The Red and The Blue Paladins- The Constant Feud

I Need To Tell You Something...

"Please tell me you aren't leaving Voltron?" Shiro joked slightly as both Keith and him walked to the lounge room to talk. 

"No... I'm not leaving Voltron," Keith mumbled. They arrived at the lounge after a few minutes and they both took a seat on two chairs opposite of each other. 

"Please tell me what's going on, Keith. You're scaring me," Shiro told Keith. Keith exhaled deeply, his hands shaky. He trusted Shiro more than anyone but he still had never told him. Maybe it was because Keith wasn't even sure himself or maybe he was embarrassed and didn't want it to be real. Whatever the reason, Keith was still shaking, but he was ready. 

"I... know you know everything about me. But, there is one thing I've kept from you and I can't keep it from you anymore and I can't deny it and I just... I just need to talk to someone about it," Keith rambled, honestly. Shiro just looked at Keith, eyebrows pressed together with interest and concern. 

"It's okay. You can tell me. Please tell me," Shiro told Keith. Keith nodded slightly and pressed his eyes shut tightly. He was going to do it. It was going to be real. He could do it.  

"Okay, I'll tell you. So basically, I've been feeling this way for awhile. Like... a long time. But I wasn't sure if I was weird or there was something wrong with me, or if it was normal but no one talked about it because it was embarrassing or whatever. But... I think keeping it inside for so long has been what's making me so... angry all of the time. Sometimes I forget about it because I don't want it to define me and I'm happy and I let loose. I'm scared people won't except me because who would want to love someone like me. But... I'm tired. I'm tired of fighting a loosing battle against myself. Because whether or not people like it, it's who I am. And... I'm slowly learning to embrace it. But as I said, I don't want it to define me. It's not everything I am. I'm proud... I think. I mean, I'm getting there. But, I just don't want people to look at me weirdly, or think I'm different, or less than them, or whatever. So just keep it a secret, please. I'll tell people when I'm ready. But... Shiro, I'm gay. I like men... more than I should. At first I thought I was incapable of love or whatever because I didn't find appeal in the women and girls my other peers would talk about. But... I realized that I was just attracted to men," Keith rambled off and admitted. "It's because I'm freaking gay," he laughed it, not as a joke, but as if saying it made him finally believe he was that way. He could be who he wanted to be. 

Shiro looked at Keith and smiled. "Oh, Keith. Thank you for telling me. Really. I respect everything you said. And... I get it," Shiro told Keith gently. Keith closed his eyes and smiled slightly, running a hand through his mullet. "Though I'm going to be honest... I had a suspicion you were," Shiro chuckled lightly. 

"What?! You did? How?" Keith gasped. Shiro laughed again but it was light and Keith was smiling, happy to have a weight lifted off of his chest. 

"For starters... you have a mullet," Shiro pointed out. Keith's eyes widened and his mouth opened slightly. Shiro held up his hands in defense. "Not that that says anything, it just helped my suspicions. Also... you had never been into girls or anything. I also notice you checking out guys whenever we were in the changing rooms or staring at their lips when they talked about certain things," Shiro informed. Keith flushed deeply. 

"I-" he stuttered. 

"It's okay, Keith!" Shiro told him. Keith closed his eyes and smiled gently. 

"Thank you... really, thank you. I was... so scared and you took this exactly as I needed you to," Keith told Shiro. Shiro side-smiled slightly and stood up to hug his brother-like friend. Keith embraced the hug, unlike usual, where he got awkward. 

"Plus, you always got just unusually awkward and uncomfortable around girls," Shiro laughed into the hug and Keith burst out laughing. 

"God... I do, don't I? I'm not very good at being straight." They pulled away from the hug