seeing ‘Space paladins!!’ and a bad drawing of three lions all flying. Lance wrote that and Keith thought they’d get in trouble so he wrote on the bottom ‘that was lance’

But they both ended up getting in trouble anyway but coran only calmly told them not to write on the wall. But he still said he was impressed and told them he wouldn’t ever wash it off. Which was really sweet.

Suddenly, the bathroom door opened and he thought it was either lance, Pidge, or a stranger, but when he looked, it was Allura.

He looked down at the sink, feeling that nervousness come back. “Hey…” She walked up to him and kept her voice low “Lance told me how you feel”

Keith looked at her again and couldn’t bring himself to say anything. So she kept talking “I don’t hate you. At all, actually. If anything, I’m thankful because yes, I love lance but I love him as a friend as well. And I want him to be happy and he seems so happy with you.” She laughed “You should see his face when he talks about you”

”I just…” he sighed “I just feel like I screwed everything up. Like, he really liked you—well, likeS you, and I’m scared he doesn’t like me that much.” He doesn’t really know why he’s telling her everything but he kind of feels like she should know. And he trusts her.

”You didn’t mess anything up. And trust me, he likes you. Way more than he ever liked me.” She laughed again and Keith looked away “Sorry…”

”You don’t need to apologize for someone liking you. Plus, I left him so it’s not like he left me for you. But if he did, I still wouldn’t hate you or him. I’m glad it’s you and not someone we don’t know. Because we know we can trust you!”

Keith just nodded and she smiled “So let’s go back and embarrass lance for liking us”

He chuckled and they left and sat back down. They looked concerned but Allura shook her head “We bonded. Over lance”

”Aw, you fought over me?” Lance batted his eyelashes and Allura shook her head “No, we played Rock Paper Scissors”

Pidge laughed and lance scoffed “Fine then, see if I ever talk to either of you again”

”But what about Keith’s prize? I mean, he won” Nyma said, laughing at them.

Lance sat up straight and scoffed again “I’m not a prize to be won”

”But I bet with enough money, you’d let him keep you”

Lance shrugged “Yeah, I guess you’re right”

After that, they all continued talking and Keith let himself have a good time because now he knows Allura doesn’t hate his guts.

 

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A few days later, they were at the barn, playing with flor. When she was tired, she walked back to her mom and lance sat a little too close to Keith.

”What are you doing?”

Lance just sighed and held on to his arm. Ok, he’s up to something. Keith didn’t say anything though so Lance sighed again, louder.

”What?”

”Its just that no one is outside……and I’m bored”

”And…?”

Lance groaned and put his head on his shoulder “That’s your cue to be like ‘oh yeah, let’s go over there’.”

He made his voice deeper so Keith frowned “I don’t sound like that”

Lance laughed “That doesn’t matter! I’m asking you to go over there with me”

Keith nodded, realizing what he was saying and then he stood up. “Alright, let’s go then”

Lance stood up with him and grabbed Keith’s hand to bring him over to a support beam near the back of the barn.

He leaned back against it and lance kissed him. Keith moved his hands up to his shoulders and lance moved his hands up his shirt a little. And they did that for a bit.

But they didn’t notice who was watching them, completely and utterly…confused

Chapter 12: Chapter 11

Summary:

I’m so tired lmao

Also there’s a smexy times scene in here but it’s not graphic at all. But it’s a lil more than I’d usually write

Just wanted to go out with a bang…….literally

 

‼️Also the last piece of fanart!!! I drew 15 for this…over the span of a year though. It’s the last picture.

“Papí, can I go see uncle lance?”

Luis looked around and then back at Nadia “Yeah, but where is he?”

”He went to the barn!”

”Oh, ok then, but don’t wander off!”

”I won’t!”

She happily walked to the door and had to reach up really high to turn the doorknob. But she’s getting taller so it wasn’t as hard!

She got outside and ran to the barn but got distracted by some pretty flowers she saw growing to the side. She walked up to them and crouched down to pick some.

She kept going and picking different types of flowers until there were no more. She stood up and saw a hole on the wall so she got on her tippy toes and looked inside.

