The left glass parts was shattered and the frame itself looked badly damaged.

' Don't cry.'  She told herself, ' Don't burst into tears now!'

Her vision started going blurry with tears in her eyes. No one in the arena except Shiro knew why she was suddenly crying over her broken glasses.

Nickolas pat her back carefully and Lance said softly, " I can- I mean, we can get you new glasses."

Katie wiped her tears and sniffed softly.

 " You won't understand.." She said and smiled weakly at them, "It's okay.. I like these ones."

She cradled her broken glasses and picked up the broken glass pieces off the ground.

Shiro and Lance both winced when her fingers got cut and Lance stopped her hands from getting more and Shiro picked up the rest carefully.

Hunter hesitated to go and help her and Katie looked at him sadly as she was led to the medical office.

She sat on the medical bed and stared at the floor, unblinking.

Lance took a look at her bleeding fingers and sighed, " Are you okay?"

" I'm fine." She said so soft, he almost didn't hear her.

Lance gave her a pained smile, " Liar."

Then he got up and got bandages and rubbing alcohol to get the germs out.

Katie winced as the alcohol liquid dripped on her cuts.

" Definitely not fine." Lance said after seeing the look of pain on her face.

As he was about to wrap the bandages on her fingers, he heard footsteps.

Lance cursed under his breath and threw the curtains around Katie to cover her. Then he set the bandages on the table and pretended to look normal as Keith walked in.

" Oh it's only you?" Keith said, " I thought I heard you talking to someone else in this room."

Lance smiled so brightly, it was almost convincing, " Yep that's me. Talking loudly to myself. Haha.." 

Keith raised an eyebrow at the poor attempt of an excuse. " Uh-Huh.."

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Katie froze when she heard Keith's voice. Loud and clear.

' Why is Keith here?'  She thought while trying to stay quiet and she moved closer to the curtain to hear more.

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Keith's nose burned as he took in a deep breath, " Ugh..Is that rubbing alcohol?"

Lance nodded slowly and Keith kept talking, " Why do you have it? You're not the type to get hurt easily-"

" Tsk tsk. Stop with the questions, I'm sure your butler's looking for you." Lance said and quickly ushered Keith out.

Katie peeked out from the side of the curtain and thought, ' Why would a butler be looking for him? Is he someone important?!'

Lance sighed of relief when Keith's footsteps were no longer heard and went back to wrapping Katie's fingers.