Langst

No Longer Hiding My Pain (pt 2)

Lance's POV

'Oh yeah... what set up some more alarms so that I'll wake up on time?' I thought rolling my eyes and opening the door for Shiro to enter.

"So the plan is to basically set up a time for all of us to go to sleep and wake up. There will be multiple alarms and when the galra decides to attack when we're sleeping, there will be a louder alarm for that." Shiro explained as he sat down on the bed.

I stood by the door way listening to Shiro as he continued.

"Although with this sleeping schedule, Pidge wouldn't be able to work longer and obtain more information, but then again she'll be able sleep more so that's a good thing." Shiro continues.

"So... It's just a alarm to know when to sleep and when to wake up right? How does the alarm sound like anyways?" I asked, walking towards my bed and sitting down.

"Oh yeah. Well it's going to ring in a few hours so you'll hear an alarm that's different from the others and that'll mean it's sleep time." Shiro explained.

"Also Lance, I hope you'll get enough sleep now so that you won't be coming late to meetings and training. Then we'll be able to become stronger and stay alive. Oh by the way it's free time right now so do whatever you want." Shiro added on, and then left the room.

'Now to deal with the bigger problem at hand...wounds freaking magically appearing on my body!' I thought as I ran out to find the bandages.

I ran around to the medical room and started looking for bandages. As I continued, Coran entered and saw me.

"Oh hello there Lance, what're you looking for?" Coran tapped my shoulder, making me shriek in surprise.

"Oh my gosh, Coran! You almost scared me to death! Also, can you help me look for some bandages?" I asked, hoping he wouldn't question it.

"Sure my boy! There should be some inside these cabinets...or is it the ones in... Nope! I found it, how much rolls do you need?" Coran asked, as he stuck his head into one of the cabinets.

"Um just 3 rolls...thanks." I replied, as Coran grabbed the rolls and placed them on my hands.

I thank him again and then left the medical room in a hurry. I ran to my room, locked the door and started to redo my bandages.

After finishing, I was about to leave my room but then an alarm sounded.

'Oh! So this is the new alarm. Well sleep time I guess.' I thought as I plopped onto my bed and slowly tried to fall asleep.

Guess what, I couldn't fall asleep. I got up quietly and went just quietly walked around the castle.

What I didn't like about this was that it was so quiet... and that gave me plenty of time to think... about myself...

'They are so gonna yell at me if they see me... not sleeping... I shouldn't have said those stupid things! Even if I didn't cover  for Keith, they still would have yelled at me...'

I started to think more about myself and how I should change and guess what?! More magical cuts that appear. So I've come to a conclusion that these random cuts are a result from thinking negative thought. After about an hour sitting down and looking out into space.

Some cuts were huge, like a knife being slashed onto your body. While others were small cuts like paper cuts.

I got up and quietly walked back to my room trying not to wince as I cleaned my wounds. The cuts were everywhere, on my stomach, face, arms and legs.

I hate this. 'Why do I always have to think so negatively?!' Here it comes, a new small cut appearing on my left hand.

After finishing all the cleaning, I went back to bed and closed my eyes hoping to fall asleep.

*ALARMS ALARMS ALARMS*

I shot up from my position and made a face, feeling pain almost everywhere on my body.

"Ugh..." I got up slowly, trying to not touch or move my cuts but that wasn't gonna happen.

"Gotta suck it up Lance. This is your fault anyways." I muttered out and then felt another cut coming to life.

I started to redo my bandages and saw that most of the small cuts were gone, the larger ones were healing. That's a good sign.

After finishing redoing my bandages, I walked out of my room with a fake confident smile and walked into the dining room.

"What's up everyone~ How's my favorite princess doing?" I finger gunned at Allura and got myself some food while they just continued to eat and talk.

I sat down and listened in on their conversations. Hunk and Pidge talking about information they gained and how they were gonna continue gaining the info. Allura and Shiro talking about plans and Keith just staring at me.

'Wtf?' I quickly turned toward his direction and he snapped his head down to look at his food goo.

I suspiciously looked at him and shrugged, looking away. I finished my food goo and went to the training room.

I was about to start a training sequence but was stopped by Keith pulling my hand.

"What are you doing?! I'm just trying to be useful like all of you guys are telling me to!!" I screamed, smacking his hand.

"Lance... look, I wanna ask you something. So just hear me out ok?" Keith surprisingly pleaded.

I stared at him suspiciously but then nodded for him to continue after a while.

"So yesterday, I was training and then I saw you walking past, lost in thought and then I followed you. I know I wasn't suppose to but when I saw you, you had blood dripping from many wounds that I know you didn't get from battle... so I'm asking is... how did you get those cuts..." Keith finished off, not looking me in the eye.