(hey everyone, yoshi here and i just wanna say i have a new story that is a voltron based one. where it goes deep into keith's past with my oc, gilla. go check it out when you're bored or when you have nothing else better to do. ONTO THE STORY! Also..DON'T KILL ME, I KNOW IT'S LATE!)

LANCE'S POV:

Pidge and hunk are acting weird. I have no idea why. They've been secretive all day, and i haven't seen opal around and neither have i seen appa. Mullet and shiro doesn't say anything about it but i don't think they really cared. I asked shiro where's opal and he said try her lab so i'm heading there. Did she pass out again? I swear that girl overworks herself sometimes. Wasn't this why i made her get into drawing? But then again, i haven't seen a pen or pencil...or even paper around here. Do alteans even use those or are they like stone age to them? Weird…

"Opal?" i called out, walking into her lab and screamed "OPAL!"

There was opal, laying on the floor with appa flying crazy in the air and destroying everything. I grabbed her shoulders and started shaking her. Her glove was off and her cables were wrapped out around her.

"Opal! Speak to me!" i screamed.

"Huh?...hey lance" opal said in her cute morning voice "i..had a dream about ...kiwis.."

"I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD YOU DUMMY!" I yelled and i helped her stand up. I looked around the room, there was broken metal, spare parts, books and even some of appa's toy were everywhere "geez look at this place, it's more messy than my room."

"Sorry." she said as she got appa from the air and set him back down and she retracted her cabled back into her bracelets.

"What are you even doing in here, seriously, you've been in here since we left the balmera." i asked and she looked at me.

"Oh, nothing crazy. Just tinkering." she said with a yawn.

"Op, you've pulled another all nighter didn't you." i asked and she nodded and i sighed "i swear, you're brain is gonna be fried one day."

"Can't help it, i wanna get this project finished and i almost did before i passed out." she said as she put a hand back on her wielding mash but i yanked it out of her reach.

"You put this back on, you might never take it off" i said, remember the last time she did this kind of stunt back at the garrison when we first heard about shiro's disappearance. She locked herself in the dorm for days and none of the teachers tried to help her, only me and hunk got her out to eat something, her whole room was full of tools for building. The girl was a mess back then.

"Come on lance, i gotta finish this today." she said, putting her cheek on her palm.

"What ar-" i looked at her hair. It was longer than it used to be, it used to be around her chin but now it's to her neck "..i'ma cut your hair."

After about five minutes, i had a cloth on her shoulders and scissors in my hands. I had some of allure's hair ties on my wrist and i started parting opal's hair, leaving out her bangs.

"Wait, shouldn't people be trained to do this?" she asked quickly "and i can cut my own hair."

"Yeah right, you're gonna flake out. Come on, just let me do this. After all, i did this all the time when we were younger" i reminded her and she sighed.

"Fine." i smiled and started snipping.

"So what's going on with you lance?" she asked as she pet appa's fur gently "you doing better?"

"Better about what?" i asked as i started cutting another section of her hair.

"You know, you're homesickness…" i paused for a second but i still cutted the strand of hair in my hand.

"I've been doing better, after all this paladin thing can be distracting." i answered, it really was at times.

"I wish i was a paladin but oh well, i guess i was meant to be an inventor." opal said and i patted her head with my other hand.

"You'll find something, after all, you're little miss i-make-anything-out-of-everything. You'll find your part." i smiled "like me, i'm the sharpshooter of the group, pidge is the tech girl, hunk is our engineer, shiro is the leader, mullet is the guys who doesn't care about anything."

Opal gave out a laugh and i blushed a bit, she has a cute laugh.

"When you're too emo to things." she giggled and i gave out a chuckle.

"True, true." i agreed "allura's part is...being bossy i guess. And coran's the...uncle we all wish we had."

She laughed "nice one but I would say second uncle if you ask me. I guess, i'm just coran's helper around here. Right now, that's all i'm good for."

I smiled as i finished her hair, i looked on the floor to see the cut off hair and i looked around for a broom. Opal must have known what i was looking for and she clapped her hands. One of the walls suddenly opened a tiny door and a tiny robot with a dustpan and small broom rolled in. it looked so cute and tiny! it was up to my ankles. The tiny robot went to us and started sweeping the hair on the floor and threw it all in the small trash bin next to her desk. It then started cleaning the room slowly.

"When did you make that? And can i have it?" i asked and i watched it work and opal took off the cloth and placed back on her hat and scarf. Is she always cold or something?

"That's my second assistant, wally. I made him a few days ago to help clean this place when i'm too knocked out to do it or out with appa." opal said as wally went back to his little room thing in the wall.

"Once again, you're brain impresses me to no end." i smiled and she reflected it back.

Appa grunted and flew around me, licking my face.

"Ugh! Slimy!" i groaned, it took so long to my hair to look this good and opal giggled.

"Welcome to my world." she laughed and i blushed again.

"hey opal?"

"yeah?"

"can you sing for me again?"

"later lance okay?"

"floats my boat." i smiled and she reflected it.

"Hey lance." opal said suddenly, her eyes going on her desk.

"Yeah op?"

"Do you know what today is?" i shook my head. Oh no, what is today? Is it important? It has to be important. What's today? Damn it brain, you're supposed to be smart! How could this happen!?

"It's a very special day. And i was planning on giving this to you later but.." opal trailed off and she went to the desk and grabbed a box the size of shoebox and handed it to me "i think it's well deserved now. Happy birthday lance."

My..birthday? Brithday- BIRTHDAY?! IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!? I stared at opal before ripping the top off of the box and i looked inside. I nearly dropped the box when i saw was inside staring back at me.

"It took a while, i had to get my hands on the mind-link set and i had to rack through its memory to find yours and i knew you're thinking of you're family so i di-" i hugged her. My eyes felt warm as tear swam in theme.

"Thank you." i felt her hug back and she buried her face in my shoulder.

"No problem lance." i looked in my hand as i held the photo frame, the frame held a picture of my family. The frame was made of metal since there was no plastic around, so that's why she working late.

"How did you remember?" i asked her and she smiled.

"I was keeping track of the days since we left earth. And in earth time, it's your birthday." she answers, her smile never falling.

I heard the door fly open and pidge and hunk ran in.

"Aw man! Opal! We're supposed to give our gifts tonight!" pidge whined as she held a small box in her hands, hunk held a what looked like a goo shaped cake on a plate. I smiled at them and they soon joined in the hug, hunk putting the 'cake' on the desk and hugging us, to the point where he lifted us all up.

We all laughed as we spent the day in my room. At some point, keith and shiro joined in as well, then allura and then coran. I placed the photo under my pillow and i smiled at the others as shiro held out a cup to me, i took it but looked in it.

"Don't worry coran didn't make it. Allura did." pidge told me and i sighed in relief.

"I'm not bad at cooking!" coran defended, crossing his arms.

"No...you're worse than bad." giggles allura and we all laughed a bit as opal raised her cup.

"TO LANCE!" she said and everyone lifted their cups to it and drank up.

i couldn't stop smiling throughout the whole party.