A Broken Past - [Keith X Reader]

᪥ Pfft, Okay Mullet ᪥

𖣔Your POV 𖣔

"Wait did I sleep through my alarm, oh god." I picked up my phone to check the time. 5:40 am, about an hour before my alarm goes off. "I'm definitely not gonna be able to fall back asleep...." I picked up my phone again and started scrolling on Instagram until my actual alarm went off.
Groaning, I got out of bed and walked towards the bathroom and did my routine. While walking to the kitchen, I realised we had no food.
"Ah dang, now I have to go out and eat... what about Keith? Should I get him something? I mean, he wouldn't do the same for me, but I would really appreciate it if someone did that for me. Ugh why am I such a nice person!?"
I went and put on my Garrison uniform and started heading to the cafeteria and placed two breakfast orders. It was pretty busy, I mean, it kinda was 7:15 am.
"That mullet-asshole better eat this!" I thought as I took out my key card to the dorm.
He still wasn't awake, somehow, so I put his meal in the fridge as I ate while scrolling on my phone.
It was 7:40, classes started at 8. I grabbed my bag and books and things and started for the door. I was still kinda confused why Keith wasn't awake, but I shrugged it off. Out in the hallway, I saw Pidge, Lance, and Hunk. I walked over to talk to them since I didn't wanna look lonely.
"Hey (Y/N)!" Pidge looked over at me.
"Hello... you guys will never guess who my roommate is..." I put on a sour face as I motioned toward my room.
"Lance and I were lucky to get each other. Also (Y/N), I don't think we've formally met, I'm Hunk!" Hunk was such a nice person, he could probably make Keith smile. We shook hands and smiled.
"Wait, (Y/N) who'd you get?" Lance spoke up.
I sighed and put on the blankest expression possible, "Keith."
Lance spat out whatever macchiato-cappuccino-whiteass Starbucks drink he had all over Hunk. "(Y/N)! You are the unluckiest person al- sorry Hunk- alive!" Lance's eyes went wide. Hunk walked back to his dorm to get clean clothes.
"What do you have against Keith? I mean yeah, he is a bit of a jerk, but how do you know him?" I was kinda confused, yeah living with Keith sucked but what does Lance know about that.
"Oh mullet head over there is always trying to one-up me at everything! Ever since our first year at the Garrison he's been showing off and ugh!" Lance held his head up and crossed his arms.
"First year at the Garrison," I thought, "isn't this our first year at the Garrison? Maybe something happened yesterday?"

"Lance," I giggled, "that's not a valid reason to hate someone." Why am I always so nice?
Lance muttered something inaudible, then the bell for class rang.
"What do you have (Y/N?)" Pidge said something for the first time in a while.
"Oh," I pulled out my timetable for Tuesday, "Flight Combat." I nodded, this class seemed fun.
Lance caught up to us, "Hey wait! I've got that too!"
"Well, at least I'm not lonely..." I sighed to myself as we turned the corridor and into the classroom.
Lance and I bid our goodbyes to Pidge as we sat down in the third row. I don't really know Lance that well, so it was a tad bit awkward.
"Where's your favourite place in the universe? Cuz mines right here, next to you." Lance flashed out his Colgate smile.
"Oh uh, thanks?" I awkwardly smiled. I swear if he keeps flirting with me I'll-
My thoughts were cut off by the late bell. I mentally groaned as the teacher started to introduce the class.

Then the door opened with a slam.
"Awh, Keith's in this class?" Lance muttered.

"Kogane, late. I expected you to change a bit from last year." Our instructor sighed and ordered him to sit down. Keith looked like a mess, his mullet flying in every direction, bags under his eyes, yikes. Keith walked to the back row to sit down, and the teacher continued on with her intro.
I couldn't help but think about the teachers words, "I expected you to change a bit from last year..."
What do people mean by last year??! Am I with the right group? We're all the same age and skill level, I literally cannot recall anything from last year..
"(L/N)!"
"(Y/N) say you're here!"
"(Y/N)!"
I snapped out of my thought as I saw everyone staring at me.
"Here....?" I smiled awkwardly.
The teacher checked something off and continued yelling names.
"What was that about, (Y/N)?" Lance whispered to me.
I sighed, "Sorry, I just wasn't paying attention." I shrugged and listened to whatever dumb thing the teacher was talking about.

Class went by fairly quickly, also because today was a short day.
Yay, extra time to study I guess.
I didn't wanna go back to the dorms, so I stuck with Lance for the meantime.
"Hey Hunk!" Lance and I ran into Hunk on our way to the mess hall. Hunk was still kinda pissed at Lance for staining his uniform this morning, so Hunk lecturing Lance was probably the highlight of my day so far.

"I gotta go get some groceries, I've got nothing to eat except for old canteen food." Hunk stood up from his chair. I stood up too, "I should go too, I doubt Keith would bother to get anything," I looked at Hunk, "mind if I tag along?"
Hunk nodded, "Of course! Lance?"
The Cuban male sighed and got up, following Hunk and I.

The trip was pretty boring, the three of us gossiped about teachers and drama happening between students. Hunk and Lance went back to their dorm and I had to go to mine. My hands were full as it was, it was a bit hard for me to get my dorm card out.
I stumbled into the dorm and walked into the kitchen area to see not only Keith, but an older male as well. I wasn't really noticed and continued to put the food I bought away. I saw Keith had eaten the breakfast I gotten him and snickered to myself.
"Keith, you never mentioned a roommate." The man sitting with Keith said. I turned around and gave another one of my trademark awkward smiles and continued what I was doing.
"Oh. That's just (L/N)." Keith said without emotion.
"Ok that motherfucking mullet bitch has no right to call me by my last name! But I'm too much of an introvert to correct him, especially in front of this random guy I don't know."
I think my expression showed what I was thinking because I felt heat rising to my face.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Takashi, but you can call me Shiro." His hand was outstretched toward me. I took it and smiled, "Nice to meet you too, Shiro." I barely noticed Keith's death glare burning through my retina as I turned back to putting food away.
Keith and Shiro continued to talk about.. I'm not sure, I didn't really care to listen to them.

"Wait a damn minute!" I thought, "How come Keith is allowed people over and I'm not?! Ugh, I'll ask him later." I'm really not bothered to deal with Keith and his emo attitude right now.
I walked into my room, closing the door behind me, I flopped onto my bed.
I sat there for like a minute then changed out of my Garrison gear into a My Chemical Romance t-shirt and some jeans.

"Yay, time for studying......"