Growing Pains (A Voltron Legendary Defender Fan Fiction)

Chapter 18

"I messed up." Shiro was pacing the floor of the lounge. "I really messed up."

Lance sighed, "Look man, it's been almost a week. If you don't calm down you're going to wear a hole in the floor."

"But I messed up! So bad." Shiro finally stopped. "I broke Keith's trust. I don't know if he will ever be able to forgive me..."

"You just need to give him time Shiro." Allura comforted him. "I'm sure Keith just needs some time to cool off. Just give him space for a while. Everything will work out. We just need to have faith."

Keith shot up from his bed screaming. Luckily, he could hear that everyone was in the lounge. But that was impossible, that was way too far away...

He couldn't think about that as a wave of nausea coursed through his body. He didn't even have time to make it to the bathroom before he vomited onto a pile of dirty laundry. Could have been worse. It could have been his pile of clean laundry. He really should think about putting his clothes in actual drawers...

Keith held his forehead, as he felt like his head was going to explode. Today was the last day of Galra puberty, and it felt like this change was going to be a big one.

He sobbed from not just the pain, but also just his circumstances in general. Why him? He had lived such a normal life on earth with his dad. Why did things have to change? Why did his dad have to die? Why did his mom have to leave? What did his mom have to be an alien?

Keith couldn't take this pain anymore and stumbled into the bathroom. He had to see what was going on. Only... now he wished he hadn't...

Sitting tall on top of his head were two fur-covered ears, which almost resembled those of a cat. The outer fur was the same dark purple seen in the streak in his hair. The fur on the inside was a much lighter people, almost falling more into the grey category.

He couldn't believe it. He reached up gingerly to touch one of them and found them to be very sensitive. And they were huge! Each ear was about the size of his hand! It would now be impossible to be seen around his friends. He would never be able to leave his cabin. But without him, they couldn't form Voltron. But if they saw him like this, would they even let him stay on Voltron anyway?

These were all the thoughts running through his head as he sobbed his eyes out. He noticed that when he became upset, the ears flattened against his skull. There was no way around it now. He was a certified freak and there was no going back.

"Keith?" he heard a knocking at his door. It sounded like Pidge. "I know you're in there. Look, I'm coming in alright?"

Keith's heart started racing. He couldn't let Pidge see him like this. Suddenly, his eyes landed on his paladin helmet, and he knew that was his only hope. He slid it on, thankful that he had already slipped his gloves on beforehand. He didn't lower the face shield like they would if they were in space, so you could at least see the bottom half of his face.

"Keith?" she peaked her head in. "Why are you wearing your helmet?" no answer. "If it's because of the purple hair thing, Shiro already told us. He feels super bad by the way. He was really just trying to help." She walked over to him and took one of his hands, "We all are. Won't you at least come sit with us? We've missed having you around."

He subconsciously felt his helmet. "Don't worry." She assured. "You can keep the helmet. We just wanted to see you again. It's been a week, and you haven't come out of your room sense. Please???"

He lets out a huff and nods. He knows it's probably a bad idea, but he's never been any good at saying no to Pidge's puppy dog eyes. He really doesn't want to be doing this right now. He needs to call Kolivan. But, it would only take a few minutes before he could go back to his room. Besides, what's the worst that could happen?

(A/N - Hey guys, thanks for reading. When I say Vol, you say...)