high school sweethearts → klance

four

The second day of school at Altea National High School seemed to last forever. 

Maybe just to Lance and Keith.

Lance sat in his final class of the day, art. four more kids were seated next to him. Ryan Kinkade, Nadia Rizavi, James Griffin, and Ina Leifsdottir. They quickly became friends on the first day, and by the second day they were already chatting about their day while working on practice sketches. "So," Lance ran his fingers through his chocolate brown hair. "You two are both freshmen, huh?" He motioned towards Nadia and Ina. "Yeah. it's cool how they mix the electives between all the grades." Nadia placed her pencil down and looked at James, Ryan, and Lance. "You guys are all juniors right? That means me and Ina are the only freshmen." "Don't worry, this one over here has the mental age of a third grader." Ina smirked and lightly punched James on the arm. "Yeah yeah, Leifsdottir." James smirked. 

The final bell rang. Lance stood up, shoved his notebook in his backpack, and sped out the door. "He didn't hang around long." Nadia remarked as she picked up her bag. 

Lance pulled out his phone and texted Keith as he walked down the hallway towards the front doors. 

disasterbi: hi! you there yet?

keith didn't answer.

The two boys planned on meeting around the side of the building, outside the library. 

disasterbi: okay well, i'll see you there

Lance pushed one of the front doors open and walked down the stairs. 

disasterbi: im almost there, meet me there soon if you aren't there yet

disasterbi: sorry if im annoying you

Lance walked around the corner and stopped dead in his tracks.

Keith was leaning against the wall as a tall boy stood in front of him with his hand against the wall next to Keith's head. Keith looked confused about something. "Uh," Lance couldn't make out the words he was trying to say. Lance recognized the boy; Rolo. A tall and skinny but buff boy on the football team with Lance. "Oh, hi Lance." Rolo sighed sarcastically and moved his hand off the wall. Keith picked up his bag off the ground. "Well, i'm off to hang out with loverboy here. See you later Rolo." The two boys walked off.

"So, is that like, a thing now?" Lance questioned as the two boys walked down the streets. Keith  laughed loudly. "What, me and Rolo? No fucking way dude." Lance blushed. "I don't know man, I was just wondering. I know you're not gay anyways." Keith blushed as he started looking for something in his bag. "Anyways." Lance continued. "You looked uncomfortable, was he being a creep?" Lance turned over his shoulder to see Keith putting his hair in a small ponytail. Lance turned back around and blushed profusely. "Nah, I was just," Keith sighed. "Afraid someone would see us. because I don't really like the chance of everyone in school knowing  i'm gay."  Lance kicked a rock. "oh. okay." 

he stopped dead in his tracks.

"WAIT, WHAT?!"

Keith erupted with laughter. "get off your heteronormative bullshit Lance, some feminist is gonna come destroy the patriarchy starting with you." Lance laughed along. "Yeah yeah Mullet." 

~

The two boys walked into the Asian restaurant. "and now, the wild Keith begins the hunt for a decent meal. todays menu: a variation of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, t-" "Lance can you do me a favor?" Keith smiled sweetly. "Shut your mouth." Lance smirked at the smaller boy and glanced at the menu. "Next?" The girl at the counter yelled. Keith stepped up. "Hi! I'll have a shrimp tempura roll, miso soup, and a jasmine taro bubble tea. Lance, you know what you want?" Lance walked forward so he was next to Keith. "Well yeah, but you don't have to pay for m-" "don't worry about it. Order." Lance blushed a little. "Okay, well, i'll have wonton soup and a strawberry bubble tea." Keith payed for their food and the two teens sat down in a booth next to a big window. "So, Mullet. How you liking ANHS so far?" Keith stared out the window. "It's cute out here. ANHS is so much more chill than my last school. That place was a nightmare." the girl behind the counter called out the two boys' order. Lance shot up from his seat and brought the food over to the table. They dug in. 

"So," Lance took a sip of his bubble tea. "There was a small flood in the basement of the deli my family owns, so right after this I have to walk there and help clean up. I tried to convince my dad to let me walk you home, but he insisted I went immediately there. sorry I cant walk you back to your house." Keith wiped his mouth with his sleeve. "Don't sweat it." Keith picked up a piece of sushi with his chopsticks. "Your family owns a deli?" He questioned as he swirled the piece of sushi in a small bowl of soy sauce. Lance placed down his spoon. "Yeah, right down the road. Deli de Siete, the deli of seven. My parents opened it while my mom was pregnant with me and my twin Rachel, us being the youngest of 5 kids, plus my parents. seven main family members, me, my brothers marco and luis, my sisters rachel and veronica, and my parents." Keith nodded as he ate the piece of sushi. "Cool. i'll have to go in there sometime." Lance smirked. "Come in on Saturday mornings, that's when I work my shift. you'll make it less boring."  "Aww." Keith chuckled. "I make your life exiting, huh?" Lance rolled his eyes. "Oh shut it." 

the two boys finished their food and walked out the door. "See you tomorrow Mullet. Don't miss me too much, yeah?" Keith chuckled. "get your head out of your ass, McClain. I'll literally see you in, like, 17 hours." Lance batted his eyelashes. "and 17 hours too long. parting is  such sweet sorrow Mr. Kogane." 

and as Keith flipped the tan boy off, he couln't help but think;

"it really is, you idiot."

~

"Lance Julio McClain! ¿Qué crees que estás haciendo? Pagué buen dinero por esos zapatos, ¿y tú vas a limpiar el agua de las inundaciones? MARCO! Llévalo a casa y Cámbiate los zapatos!" Rosa, the mother of the McClain family, yelled as Lance walked down the stairs in his grey and blue Nikes. "Ugh, Mamá it's fine i-" "Let's go hot shot." Marco grabbed Lance by the arm and dragged him to the car. and Lance thought to himself; 

"damn, i really wish i was still with Keith right now." 

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