Pidge's POV

Hunk looked down at me.
"Why are you wearing Lance's jacket?"

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I kept my face low, trying to think of an answer.
"She was cold, so I gave it to her." Lance blurted out. I guess I wasn't the only one flustered.
"Yeah that would make sense, but Pidge has long sleeves." Hunk pointed out turning to Lance.
"I'm not wearing my shirt!" I said. I didn't even notice what I just said until Lance's face started to heat up. Everyone was looking at me and Shiro looked mad. "I mean I'm wearing a shirt. Just not that shirt." No one moved. I could tell they were trying to see if I was telling the truth or not. "IM WEARING A BLACK TEESHIRT!!" I finally yelled. I unzipped Lance's jacket to show them my shirt.
"Ohhhh yeah, of course Pidge. We knew that you just wouldn't be unclothed." Allura said snapping back to reality. "Unless something else happened as well?" She was looking at me with her head tilted. She knew something. I looked to Lance who was across from me staring at Allura.
"Allura I know for a fact that their just friends." Hunk grabbed my shoulder and pulled me into a side hug. "Plus, the other day you and Lance had something going on anyway." He let loose of the hold and grabbed his spoon. "Aren't you guys dating or something? I mean you did kiss." His mouth was full as he kept talking.

  I looked down feeling uncomfortable knowing that everyone thinks that Allura and Lance are dating. I couldn't even run this time because of my ankle! I shoved some goo into my mouth. This is gonna be a long breakfast.

Allura's face stood frozen uncomprehending what came out of Hunk's mouth.
"Uhhh yeah, you know it." Lance said wrapping his arm around her shoulders. Allura was confused. She looked at me and Lance back and forth as if she was looking for some approval. I kept my head low so I couldn't see him flirting with her. It wasn't until I looked up to see Lance wink at her signaling to go with whatever he was gonna say next.
"Um yeah. Sure, me and Lance are dating." She pulled him into a bear hug and kissed his cheek causing him to blush a little. My blood was boiling just at the sight of them. When this is all over Lance is in trouble.

   Shiro stared blankly as the "couple" flirted with each other. In an instant when Allura said "I love you." to Lance, he turned to me. Just as confused as he was he also seemed to be angered from the two.
"I love you too." Said Lance kissing her on the cheek this time. I sank my head lower, even though it was fake it still hurt. My eyes started to tear up and if Hunk hadn't bud in the conversation I would've been balling my eyes out.

"Pidge, you barely ate. Are you ok? Are you not feeling good?" His voice was concerned. He was rubbing circles on my back as a way to make me feel better. I blinked the tears away and bought my face up.
"No I'm not actually, maybe we could do the check up now, Shiro? Only so I could go to my room for some rest." I turned my direction towards him.
"Of course." He said smiling back at me. I got up, hands on the table so I wouldn't put any pressure on my foot, waiting for Shiro to get up so he could help me out of the room. He walked over to me and reached his hand out so I could grab it.

One we left the room I let my mind wander.

You know? It seems like we've been the one played this whole time.

I let that sink in for a moment. Why now of all times to make me feel bad. I started tearing up again. Shiro as keen as he is noticed.
"Um I didn't want to say anything back there, but if you wanted me to stop them I would've." I looked at Shiro surprised.
"Why would you stop them?" My voice was cracking given I was on the verge of crying.
"Pidge, I thought you and Lance were dating." He stopped me, with two hands holding my shoulders.

Apparently not.

"Apparently not." I repeated. Brushing one of his hands off.
"What do you mean apparently not? Pidge if he means something to you-." He kept rambling on. I blocked his voice out just looking to the side, looking at the hallway that we just came from. Knowing that at the end there was a room with a perfect couple sitting at the table having fun together.

"Katie? Katie!" I shifted my focus back to Shiro.
"Hm?" I was staring at him now.
"Pidge. Are you and Lance dating?" That question echoed in my head.
"Dating?" I was trying to understand what he was saying, but my emotions didn't want to. "Of course not, Shiro. What would've made you think that way?" I was confused. Being blinded by my own emotions to even think for a second of what I was saying.
"Pidge. You guys were making out. In. His. Room." His voice stern as if he was trying to make me understand.
"We were not. I was just tackling him. We wanted to pull a prank on someone to think that." I started crying. "Why would you think we were dating? Lance doesn't like me. He only likes girls that are pretty, beautiful, cute. That's not me Shiro." I felt broken. Hearing the words come out of my mouth felt so true. I pushed his other arm off my shoulder.
"Pidge." He said softly, as to trying to calm me down.
"Could we do the check up later? I need to go to my room now." I wiped my tears away even though it made no difference since more just kept rolling down my face.
"That means that you can't go into battle until your ankle is healed. We don't want a permanent damage." He reassured me. I nodded back at him understanding that I'd be out of commission for a couple of weeks.

  He helped me back to my room. The walk there was silent. I was in no mood for a talk. Unless you count the voice in my head. It always seemed to come and go whenever it wanted to. Always making my life miserable. Before I even knew it we were at my door.
"Oh, that was fast." I mumbled. Shiro glanced at me with a tilted head then he started to head out back into the hallway. I watched his shadow leave until there was nothing left.

