Hiding Behind a Mask

Chapter 53- I love you

Lance started his routine when Pidge came in like usual.  She looked so paranoid, like she's seen some shit.

"Woah, how much coffee did you drink?"  He asks while picking her up.

"I didn't drink coffee."  She said.  "It was so weird..."

"Morning everyone~"  Hunk said happily, Keith right behind him.

"Good morning you two."

"You..."  Pidge points at Keith.  "You had to share that fucking dream!  You had to!"  A smile creeps on his face.  He started to chuckle.  "How does someone think of that?!  What is up with your already fucked up mind?!"

He didn't say anything, he kept laughing.  Pidge cuddles into Lance as he shut his locker.

"So how's everyone else?"

"Pretty good, finally got on my Mom's good side."  He said.  Keith gave Hunk a look.

"Can I ask how someone as kind and sweet as you came from that horrible witch?"  He asks.

"Come on you guys, my Mom isn't a witch, she's strict."  Hunk thought about it.  "Though my Dad says the same thing sometimes."

"Does she know you have a girlfriend?"  Pidge teases, Hunk shushes her.

"No, I don't want her to ask a billion questions about Shay."

Literacy class had to work on their final project.  Mrs. Boston smiles at Lance and told him it.

"The thing I wanted you Seniors to work on was this."  She hands it to him.  He read the question, she printed his in Spanish.  Lance smiles at her.

" ¿Qué es lo más feliz de la memoria? "  He looks up at his teacher.  "Do I have to write it in English?"

"Yes, I told the Spanish teacher to translate that for you.  Be grateful."

"Oh our last project and you now thought of this?"  He teases, she threw a pen at him.  He chuckles.  Keith walks in and sat next to Lance.

"What's that?"  He asks.

"Our final project.  It's... what is your happy- memory?"  He tried to say it in English.  "Happiest is a word right?  I swear I used it before."  Lance thought about it while Keith sat there almost speechless.

Happiest memory?!  Well Keith's gonna fail.

"Fuck it, happiest is a word."  Lance said, Keith broke out of his thoughts and stared at his boyfriend who was thinking.  "What is my happiest memory?  Maybe moving here?  No... Cuba... I remember it but it's blurred together."  Lance kept thinking.  Keith stares at his paper trying to recall happy memories.

Well he remembers the farm... where his parents died.  He was adopted... then the car crash.  Shiro meeting Allura ... in a hospital.  Keith groans.  Who was he kidding, everything happy in his life was reminding him that his life sucks.

He felt a hand rub his back, he looks up.  Lance was comforting him while still looking at his paper thinking.

"You got any ideas Lance?"

"I have a few but I can't recall the happiest."  Lance said.  "What about you?"

"I think you got your answer."  Keith leans on Lance's shoulder and just let his mind wonder.  "Do I have to write this?"

"Mrs. Boston do we have to write this?"  Lance asks the teacher.

"No, but if you want to graduate then yes."  That made Keith groan even louder.  This is total bullshit.