"And what are we supposed to do with these brown squares?" Keith asked as he picked up one of the pieces of the gingerbread house kit that Lance had bought the day prior. The piece he picked up seemed to have a small door on it.

"We put the "brown squares" together with this royal icing and it ends up making a house," Lance said with a smile as he picked up two piping bags of white icing. Keith blinked at Lance for a few moments before placing the square with the door down on the table.

"Is that why you dragged me over here?" Keith asked, to which Lance nodded with a smile. "Why not Hunk or Pidge?" Keith asked, knowing how much time the trio spend together out of their whole group.

"Pidge is helping her mom Christmas shop and Hunk is busy babysitting his little brother and sister," Lance said with a sigh, his smile fading away. " and everyone else is busy with college stuff." Keith sighed and stared at the pieces of gingerbread that sat on the table, waiting to be put together.

"Well," Keith said as he grabbed a bag of icing. "What are we waiting for?"

An hour later, the pair finally had the house built and stuck to tin foil that sat taped to a piece of square cardboard. Keith and Lance pulled their hands back and studied what they had built. Keith picked up the box that the house came in and glanced back and forth between the picture on the front and what sat in front of them.

"Is there supposed to be a hole in the roof where the two pieces meet?" Keith asked as he pointed out a hole in the roof. Lance scoffed and shook his head.

"You don't know the families life, maybe they can't afford to fix their roof," Lance said as he stepped away to grab the candy his mother had set out for them to decorate with. "We'll just cover it with candy," Lance said as he came back to the table, carrying a tray of candy bowls on it. On the tray was also coloured frosting to use as well.

Lance and Keith had decided that they would each decorate one half of the house each. Lance would do the left side and the back side of the house and Keith would do the right side and the front side of the house. Once they were done, the pair truced that they would both do the roof together.

Lance glanced over to where Keith was working on his side of the house, his violet eyes trained on whatever he was doing with the icing and the small pile of red and green M&M's he had beside him. Lance smiled and squirted some of the icing onto the tip of his finger.

With Keith distracted, Lance stretched out his finger and placed the blob of icing on Keith's nose. Keith flinched back in surprise and dropped the M&M that he was trying to place, on the ground.

"Lance!" Keith exclaimed with a glare directed to the other.

"What?" Lance asked as he placed the icing bag down. "I didn't do anything."

Keith continued to glare at Lance while the Cuban boy went back to decorating, a teasing smirk on his face. Keith picked up his own icing bag and placed a small pile on his fingers. While Lance was busy, Keith leaned forward and ran his fingers down the side of Lance's face. Lance jumped back and glared at Keith.

"You started it," Keith said as he placed his bag down. Lance picked up his own icing bag and squeezed the icing towards Keith. Keith flinched as the icing hit him and retaliated by squeezing icing back at him. This, of course, started a full on fight between the two, Icing and candy flying everywhere.

Keith sighed as he placed his now empty icing bag down on the ground. Lance did the same as his was also empty. The candy bowls were also empty, the candied either on the ground or on the two boys.

The pair stood up and glanced around at the now messy kitchen. Lance glanced at Keith as the raven-haired teen grimaced at the icing in his hair. Lance took notice of the icing on his lips and smile.

"You have something on your face," Lance said as he wiped the icing away on Keith's bottom lip.

"So do you," Keith said as he wiped a little bit of the icing that was on Lance's cheek off. Slowly, as they stared into each other's eyes, the pair moved closer and closer until their lips met in a kiss.

They pulled away a few moments later, smiles on their faces.

"Wow," Lance said as he stared into Keith's shimmering violet eyes.

"Yeah," Keith said as he stared back into Lance's dark ocean blue eyes

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY KITCHEN!" Lance's mom yelled as she entered, Lance's father and siblings following after.

"Run?" Keith whispered as he saw anger fill Lance's moms' eye.

"Run."