Cuddle Buddy

No Homo

Lance awoke, his arm numb. Pins and needled on the arm beneath Keith. He bit his lip at the feeling, not wanting to wake the other so he stayed as still as possible. 
 
The slight moment Lance made, trying to wake his hand up, woke something else. More like someone. Keith. He looked down at him and pulled his arm away from beneath Lance’s head. It too, was also asleep. He sat up, releasing Lance’s hand.
 
Lance chuckled as Keith comically had his hair shooting up everywhere from sleep and shaking his hand rapidly as an attempt to wake his hand. Lance himself clenched his hand before opening it.
 
Soon both had no sleeping limbs. They stretched, waking their muscles, yawning. “Good morning, Hot Topic,” Lance greeted.
 
Keith clicked his tongue, slumping forwards. “Awe, you think I’m hot,” he responded mindlessly, a small cat like smirk on his lips.
 
Lance huffed at his response, rolling his eyes. “Really?”
 
“Yes, really,” Keith said. 
 
Lance chuckled his head. He leaned against the headpiece of the bed. 
 
Keith laid down, his head against Lance’s legs.
 
Lance looked down at him, raising an eyebrow. “Um…”
 
“Oh, sorry.” Keith scratched at his cheek and started to sit up. “Is that not okay?”
 
“No, no, it’s fine. Sorry, lay back down,” Lance insisted.
 
“Oh, okay.” He laid back down, facing Lance. “Like that?” He looked up at Lance, beneath his long eyelashes.
 
“Yeah…” Lance said. “Like that…” He looked down at Keith for a few seconds before looking away, leaving Lance flustered and avoided eye contact. “How did you sleep?” He cautiously looked back at Keith.
 
Keith had a soft blush on his cheeks and not meeting Lance’s eyes. He just looked at his stomach. “I slept alright. Sleeping with you helps a lot.” 
 
Lance’s breath hitched on the way that sounded. “Please don’t say that anywhere else but here.”
 
Keith furrowed his eyebrows, looking up at Lance innocently. “But why? That is what we are doing.”
 
“Keith,” Lance warned before sighing. “Sleeping with someone could mean something else.”
 
Keith’s face formed an expression of understatement before smirking but quickly going to a look of innocent. So quickly, Lance just figured he imagined it.

“But we are sleeping together, Lance,” Keith stated. “Did you want to keep the fact that we slept together the past two nights?”
 
Lance face palmed, hiding his face beneath his hand. “Keith…” He warned once more. “Stop it. I know what you are doing.”
 
Keith chuckled. “Okay, alright. But seriously, do you want to hide the fact that we are sleeping in the same bed now?”
 
Lance removed his hand from his face and looked at Keith. “I feel like that is a personal thing. ? Why should people know? It’s just sleep. They don’t have to know.”
 
Keith nodded slowly. “Right. You’re right. Sorry I brought it up.”
 
“Don’t be sorry,” Lance said, “It’s fine. Hey, it’s the weekend. No classes for you, right?” 
 
Keith hummed a yes response. “No classes.”
 
“Great, wanna just Netflix and chill all day?” Lance asked.
 
“Sure, what do you want to watch?” Keith asked.
 
“Hmmm. What do you like to watch?” Lance questioned.
 
“Documentaries on cryptids,” Keith responded with no hesitation.
 
“Gravity Falls it is,” Lance said. 
 
“Gravity falls?” Keith asked. “Never heard of it.”
 
“You will love it. I will disown you as a friend if you don’t,” Lance joked. He nudged Keith to sit up so he could grab his computer. 
 
Keith nodded. “Okay, I don’t want to lose you as a friend though. So what if I don’t?”
 
Lance was off the bed and reached down to the floor and got his computer. He faced Keith to see if he was serious. He was. “I was just joking, Keith. We’ll still be friends.” He sat next to Keith.
 
“Oh, I knew that,” Keith said. He scooted closer to Lance as he opened it and signed in. Kiss cartoon appeared on his screen soon after. He searched for Gravity Falls.
 
Keith leaned closer to Lance to see the screen, his cheek near his shoulder. “What is Gravity Falls about?”
 
Lance looked over at him and the same time Keith did, their noses brushing against each other. They pulled away from each other in instinct, their faces heating up. “Umm… here.” He placed the computer between them so they had equal space and no need to lean in. “You’ll see what it’s about.”
 
Lance kept his eyes on the screen, refusing to look at Keith. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Keith staring as if he wanted to say something. 
 
Keith opened his mouth to say something. “I’m-”
 
Lance interrupted, “You know, Mabel reminds me a lot of my little sister.” He tried to avoid talking about earlier.
 
Keith sighed before responding, “Does she now?”
 
“Yeah, she is always so happy, joyful, and creative,” Lance said. “Now hush and just watch.”
 
Keith nodded. He slumped on the bed, trying to get comfortable. After a few moments, he shifted again and again. 
 
Lance paused Gravity Falls. “What?”

“I can’t get comfortable,” Keith said with a slight pout.
 
It took all of Lance’s will power not to point out how cute that was. He pulled the computer to his lap and stretched his arm out towards Keith. “Come here.”
 
Keith did. He leaned his head against Lance’s shoulder as Lance placed his arm around him.
 
“No, homo though,” Lance said causing Keith to laugh. 
 
“Okay, no homo.”