RIGHT FOOT | klance (keith x lance)

5. Don't be a fool

Keith barely made it through the week because he was very anxious for Friday. Lance had managed to get his night free from anything Paladins related and his Saturday too – just in case, he had said and Keith had chosen to ignore that comment. He knew Lance wanted to see him that day, but he didn't know what Lance had in mind until very late at night on Thursday, so he spent the entire week looking forward to having Lance text him the specifics.

They day after their second encounter – that was what Keith was calling them for now, encounters. Because he didn't have it in him to call them dates, but he couldn't deny they had been somewhat odd to be just two friends hanging out – Lance spent texting Keith the whole time. Keith had gotten his first notice at work because of using his phone too much but he didn't care; he was happy. Just friends or more than friends, Keith was sure of one thing: he was friends with Lance. And that was the coolest thing in the world.

He had saved all of the photos Lance had sent him of the stuffed animals collection Lance had. He had also sent Lance photos of his own collection, of course. Lance reacted with a string of emojis to each photo Keith sent his way; it was adorable and made Keith's chest warmer. Lance had also sent Keith a video of him singing Shawn Mendes' Mercy and playing it on the guitar and Keith had marked it as a favourite.

As the rest of the week went by, Keith talked more with Pidge in their private chat; they had grown very close after bonding over cryptids and conspiracy theories, so their conversations ended up being about literally anything. Once the band started their creative process, Lance started texting Keith less, so they facetimed once in the middle of the week. Lance had asked Keith if he was okay with Lance playing the guitar and singing while they facetimed and Keith knew he should've said no, especially considering it was late at night after a particularly tiring work day and, but he was weak, so he agreed to it. Almost an hour into them facetiming – twenty minutes after Lance had started singing –, Keith had fallen asleep to Lance's voice.

When he woke up the morning after, Lance had texted him a screenshot of him asleep and captioned it as "cute, but not too cute to be free of being blackmailed" and a heart-eyes emoji. Keith had been stupid and he knew it. And if he had been stupid solely because he had given Lance blackmail material on him he would've been lucky. Not, he had been stupid because he was starting to get involved. He realised that on Thursday night, when he fell asleep before getting Lance's usual goodnight text and felt kind of upset about it. When he woke up the next day he had received multiple texts from Lance.

Lance McClain: r u asleep?????
Lance McClain: nooooooooo keefer
Lance McClain: u r WEAK, mullet, that's what u r
Lance McClain: anyway
Lance McCain: tomorrow (today??? it's past midnight already hmmmm), Netflix and chill whatcha say??? ;))))
Lance McClain: I'll let u choose the movie and the bright side is:
Lance McClain: wait for it
Lance McClain: waaaaaaaaait for it
Lance McClain: :
Lance McClain: we won't argue over who's paying cause no one's paying (unless we order pizza but since u'll be the guest I'll be paying of course)
Lance McClain: u know where I live so expect u here at 4pm tomorrow/today aka Friday !!!
Keith: See you at four.

Keith spent his whole morning anxious about going to Lance's apartment. He decided to do things so he kept his brain from worrying too much, so after breakfast he started cleaning the house. Shiro woke up in the middle of him organising the living room and didn't question, just saying good morning and going straight to the kitchen instead. Keith kept on organising everything and dusting every surface. He entered Shiro's room and tried to be quick there since Shiro was in the kitchen; he decided to vacuum the whole apartment before going to his own room, starting with Shiro's, so Shiro could go back inside if he wanted to.