Hi sorry for the long break,
I had a lot of crap ////school//// going on
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The drive back to the university grounds was a long one, the mid day traffic dragged them on slowly but surely, leaving plenty of room for the small bursts of awkward conversation that couldn't persist in the heavy atmosphere.
Keith occasionally glanced back at lance from the reer view mirror, uncomfortable by the silence and unwarranted tension between the two.
"So... radio?" Hunk broke the silence, squeezing himself between the two front seats to reach for the button. He falls just short and Keith turns it on for him. A generic pop song starts playing softly. "Thanks," Hunk said, and then the silenced returned.
"Change the station," Pidge said after half a minute.
"But I like this song," Hunk crosses his arms.
"I don't."
"Are you really arguing about the song choice?"
"If it's mindless pop music then yes!"
"How about we just listen to my music then?"
"No!" everyone in the car collectively says.
"Keith get your emo ass out," Lance said, smiling.
"Alright alright, I won't plague your ears with some high quality bands."
The rest of the drive goes by in more comfortable silence, though Keith still can't shake the weird feeling of tension with Lance. Is it just him feeling it? Every time he glanced over at him his eyes were on the road and his expression was relaxed, so Keith couldn't tell.
"Hey buddy," a voice snaps him out of his thoughts. "We're here." Keith blinked and put his foot on the breaks a little too hard earning a few disgruntled noises from everyone.
"Ah sorry.." he muttered as he pulled into lances dorms parking lot which was on the other side of campus from everyone else's. "Well, we're here. Are you sure you don't want to stay with us tonight?" Keith asked, turning to look at lance who avoided eye contact with him cheeks slightly red
"N-no im fine really," he looks at pidge and the two exchange a look
"No need to worry keith, I'll spend the night with him." She gives keith a comforting look.
He sighs and leans back in his chair.
"Well alright...I'll see you guys later then." The two ger out of the car and keith watches from the rear view mirror as they go.
"Hey keith, buddy. Are you alright?" Keith looks at his friend confused. "You just seem a little down is all.." Hunk analyzes his friends face trying to find a hint
"No, Im fine-"
"Is it about lance? You two did seem unusually tense today.." keith looks away from hunk and frowns at the steering wheel. "Ah so im right. What happened man?"
"I-i don't know! Everything
was fine until today and he was just closed off!" Keith hits his head on the center of the steering wheel in exasperation causing it to honk. "I did something to make him hate me I know it!"
H
unk frowns and puts a hand on keiths shoulder,
"Listen buddy I don't think thats the case...I think he probably got in his own head abd is taking his uncertainty out on you. I mean he did just go through something hella stressful." Hunk supplied ,giving his friend a reassuring squeeze on his shoulder
Keith sighs and takes his head off of the wheel
"Yeah I guess you're right...but What could be bad enough that he doesn't want me around??"
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Lance closes his door behind him after pidge walked in a took a seat on his messy bed.
"So mind telling me whats up?I thought things with your mom went well" she says, looking at lance sternly
Lance's face goes a shade darker. "I-it's not that.."
"Then whats up, why are you acting so weird?" She stares him down until ge takes a seat next to her.
"It's just..I
I think I might have feelings for Keith..." he looks at her uncertainty
She looks at lance with a blank yet slightly disappointed look
"Well no shit you do." She pinches the bridge of her nose. "How long has it taken you to figure out that one??"
Lance lools at her flabbergasted (I love that word)
"Wha- I - How did you already know?!?" Pidge blinks at him slowly.
"I am going to be very honest with you right now...it was kind of obvious from the first time I saw you two interact." Lance groans and throws himself face first on to his pile of pillows
"Was I I really that obvious??" He groans into his pillows so the words are muffled. Pidge chuckled and patted lances back.
"Hey if it makes you feel any better I'm sure he feels the same."
"..Really..?"
"One hundred percent."
Lance looks at his best friend with loving eyes.
"You always know what to say Tu pajarito.." She laughs and punches his shoulder lightly
"Well of course I do, I am me after all." She pauses for a minute before laying down on her stomach next to him. "So before...you were acting weird because of Keith?"
Lance sighed "Yeah...I guess I don't really know how to act around someone that ive actually acknowledged as an interest...It's been so long I-" he stops and turns his head away from her. Pidge sits up and puts a hand on his back in a comforting gesture
"Its alright Lance, take your time."
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Fanfiction(this fic is currently undergoing a full rewrite, and will not be getting updates until all chapters have been redone) This is a Trans Lance au in which Lance having been ashamed of who he is, fled his unsupportive home to like with his aunt, leavin...
