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Clueless - Three Days Left

October 24th, 2008 - Three Days Before Lance McClain went Missing

3:24

"So, you're turning fourteen, Shiro?"

Keith was now just asking questions. Probably too many questions, but he knew he needed to ask as many as possible. He needed to figure out how to prevent anything from happening, and kind of just figuring out if he even could prevent said 'thing' from happening. He was just questioning Shiro, he didn't dare go to Lance yet.

A birthday. That park.

That park is where everything will happen. But why wasn't anyone else there? Why was it just Lance? Did they leave him behind? Did they play a prank on him? Where did that bloody nose even come from?

His mind was full of questions. But he didn't know to phrase his questions. He hated his seventh-grade self. He never realized how much he was really capable of until he couldn't do any of it. It was more difficult to do simple things. He could barely hold a conversation, and he kept on walking around or annoyingly tapping on whatever was closest to him. He brushed all of his problems off as if none of it mattered. He wasn't diagnosed with anything yet. He took no medication. And his medication might've prevented him from possibly fucking things up further. Alas, he had to go on with no meds and no clue how to even talk to people.

"Heh, yeah." Shiro chuckled, "The birthday itself isn't that important, but I just like seeing everyone as a group when we're not all worried about school." he fake coughed and mumbled, "Katie." before he and Keith snickered to themselves.

"I supposed," Keith shrugged, "Do you know if there's any chance we can hang out before then, though?"

"Yeah, probably. Why?"

Keith shrugged again. He mostly wanted to know about Lance, but he sure as shit didn't want Shiro to know that. Quick, Keith, think of something!

"Needed some people to study with."

Bingo.

"Wait why studying?" Shiro asked, "You're the only one of us in 7th grade. Lance, Hunk, and Katie are 6th graders. Then Matt and I are 8th graders. I mean, we have a friend in private school who's your age who could probably come by to help you but-"

"Private school? What's his name?"

"You mean her name? It's Allura." Shiro smiled, "Have any of us mentioned her before?"

Keith shook his head. Seventh grade him had no clue, but College Keith did know. It did make perfect sense that she went to a private school. It was an odd experience, though. Allura was friends with everyone when they got into college, but Keith had no clue why. Turned out that Allura and Pidge/Katie had both gone to some summer camp for smart kids and became friends right away. Keith didn't really like Allura when he first met her, her British accent bothered him a lot (it reminded him of a not-so-great foster family of his), but he grew to like her pretty quickly. As a matter of fact, in the first timeline, Keith didn't actually like any of them until halfway through his junior year of high school. That was when he found out for sure that he was being adopted by Lilo and Camille, so he wasn't afraid of making friends. But because of that, he never really knew Lance, and he didn't even know Allura existed until college.

"No, I don't believe you've mentioned her before," Keith said, chuckling at how formal he tried to make himself sound.

"Well, she's great. You might like her." Shiro smiled and cracked his knuckles. (He did that a lot. Keith hated it.)

"I'm sure I would."

"Wait, but dude," Shiro said, lowering his volume, "Are you, like, gay ?"