"...And so I am sending all of you to my beach house in Florida for two weeks,. You will leave tomorrow morning" a stout, middle-aged woman finished.
"WHAT?!" all her workers exclaimed in stunned silence.
Shiro quickly regained his composure. "With all due respect Miss Cosmo, I am the manager. I can't just leave and expect that the bar will function properly."
"The bar will not open up again for two weeks. I've decided to do a little remodeling while we are fixing the theft damage," Mystique informed, looking disappointedly around her office. She had boarded her private jet the moment she was informed of the robbery and made it to the Legendary Lion an hour or two after her employees.
Keith, Allura, Lance, Pidge, and Hunk all stood in shocked silence, unable to form words.
"Miss Cosmo, I still feel like I need to stay here," Shiro insisted, moving a little closer to his boss. "I..."
"Shiro," Mystique interrupted. "Can I talk to you for a second?" Without waiting for a reply, she moved herself to the empty hallway.
Shiro looked worriedly at his co-workers, who were still have trouble forming sentences, before following Mystique.
"I need to get my workers away from here for a while," she began as soon as he was in the hallway. "I don't think this was a mere robbery and if I'm right, they cannot be here. You can stay but you have to make sure all five of them get to Florida."
Shiro was about to question her when he realised how worn out she looked. He sighed quietly knowing good and well that she'd share with him when she was ready. "You got it. I'll take care of everything."
Allura closed the apartment door as quietly as possible, careful not to wake her roommates. She leaned her back against the door as a giddy smile crossed her face. She was caught up in the memories of the evening when the lights shot on, making her jump.
She blinked slightly, trying to adjust to the sudden brightness. The first things she noticed was Shay at the kitchen bar with an empty glass. Then she noticed Pidge standing on the other side of the bar, her hand on the light switch. Both women were smirking.
"What?" Allura asked, blushing lightly.
Shay and Pidge glanced at each other and looked back at Allura. "How was your date with Keith?" Shay asked.
Their smirks only grew bigger as Allura's face grew red. "Now, now, Shay. Allura said it wasn't a date, remember?" Pidge fake corrected.
"And it wasn't," Allura concluded, trying to stop herslef from blushing. She walked a little wobbly legged over to her roommates.
Flashback...
The elevator doors dinged as they opened. "So basically Marmora is a space program dedicated to making other planets livable for human life?" Allura assessd, she and Keith stepping out of the elevator.
"Putting it simply, yes," Keith replied as the two walked slowly toward Allura's apartment door.
"Wow. I'm actually genuinely intrigued by Marmora." Allura stopped at her door and turned to face Keith, leaving little space between them. Allura had never realised that Keith was a little taller then she was. It comforted her for some reason.
"Wait a second," Keith stated, confusion writen all over his face. Allura noticed his cheeks were a light shade of red and hers immediatly started heating up. "If you weren't interested in Marmora in the first place, why did you accept my invitation?"
Allura looked down at her hands before she answered. "Because it was YOUR invitation. I'd knew I'd get to spend a lot of time with you and I'd get to learn more about your interests."
"So you're saying you accepted an invitation to a museum exhibit opening that you had no interest in just so you could get to know me better?" Keith questioned, taking his hands out of his pockets.
Allura blushed even harder. Why was this so hard? She had confessed her feelings to a lot of guys before. But this was different. She couldn't bring herself to look at him so she kept her eyes on her hands. "...yes...?" she replied, almost a question. "I know it's probably stupid. And you probably think I'm an idiot for going through all this trouble..."
She was cut off by Keith lifting her chin with his finger. He looked into her eyes, looked to her lips, and then hesitated before slowly leaning in. He closed the distance between them and Allura immediately felt a wave of skock pass over her. She brought her hands up to his chest and leaned in a little more.
The kiss was gentle and sweet. It didn't last for long, to both Allura and Keith's disappointment. Pulling away, Keith shook his head. "Thank you for going with me." He began to slowly back up to his apartment door. "I'm sorry. I'll see you tomorrow." And with that, he backed into his apartment and closed the door.
End of Flashback...
Pidge and Shay exchanged a look and started chuckling at their roommate. "Oh come on, Allura," Pidge stated, as Allura sat next to Shay. "We heard everything. And the sudden break in conversation."
Somehow Allura's face grew even more red. Shay rolled her eyes. "Does this mean that he likes you too?"
