The smell of Coffee and coconut

9. Thursday 13th

"Mom, about what happened-" Keith started.

"You don't have to tell me. At least you told Lance, I just don't want you to bottle it up" she said, Keith sighed and relief and hugged her.

Just a few minutes ago, he was stressing over what she would say an now she just shushed him? Wow.

Keith walked back to his room in disbelief. He sat on his bed, staring into nothing. He grabbed the pictures from the middle of a book he'd hidden them in.

He looked at them for minutes on end, he couldn't let go of them. He did want to forget about them, but he couldn't.

The door opened before Keith could even think of hiding the polaroids. Lance walked in and looked at him.

"What are those?" He pointed at the pictures.

"Just photos" Keith looked down at them and Lance seemed curious.

"Photos of what?" He got closer and leaned over in attempt to see what they were.

"Nothing" Keith said.

"Come on, let me see!" He said, he grabbed the pictures and Keith glared at him with anger Lance had never seen. He checked the pictures and they were of-

"Who's that?" He turned the photos and pointed at them. Keith furrowed his eyebrows.

"No one!"

"Is that you? You're so tiny in this!" Lance looked back at one of them.

"Lance, give them back!" Keith yelled. He reached over and took the pictures. He didn't put them In the book since Lance would know where they are.

"Who is it?" He asked. Keith kept looking down, he didn't want Lance to find out.

"Keith- shit. Is it Shiro?" Lance asked again. Keith nodded softly.

"Sorry, I didn't think" he stumbled through his words.

"Hey, how about we don't talk about it. We could watch the office again" Keith proposed. Lance nodded and they hopped on Lance's bed.

They got out Keith's laptop and placed it on a pillow. Both were sitting at a respectable distance. They watched the show, the room was getting cold and Lance was almost freezing.

"Do you want a blanket?" Keith asked. Lance shook his head.

"No, I'm ok"

"You sure? You seem freezing" Keith said.

"Really, I'm fine" Lance smiled and looked back at the screen. Keith got closer and took Lance in his arms, he put his arms around his waist and placed his head on Lance's arm for comfort. Lance was surprised but hesitantly put his left arm around Keith's shoulder.

Keith smiled slightly, he blushed a little. The door opened and Veronica was in front of them, they quickly pushed away before the older girl could see.

"The moms say we're going on a road trip for this summer, we're leaving in three days. You'll miss some school but moms talked to the school. You better start packing" Veronica said. She smiled and left the room.

Lance and Keith looked at each other and smiled.

"This should be nice" Lance said. Keith smiled and nodded. They sat back, each on their side of the bed, it was awkward. 

"He that's pretty funny" Keith said to break the silence, it was true, the show really was funny but he just didn't want anything to be weird between the two of them.

"Yeah well that's the point of the show" Lance jokes, he chuckled and looked away. Keith got up suddenly and went to the bathroom. He looked in the mirror and frowned. He splashed water in his face lit and he felt better, he went to open the door when he heard something from Lance's door.

"Hey Pidge..... I mean yeah..... I think I fucked it up..... Well I brought up something bad... I can't talk about it...... yeah, thanks, bye. Love you"

Keith opened the door and went on the bed like nothing happened. They continued watching their show. After a few episodes, Lance was getting bored.

"Wanna watch a movie?" He asked. He turned to look at Keith and he nodded. After a few minutes of looking for something good, something fought Lance's eye. He gasped and smiled at Keith who shook his head.

"We are totally watching clueless" Lance said, he was overly excited in Keith's opinion.

"Definitely not"

"Yes come onnnn" he begged. Lance pouted and gave Keith puppy dog eyes.

"Fine, we'll watch clueless" he rolled his eyes and Lance jumped in excitement.

After a long hour and forty minutes, the movie finally ended. Lance looked at Keith as if asking for approval. Keith nodded and smiled.

"It was pretty good, but I still don't understand like, they were practically step siblings" he said.

"Well their parents aren't together anymore so it's ok" Lance added, he smiled and got under the covers. Keith watched him and Lance just closed his eyes. Keith chuckled and took the laptop off the bed. He went in his own bed and closed the lights.

"Good night" he said. He smiled and dozed off.
The night was peaceful, as usual. The dreams were calm and nice, the covers were warm and the night was calm.

Until the thunderstorm started, Lance was terrified of them. He woke up and he immediately started panicking. He needed his headphones but they were in the kitchen. He got up and went over to Keith. He shook him a little bit and Keith half woke up. He groaned, he saw Lance standing in front of him with a scared look on his face. Lance made Keith move over and he got in the bed, Lance went under the covers with Keith and his face was right in front of Keith's. He could feel the soft breathing on his face and he wrapped his arms around Keith, he nuzzled into Keith's chest and managed to fall asleep.