Idol Love [Klance AU]

Chapter 4

Later that day towards the evening Keith let himself get talked into taking Lance out to the town, by his elder brother.

"You need to get used to him, Keith." Shiro explains, "You two could be working together for 6 months or longer and you can not be a stuttering mess around him 24/7!"

Rolling throughout his bed pining is little gay ass off Keith simply groans in acknowledgment not desiring any fatherly recognition and concern from his elder brother at the moment.

"Keith," Shiro brings out his fatherly tone, "This isn't just something you can brush off your shoulder. This is your career! This is everything you have been working for! You can't just break the moment you meet a hot guy!"

Keith instantly sits up and glares angerly at his elder brother, obviously irritated, "What do you want me to do?! I'm over here melting into a pile of gayness when he glances in my direction!"

"How about you break the ice?" Shiro replies, "Like take him out on the town tonight!"

"That sounds suspiciously like what I told you when you told me about your crush on Allura!" Keith states.

"Just do it!" Shiro says.

"Fiiiiiiiiiiine...."

And that's how Keith ended up here, out at a nightclub with his new colleague. He really doesn't want to be here right now. It seems like every night either Allura or Shiro gets him to do something that he doesn't really want to do. His only hope is that he doesn't run into his old k-pop band and his Ex.

See, a year ago, Keith was in a k-pop band with his now ex-boyfriend and their friends. His Ex kind of ran the show the whole time and was very controlling in their relationship. How did Keith even end up with a control freak anyways? Well, it happened one night after a concert. His Ex was super intoxicated and Keith volunteered to take him back home so the girls didn't have to deal with their drunk friend.

One thing turned into another and Keith ended up staying over that night. No, they did not have sex, you dirty little sinners. But this man did ask Keith to stay with him in his drunken state. Keith being so willing to help his friends and little family he had decided to stay. Soon he found himself kissing his own bandmate. 

For the next few weeks after this incident, Keith was shook up and just wasn't himself anymore. Soon he did confront his bandmate about the situation and got an apology from the discussion and a love confession as well. Giving it some thought, Keith rushed into a new relationship with his bandmate and from that point on things slowly progressed until the breakup about 3 years later. The relationship had turned abusive and Keith just wasn't having it. So he broke it off with his bandmate and ultimately left the band. 

Now Keith is here, a year later. This year has been pretty interesting for him. After the huge breakup and the story exploding in the tabloids, Keith found his own way and became a well-known solo artist and started to dominate the charts. He's tried to forget about the past but it still haunts him to this day. But, he has everything he has ever dreamed of and wanted... Well besides one thing. He's already fallen for his new partner that he only met a few hours ago. Keith has always desired something more and he could never explain it, but to an outsider, the explanation would be, "he just wants a stable relationship with someone he can trust and love regardless of what the world has to say".  
Which to some degree this is true. Yes, he does desire love and social acceptance but don't we all? We all are social beings after all, even if it doesn't seem like it.

Now to this present day and time, Keith sits here at a table alone with his new colleague trying not to pine his ass off while also trying not to get too intoxicated. Looking up from his drink, Keith locks eyes with the handsome blue-eyed, tan man across from him and blushes lightly. Luckily, the lighting is on Keith's side for once. Different shades of red, blue and purple lights dance across the club. Luckily Keith chose a table near a cluster of red lights so his blush would be easier to hide.

"So, do we have to write the songs or has someone else done it?" Lance questions, circling the rim of his glass.

"Oh, um..." Keith stuttered a bit before finding the right words, "We can write some songs if you want... for like bonus tracks or something... But I'm pretty sure the producers are just going to hire a songwriter for us." 

Keith looks back down at his red wine trying not to make a fool of himself in front of his new colleague and love interest. 

"Oh cool.."

"Yeah.."

This situation is so dull and awkward. Both of the men are afraid of saying the wrong thing and setting the other one off on an unnecessary rant that could lead to a fight. Small talk could not help in this situation so Lance makes a great leap trying to bring some color in this already awkward moment.

"Sooooo.... " Lance asks, "How about we get to know each other since we'll have to tolerate and work with each other for god knows how long."

"Tolerate?" Keith questions, cocking an eyebrow and glaring at Lance.

'Maybe this guy isn't all that great after all...' Keith thinks, letting his walls reform.

Lance obviously knows he hit a nerve and backtracks a bit, "That's not what I ment! I mean like if we somehow ended up hating each other we'd still have to tolerate each other to get this album done, right?"

Still grumpy and letting his small crush dissolve Keith hisses back, "Right.."

"Lets just not hate each other! Okay?!" Lance says, quickly regaining his confidence after that blow, "Let's just get to know each other!"

"Okay," Keith complies, "What do you want to know?"

"Whatever you want to tell me." Lance answers smiling fondly and somewhat smugly at Keith.

"Okay.. Um... " Keith pauses and thinks about this for a second. If he says one wrong thing there could be a fight but he also can't trust this guy. Anything he says can and could be used against him. Giving it deep thought Keith finally answers, "I used to be in a band before I started this solo stuff, I'm openly gay, and that's it."

"That's it?" Lance asks shocked.

Taking this opportunity to tell Lance he needs to earn his trust, Keith puts on a cocky grin and says, "You'll learn more about me later. "

Lance is somewhat unlucky, with blue lights on his side of the table he can't really hide his spreading blush. 

"Uh.. well.." Lance stutters before that cocky confidence comes back full force, "Well then I guess I'll just have to break down those obvious walls you've put up."

Not knowing how obvious his walls were, but still rolling with it, Keith continues to be uncharacterly cocky. Leaning forward he practically purrs, "I'd like to see you try."

Keith leans back, crossing his arms over his chest, satisfied with how dumbfounded he just made Lance. Lance, on the other hand, is a bisexual mess. His mind is racing a mile a second replaying every single millisecond of that conversation. 

Not being able to think or let alone look at Keith, Lance gets up, without a word and leaves for a few minutes.

Keith now left alone in this celebrity nightclub, just stares off into space trying to replay that conversation in his head making sure he didn't say anything wrong that would make Lance leave so suddenly.

But then an all too familiar voice breaks him out of his thoughts. There, leaning against the table was Keith's Ex.

"Hey, babe. Long time no see.~~~"

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TELL ME WHO YOU THINK KEITH'S EX IS!

I'm so evil leaving ya'll on a cliffhanger like this.

See you sinners next chapter

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