Stone Cold

T h i r t y f o u r

Lotor looked his car as he parked in front of Lances home as the two walked to the door but Lotor stopped.

"You okay?" Lance asked holding his hand.

"Your siblings knew didn't they?" Lotor smiled softly at him.

"I guess yea, but no one was really against it or cared..." lance blushed darkly. "The kids don't know the difference,"

"But Veronica and luis are back, Maria is at her job right now," lance opened the door and lead Lotor inside smiling.

"And your older siblings..?" Lotor trailed off but saw the family of Cubans in the living room together as Veronica was playing with Sam and Luis was letting Chloe paint his nails with Dani crossing her arms observing him as Milo was playing video games.

"Lotor!" Chloe gasped smiling as she put the sparkly cheap nail polish down and ran to him as Lotor caught her.

"Hello miss Chloe," Lotor smiled as he picked her up but she reached for lance and he laughed holding his little sister.

"V, Luis, this is Lotor... my boyfriend," lance pursed his lips blushing darkly as Lotor had an awkwardly look on his face.

"Oh a mcclain can really pick them," Veronica smirked with a wave.

"Nice to meet you man," Luis got up to shake his hand. Lotor remembered lance mentioning his brother when he was beaten on the ground by a gang. Lotor pushed his thoughts away and shook his hand.

"Pleasure is mine," Lotor nodded.

"We got pizza on the way lo," Dani waved for his attention as Lotor sat with her and lance on his other side.

"Oh so we get to finally do the older sibling thing where they question the boyfriend," Veronica smiled deviously.

"What do you do for a living?" She asked quickly.

"Run a corporation," Lotor shrugged.

"How'd you meet my little brother?" She narrowed her eyes.

"Saved me from a pervert, and getting robbed," lance answered.

"What do your parents do?" Luis raised an eyebrow.

"My father also runs his own company and my mother isn't around," Lotor said calmly but lance noticed him tense up slightly.

"So your dad let you have a company?" He snorted.

"No, I built it myself at 19 after traveling Italy," Lotor nodded. "My father built his out of fear and gangs,"

"What do you like in lance? no offense," Veronica asked curiously.

Lance pursed his lips as Lotor paused for a moment.

"Lance is different, actually made it a challenge for me to take him on a date, I adore him truly, for a hard worker and his passion," Lotor smiled softly to himself as the siblings smiled at the answer.

"Good to know rich boy," Luis chuckled as lance was burying his face in his hands.

"I'm guessing you've always grown up rich too," the oldest brother smirked as he popped a beer.

A thirteen year old boy with dark brown hair ran down the streets as he had tears running down his face. He turned into a alley way between two brick buildings.

He hiccuped a sob holding his fractured wrist as there was a bruise in the shape of a belt buckle across his cheek as he hid in the shadows of the city.

"I have," Lotor nodded with a smirk back. "But riches or not, I know wealth isn't something to defy me, more or less I rather have my success for a future to be,"