You're back for round three?
Well, there is still like no klance in this chapter. Sorry. Things will get more romantic for them I promise.
Enjoy and please comment about any mistakes/your opinions. Thanks:)
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Lance froze. Time stopped. He didn't know how to cover the situation up. He grabbed his phone from Zain's hand and looked closely at the picture, trying to figure out how much he needed to explain himself. Sitting on his phone was Quinn. Quinn Kord. Lance's cheeks only got brighter as he stared at the boy  in the photo making a funny face at Lance. His eyes were green and shining in the picture. His mouth was in a thin line and he was looking to the side. He had dirty blonde hair that he constantly ran his hands through. He was tan, but not quite as tan as Lance. Underneath the picture the boy blonde boy sent a quick
"❤️How've you been twitchy?"
Lance was silent for at least 30 seconds.
"So McLain" Zain said crossing his arms. One of his dark eyebrows flicked up as he stared Lance down. "You dated a boy... And not only that but you let him call you twitchy?"
Lance gulped. He didn't know how to handle this. Him and Quinn hadn't talked in weeks. They had a short un-serious relationship over the summer after they bonded over their love of surfing. Lance began playing the day they met back in his head. It was only a few weeks ago, and not at all hard to recall.

Lance was sitting on his board, waiting (very impatiently) for any wave. Even the smallest ripple. But the ocean was silent.
He huffed.
Then, all of the sudden a giant wave came roaring towards him from over the horizon. Each little inch of space it moved forward, caused it to grow taller and taller, claiming more and more water with it as it sped along.
Lance paddled as fast as he could, but when he looked to his side there was someone else who had taken interest in the wave.
Lance slowed his paddling and turned his board around, preparing to catch the monster. When it finally reached him, the opponent he had from before was right in his place. Lance pulled to right just slightly and when the wave came he caught it perfectly. His stance on the board perfected after years of practice. Lance looked at his competitors board, it was nice. He definitely wasn't a beginner. As his eyes moved higher and higher up on his opponent he finally met his gaze and watched as his hair sparkled in the sun.
It was the type of blonde that looked as though it had been bleached from hours and hours under the burning rays of the sun. If the boy lived somewhere cloudy, he would've been a pale, fawn colored brunette. The mental image caused Lance to smile at himself. The boy racing him began to smile back when all of the sudden he fell over his ankle strap and began to go down into the water. The two boys were so close at that second that the blonde boy reached his hand out only an inch, and pulled Lance into the water with him.
Lance and the boy were dragged along by their ankles with their boards. Lance had fallen many times, in order to be as good as he was now.... But this fall took him by surprise. He hadn't fallen in a long time because of his matured skills.
finally when Lance was able to pull his head above the water he swam about a meter over to his board and pulled himself on it.
He laid down on it and breathed deeply to get oxygen back in his lungs. Now he was much closer to shore, and he began looking around for the boy that had caused the fall.
After a few minutes, Lance caught a small wave and rode it back to the shore. He picked his board up and layed it on the sand. He sat down next to a few of his siblings and let the sun warm his skin.
Then after a few minutes he noticed blondie leaving the water. Finally. Lance got up to go approach him.
"Blondie" Lance called to the boy. He looked up almost immediately as
If expecting Lance.
"Ahh yes. Hello twitchy" the blonde smirked, creating a single dimple on the left side of his face.
"Twitchy?" Lance scoffed.

"Helloo queer boy... Are you going to explain to be what the hell this is all about?" Zain snapped quickly infront of Lance's dark eyes.
He was pulled back into reality.
"What did you call me?" Pure surprise was in his voice. He didn't even think about being angry, he was so startled.
Zain rolled his eyes "I called you queer. That's clearly what you are..."
"N-no wait we're really just friends I would never like a b-boy" Lance's reply was shaky and he tried his very best to hide the truth. Zain glared him down.
"McLain, I'm pretty sure dating a boy makes you pretty damn gay. And pretty damn lame." Lance didn't know what to say. "I can't believe I hadn't heard about this before" Zain picked up his things, laughing to himself and began to walk towards the doors. "I
actually thought you were like...
chill man" Zain said about to pull on the door.
"Wait" Lance said, feeling defeated. He had barely grasped the idea of his sexuality. In his head, he saw himself as bisexual at this point... But he was much too afraid to come out to his family... And even more terrified of telling his whole school. Lance just thought gay meant lame at this point and always tried to hide the emotions. It was only now that he was really beginning to grasp the whole concept.
"Are you going to tell?" The words barely came out of his mouth.
He couldn't believe how fast the moment had escalated. He was talking to one of his closest friends just a few seconds ago... And now it was like Zain was disgusted by him.
A smile crossed Zain's lips slowly as he turned around
"You're saying no one knows?" He said with a huff of air almost like a laugh.
Lance's facial expression answered this question for him. He made a face as if he were cringing and horribly sad at the same time.
His voice was barely above a whisper "No..." He said trough gritted teeth.
Zain was fully facing Lance now.
"Well then this could get interesting" Zain said as the bell rang.