She looked around for a few seconds but stopped when she saw Lance. And Keith!! But they were doing something she couldn’t quite see. But they moved a little and she saw that they were kissing! She knows what it is because of Disney movies. And they usually kiss when they’re in love!

She gasped a little. Or when they’re sick. Is Uncle lance sick?? Is keith sick?? Are they breaking a curse with a true loves kiss?? She’s gotta tell her mom!!

She started running to the house and and quickly opened the door and ran to the living room, where her mom was cleaning up a little. She tugged on her shirt and Lisa looked at her and smiled, but it quickly went away when she saw Nadia, frantic and out of breath “Mama! Lance is sick! Or Keith!!”

Lisa, now a little worried, crouched down and put a hand on her shoulder “They are? Where are they?”

“They’re in the barn! They’re breaking a curse!”

She frowned, confused “What do you mean…?”

”They’re breaking a curse with a true loves kiss!”

It took a second for lisa to realize what she just said but when it hit her, she gasped “They’re kissing?”

Nadia nodded, still worried out of her little mind. Lisa nodded back and pat her shoulder “Well, then…I’m sure they have it all handled……” she paused “And let’s keep this between us okay? It can be a secret”

”But what if he gets more sick?”

”If you talk about curse after it’s been broken, it can come back!” She said, trying to get Nadia to not tell anyone. She knows how she can run her mouth, even though she has good intentions, this is something Lisa thinks shouldn’t get out…especially from Nadia.

”Really??”

She nodded, smiling “Yes, so let’s not talk about it okay?”

”Okay!”

Then Nadia ran off, leaving Lisa mortified. Not because Lance was kissing Keith, but because her 6 year old daughter knows and now she might tell everyone. And she doesn’t want to do that to Lance or keith.

But another part of her was happy! I mean, it’s a little unexpected but nonetheless good! She trusts keith and she’s sure the rest of the family will be fine with them. :D

 

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They stopped kissing and keith looked behind him “I feel like we’re being watched”

”Its okay, no one’s outside”

”I know……but still”

”And if anyone saw……I don’t think I’d mind”

Keith looked back at him, looking a bit guilty “Are you sure? Like—you want them know? So soon?”

”I mean, I don’t plan on leaving you any time soon”

At that, Keith smiled “Me too”

Then lance “Ok good cause that would’ve been embarrassing if you were like ‘uh, I dunno, it’a a bit too earl—“ before he could finish, Keith quickly kissed him again.

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After a while of being freaks, they went back inside because Lance knows his mom will flip if they’re not inside by dinner time.

When they got inside, lance told Keith he was gonna help his mom out so Keith went upstairs to take a shower.

But as lance was walking to the kitchen, someone slammed into him and then held on to his legs, really tight “Woah!—“

He looked down and saw two little pigtails. “Hey, Nads?”

She looked up and smiled “Are you okay??”

Lance narrowed his eyes, not knowing what she means “Uh—yeah…?”

”Mamí told me you can’t talk about the curse but I wanted to know if it was gone!!”

Lance frowned, completely confused “What curse…?”

She looked in both directions and lance crouched down, because whatever she’s about to say, he doesn’t want her to yell it. Usually when she’s like this it means she learned something.

”I don’t know if Keith is cursed or not……but I know one of you are!!”

”Keith…?”

She kept going, not letting him ask “Because a true loves kiss is what breaks curses so—“

Realizing what she means, he shook his head “Woah Woah woah—hold on—true loves kiss?”

She nodded “Yeah, you and Keith were kis—“

He stood up and grabbed her hand to lead her into another room, where no one would hear him “When did you see that?”

She frowned “Are you mad at me?”

Lance crouched down again and shook his head, trying not to sound like he was freaking out “No, no—I just wanna know when you saw this?”

”Earlier! In the barn!”

Lance pursed his lips, feeling a guilty that he didn’t listen to Keith. Oh boy, how’s he gonna explain himself now?

”Have you told anyone?”

”Mamá…”

Lance nodded, still trying to not freak out in front of Nadia “Ok…let’s not tell anyone else ok?”

