Muted Treasure

Well

"Um, how was school?" Blake asked, Lance looked over and shrugged at her. She hummed and started moving the car once he put his seatbelt on.

"It was nice." Lance signed, she frowned when he started signing. She knew something happened, she just didn't wanna budge him too hard.

"Did you meet any new friends?" Blake asked hopefully, he turned to her nodding and smiled. Blake let out a relieved breath and smiled at the road ahead of her. Lance looked at the window for a while and thought to himself. How would the rest of the year work out? He just got here and he already has an enemy! That's such a great way to start off the rest of the school year!

Lance sat there still staring out the window, in deep thought he couldn't help, but scratch at his arm over and over again. It irritated him so much on the inside that he completely didn't even know that there was someone looking at him.

"Lance!"

He looked over to see a worried glance on Blake's face. Her greenish, hazel eyes looking at Lance with deep concern.

"Yeah?" Lance whispered looking anywhere, but her again. Too afraid the concern was gonna turn to disappointment.

"Are you okay?" She asked and lance nodded and smiled a little.

"Have you been taking your anxiety pills?" She asked, Lance just looked out the window. That's right Lance thought, he's been avoiding them. He didn't like taking them, he thought he didn't need them. A lot of people have anxiety and don't take any medicine, so why should Lance?

"Yeah, I have." Lance whispers, smiling slightly, Blake nodded hesitantly and continued her eyes on the road. He didn't wanna lie to her, he just didn't want the concern anymore.

"Well tell me when you need a refill, okay?" Blake asked with worry laced in her voice, Lance nodded his head slowly. He hated taking them, it made him feel like he was crazy.

"So, I was thinking. Since it was your first day back at school, do you want to eat out tonight? I could call Justin to meet us somewhere and we could eat as a family." Blake asked with excitement in her voice, Lance hummed and nodded at the suggestion.

"Do you know where you want to eat at? I heard there was an amazing Italian restaurant near here where we could eat at." Blake suggested and lance nodded.

"Sounds good." Lance replies still looking out the window. They drove for a little bit until they reached the Italian restaurant that Blake was talking about. Once they went inside Blake went on the phone to call her husband. Lance was left alone for a little bit until the server came up to get their order.

"Hello, what might you like to eat- Lance?" He looked up and saw Pidge, he smiled and nodded at the girl as a hello.

"Um hey! What would you like to eat lance?" Pidge asked, smiling while looking at lance. Lance hung up the number one finger to symbol to wait a minute. He waved at Blake to come, she nodded then walked over ending the call with an 'I love you'.

"Hello Mrs, what would you guys like to eat?" Pidge asked again to Blake as she sat down. She looked at the menu for a second and then smiled back up at the girl.

"Me and my husband would like a gnocchi, Lance what would you like?" Blake asked lookin at him, he hummed looking until he decided to get something basic.

"Pepperoni pizza." Was all that Lance signed and Blake translated. Pidge nodded and walked away. Lance looked around and saw paintings of places around the restaurant. He's loved art and writing as a kid. His mother loved to paint and his father wrote a lot. He smiled to himself as he remembered one of his mother's paintings.