flower boy - klance

thirteen

"oh, god..." lance whispered as he played with the hem of his button down shirt. he held a bouquet of carnations, and stood in front of the door that held his soulmate.

i can't do it, he thought facepalming with a slap he intended to be quieter than it was. he darted to the side of the door and stood against the wall, cursing himself.

he turned back to the door, sighing, reaching up
to knock twice softly. the bouquet slipped from his grip and landed on the floor.

"fuck!" he whispered, picking it back up off the ground and inspecting the carnations to make sure none of them-

oh my god, he realized, covering his mouth. i brought fucking carnations.

before he could do anything about it, he hear the sounds of the door being unlocked. it swung open to reveal-

———

keith sat with his feet up on the windowsill, smoking a cigarette and letting the smoke fade out the window. he felt a little better since shiro had to go back into the hospital; he got to visit him, and shiro told him what he and katie gunderson had discussed.

apparently, she said that he was going to come to keith's dorm, but it had been four days, and no sign of the skinny kid named "lance".

keith sighed. this soulmate shit, it was hopeless. shiro said that he was some kind of "special soulmate", but he didn't believe it. he just wanted to be normal, for once.

keith whipped his head towards the door as something made a slap noise outside his dorm. he sat completely still, listening for another noise.

two knocks hit the door. keith's heart raced, but then he remembered a classmate was supposed to be dropping off notes from the class he misssd, so he calmed a bit.

he calmed, until a distinct "fuck!" traveled to his ears. his stomach hit the floor.

that voice. keith had heard it before. not in person, but in lost dreams, in distant memories from lives past lived. that voice, hanging with freedom, rang through his head like a bell he'd rung a million times.

keith realized what this was. his hope and the hope deep, deep in his stomach willed him to jump forward and unlock the door, swinging it open to reveal-