”Are you ok though??”

”U-Uh—Yes! We’re all good! The curse is gone”

”Ok” she hugged him and lance would think it’s adorable if he wasn’t so scared of being outed by his 6 year old niece. And he’s hoping Lisa doesn’t say anything either. But he doubts  she will.

He let Nadia go back to whatever she was doing and he quickly walked to the stairs to tell Keith but was stopped by Rachel “Hey! What’re you doing? Come help me”

Lance knew he couldn’t fight her so he went over to her and helped her set up the table. They didn’t talk for a few moments until Rachel stopped and looked at lance, with a weird…soft expression “So……I’ve been thinking……and the more I think about it……the more guilty I feel…”

Lance frowned, still fixing the table “What?”

She crossed her arms, seeming a little uncomfortable “I uh……noticed a few things……and I don’t…I don’t really know how to approach this but—you know I love you right? Like—“

Lance sat down, putting his head down on the table. Remembering that Veronica said Rachel saw him and Keith sleeping, he’s guessing she’s talking about them.

“You know what I’m talking about?” She sat down next to him and he nodded and whispered “Yeah”

”So…you and Keith huh?” She smirked and wiggled her eyebrows. Lance wanted to roll his eyes but he ended up laughing so he hid his face in the nook of his arm.

”Ooooh~~ I see you! Even though I’m a little jealous that you got a boyfriend earlier than me. Jerk”

Lance sat up and pretended to flip his hair “Not everyone has this much charm”

”Alright, we gotta finish—let’s go”

They both laughed and finished setting up the table.

 

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After everything was finished, they all sat down and started to eat. Lance didn’t get a chance to let Keith know that pretty much freakin everyone knows about them now. And he cant tell him now because he’s on the other side of the table.

And that’s really getting on his nerves.

He kind of tuned out of the conversation, thinking about how things would go if they told everyone. How would Keith’s family react? How would his mom react?? His dad??

Keith already came out to his family so he knows they won’t mind that he’s with a boy but what if they don’t like lance…?! What if they’re disappointed that their son ended up with some Cuban farm kid and not someone closer to home?? What if they don’t think lance is worthy of him??? Cause honestly, sometimes lance doesn’t think he’s worthy of someone so amazing and sweet and beautiful.

Like, keith and him are like the childhood friends to lovers cliché! And all this is so sudden! How can he care about someone so much so fast?? But it’s also not that fast?? Why are his eyes so sparkly and pretty?? Why is his voice so smooth and sometimes raspy—especially when he’s tired—and like honey or something?! Why is lance freaking out right now?!

“Hey, you doin’ okay over there?” Rachel said, snapping lance out his weird internal freak out moment. But rather suddenly, making him jump.

They’re all looking at him now, worried and confused. Veronica looks concerned, Rachel too. His parents are confused and silent. Keith is beautiful—Before lance could control himself, the words just came out (gay joke?)

”Im bi!”

He didn’t to sound so loud but luckily his own…loudness…? once again snapped him out of his freak out.

 

…

 

Everyone is silent.

Lance froze, realizing what he said. It’s not how he wanted to do that but……well at least he did it…?

”Yeah…uh—“ he laughed nervously and looked down at his lap “I’m like, bi…so……do what you want with that information…I guess……”

 

Still, silence.

Until acxa spoke up “God, finally. I’m kind of sick and tired of me and Ronnie being the only gay ones”

Lance quickly looked up and Veronica was glaring at her. He didn’t notice before but her cheeks were slightly flushed and her speech was a little slurred.

Veronica laughed nervously “Uh—she’s had like way too much to drink—“

”How do you always find alcohol?” Heith said, looking a tad bit disappointed in his daughter.

But she just ignored him and rolled her eyes “Ugh now you and my stupid brother can be gross in public!—“

Veronica stood up, taking acxa with her by her arm “Okay—we’re gonna go upstairs—uh….sorrylance—“ She quickly walked to the stairs, leaving lance completely and utterly alone. Wow see if he ever trusts her again.

