FWB|| Klance HS AU✓

Chapter 43: 'Stop it!'

TW: mentions of sexual assault, slight nsfw
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Keith let out a long, breathy sigh.

He was bored out of his mind, also super tired. It was currently Thursday, well actually Friday. It was four in the morning on a Friday. Keith had to get up for school in less than two hours, so it was stressful that he wasn't asleep. If you were wondering why he was up, it was because he couldn't sleep. Ever since the whole James and Lotor situation, Keith developed awful sleeping habits.

These sleeping habits consisted of many things. The first issue he developed was not being able to sleep at all. A few days after the first assault Keith found himself restless. He'd be up for nearly hours just turning from side to side. Some days he never got any sleep, so he'd lay up for hours. Sometimes Keith would stay on his phone, most times he would cry out of frustration. Other days he did get sleep, but not much. The nights Keith slept he'd wake up at least three times a night. Keith would sleep for an hour or two then wake up. Whenever he woke up in the middle of the night it'd take another hour to fall back asleep. Keith usually stayed up after waking the second time, not wanting to roll around in stress. Not getting any sleep started to rub off Keith. He started to get super irritable and moody. Keith also became super tired and less consistent throughout the day. Eventually, the days where Keith couldn't sleep at all faded out. Even so, he was left with waking up a handful of times a night. On top of the bad sleeping habits, Keith started to have more vivid dreams. These vivid dreams often scared Keith half to death. He'd wake up in a cold sweat, panting and crying. Once or twice these dreams lead to an anxiety attack in the middle of the night. Overall, Keith and sleep weren't on good terms at the moment.

Keith started to get over these dreams and bad sleep schedule. He wasn't waking up as often, and Keith could barely remember most dreams he had. The cure to Keith's odd sleeping habits was none other than Lance himself. Lance had no idea that Keith wasn't sleeping well at first. He had a general idea because of how tired Keith looked, but he didn't know the full extent. It took weeks to convince Keith to spend the night with Lance after James and Lotor stepped in. Keith mostly didn't want Lance to see how bad he got during the night. The two always slept in each other's arms. Keith knew how often he woke up, and how bad his anxiety attacks could get. He didn't want to disturb Lance or make him put up with it. Lance would never have a problem with helping Keith, and they both knew that, but Keith couldn't help being worried. He also knew for a fact that Lance would start to get extremely worried if he knew Keith wasn't sleeping. Most importantly, the stupidest reason Keith wouldn't spend the night with Lance, he was embarrassed. He was embarrassed that he couldn't sleep ever. Keith hated the fact that he always woke up and could never go back to sleep. He hated the fact that it made him so frustrated he cried. What Keith hated the most was the scare that he might wake up to an anxiety attack. Keith didn't want Lance to have to see that.

Eventually, Keith caved into spending the night with Lance. It took Keith at least an hour to fall asleep in the same bed as his boyfriend. He couldn't fight the fact that he was worried Lance would have to see one of his anxiety attacks. When he did fall asleep, Keith slept for a decent four hours, but he still woke up. When Keith woke up he laid there for a little, but eventually, he started to get irritable that he couldn't sleep. Keith ended up disturbing his boyfriend's sleep unintentionally. Lucky, Lance wasn't mad in the slightest. Keith explained to him how he had a hard time sleeping lately and Lance understood completely. Lance held Keith closely, rubbed circles in his back, and sung to him till he fell back asleep. Keith was very grateful that Lance took his odd sleeping habits well. He was also glad that he didn't have any bad dreams while sleeping with his boyfriend. The next few times Keith spent the night with Lance he continued to wake up constantly. Each time he woke up he tried not to wake Lance, but somehow it always happened. Even if he didn't want to wake his boyfriend, Keith was kind of glad he did. Lance repeated the same process of comforting Keith till he fell asleep. Sometimes Keith would try to get out of bed to calm himself and Lance would lay there and beg him to stay. Overall, Lance was pretty good at calming Keith's nerves during the night.