Lance wanted to leave. He couldn't be tardy on his first day but he didn't really know how to get away. He didn't even know what to do.
"I'll make a deal with you McLain" Zain said with a smirk. Lance looked up at the boy, intrigued.
He wanted to just leave. Act like nothing happened. But he knew that people would believe Zain over him, and he couldn't lose his perfect reputation. He couldn't let people know. He felt trapped in a cliche movie made for 7 year old girls.
"what do you want Zain" he asked flatly. Realizing the tall athletic boy was not his friend. This wasn't friendship.
Zain smirked at the nervous brunette.
"I need you to embarrass Keith Kogane"
Lance felt his heart skip a beat.
"W-what" he stuttered.
"Keith has always bothered me. He's a threat to me this year. Hell man, he's a threat to you. Girls are falling for him, people like him" Zain paused and the next words out of his mouth next scared Lance.
"This kid needs to go down. I need you to take uh..." Zain paused and set his bag down, digging through it. "This." He said thrusting a crappy camera at Lance.
Lance looked over it, trying to figure out where this was going.
"All you have to to is take a picture of Keith. An embarrassing one too. After that... The rest is up to me" Zain smirked. "Just do it McLain. Or I guess... I could tell all the girls I know  you'll be too busy with guys to ask them  to homecoming" Zain said with a shrug.
Lance grabbed the camera as quickly as he could and walked away from Zain. He pushed the doors open quickly. His mind was racing. He could barely think. He shoved the camera deep into his bag and continued sprinting to his next class. English. Easily the worst one.
As he walked into the room the teacher gave him a textbook, as well as a glare after glancing at the clock. She pointed to a seat and Lance took it quickly. The whole class was silent, focused on their textbooks. Or at least pretending to be. As Lance looked around the room he turned back and saw someone with dark hair leaning over the book.
Lance knew who it was immediately...
And it gave him butterflies.
Slowly Keith looked up. Their eyes met and the eye contact was held for a long time.
Lance was looking at his iris's... He couldn't figure out what color they were. Before this he had always assumed they were a dark brown... But in this lighting they looked purple.
Lance smiled slightly.
Keith noticed the slight smirk the boy had and his cheeks lit on fire.
After Lance turned back around he couldn't stop thinking about the boy.
And then he remembered what he would have to do to him in order to keep his secret.
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The shift Keith had at the market felt long. Or at least longer than usual. It was only the first day of school and he felt drained already.
He was just tired of people.
The second he got home he threw his school stuff on the ground and called a hello to his older brother. He quickly walked into his room and grabbed his longboard and headphones.
"Hey how was the first day?" Shiro said appearing in the doorway.
Keith just shrugged as he looked at Shiro.
"I'm going to go for a ride around the beach. Tell Allura I said hello" Keith politely walked around Shiro as he nodded.
"Good luck making dinner" Keith said with a laugh. The Kogane brothers were not good at cooking. Keith pulled the front door to the apartment home and quickly ran down the stairs. This was the best part of the day. The apartment was only a 2 minute ride from the beach and Keith loved this time of day more than anything else. The sun would set soon and he hoped he would be out still.
As Keith put his blue board down, he played his music and began humming. He was in his happy place. As he got closer to the waved he stared at them in awe. He had always been amazed by the ocean, he loved to swim when he was little. He just hadn't in the last three years. At least.
He watched the surfers catch waves on the sparking water. He always had wanted to try the sport. But the ocean was not his place. It was uncontrollable.
When he was skateboarding, he was in control. He could ride down a half pipe and feel completely down to earth.
The waves controlled surfers.
Keith couldn't handle that.
But then all of the sudden he felt out of control. He flipped over something and landed on his ass completely.
This was the second time today that he fell over Lance McLain.