He looked at Keith who looked absolutely mortified and embarrassed. Lance would say something if he didn’t feel the exact same way.

Then Nadia giggled “Does this mean Keith and uncle lance are gonna get married?? They love each other!”

Lisa looked at her, eyes wide “Nadia!”

Lance heard a snort and looked at luis, who covered his mouth. “Luis!” Lisa said, still shocked.

He looked at his mom, who was raising her eyebrows at both him, and Keith.

Veronica came back downstairs and sat down “I got her to lay down…sorry”

She noticed her mom staring at them and shut her mouth. Everyone got quiet, all looking at her and waiting for her to say something.

She looked upset so they were all pretty much on the edge of their seats.

Then she spoke.

“No more closing your door when he’s here then”

Luis’s snorting turned into full on laughter and soon, everyone followed suit. Lance looked at Keith again, who was blushing so much. Even his family was laughing.

Krolia looked at lance, making his heart stop out of worry “Hon, we love you so we’re okay with you and keith being together”

”But no hanky panky” Keith’s dad added, making Keith cover his face and slide down on his chair.

Lances mom chuckled “solo mantente a salvo cuando……mate” his family started cackling even more.

Now it was lances turn to cover his face and slide down in his chair. “Mamá……” he groaned and she waved her hand “Ok, we’ll stop embarrassing you now”

”I won’t” Rachel raised her hand and smirked at lance.

“You know what? I actually think it’s getting kind of late so I’m gonna go to my room”

He stood up and tried to go to the stairs but his mom stopped him “Not before you clean your mess up!”

He walked back to grab his plate and Keith looked at him and lance could see the ‘help me’ in his eyes so he also grabbed his plate and he stood up really fast and mumbled “thanksimgonnagotothebathroom—“ and left before anyone could stop him.

They all still laughed and once lance was finished rinsing off the plates, he walked upstairs, ignoring both their families teasing him about keeping the door open.

When he got to his room, Keith was sitting on his bed, typing something on his phone. Really fast.

Even though his mom said not to, he closed the door. But he did it quietly so no one would hear.

”Hey, you okay?”

He looked up and back at his phone for a second, typed some more than turned off his phone. He threw it down on the bed and sighed “That was embarrassing”

Lance walked over to him and sat down, crossing his arms and laying them on Keith’s knees. “I know”

”I’m definitely killing acxa when she’s sober”

”I know”

“So……are you okay?”

Lance smiled and sat up, keeping his hands on his knees “Of course I’m okay. I was gonna tell them anyway so at least it’s over with”

”I guess so…”

”Did you not want people to know…?”

He felt a little nervous that Keith would say yes but Keith shook his head “No I do—“ he laughed “I just hoped that it would be a lot smoother than that”

“Nothing is smooth in my family.” He smirked and rubbed his hand down his cheek, sighing dramatically “Except for my skin”

Keith laughed and poked lances cheek, then rubbing it a little “How do you have such soft skin?”

”A little thing called moisturizer, babe”

Keith raised an eyebrow, smirking a little “Babe?”

Lance shrugged and smirked back, trying to seem super nonchalant about it “What? You don’t like it?”

”No, it sounds good coming from you”

Lance furrowed his eyebrows ”What’s that mean?”

”I mean it sounds like something you’d say. But if I said it would just be weird”

Lance rolled his eyes “I doubt that”

Keith looked unconvinced “You’re saying if I called you ‘babe’ it would sound natural?”

Lance smiled, actually liking hearing him say it “Say it again”

”What?”

”Call me babe”

Keith looked confused but awkwardly said “Uh…babe?”

Lance leaned in closer and smiled again “Give me more confidence”

Keith rolled his eyes “Ok— Babe”

Lance batted his eyelashes and leaned even closer “Say it sweeter~”

Keith groaned and stretched his legs out, making lances hands fall down. Lance just groaned back dramatically and stood up “Ok if you wanna be like that then you can sleep on the floor”

”Be like what?”

