Wings of Home II: Wings of Change

Formulated

"How are you and Keith? Did the first day go well"

Elena was honestly glad to see a message from her significant other. "I'm doing okay, although so far things haven't gone well. I've yet to go to class, but I think everything's having an effect on Keith."

Syd replied. "You're his friend. You'll help him pull through."

"Maybe. He's weirded out by the fact his twin brother was being nice to him all of a sudden."

"I think it's weird that twins don't get along."

"Maybe that's a myth perpetuated by media? That twins always get along?"

"That would be interesting to examine, though I don't think we could make a campaign for it. Twins aren't thought of as a minority."

"I don't think it's that they're not thought of as a minority, but they're seen instead as a privileged minority with perks. But no, since they're not persecuted, I don't think we could make a change in that."

She'd sent that right before heading into the cafeteria, not expecting she'd have more to tell Syd later after she got done with classes for the day.

The way her cousin acted honestly made her stomach feel nauseated, completely uncomfortable with how he acted. Making matters worse, this wasn't the cousin who she felt comfortable coming out to over the summer before the school year started, but someone else entirely. No, the person in front of her was someone their abuela would be embarrassed by, that Alex would no longer think cool.

Yet...

She'd had some suspicion regarding the matter when Lance crashed the sleepover cadets could arrange for friends and family to show what their life at the garrison was like. The weekend which was supposed to be amazing ended up – well, discovering an alien princess she and Syd both agreed was beautiful and sexually appealing was definitely an amazing event, as was the whole Voltron thing, although terrifying.

No, spending the weekend locked up in the apartment instead of learning about the garrison and hanging out with Keith wasn't what she'd planned on doing for the weekend. In the back of her mind, she contemplated doing something which might make things easier for her fellow paladins yet didn't want to exclude Syd and Alex. Unfortunately, this would mean Lance would – if he found out, likely throw a fit.

Instead, she found herself attempting to get Keith to eat, yet in the back of her mind, she was sure Keith was bothered by the fact they'd gotten in trouble despite the fact he'd definitely done nothing. She was left wondering if that was a common occurrence at the Garrison, although she also remembered the fight Lance and Keith got into.

Keith finally started eating, her abuela's food working it's magic, although the food didn't take away all of the pain he was likely feeling, nor did she want to push him into talking about what happened. He still wanted to go to the nurse's office. Hunk piped up. "You aren't going to miss PE, are you?"

"What?"

"Isn't gym your favorite class next to piloting, which you've already missed out on." Hunk took a deep breath. "I don't like it, but you should try getting out of the nurse's office – I mean, feeling better before then, so you don't have to miss out."

"Um, thanks, I guess."

"Well, that's certainly not a class we'd share." Elena smiled at him. "I do hope we share some, but – maybe Allura can join us for class?"

Keith's eyes blinked. "I guess."

"Don't you like her."

"Like her..." She watched Keith react, his voice tightening. "Of course not! I mean, I don't like her, like her, but as for that other kind of like, I really don't know her yet." His eyes blinked before he turned his head away. "I think I'll head to the nurse's office now."