Miles Away | Klance AU

6.

Lance: Hey Keith!

Keith: Hi

Lance: Okay, listen! I wanna know this...what do you wanna be when you grow up?

Keith: Lance...We are adults...

Lance: ...Oh right... What I meant was, what do you want to work as?

Keith: Why do you care?

Lance: Is it something embarrassing? Cuz lemme tell you, I don't think being like a stripper is bad.

Keith: NO I DO NOT WANNA BE A STRIPPER! OH MY GOD!

Lance: hehe! Anyways, come on, you tell me and I'll tell you!

Keith:... I kind of want to be a photographer....

Lance: No way! That's awesome!

Keith: I guess, but I didn't go to college so like I'm screwed. Anyways, what about you?

Lance: A Spanish teacher! In America of course. My family doesn't have the money to take me to college though and I...kinda..got fired from.. my other jobs..

Keith: wow...shocker. How do you get fired from all of your jobs?!

Lance: sighhh. My first job was walking dogs...they all attacked me. Second job was me helping at schools and I accidentally made a joke about sticking scissors in the outlet... the kid didn't understand sarcasm...

Keith: LMAO! THATS HILARIOUS!

Lance: Ughhh not really. The kid died

Keith:

WHAT?!?!

Lance: Haha! Jk!

Keith: Jeez...you scared me.. I thought you were a murderer!

Lance: Anyways, my last job was taking care of my niece and nephew, we nearly set the house on fire...

Keith: Wow. That sucks!

Lance: Yeeeep. So why didn't you go to college?

Keith: I dunno

Lance: Invalid answer!

Keith: I don't wanna talk about it. Anyways, why aren't you talking to Pidge instead of texting me?

Lance: Pidge is rocking out to The Ballad of Mona Lisa! I can't interrupt that! Hey 30 more minutes until we are at her house! I'm surprised you're still up considering it's 12:37am!

Keith: Pidge said we all had to meet at her house once you got there. So I'm waiting.

Lance: You excited to meet me?!

Keith: I'm not sure. What should I expect?

Lance: Tall, extremely handsome, wait no; devilishly handsome!

Keith: I doubt the "devilishly handsome" but are you really that tall?

Lance: Yeah, yeah I am!

Keith: How tall?

Lance: You'll just have to see!

Keith: I guess I will.

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Keith threw on a rainbow shirt with black skinny jeans and a leather jacket; and followed by heading out the door. He arrived to Pidge's house and knocked on the door. Pidge opened it and lead Keith inside.
"Keith is here!" Pidge yelled. Lance suddenly appeared from a doorway and smiled. "Hola. ¿Como estás?" Keith furrowed his eyebrows. "I'm..okay? How are you?" Lance smiled, "Estoy muy bien. Gracias." "Yeah, Okay." Keith sat on the couch.
"Lance! Knock it off!" Pidge snickered as she punched Lance's arm. "Okay! Okay!" Lance laughed. "It's nice to finally meet you Keith!" Lance stuck out his hand and Keith got up to shake it...then it hit him...Lance was tall... "You didn't lie when you said you were tall.." Keith laughed nervously.
"I hate to say it but uhh, I told ya so!" Lance stuck out his tongue and Keith rolled his eyes. They watched tv for a bit and the next thing you know, Allura and Coran arrive. "A..Allura... you look.. wow." Lance blushed and walked up to her. Allura giggles, "Thanks Lance. It's so nice to see you again!" Allura gave Lance a hug and then took a seat.
"Coran! My man!" Lance fist bumped Coran. Everyone else came and Lance was just ecstatic. "I can not believe I'm in America! This is crazy! I haven't been here since 6th grade!" Lance was bouncing on his heels. "Okay, so you guys are staying the night correct? I'm ready to hit the hay!" Matt asked as he came in the room with pjs on.
Pidge nodded. Matt nodded too and took a place on the floor and sat. "To fall asleep, I say we watch either Rogue One or Fantastic Beasts and where to find them!" "Fantastic Beasts and where to find them is a wonderful movie!" Allura commented as she let her long white hair fall from being a bun.
"That's the movie!" Pidge put in the movie and lied down on a place on the couch." Shiro picked a place on the floor, Keith picked a place on the floor, Hunk took another part of the couch, and Lance lied on the floor. After hours, everyone but Keith and Lance were completely asleep.
"Keith...are you up?" Lance whispered. "Mmhm.." Keith mumbled. "....Can we uh...go outside..." Keith sighed, "Why?" Lance sighed too and sat up. "Please?" Keith stood up and shrugged. The two boys put on their shoes and went outside.
"Why did you want to go out here?" Keith crossed his arms. "I'm already kind of homesick...If I'm getting any sleep, I need a tour... like now.." Lance whined. Keith thinks for a moment and nods. "Let me show you the park." Keith begins walking and Lance runs to catch up.
"It's weird seeing you in person...Like a cool weird." Lance says as he chuckles a little. "Yeah. We FaceTime, but this is different." Keith adds. Lance nods. After walking past a few buildings and talking about their history, they made it to a park. "So here is the park. It's pretty old...My dad used to take me fishing at that lake over there... it was cool." Keith stares longingly at the lake before he realizes what he's doing.
"Beat ya to the swings!" Lance swiftly runs to the swings, catching Keith off guard. "That's not fair!" Keith laughs trying to catch his breath. Lance sits on the swing and Keith sits on the other one. "You said Arizona was boring, but I find this park fun!" Lance smiles as he swings back and forth. "Not when it's crowded..." Keith slowly swings side to side.
"Hey! You want to be a photographer right? Take a picture of me! I wanna remember my first day in America since middle school!" Lance ran over to the lake and got into a position where he pointed to the lake. Keith got out his phone and tried his best to get decent lighting by going through different filters, then he had the perfect one. He got the picture and Lance ran to look at it.
"That looks awesome!" Lance exclaims. Keith shrugged and began to walk away, looking around the park, getting lost in thought, then he heard a yelp and a splash. "Shhhit!" Keith ran to the lake and looked over, panicking. He jumped in the lake which was surprisingly freezing and tried to find Lance the best he could. "Lance?!" Keith yelled as he went up for air. All of a sudden he felt himself being pulled down.
He was kicking and yelling and choking, trying to figure out what was going on, then he finally made it back up and saw Lance laughing his butt off. Keith swam out of the lake and started stomping away. "Wait Keith! Come on! Are you mad?!" Lance runs after Keith, still laughing until Keith shoots back around and yells at him, " Lance! You asshole! I thought I was dying!" Keith continued stomping and Lance followed.
"Sorry Keith... I was just trying to make you loosen up... make things less awkward. I mean we are internet friends, so why can't we be real life friends?" Lance shivers as he speaks. Keith sighs, "I overreacted...it's fine..." They make it back to Pidge's house and they both sit on the floor, both soaking wet.
"Here, take the blanket, I'm sleeping in the extra room." Keith gets up and walks in the extra room before locking it and lying in the bed, freezing. He was genuinely scared that he was going to drown because of a moment in the past.