”Difficult”

Keith smirked and then made the softest expression “But babe…”

Lance could barely hide his smile so he looked away and crossed his arms. He totally doesn’t care……not at all. He’s completely—

“You’re adorable when you’re all pouty……babe”

Lance accidentally laughed so he covered his mouth but it was too late. He can’t seem cool anymore :(

“Told you it’s weird”

Lance sat down again, this time as close as he can get “No, I like it”

”It’s not very dark and mysterious of me to say babe though” he smiled and moved closer.

Lances eyes instinctively went down to his mouth then back up to his eyes “How many times do I have to say I know it’s all a facade and I know the true you”

”The true me likes flowers and saying babe?”

Lance nodded, their noses now brushing against each other “Yep—Well it better be”

”Why?” He moved his hand to lances leg.

”Cause you better not be calling anyone else babe”

They both closed their eyes but right as their lips touched, the door flung open. Lance yelped and grabbed onto keith, who was looking at the door with wide eyes.

And unfortunately, it was his mom.

”What did I say about closing the door?”

Lance quickly moved away from Keith and looked away “Whaaat…I didn’t even know I closed it……must be a habit” he pursed his lips and she sighed.

”Ok……I know you’re both seventeen so……I guess you can keep it closed…”

Lance looked at her, surprised. He did not expect her to say that. He half expects her to say sike then kill him and Keith. But she just looks……maternal? Soft? Supportive? All those.

And a little overprotective.

”Really…?”

She smiled and nodded “Sí, BUT—“ she pointed at Keith, who flinched “Only because I trust him to be responsible. If it were anyone else, you would be grounded forever”

“Ok…” Lance smiled, excited but also scared that if he said anything, he would make her change her mind. She turned to leave but stopped to glare at Keith, who—rightfully so—looked terrified “Like I said, I’m trusting you to be responsible, okay?”

Keith just nodded and she did too as if they had some silent agreement over lance or something. Then she looked at lance and smiled “Buenos noches, mi amor”

”Goodnight, mamá”

Then she looked back at Keith, this time not glaring but just smiling fondly “Goodnight Keith”

”Uh—Goodnight”

She closed the door and lance looked at Keith, excitement now overflowing.

”Why are you so happy? We could close the door before?”

”You don’t get it! One time Veronica had this guy over—who she wasn’t even dating—and she closed the door and my mom got so upset she literally banned him from our house.”

”Oh…well then yeah, that went great”

”Yeah, it did! Cause now we can do whatever we want and not have to worry about her coming in and seeing you naked or something”

”Uh—what?”

Lance laughed “Yeah she would absolutely murder you…and maybe me too”

”No—uh…why would she find me naked…?” Keith had this nervous, yet knowing look and lance froze, not realizing what he just implied.

”Um…well, uh—Probably not naked…just… like……” he trailed off, seeing Keith look at him so……fondly? Nervously? But like a curious nervous…

They both didn’t say anything, probably out of fear they’ll say the wrong thing…at least that’s what lance is thinking. But he should probably say something before this gets awkward.

”Sorry……I…I wasn’t really thinking”

Keith’s eyes darted all over lances face, making him nervous as heck. What’s he thinking right now?? Because unfortunately lances thoughts are getting a little X-rated.

Then Keith spoke, voice so soft like it was only for lance to hear “Do you……want to……do that?”

Keith didn’t look uncomfortable or disgusted in any way so lance decided to be completely honest. So he nodded slowly. But then he back-tracked “But like, if you don’t want to I completely understand—“

”I do”

Lance felt his entire body heat up. Mostly in his face. He can see Keith’s cheeks getting a little pinker, too.

”Like……clothes off and everything?”

Keith nodded, the corners of his mouth going slightly up. “And everything”

Lance doesn’t even try to control what he’s saying next—mostly because he really wants to say it “I wanna be so close to you in every way possible.”

Still not controlling himself, he’s leaning closer “I want to know how you look—how you sound—how you feel—“

Keiths breath hitched and lance put his hand around his neck “I wanna do way more than over the jeans stuff”

Keith moved his hand to his thigh and lance put his forehead against Keith’s “God, Keith I want to do so much with y—“

There’s a knock on the door, completely ruining the moment they were just having. So he sighed and looked behind him “Yeah?”

