Friends With Benefits {Klance High School AU} - Discontinued

Chapter 4

Thursday
Lance's P.O.V.

I was currently sitting in math class, my fourth period that day.
My mind kept wondering to so many random things, which made it difficult to concentrate on the lesson.

"You're going to work in pairs for this assignment."

I faintly heard Mr. Stephani say through my foggy mind.

As soon as he said that, I noticed Hunk and Pidge look at each other. They seemed excited, almost.

Wow. Thanks for leaving me out guys.

I was starting to stress about who I could partner-up with. I took a few deep breaths to calm myself down. It's fine, we probably have assigned partners anyways.

A boy in my class who went by the name Ryan, asked if we could choose our own partners. To that, our teacher replied, stating that we were indeed choosing our own partners.

Well, there goes that thought.

I mentally kicked myself. I usually love when we get to choose our own people to work with but there's not a single person who I could pair up with.

I looked around the room, trying to find someone I could be partner's with.

Everyone was quickly pairing themselves off with their close friends very quickly.

My eyes landed on a particular boy in my class. Keith.

As expected, he wasn't even trying to find a partner. He sat there with his face rested on his desk

I hummed to myself and looked over at Hunk at Pidge then back to Keith again, trying to decide whether or not I should be Keith's partner.

After Mr. Stephani finished explaining all the boring things about the assignment, I walked up to Keith to ask if he wanted to partner with me.

I don't know why I was so surprised, but he actually aggreed

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"See ya." Keith said while walking away, towards the door.

I called out to him, "Wait!"

Keith stopped in his tracks and turned his head towards me. "Yeah?"

"Could I... maybe get your number?" I asked.

His eyes widened slightly for a second.

"To keep in touch for the project." I added.

"Sure. Can I see your phone?" He reached it his hand towards me.

I obviously hesitated to give Keith, someone I barely know, my phone.

"Sure." I unlocked my phone and slowly handed it over to him.

He looked slightly frustrated and kept scrolling through things on my phone. I was getting nervous.

"Why are you going trough my phone?" I asked.

He looked up at me and furrowed his eyebrows, then sighed. "Your phone is so unorganized."

I laughed nervously.

"Can you like go to where you make a new contact?"

"Oh!" I took my phone from him, "Here."

I went into my Messages app and pressed the "new message" button.

"Just put your number in here and write 'Hi' or something."

He smiled somewhat warmly at me.

My stomach suddenly felt like it was in knots. Not necessarily in a bad way though.

He clicked some buttons. His own phone, which was sitting on his desk, buzzed and turned on, signalling that he has a new notification. He pressed a few more buttons then gave my cell phone back to me and said, "There."

My face felt really warm and my stomach was filled with fluttering insects. I subconsciously smiled, watching as Keith walked out the classroom.

I felt my phone vibrate, I ignored it so I could keep my eyes on Keith until he was out of sight.

I sighed with a relieved voice and looked at my phone. It was a text from a contact named "keith"

It read, "you just gonna stay in that classroom?"

I laughed a little before typing out and sending, "Yeah, I should probably head out."

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keith: hey, you home yet?

Me: Yep

keith: nice

Me: I guess... so what's up?

keith: just laying in bed ig

Me: Sounds exciting

keith: ikr

Me: pfft

keith: do u have sc?

Me: What?

keith: ? snapchat

Me: Oh! Yes sorry.

That was kind of embarrassing.

keith: whats your user

Me: lanceylance22

keith: really?

Me: What?!!

keith: nothing

Me: Are you making fun of me?? It's awesome!

Before I knew it, I got a notification from SnapChat saying that keithkogane1417 added me as a friend.

I went on SnapChat and added Keith back. I sent him a selfie using a weird filter.

He opened it right away and sent a selfie with only half of his face visible. The half that wasn't showing was pressed into a pillow.
I could tell he was shirtless. From what I could see, his shoulder's were nicely sculpted and strong-looking.

We continued to snap each other back and forth for the rest of the night. Mostly not saying anything, but sometimes we commented on the other's photos.

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Friday

Keith stopped answering around one in the morning. I sighed, and got up to do my before-bed skin care. After I put my face mask on and washed my hands, I put my earbuds in and started playing my "Feelings" playlist on Spotify.
Electric Love by BØRNS started playing.

I walked downstairs to get a glass of water and was accompanied by my older brother, Marco again.

"No hagas un hábito de esto." He said suddenly.

I rolled my eyes, deciding not to respond to him.

"¿Que estás pensando?" He spoke up again.

"Eres un jodido gilipollas." I replied while filling my glass with cold water that ran from the faucet.

Marco gasped. "Trataba de ser considerado."

"No necesito tu consideración." I finished my water and placed the glass in the sink.

"Tú eres el gilipollas." He said before scoffing.

I groaned and walked back to my room.

"Buenas noches." He said, sincerely.

"Sí."

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I plugged my phone in so it wouldn't die while I was sleeping then I collapsed onto my mattress and stared at my ceiling. In this moment, nothing felt real.

I closed my eyes and listened to the music, trying to fall asleep.