Chapter5

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Lance stood in front of Keith's dorm nervously, he hadn't expected to be invited over so soon. He looked at the door, there were three lions messily glued on. A red, yellow and green ones, lance smiled softly looking at the red lion and thinking that one has to be Keith's.
Closing his eyes tightly and gently knocked on the door,
There was a crash followed by a gross thud. The door opened suddenly causing lance jump slightly, keith stood in the doorway his hair pulled up in a messy ponytail and he had bags under his eyes, like he had been asleep, he wore a loose t-shirt that seemed little too short almost like a crop top, with blue and white stripped bottoms.

"I-im sorry am I too early?? Because I can l-leave.." lance said looking at his feet
"WHAT No!! I was just playing a game before you arrived and I didn't think you'd be so early so you startled me! Thats all!" He insisted begging with his eyes for lance to stay
"I- ok...if you really insist." Lance mumbled looking at the pizza boxes in his hands "I uh bought some lunch for us, I didn't think you would have anything so..."
"Oh my god. Thanks man! I haven't eaten since yesterday morning." He smiles widely at lance moving out of the way so he could enter.
Lance looked around the room, it was like all the other dorms a bunk bed against the left wall but the room was slightly bigger. Obviously to accommodate an extra person whose bed was positioned under the window kind of like a large window seat.
There was an ugly brown couch with a pool table positioned in front of it with two sets of keyboard and mouse on it, there were two monitors each connected to a different computer and a desk with an assortment of strange items and technology stuff stacked on it.
"Set the food down on the floor and pick a pc, ill show you the ropes of overwatch." Keith sits down picking the set on the right of the table leaving a place ment for lance to sit, he looked up at lance noticing he was standing awkwardly and patted the spot next to him. "Come on sit, ill help you set up." Lance set the pizza on the bottom bunk (assuming it was keiths) and slowly took a seat next to the other boy.
Keith looked at the tanned boy. He was much more decently dressed than himself, wearing a long sleeved grey shirt and jeans his hair even looked like it was combed through.
"Ok so, you probably dont have an account so you'll be using my roommates account, hes a high level so you'll be up against good players right off the bat but dont worry because I got your back." He smiled encouragingly, as he logged him in to the account.

"BeafyBoi..? Dude..your friend is fukin weird." Lance says embarrassed to even play under the name

"Pfft, yeah thats my fault. I changed his username for his birthday." He snickered at the thought
"Oh ok.."
"So uh.. what character do you want to try?" He asked once the were in the practice range. lance moved the mouse over a character with purple skin
"Widowmaker...a sniper, nice ill play her." Lance smiles slightly, the smile not going unnoticed by keith who grinned deciding to ignore his choice to be a filthy sniper.
"Ok practice her for a bit and ill make us some tea or coffee for you?" "Ah yes coffee please." He says focused on the game, keith left to go into his dorms kichenet (bc Altea university had those in dorms, they fancy as Shit) and put on a pot of coffee. He made his tea and put slices of pizza on plates.
Keith poured lances coffee and moved back out with the plates and cups nearly dropping everything when the speakers screamed sextuple kill.

"Oh hey! I think im getting the hang of it." Lance was grinning ear to ear, a sight keith would do anything to keep there.
"Yeah you're a really good sniper, how are you so good?? I can barely get body shots haha." Keith hands lance his coffee and set down the pizza.

"Well my uncle, he took my shooting and hunting when my family would go visit cuba. I guess it just rubbed off on me." There was a sad smile as he told keith the story "And I was good at it too, ya know every time we went there was never a lack in game. We always brought back a big bore and a tonne of rabbits!" The excitement on his face made keith want to hear more, to just let him talk and talk.
"I like it when you talk." Keith said leaning his face on the palm of his hand and a small smile played on his lips.

"D-dude dont just say stuff like that!" Lance said "y-you just have to say it and I'll stop," he was staring intensely at the screen, his thin eyebrows furrowed into a scowl

"Ay I was being serious! You never talk this much and...its nice." Keith says inviting lance to a group in game and starting the queue, not noticing the slight blush that dusted lances cheeks
"I-I, being in crowds or just talking to people is hard." Lance explains

"Ah do you get anxiety attacks?" He questions lance innocently,
"I um...yeah..." lance looks around the room, anywhere but at him and his beautiful eyes, he has never told anyone this much about himself in such a short time.

They spent hours after that playing the game. In complete silence,

"Well I better go..Thanks for playing with me." Lance says dully. He didn't know how to act around someone who truly wanted to be friends and it scared him how close he was getting to this one person in the span of a few weeks.

"Yeah probably, my roommates will be back soon anyway and im not sure if you want to meet new people just yet." Keith says scratching the back of his neck, and smiled doppily at lance "I have to watch every Disney movie you own with you now, don't forget."
Lance nodded nervously and made his way to the door cautiously . He said goodbye to keith before leaving.

Lance stood in the hallway and sighed in relief. He did it....he made it through most a whole day with another person, and it was...Fun, lance smiled to himself 'He's a good friend.' he thougth to himself. with one final look at the door He turned to make his way out of the building only to bump into a large person who sent him flying to the ground.
He groaned and looked up to see a short female in green and the large male in yellow.
His eyes widened in shock, faces he had never expected to see again were now right in front of his eyes, and he was afraid.
The girls eyes widened filling with tears, she know his face so well.
As the tears in her eyes started to fall she choked out the name, the name lance dreaded to hear the most.
"Mia.....?"

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