"I don't know," Allura's smile turned to a frown as she looked to her friends. "He said sorry and then went into his apartment. What was he saying sorry for?"
Pidge and Shay both shrugged. "Who knows. Guys always say girls are complicated but really it's the other way," Shay replied.
Pidge huffed and poured herself more champaign. "Maybe for you. But if I ever get a boyfriend I'll be able to read him like an open book. I've never not been able to."
Meanwhile...
Keith slammed his palm into his face. "Why'd you have to do that?" he asked himself. Taking his hand away from his face, he realised Lance and Hunk were sitting on the couch looking up at him. Both had cheeky smiles on their faces.
"So. Are you done pinning after her? Is the ship real?" Lance asked, smile never leaving his face.
Keith crossed his arms. "You two were watching through the peep holes, weren't you?"
Hunk shared a slightly worried glance with Lance before replying. "Yes but only because we cannot take hiding your secret crush anymore."
"He means he can't take it," Lance corrected, leaning back on the couch with his arms behind his head. "I can take anything."
"Well, if you really must know," Keith replied, completely ignoring Lance. "I just messed up my chances with Allura and possibly the entire dynamic of our group."
"I'm sure it wasn't that bad," Hunk reassured, standing up.
Keith threw his coat on a coat rack beside the door. "She was talking about wanting to become better friends and I kissed her, Hunk. And she just stood there," he exclaimed. Once again he rubbed his hands over his face.
"Are you sure you're not exaggerating a bit. I'm sure she did something!" Lance commented, flinging his arms in the air.
"Not really. She just stood there with her hands on my chest."
Lance winced. "Dude, in woman language that either means 'I wanna kiss you more but I cannot bare to be that rebellious' or 'Yew, okay. This is like so totaly gross. I wanna stop him but I don't want to hurt his feelings'," he said, mimicking a female voice.
"How are you gonna survive a five hour flight with her tomorrow?" Hunk questioned.
"I'll just act like nothing happened," Keith resolved. "Yeah. That sounds easy."
"Wow Pidge. You are really not a six thirty kind of woman, are ya?" Lance teased, ruffling the short woman's already messy hair.
Pidge angrily slapped his hand. Her faced scrunched up and she groaned a responce back. Lance had to admit, she did look kinda cute.
All five of the friends were standing on a runway at six-thirty in the morning waiting for the jet to be ready to board. Everyone was in their pjs and looking a little tired, their suitcases being taken into the jet's interior. But the co-workers were all still standing, nonetheless.
"Finally," Hunk sighed as the captain told them to board.
The five climbed the steps to their boss's plane. They came to the seating area which contained six seats that could been swivled in every direction. The seats were comfy leather recliners with specific settings. The walls of the plane were pulled in a few feet from the floor creating shelf type places between all the seats. There were windows lining the cabin, lights strung across the ceiling (which was high enough that Lance didn't have to duck when walking through), an automatic door on each side of the room, and a 60" TV beside the "kitchen" door. The one led to the kitchen area and the other led to the restrooms and cockpit. Most of the cabin was accented with wood which had fancy designs carved into it.
"Well this is certainly fancier then I expected," Hunk commented, stepping farther into the cabin.
Pidge headed strait for one of the chairs. She placed her backpack nest to the chair before crawling in.
"You really that tired?" Keith asked, taking the seat behind her.
Hunk sat behind Keith as Lance sat across from Pidge. "Yeah come on, Pidge!" Lance exclaimed. "We are on a free ride on our boss's private jet. Surely you don't wanna sleep!"
Pidge opened an eye and glared at Lance. "I need at least another hour of sleep before I can function properly." She closed her eye again and snuggled into the seat. "And don't act like you're not tired either. I know you and Hunk stayed up until way after Keith got home."
Allura smirked at her friend as she took a seat behind Lance.
"And how do you know that?" Lance asked and leaned against the arm of his chair, smug smirk on his face.
"Because I was in the living room when you and Hunk started whisper shouting outside our door about wheher or not we were all alseep."
There was a thud as Hunk fell off his seat. "You heard us?! Did you...hear anything else?"
"Shay may have heard a few things but our eavesdropping skills are not what they used to be," Allura replied for Pidge.
Hunk turned incredibly red and sank back into his chair. Keith spoke just as the plane began moving. "Well I can see this is gonna be an eventful flight."
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