"Five star banquet, twenty course."

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After talking to Adam, Lance felt more confident, so he went back to school.

His teacher gave him a lecture about how he should be better at time management and then sent him to his seat.

~~~

Keith was scratching his arm throughout seventh period, which Pidge slapped his hand for multiple times, "What's wrong?"

Keith stops scratching and looks at Pidge, "What?"

"What's wrong?" Pidge turns to him, her voice in a hushed tone since they don't wanna attract attention.

Keith shrugs, "I failed my math test because I was so distracted. It's just stressing me out is all, I already know that I can get an A this time around though, but I'm still kinda hung up on you-know-who."

Pidge rolls her eyes, "You can say his name."

Keith flinches a bit and Pidge frowns, "I don't want to."

"You're gonna have to sooner or later." She crosses her arms, leaning against the wall behind her.

He nods, "I know..." he sighs.

~~~

When the bell rings, Lance almost jumps out of his seat, he just wanted to get this math test over with and go home.

What he didn't expect was to see him at a test retake session.

He sits down in the seat behind Keith, "Ummmmmm, hi?" he coughs in his fist, feeling awkward.

Keith's head that was in his arms shot up, trying to find where the voice came from.

"Behind you." Keith turns in his seat and his eyes go wide.

"Uhhhh, hi?" Keith looks puzzled, "Why are you here?"

Lance felt like slamming his head into his desk, "I wasn't here the day of the test, so I'm taking it. I should be asking you the same thing, why are you here?"

Keith digs his nails into his thumb, "I failed it, got a D."

Lance's eyes were as wide as an owl's, "What?!" Keith flinches and Lance closes his eyes, breathing in before continuing, "What do you mean, you got a D?"

Keith nods, "I was distracted..."

Lance bows his head, "Oh... I'm sorry." he crosses his arms, leaning back in his seat.

Their teacher stands up, a small pack of papers in her arms, "Okay, everyone be quiet now, I'm passing out the tests." she walks around to all 15 students, handing out papers before sitting back down.

~~~

The test was as boring as you would assume, no talking and no music, just silence with the occasional paper flip.

After, Lance almost races out of the room, almost. He still needed to talk with Keith.

"How do you think you did?" He questions, holding onto his backpack straps tighter.

"Good, I was able to concentrate more this time around." He glances at Lance before looking back ahead of them.

Lance nods and it's quiet for a bit, "Hey, Keith?"

He hums as a reply.

"Can we, you know, talk?" Lance's grip on his backpack straps was so tight, he was surprised that his hands didn't cramp up.

"Sure." Keith's fingers dig into both his thumbs now, hoping Lance won't notice his nervousness.

"Your place?"

"Yeah."

~~~

"Shiro is with Allura today." Keith explains, taking off his shoes and walking into the living room, Lance following suit.

Lance sets his bag down with his shoes and sits with Keith on the couch, "So..."

"So...."

Lance fiddles with his fingers, crossing and uncrossing his legs, which Keith would have found cute if not for the circumstances, "I-I'm sorry. I'm not going to try and make excuses for my actions, because that's not fair to you. Just know that I am extremely sorry."

His eyes fog a bit, which he blinks away. It's silent for a bit before Kieth speaks, "Lance, I accept your apology. And I'm sorry, you know, for pushing you to your limit, I should have been more cautious..."

Lance lets one tear through, "Its not your fault, I was the one with a short fuse."

Keith shakes his head softly, "Lets agree, we both were in the wrong, and we are both extremely sorry. Agreed?" He looks up to Lance, who also looks over, Keith's breathing stops for a second.

"Agreed." He smile a little bit, they make eye contact and he turns a bit pink.

Keith smiles back, his eyes soft, releasing the intake of breath he was holding.

They were closer than expected, they seemed to have moved closer while talking, but neither were about to move.

"Keith?"

"Yes?"

"Do you still have that sand dollar from our first da - hangout?" Lance looks away, breaking their eye contact.

Keith blinks, caught off guard, "I think so? Let me go see."

He leaves and Lance takes in a deep breath, his inner self was between happiness and bi panic.

If that would have gone on any longer, Lance would have kissed Keith, whom he just mad amends with. Not a good idea.

Keith then returns, breaking Lance's spiral, "Here it is, sorry, I forgot I had it." He hands it to Lance, their hands brushing.

Lance nods, "It's fine, I just need it for something." He inspects the sand dollar, nodding to himself and getting up to place it in his bag.

Keith was curious, "Are you making a necklace with it?"

Lance nods, "Yeah."

He gets back and they sit in silence for a bit.

"Lance?"

"Yeah?"

"Stop being so... quiet, it's not normal."

Lance nods and smiles a bit, "I guess it isn't." He thinks for a bit, "I met this guy today..."

Keith's smile falls a bit, "Oh?"

Lance nods, "Yeah, his name is Adam, he works at that frozen yogurt place near the school."

Keith nods, "Did you, like, get his number orrrr..."

Lance chuckles, shaking his head a bit, "No, he's taken. I'm just mentioning him because he helped me."

Keith was intrigued, "What do you mean?"

"He gave me the courage to come back to school and talk to you." Lance scoots a bit closer to Keith.

Keith smiles, "Oh, did he now?"

"Yeah, he pretty much just told me to be myself, and to do what I feel was right."

Keith chuckles, "Sounds like he's some cartoon character."

Lance chuckles with Keith, "He does, holy shit."

They both laugh for a bit, until someone opens the door, "And what do we have here?"

Both of them quickly quiet down and look up, seeing Shiro, "Heeeey Shiro." Lance awkwardly waves, "Sorry for, uh, ignoring you these past couple days..."

Shiro smiles, shaking his head, "No, it's fine." he looks between the two boys, "So, you two made up?"

They nod, "Yeah, we both agreed that we both were at fault and that we should just forget about it." Keith responds.

Shiro nods, "That's good, I thought I was gonna have to hear Keith rant about you for the rest of my life."

Keith blushes and changes the subject, "So how was it at Allura's?"

Shiro stiffens, "About that... since we're all good now, I wanna tell you guys something...." he moves and sits in the recliner, "I'm not actually dating Allura..."

Lance is shocked while Keith just smiles, "Knew it."

Shiro just rolls his eyes, "I'm actually dating a dude.... his name is Adam an-"

Lance gasps loudly, "Adam?! Like frozen yogurt Adam?!"

Keith looks at Lance with so much joy and humor in his eyes, "Damn, would you look at that."

Shiro laughs, "Wait, are you talking about where he works? If so, then yes, that Adam." Shiro smiles, "I didn't want to tell you guys yet, seeing as you all thing I'm dating Allura from Pidge's dumb conspiracy theory."

Keith shook his head, "I never believed it, my gaydar isn't that broken."

Lance shakes the shock from his face, "Wait, so that dude Adam was talking about... he was.... oh my god." Lance smiles, laughing a bit, "Shiro, I'm happy you're with him, he speaks very fondly of you."

Shiro turns a light pink, "Thank you."

Keith nods, "I approve, too. He seemed to have really lifted Lance's spirits."

Shiro smiles wide, "Thank you for being so accepting, guys."

"Of course." Both the boys say, both blushing once they realize what happened.

Shiro just laughs.

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AN: hey bitches I'm making friends at school and I'm trying to live my best life. Sorry the updates are slow, I just had mid terms 🤧 thank you for reading this far, please comment what you think and if you have any constructive criticism I will gladly take it! Love ya.

-Haley❤️