"Oh my God,what was I thinking?"
Lance dropped his face into his hands. "I pretended to propose to him! How stupid am I?"
Pidge snorted, not looking up from her laptop, where she was furiously typing something.
"Yeah, I'd say that's pretty dumb, Lance."
Lance lifted his head to shoot a glare at Pidge from across his bedroom, at his desk where she was perched while he wallowed in misery on his bed.
"Well, were you weird?" Hunk asked him.
"Obviously," interjected Pidge, earning another hard stare from Lance.
"So how do I fix this?"
Good morning
It's noon
I slept in
I'm not surprised
Hey, no need to be cranky. I wanted to thank you and Allura for helping me out the other day.
No problem. Let me know what your sister thinks of her necklace.
Certainly. What are you doing today?
Nothing, I caught a nasty cold.
Pidge and Hunk peered over Lance's shoulder, checking that every text he sent was perfectly calculated.
"He's sick, what do I do now?"
"Hey, I'll soup and you can bring it to him!" Hunk beamed proudly. His food never failed to bring people together.
What time?
What?
What time am I coming over?
You aren't. You'll get sick.
Lance's face fell, and he turned to face Pidge and Hunk. Before he could give up, Pidge scoffed. "Don't be a pussy! Are you gonna get your man or not?"
Hunk nodded. "Do you think I got Shay to go out with me by wimping out?"
With renewed confidence, Lance returned to his phone.
Nah, I don't get sick. So what time?
Idk, Shiro and Allura aren't home, so whenever.
Lance stared at his phone screen. "Hunk," he asked, "how fast can you make that soup?"
An hour and a half later, Lance was parked in Keith's driveway with a Tupperware of soup. He forced himself to get out of his car, and walk up to the front door.
He knocked. No answer.
Lance raised his hand to knock again, but before he could, the door swung open to reveal Keith.
He was slouched forwards, and his hair hadn't been brushed. With one hand, he motioned Lance to come inside while he balanced himself on the door with the other.
"Wow, man, you look like a wreck."
Keith scowled at Lance. "Thanks. Did you come over to tell me that?"
It took Lance a second to respond. "What? Uh, no. I, uh, Hunk made some soup." He shoved the Tupperware in Keith's direction. Keith yawned, and then sighed.
"Would you put it in the kitchen?"
Lance had never actually been farther than the foyer. It was a suburban family-style home, albeit large and well-furnished. The open floor plan made it easy enough to find the kitchen.
Keith pushed some hair out of his face. "So, like, did you want to watch a movie or something?"
To be honest, Lance had no idea what was going to happen after he dropped off the soup. It wasn't like he expected Keith to swoon over the romantic gesture and faint into his arms.
Not that Lance would be opposed.
"Sure. Anything in mind?"
After a decent amount of bickering, they were seated on the couch, generously far away from each other while the opening credits for Finding Nemo played.
"Really?" Lance had asked, slightly amused.
"Yeah," Keith mumbled. "It's a classic."
Lance was painfully aware of every move he made while trying to discreetly slide closer to Keith on the couch. Keith was completely engrossed in the movie, however, and had no idea.
That is, until he realized he was about to fall asleep and turned to look at Lance, only to find him a few inches away. At this point, Keith was so done with cartoon fish that he had no qualms about what happened next. He fell asleep, and slowly but surely leaned onto Lance's shoulder. Lance, who had been wondering how Nemo could possibly fit in that aquarium filter, froze.
His heart was beating way too fast, and his face flushed when he noticed the way that Keith's lips were just barely parted.
It was at this moment that Lance realized that Keith was not going to wake up any time soon. He sent a frantic text to Pidge and Hunk, accompanied by a picture just for proof. Pidge just laughed at his predicament while Hunk told him to stay still.
So Lance let himself relax into Keith, and for a moment he could almost imagine that this was actually real.