It was Veronica “Are you decent?”

Lance groaned “Yes!”

She opened the door and smirked at them “Oops, did I mess up something?”

”No…”

She looked unconvinced but didn’t say anything about it “I just wanted to say that I’m really proud of you”

Lance smiled “Aww, thanks”

”And I’m also mad as hell because moms letting you close your door”

”Well, she’s getting with the times, sista” He snapped his fingers and she rolled her eyes “I’m just saying it’s not fair that she’s letting two obviously horny teenagers sleep in the same bed, with the door closed, when I couldn’t even have a friend over”

”I’m not—gross!”

Acxa poked her head in the door and then laughed “You may not be…”

Veronica shoved her away and waved her hand “Alright I just wanted to say Goodnight and I’m proud……so Goodnight……”

Acxa whispered something and Veronica started laughing and she mumbled Goodnight again and closed the door.

”What did she mean by—“ he looked over at Keith, who looked, once again, mortified. “Uh, I have to—uh—go”

He got up but Lance quickly grabbed his wrist, stopping him “Wait—“

Keith looked like he was actually in pain and lance looked down, now seeing why.

Keith just sighed, getting impatient “Yeah—I know, can I go now?”

He went to leave but lance held on to his wrist tighter “Wait—can you uh……stay…?”

”Uh, I don’t know if you’ve noticed but—“

”You can do it here”

Keith didn’t say anything and then looked away “I don’t want you to see”

Lance loosed his grip on his wrist “You don’t have to but……you could also do it under the covers…”

”What if I look stupid?”

His breathing was getting heavier and lance let go of his wrist completely “I know you won’t”

Keith looked like he was contemplating for a moment before moving back on the bed, next to Lance. “So……do I just……start…?”

Lance stopped breathing because the gravity of this situation just crashed right down on him.

Ok, uh, he’s doing this.

But he shook his head “Wait, lemme do something—“ he stood up and walked over to his door and locked it. Then he turned off his light. “Lance, what’re you doing?”

The only light in the room was coming from his window so he turned on his lamp, making the room a nice orange color.

”Im setting the mood”

”The mood was already set” Keith started unbuttoning his jeans and lance freaked out “Wait! Let me play something so no one hears”

He got his laptop and opened it and shakily typed in his password. It took a few tries since he was shaking so much. Gosh, he’s like, really nervous and he’s not even doing anything.

He just played the first thing he saw on Netflix, which ended up being greys anatomy (of course) and the show started and lance turned around.

”Ok—I’m ready”

But Keith was crossing his arms and lances shoulders slumped “Did I ruin it?”

Keith shook his head and ran his hand through his hair “No, I just don’t know…if I should? Like—we’re both really nervous and I can see you shaking and…It kinda went away so…”

Lance sighed “Sorry…”

”It’s okay, you probably don’t want to see what I look like doing that anyway” he laughed but lance laid his head on his shoulder “But I really do……I just wasn’t prepared…”

“I mean, I still…could……I just don’t know if anything will happen…”

Lances heart skipped a beat and he sat up “Are you sure?”

Keith nodded, looking down at his unbuttoned jeans “I guess so?”

Lance nodded too “Ok, uh……are you…like, ready…?”

”Say what you were talking about earlier.”

Lance sat, facing him and smiled, a little nervous “As I was saying, there are probably countless I wanna do with you……” He leaned forward, enough to feel his breath hitch again “To you”

He watched Keith put his hand down in his pants but Keith grabbed his face “Don’t look, just look at me”

Lance continued talking quietly saying things that are way too x rated for me to write. We keepin it g up in here (not really).

At some point, they ended up kissing and lance didn’t know how much he could handle Keith panting into his mouth. Seriously how do people do this and not go crazy??

Because right now, his mind is going to places he never thought it would go to. Like……it’s crazy.

But it’s also the best feeling. It’s a good kind of crazy. He just feels absolutely crazy right now.

 

God, he’s so crazy over Keith.

 

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After that, they both changed into pajamas and laid down. They were giggling like school girls about what just happened.

