I Love You Keith

Lance

Keith POV 

Time skip of a few days

Me and the group hung out in the "lounge room" as they call it, a lot,but then on the third day all of the students got called to the cafeteria, wherever that is. After getting lost a few times, we eventually got there and found some seats. There were a lot more people than I thought there'd be. While we were going to sit down, some kid ran up and almost tackled Veronica in a hug. "Ronnny! Long time no see sis!" I looked up and saw the blue eyed boy hugging her.  "Calm down Lance, you saw me this morning." Turning to us she said "Guys, this is my LITTLE brother, Lance. Lance, this is Pidge, Hunk, Kinkade, James, and Keith" pointing to all of us respectively. Podge grunted in acknowledgement, Hunk waved and smiled, while Kinkade and James just nodded. I didnt react at all.  Lance smiled brightly.  "Well, nice to have such a welcoming crowd. And I'm only a few seconds younger than you Ronny. Well I already know Hunk, he's my roommate, I've seen Pidge before, and I saw you staring at me at orientation."  On that last part he looked at me pointedly.  Veronica rolled her eyes "Lance, just because someone is staring at you, dosen't mean that they like you." Lance looked offended "GaSp, of course its does.  Who could resist me?" Cue the diva crossed arms and lean back.  I shrugged "I've lived in Texas my whole life. You don't see too many people with blue eyes. It's mostly brown eyed people here." Kinkade and Pidge nodded in agreement.  It was nice to know that I had fellow Texans among me.  Lance stared at me, then cocked an eyebrow "Oh really? Mostly brown eyes? Then why are your purple? Seems like a weird eye color I'd you ask me." James looked about ready to kill Lance, along with Pidge. I put a hand on James knee as a sign of I got this. I stood up and got right in front of Lance and crossed my arms.  " I have purple eyes because I was born that way. And if you were listening  I said MOSTLY brown eyes.  Not all. And I don't like the fact that you're paying so much attention to me.  It seems like you're getting a crush on me, and I'm sorry, but you're just not my type." I them swaggered away and into the hallway. I looked back, and Lance was staring after me, speechless.  Everyone one else was laughing at Lance's expression, but James seemed, different from the others. He was laughing at Lance, but there was something else in his eyes, but I couldn't figure out what. I walked out to the hall, waited a minute or so, and then walked back in, with a smile on my face.  When I got back to our table, Pidge. Hunk and Veronica congratulated me.  Pidge said "Man, I thought he'd never shut up. Nice burn Keith." And high fives me. Hunk said "Honestly that's the first time I've ever seen him quiet.  Teach me your ways Keith, or I'm never gonna survive school with him talking all the time. " at that we all laughed, except for Lance who had taken a seat beside his sister. Veronica smiled "Hunks right. Lance talk a LOT, and flirts with anything that moves.  It's good that you finally put him into his place." She laughed along with the others. James smiled evily "So Lance, why you still sitting with us? You're staying at the sight of your last public insult. " Me and James shared a look. "Yeah, can't Loverboy Lance find a few girls to sit with?" Veronica and Pidge started cracking up, which got the rest of us started. "Shut up Keith. At least I can get girls, because I don't have an ugly mullet." Lance smirked. Seemingly satisfied with his comeback. I smiled sweetly, and was about to say something back, when James stepped in."His eyes are a pretty violet naturally Lance, its possible. And Keith may have a mullet, but at least he can pull it off. And at least he doesn't have the same hairstyle as half the school." He smirked at Lance's shocked expression. He frowned, but didn't respond, and leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms. I smiled, and we all(minus Lance) started laughing. But then the presentation started and we all got quiet. We looked up at the stage, and there was Iverson, Shiro, Adam, Matt, Crutis, and a few others that I didn't recognize.  Then Iverson started talking.  Like at orientation, I started to get lost in my head.  This was how the blue eyed boy behaved?  And he was obviously straight.  It's a good thing that I told Shiro and Adam.  I will never like Lance that way.  I didn't realize, but apparently Iverson was talking about something important, so James started poking me. "Keith. Keith wake up and listen!" I looked up at him, he had two three inches on me and said "I'm not asleep, I'm just thinking."  "Well can you please listen? I don't want you to get in trouble.  We all saw when Iverson was giving you a hard time earlier. If he sees you sleeping who knows what he'll do."  His eyes were a mix of concern and something else I couldn't identify.  "Fine, I'll listen" I sighed.  Iverson started talking about our classes and course work.  "You'll have robotics, engineering, along with hand to hand combat, flight simulations, space gear maintenance and functions, along with a few others and your core classes.  I expect you all to try you hardest, as the top 50 in the class will be considered as future astronauts and space explorers for the Garrison.  That is all.  Return to your previous activities." We all got up and headed back towards the lounge room, and you could feel the excitement in the air at the announcement.   While everyone was talking I noticed that almost everybody was going to the lounge room, and I knew that it would fill up fast.  so I pulled on James's arm "James, everybody going to the lounge room, why don't we just hang out in our room with the rest of the gang?"  He nodded "Yeah sounds good. Wait, we didn't leave it really messy did we?"  I thought for a moment. "No, I don't think so. I'll go ahead and check, and you can tell them to meet up in our room."  I started to walk away before stopping and looking around.  "Keith, do you remember which one it is?" James asked, with a smile on his face. I grinned sheepishly. "No, I forgot."  He smiled "It's B13." "Thanks James." I ran off down the hall. I didn't want my new friends to think that I was a slob.