I walked into my room, stumbling over many things since my floor was messy with comics and spare electronic parts. I tried to clean up as best as I could knowing for the next couple of weeks that's it'd be hard to walk on the floor if it wasn't clean. I tried my best, but I mostly just slid most of the stuff under my bed.

In the corner of my eye I saw a small figure. I instantly knew what it was. Not turning towards it I said "Lance."

I knock came at my door. I frantically took the Lance sculpture and hid it under my bed. Because I was rushing I fell to the floor. I winced in pain as my ankle throbbed. I should really get crutches. When I looked up a saw a tall Cuban boy staring at me. He was bent down, hand out so I could grab it. So I did. He pulled me up, not wanting to fall I put my other hand on his arm.
"I got you Pidge." He said laughing. He could see I wasn't trusting him at the moment. Once I gained balanced I let go of his arm.

Being the Lance that he is, he wrapped his arm around my waist pulling me closer to his. He leaned farther down this time so I wouldn't have to go on my tip toes to reach him. For a moment I forgot that I was mad at him, just sinking into the kiss as if nothing happened. It wasn't until he bit my lip that I pulled away.

I took my hands and squished his cheeks together.
"No kisses." I told him. His face had gone from confused to sad quick.
"Oh come on." He said grabbing my hands and pulling them down. I pulled them away putting them on my hips. Showing him that I was serious. He gave the puppy dog face, thinking I would change my mind. I crossed my arms and turned my face away from him.
He eventually gave up.
"Ok what's wrong Pidge?" He walked over to me. Still not replying to him I let out a "hmph". After a while of pleading he turned to his last resort. And apparently his last resort is seduction because out of nowhere he was behind me kissing every visible skin on my neck and shoulders. Blushing a beat red I finally gave in.
"I'm mad at you." I said hitting his face causing him to stop. I could tell my question confused him, he walked back in front of me where I was staring him in the eye.
"And why is that?" He took both my arms and pulled me in a hug. I dug my head in his chest trying to avoid the question. He picked my head up and asked again.

  "You and Allura. It's just you seemed happy and she kissed you on the cheek, THEN YOU KISSED HER BACK. And this whole time you were just playing me right?" I looked up at him crying. His eyes filled with guilty as he heard those words come out of my mouth. " I mean come on what was I thinking! I thought you actually liked me. I should've known better. Allura is tall, pretty, sweet. A princess!" I was shouting at him, hardening my grip. "And I'm not! I'm none of those things! I'm not pretty. At all! Only thing that I am is smart. And your not looking for a girl that is smart right?" I looked up at him. "Yeah, your not. I know I'm don't act or seem like a girl but you didn't have to go and humiliate me out of it! Now Shiro thinks we're dating and it's fine I told him we weren't. But one day I was hoping that we would tell him." I started to laugh. "Guess I'm too ugly to be your girlfriend or anyone's at that huh?" I finally ended. Tears were rolling down my face as I was clenching his shirt in my hands. His shirt were stained with my tears and oddly enough I felt bad about it.
"And now I've stained your shirt." I said sniffling. I finally looked back up at Lance noticing his expression. Crying. He was crying. I made him cry. Again. I felt terrible, I pushed away from the hug rubbing my arm.

I didn't even see him move until he kissed me. As shocked as I was I stood there. Not pressing my lips against his, not holding his neck or back. I just stood there. He released from the kiss holding my face. Still crying he said.
"Don't you ever! Think that your not beautiful! Of course you smart, but your also everything else!" He was shouting at me in a gentle tone only to show that he meant his words. He continued. "Your better than Allura. You are your own person, that I happened to fall in love with. I love everything about you." He pressed his forehead on mine smiling at me. " I love the way your glasses gleam, or the fact that your very competitive. I love to see how you beam up whenever you see Altean technology or that smirk you make whenever your teasing me. And the best of all I love the freckles that you hide under your long sleeves shirt." He lifted my head. I was falling into every word he said. "And the list goes on and on, but I don't have an eternity to list them all. I'd rather spend that eternity with you." He ended. My tears had stopped but his were still running. I was in awe. From that fact that he noticed so much about me, or that he loved everything about me.
"Really?" I sniffled still wanting to cry, but it seemed like he was doing enough of that for the both of us. He was rubbing my cheek with his thumb.
"Yes. Really." He smiled back. He gave me a kiss on my forehead and before he could look back at me, I kissed him back. I wanted this moment to last forever, but it was interrupted my the sound of the alarms.
"Paladins, we are under attack. You must get to your lions now!" Allura yelled through the intercom. "Pidge, take it easy and come to me. We will help the others from the Castle." She said lastly before ending.

I looked up at Lance. I didn't want him to leave just yet.
"I have to, I'll be back after Pidge." He said to me before kissing my cheek.
"You better come back safe." I scolded him. He laughed a little before running out of the room towards the hangars. I whispered something to myself before heading out.

    You better come back here safe. I won't forgive you otherwise.

A/N: I know I posted already today and I'm probably gonna post later tonight again too. It's because I missed a couple of days and I think I should make that up. Well anyway I hope you liked this chapter. Bye~