They let the laptop play because the background noise was nice. And it calmed their nerves a little knowing no one would hear them talking. Even though no one would hear them anyway since they’re whispering.

”I promise you, you didn’t look stupid” Lance poked Keith’s cheek, smiling. Keith’s face heated up and he rolled his eyes.

”Your eyes were closed how would you know?”

Lance giggled again and kissed him “Your eyes were closed”

Keith kissed him back, and then pulled away, lowering his voice even more.

”Next time, I get to watch you then”

Lance grinned and kissed him again “Ok”

Lance moved closer to him, laying his head down on his shoulder. Keith got comfortable and instinctively started playing with his hair.

He closed his eyes, taking in everything around him. He’s genuinely happy right now. He’s with everyone he loves right now, being close to his family, lances family, pidges family, his new friends…he doesn’t know if he’ll ever be happier—

“I love you”

Lance said it so quietly, Keith thought he may have imagined it. But when he realized he didn’t, Keith’s heart stopped, or maybe it went into overdrive—he doesn’t really know but his heart is definitely doing something right now.

Lance didn’t move, keeping his head on his shoulder. Keith needs to say something. He opened his mouth but nothing came out. That seemed to make Lance nervous “Uh, you don’t have to reply, I’m probably jus—“

”I’ve loved you ever since we were kids, Lance”

Lance looked up at him, eyes sparkling “Really?”

Keith couldn’t help but smile “Of course I have”

Lance turned on his stomach and sat up on his elbows “I think my heart just exploded”

Keith rolled his eyes but was still smiling. Lance laughed and kissed him “I can’t believe I was the first to say it”

”I know”

Lance chuckled and laid back down, hugging him “I can’t wait till it’s just a thing we say”

”Why wait?”

“Because I gotta wait til I’m not so crazy about you—my little heart can’t handle it” he snorted and Keith poked his cheek, grinning.

“You sure that’s gonna happen?”

 

”No way”

 

 

 

 

~Freakin Time Skip!!!~

 

After Keith left, they continued calling every night, FaceTiming a lot, and obvs texting all the time.

The same goes with everyone else too. Just not to the same extent (except with pidge cause they’re besties).

And he got to know Ryan and ina a lot more and they also became besties. Basically everyone is besties. I know super lazy ending but at least it’s good.

 

 

 

But here’s a little extra bc why not.

 

 

 

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They both ended up applying to same college because they pretty much want to do the same thing. Lance wants to be a zoologist and “work with freakin pandas and crap” (which is what he said) and Keith obviously is becoming a veterinarian.

And once Keith got a letter in the mail, saying he got in (obviously) he told Lance and they both freaked out for a bit. Lance hasn’t gotten a letter yet though which is kind of freaking Keith out as well.

Because he’s also been strangely silent ever since he told him. He’s really worried that lance didn’t get in. I mean, he doubts it because he’s really smart, but still…

Lance hasn’t responded to him since yesterday and Keith is half expecting to get a call saying he died or something.

But since that’s not realistic, he just sighed, trying to calm down his mind. He flopped down on the cheap couch he got for his cheap apartment that he surprisingly can afford pretty well. Who knew working full time at a local coffee shop pays so well…?

But it’s not great. But since he got in with a scholarship, he decided to just go for it. He is absolutely not living in a dorm. 

His mom force-gave…(?) him a tv because she said he would get bored. Even though he said he didn’t need it, he’s pretty happy he has one. He doesn’t have cable so it usually is just playing something random on Netflix.

It’s playing some some k drama he’s never heard of so he’s not really paying attention to it. He’s mostly just thinking about lance. Because Keith isn’t the type of person to text people all the time—not even his boyfriend—but lance absolutely is. If the smallest thing happens, lance texts him about it. Keith loves it but he’s rarely the one to initiate the texts. He’s just nervous he’s being too desperate. But then again, he never thinks lance is desperate so……eh whatever.

It’s getting dark out so he started to get tired. He zoned out until his eyes barely closed—but he was woken up by a knock at the door.

