Cinnamon Tea and Hot Chocolate
A/N: After I destroyed your heart, I'm back to stomp on the pieces that are left with a new chapter of course. Also, I'm watching Merlin, on Netflix cause my Netflix hasn't deleted it, so I grabbed the opportunity to try and force myself to finish (The only reason why I haven't yet is that I'm scared of the ending and being sad because of it) Have fun reading this chapter!
16th of December
"You probably know why we gathered you here," Lance said, as the entire friend group sat down at a free table in the café, and everyone nodded.
"Rom and I can only have a five minutes break, so I hope you can be quick about it," Allura said apologetically for sounding so rushing.
"It's okay, this won't take long," Keith said reassuringly.
"As far as you know, Keith and I started dating at the start of December, but that isn't the whole truth, we never really dated. It was a prank," Lance said, ignoring the gasp coming from his friends.
"Faking it put a strain on our friendship, so we decided to call it off" Keith finished.
"The kiss in my kitchen, what was that about if you were faking it?" Matt asked, confused.
"We were discussing a rule from our prank that I had broken when you came in, and a kiss was the easiest way to get you not to ask questions," Lance said with a shrug. "
That… is actually really smart."
Lance chuckled at Matt's reaction.
"What rule did you break?" Adam asked, curiously.
"I hadn't spent time with Keith for two days, and we had agreed to spend at least 30 minutes together every day to keep up the act" Lance answered.
"Why?"
"No real reason, honestly. I helped Hunk and my brother Marco, so my time got eaten up" Lance answered after thinking about it, looking at his watch as he talked.
"I got to go, I have a class, and someone needs to go back to work," Lance said, taking his backpack before waving his goodbyes.
Romelle and Allura walked back to the counter and kitchen, leaving the rest of them to sit at the table silently.
The ones left looked at Keith with concern as the boy looked after Lance with longing in his eyes.
"What happened to you? What made you call off the prank?" Shiro asked, confused, laying a hand of support on Keith's shoulder.
"We already told you, it strained our friendship," Keith said, not daring to look at Shiro.
"What did? The feelings you caught?" Matt exclaimed, frustrated.
"You are both miserable. You made a great couple. That's not even mentioning the sexual tension coming from you" Matt said, his hands moving in big motions.
"You are wrong, Matt, Lance and I feel nothing like that for each other. Sorry to disappoint" Keith said coldly.
"Now, you must excuse me, I also have a class" Keith stood up fast and left before anyone could protest.
"Do you think they will be okay?" Hunk asked to break the silence.
"Who knows, maybe this will teach them just how much they like each other" Shiro said, looking thoughtfully at the door to the café.
"After that kiss, they must like each other," Matt added with a grin.
"Ew, gross, did not need that mental picture," Pidge exclaim, sticking her tongue out in disgust.
"Don't be like that Katie. You just wish you had someone to be like that with," Matt said teasingly.
"Speaking of someone liking me, I have a date, so I actually got to go too," Pidge said with a roll of her eyes.
"Uhhh, someone my kid sister wants to date, who's the unlucky lady," Matt said with a smile.
"Not gonna tell you that," Pidge said with a wink and walked off see her date.
A/N: Oh yes, a friendly reminder that both Hunk and Pidge knew that it was a prank and they both know that Lance likes Keith a lot. Now see you all tomorrow, and I will welcome you with a new chapter.