This heat reminded Lance of his home. It reminded him of those summer days spent in Varadero Beach running along the coastline with his brothers and sister. This thought made him chuckle, but there was a slight hint of longing for those times. "How can it be hot in a spaceship?!? There's controlled climate in here!!!". After being up all night with Pidge trying to find out where they could find the ship's A.C. control, only to find out there wasn't one, Lance was totally beat. He'd tried everything to stay cool: showed Allura how to make ice cream, chugged down 10 water bottles with Hunk, and made air fans with Pidge, only to feel warmer and warmer by the minute.
"Lance, you seem bored. Let's train!" Shiro said in one breath, and without giving him a moment to think, dragged Lance to the training grounds.
After training for what seemed like hours to him, Lance was determined to cool down. He went to the kitchen and sat down for a while, thinking of a way to relieve himself from the never ending heat. Coran had recommended to wear light clothing until he found out how to solve the issue, so everyone was wearing the least clothing they could. Lance found his own, most easy way to keep cool: wear his swimming trunks! You could see Pidge pinning her hair back with a bandana (Allura let her borrow one), wearing some shorts and a tank and Hunk cooking with some shorts and sandals, a t-shirt half on half off. Even Coran had tried to keep cool! He had tied his moustache into a braid. Of course nobody else saw the sense in it, but he reassured everyone it was a very dramatic measure to keep the heat away.
Lance had just noticed what he was wearing. He was going to go swimming! After all, it was the best way to cool off, especially after that rough workout with Shiro.
He had just gotten to the pool when he absentmindedly bumped into Keith. The latter backed off in surprise, while Lance just stared at him in confusion.
"Oh hey Keith!"
"Hi Lance"
"You're acting weird...what's the matter? Is it the heat?"
"Y-yeah...it's the heat...of course it is"
"Well then, how about we dive in???"
"I was just about to do that..."
Without hesitation, Lance grabbed Keith by the hand, took a running start, and jumped into the water, Keith falling on top of him because he hadn't seen it coming. Lance started playing with him, throwing water at him. As soon as Keith understood what was happening, he smiled and started throwing water back at Lance. Just a short while later you could see them both roughhousing to see who got to jump first, or racing towards the other end of the pool, all the while laughing. Soon they both got tired and got out, just laying on the floor for a while. Lance turned his head around to see Keith and saw his face had turned as red as a tomato. Just when he was going to ask him if he was ok, Keith got up and went towards the lift.
"Umm, thanks Lance, I really enjoyed it", and left without another word.
Truly, Lance was dumbfounded by whatever was wrong with Keith.