Its probably just something he ordered—though he doesn’t know because he barely ever orders anything.

He hasn’t gotten up yet. He probably should? They’re gonna leave………but that doesn’t sound that bad. He closed his eyes, ignoring the knocks. They can just leave whatever it is at the door.

But he still wasn’t able to go to sleep because his phone buzzed. He was going to ignore that too but he doesn’t want to be bothered again so he grabbed it to turn it off but—

 

Lance

open your door dummy

 

Lance?? He sat up to read it but when he did, he looked at his door. How did he—

Before even finishing his thought, he sprung up and fast walked to the door. He opened it, and there lance was, with his phone in his hand, looking startled. But he immediately smiled and held his arms out, like he was presenting himself “I’m here!”

Keith was just frozen, completely shocked, relieved, excited, nervous, basically every startled and happy emotion—so he smiled, exhaling, not even knowing he was holding his breath.

“You’re here”

Lance laughed and hugged him, squeezing him really tight “Sorry it’s so sudden, I just couldn’t wait”

Keith hugged him back “Wait for what?”

Lance pulled away, grinning “I got in”

”What?”

Lance groaned, still grinning though “Into college—I got in, too”

Still, shocked and excited Keith hugged him again, this time laughing “That’s great!”

Keith pulled away a little to kiss him. It was a little messy because they were both laughing, not being able to control it. But honestly, they weren’t really trying.

”Ok try not to get naked now, I’m here too” Suddenly, pidge was at the door, with two suitcases that looks really big compared to her.

Keith laughed “Why didn’t you tell me you were coming?”

”Uh, because? It’s a surprise” pidge scoffed but she didn’t sound upset at all. Keith hugged her and she groaned “Ew you’re both so emotional”

”Oh shut up, you love it” lance teased and she shrugged “Yeah you’re right” then hugged Keith as tight as she could, which was actually really tight.

Struggling to breath, Keith just hugged back. But just as he was about to pass out, she let go “Alright we’re gonna talk all day tomorrow—I’m gonna stay in a hotel because I know you two are gonna be gross and I don’t wanna hear that”

She hugged him again “So you better be awake really early because I’m coming here as soon as I wake up”

”So at 3pm?”

”Yup”

She gave him a tight squeeze before letting go “I’ll see you tomorrow then, losers”

”Love you too” lance called to her as she walked away and when she was out of sight, he got the two suitcases she had and brought them inside his apartment. He looked like he was struggling though so Keith got them.

”Aww, thanks babe~”

Keith rolled his eyes and then looked at the suitcases “Why are they so heavy?”

”Because I’m a handful”

”Really”

”Because I constantly want to look flawless for my boyfriend so it’s a bunch of clothes”

Keith raised an eyebrow, still not convinced.

“Ok fine I’m really indecisive and wanted to decorate your apartment with some cute things I bought”

”What?”

Lance giggled excitedly and crouched down to open the suitcase “First—obviously—my pillow—“ He threw it at Keith, who just barely caught it “Wai—“

He pulled out a light up star decoration and turned it on “I had to get this—it was on sale at that store near that tire place”

Keith sat down on the floor, next to him, just letting him show him everything he brought.

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Once everything was scattered across the floor, lance sighed “Oh…sorry—I’ll clean it up”

He tried to stand up but Keith shook his head “Let’s just go to sleep. We can clean it up tomorrow”

”Are you sure?”

Keith rubbed his eyes and yawned “Look—I love you but I can’t stay awake any longer—so can we please just go to sleep?” 

Lance smiled “Ok”

They stood up and walked to the bedroom and changed before laying down. They both pretty much passed out immediately but not before saying Goodnight.

”Goodnight, I love you” lance smiled, nuzzling his face in his hair.

”Love you” Keith grabbed his hand and kissed it.

 

Then they fell asleep.

 

 

And that’s how pretty much every night ended for pretty much forever……pretty much.

 

The End

Notes:

Btw mate is Cuban slang for kissin

But it translates to killing lol

 

Also thank you so much for reading😭😭 I mean obviously if you’re seeing this that meant you read it so thank you <3

Love you

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