After that, Lance ordering from the pizzeria became a regular occurrence.
Their little talks continued to lengthen as the weeks went by, much to the Chagrin of their friends. They discussed music (" Beyonce is a goddess don't you dare insult her"), movies " (I'm excited to see Moana, looks like the music's going to be great" "seriously, Lin-Manuel Miranda is a gift from the musical theatre gods") attractive celebrities( "any opportunity to see Channing Tatum half-naked is a opportunity I'm going to take"), Pet peeves( Why would you clap at the end of a movie no one can hear you, it completely defeats the purpose of clapping) and more.
Lance had just started out as a very cute customer but now Keith was really starting to fall for him. Lance was funny, smart, kind, generous, ambitious and of course devastatingly handsome. Keith didn't know how much longer he could keep this up. Lance knew he was adopted but he had no idea that said adoption happened when he was already a teenager, Lance didn't know about the years in foster care. He knew Lance had a good heart but he was still terrified that he'd run the instant he knew the truth, he wouldn't be the first person to do so. For now, he just has to enjoy talking to Lance when he delivered his Pizza
Lance was smitten, when he had left instructions to the pizza place it had been a joke He never could have imagined that would it would end up here Weeks Later with him Having a giant crush on them and they sent. Angelica Jackson tried to ask him out and he barely noticed because he was thinking about Keith and she was not only gorgeous with a great personality but probably the smartest person in his Statistics class. Beginning of the semester him would have been horrified that he let that opportunity slip. he had dreamed about Keith, dreamed about him, like some lovesick teenage girl but it couldn't help himself Keith was Just so amazing.
Of course, his friends had noticed and had delighted in ribbing him endlessly about his new crush.
" Oh Keith you have such pretty eyes," Pidge said one night Flopping Onto the couch In a fake swoon worthy of a particularly cheesy soap opera
" God even his voice is sexy" Hunk joined in sighing dramatically and fluttering his eyelashes.
" Oh shut up you guys and hunk my man, you were even worse than this when you first met Shay"
Pidge laughed out loud" See this is why I'm glad that I'm an aromantic asexual none of his goobly crap for me, just science and logical reasoning"
" Was it science or logical reasoning that made you cry When somebody brought that really nice RTD2 replica to your robotics Club"
" Shut up or I'll tell Keith exactly what you think about his quote-unquote perfect ass"
It happened like this almost every Time to order pizza, An Occurrence That had, completely coincidentally, increased since Lance met his pretty pizza boy.
Another week's Exchange had been simple as hunk had been too busy preparing movie snacks to join in
Pidge had ordered this time and, obviously priming herself for a joke,Looked up from the menu on her laptop eyes Sparkling mischievously
" Hey Lance, what do you want"
"Uh, sausage"
Pidge looked like Christmas had come early
" Oh I know but what kind of pizza do you want"
Lance rolled his eyes and quickly selected At least favorite movie in the collection in retaliation
After an initial couple of weeks, Lance stopped putting special instructions, Shiro knew to send Keith if he was ordering. This Week however there were instructions, " tell me I'm pretty" easy enough Lance was always pretty.
As he passed the doorbell he wondered what Lance was up to, something that became immediately obvious upon The door opening. Lamps were some kind of Clay face mask thing, pajama bottoms and a ratty old hoodie that looked like it could have Come from his parents' College managed to be gorgeous even in that get-up With his pretty blue eyes and his stupidly broad shoulders,
Keith blushed scarlet. '" you're pretty"
Lance's face lit up and he handed Keith a 20
Lance had spent the next two weeks bragging about how flustered he had made Keith.
The exchange that week had gone normally, Keith handed Lance the food they talked and flirted for a bit and Lance handed Keith his tip but before Rams could close the door Keith grabbed his arm to stop him.
" Open the box"
" What?"
" Just do it'
Lance did as instructed and there amongst the grease stain was a pope
" I know it's like some kind of cheesy but a boy like you makes romance easy"
Lance's cheeks tinted, " I um, I don't think I asked you to write a poem"
"You didn't, I wrote that poem myself"
Lance could have kissed him.
He brought the food back in absent-mindedly dropping it on the coffee table dropping under the couch with a sigh
" Oh, what did Your pizza boy do this time," PIdge asked
" He wrote me a poem, a wonderful beautiful poem"
" And where exactly is this poem Loverboy?"
Lance shot her a dopey smile" on the inside of the pizza box isn't that romantic"
Pidge opened the pizza box and snorted," wow, he's really got a way with words"
" He does, doesn't he"
" I was being sarcastic"
Hunk plopped down next to them," what's happening"
"Pizza boy wrote swoony over here a poem on the inside of a pizza box"
Hunk opened the box and read the poem, "Awwwww ! That's So cute"
"I think I'm going to ask him out"
"You should"
" Yeah, that might stop all the pining, dude it's getting gross"
Lance ignored her and began to chatter happily with hunk planning how exactly he would do this.
The week after the poem Keith was feeling nervous again, What if he had overstepped the boundaries of whatever what's happening between them, he was worried Lance would stop ordering but like clockwork, his order came.
Keith's heart skipped a beat when he read this week's instructions, " Ask me on a date"
Here and to Shiro could just finished up dealing with yet another appearance of olive bro who was as badly behaved as ever.
" Hey, Keith you'll never guess what Olive bro is mad about this time apparently he thinks that me offering his date one of our dessert specials means I think she is fat and" he trailed off " "Wait you look very happy did Lance do something again'?"
"He asked me to ask him out on a date, Shiro, I have no idea what to do"
" do you want to go on a date with him"
"Yes"
" then ask him out, little bro it's that simple"
" if it's so simple then why haven't you asked delivery boy on a date yet"
" Curtis"
"What?"
"His name is Curtis and he's doing the delivery job to pay for medical school, he's studying to be a nurse oh, he's also ex-military like me"
" Wait, you actually talked to him"
" Yeah, we're going out for drinks next Saturday"
" Nice job Shiro!"
" Hey, I got my date with my cute boy you go out and get yours"
"I will"
Keith smiled the entire bike ride to Lance's place
" he hopped off the bike threatened his outfit took a deep breath and knocked on the door
Lance opened it, looking as gorgeous as ever and Keith nearly forgot what he was to supposed to do
" Hey"
" Hey"
" Your most recent instructions are very interesting"
Lance raised an eyebrow, "Was it?
"Completely coincidentally I was wonderingIf you'd like to go on a date with me sometime"
" wow, I have no idea what prompted this but yes, of course, I'd like to go on a date with you"
They ignored the gagging noises Pidge made in the background
"We could have dinner and catch a movie, I still haven't seen Moana"
"That sounds great is the movie theater close to this Mexican restaurant my budy Hunk won't shut up about"
" I love Mexican food, sounds great How does Saturday at 4:30 sound"
" Great, see you then" and with that Lance leaned over and pressed a kiss Keith's cheek
Keith was really looking forward to this date.
Author's note: will I get better at capitalization, will I actually address Keith's issues with his past or is that just something I randomly added without thinking about how I'd have to incorporate it, will I actually include Alaura like I promised, what will olive bro do next these questions and more answered go will be answered in the next exciting installment of I learned it from the pizza man!
Okay in all seriousness I'm decently proud I got this far I'm not very good at finishing projects.I ultimately decided to go with Canon for Shiro's little romance side plot, Curtis is apparently the name of the man who marries at the end of season 8 and I know I didn't have them actually have a conversation with him a text in my story but I had them reference a conversation and that's more than DreamWorks gave them.