The Hanahaki Disease// Voltron AU

3.6: the list

Playlist: The One That Got Away - Katy Perry

After

"You what?" Pidge demanded one Saturday afternoon. It's been almost five days since we first told Matt about the disease. He's been literally scouring the internet in all of his free time, looking for answers, but even on page 16 of his google search, all he's getting is fanfiction. Which isn't much help. I shrugged at Pidge's angry scowl. "You didn't start coughing up petals until December and didn't tell us?"

"Yeah. Why? Is that important?" Hunk and Pidge groaned.

"Yes, it's important Lance." Pidge said adamantly. "We've been working with a list of people that ranges from the past two years. We could have cut a lot of this down, took a lot of these people off." I shrugged, coughing into my shirt. Pidge scoffed and glared at the list before tearing it out of my notebook and getting a new piece of paper.

"Are you rewriting names?" Hunk asked with a sigh, flopping onto his back on his bed. I really hadn't thought it was a big deal. Who cares when I started coughing up flower petals? The point is that now I'm coughing up actual flowers. How fast was I progressing? How many flowers could I cough up before my throat was scratched beyond belief? How much longer do I have before this kills me?

"Yeah. I'm trying to remember who he met and when." She muttered, her hand flying across the page as she rewrote name after name. She paused every now and then, checking the first list so she could cross out names. She crossed out more names than she wrote so I guess the timeline was kind of important but I'm still not sure. It still doesn't really help with the whole, Who am I in love with, question. Besides, I couldn't remember when exactly I started coughing, flower petals not included. Didn't I have a cough all Christmas break? When was the exact day I contracted this disease? What if I've been coughing since finals and just never noticed? What if it all started in November with a scratchy throat?

"Alright, here." Pidge said, handing the list to Hunk first. "Does this look okay?" Hunk read part of the list and looked back up at Pidge and then at me as I stared at the ceiling distractedly. I was fidgeting with the cube in my right hand. It really does help with your anxiety, and right now I was pretty fuckin anxious.

"Looks good." Hunk said softly, handing Pidge back the list as he finished. She took a deep breath and turned back towards me in her chair, list tightly gripped in her hands.

"So, let's run through it again Lance. Is this everyone that you've come in contact with this year?" I sighed as Pidge held the list out towards me. I was tired of going through it though. They're all the same names, all the same people that I couldn't possibly love. I thought making a list would help but so far it hasn't.

"Yeah, Yeah it is." I murmured. Pidge narrowed her eyes at me.

"You didn't even look asshole. Look at it." I huffed and sat up taking the paper from her and looking at the shortened list of names. Nothing looked out of the ordinary at first until I neared the bottom of the list and saw Auroras name. I arched an eyebrow confused. Jeremy's name was there as well.

"Why'd you put Aurora on here? And Jeremy?" They hadn't been on the list before and it was making me blush a little to see their names there.

"Because you're very close to both of them so you need to figure out if you like them as just friends or something a little more." I wanted to tell them they were crazy. I was just friends with them. But, they were kind of right. I had to make sure I hadn't somehow developed a crush on one of these guys. I frowned though when I saw Sarah, Tristen, Allura, and Shiro written in Pidge's neat handwriting. Did they think I could possibly like all of them?