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Lance like to think of himself as a master of laser tag even though the last time he has played laser tag was senior year of highschool. He probably had opportunities to play it during those years, but with two kids and his lack of free time he had never played it.
That is until now. Currently he was standing in front of the laser tag arena door, waiting for Ty to give the go ahead for entering. Standing on both sides of him where Rolo and Allura, both who were on his team. Matt, Nyma and Shiro (Allura's boyfriend) had already went ahead and were probably finding places to hide.
"So are you three ready?" Ty asked, giving them one last check up look. Rolo and Lance nodded, Allura audibly confirmed while she fixed her GoPro camera. Which is why Lance was here in the first place, Allura had invited him and who ever two people he wanted because she wanted to film a video for her channel.
"I think you should of asked them that, since we're about to kick their asses." Lance said, motioning to inside the arena.
"I don’t doubt it." Ty laughed before opening the door and stepping aside, "Remember the rules."
"Let's go!" Allura yelled, raising the laser gun and running in. Lance heard Ty sigh as he ran in as well, no running was a rule they just broke.
Almost immediately Lance was reminded of the past, neon lights and strange electronic music of the game was strongly nostalgic. Rolo and Nyma went their separate ways, leaving Lance alone in the middle of the floor.
He took a deep breath, pushing the nostalgia away and looked around to try and find the best advantage point. To his right he noticed a ramp leading up to a second floor ledge, probably allowing him to partially see over the room.
Quickly he ran over to and up the ramp, crouching down to where he could see through the bars but wasn't completely visible. He positioned the laser gun and looked around, spotting the familiar blonde of Nyma's hair.
Luckily his laser reached her vest and he pushed the button, taking her out. He heard her yelp in surprise and look around, eyes scanning over him. He assumed she didn't spot him, since she walked away and disappeared around a corner.
A few seconds later, Shiro turned the corner. This was the first time Lance had met Shiro, at least that's what he liked to think himself. He refused to acknowledge every other part of his brain waving red flags and just took the shot, watching the older man's vest blink from purple to red.
"Oh come on!" Shiro yelled, turning around and instantly spotting Lance. He pointed a finger at Lance and said something Lance couldn't hear. With a laugh, Lance ran down from his hiding corner and turned the opposite way of Shiro.
He hid between a corner and sat down to catch his breath, suddenly Nyma came around the corner and shot him. He jumped up and yelled in surprise, chasing after her as she ran away.
For the next fifteen minutes Lance ran around getting shot and shooting people, occasionally meeting up with Allura and Rolo for a few seconds to exchange scores. Because it was 'adult' hours, aka after eleven till two, laser tag games were moved from ten minutes to twenty. Because of this Allura decided to buy two twenty minute sessions, one at the beginning of the night and one at the end,
Five minutes from the end, Lance oddly had seen no one from the opposite team. He carefully made his way around corners, expecting one of them to jump out at anytime.
Four minutes from the end he got tired of waiting and began to run around, hazardly turning corners and such to try and draw some attention to himself. As he turned one corner, it seemed to work because he ran straight into somebody.
"Shit!" Lance yelled, as the two fell he tried to move to the side only to succeed in landing on top of the person.
"Well look how the tables have turned." The person underneath him said almost making Lance laugh. He sat up and looked down at Matt who was smiling as well.
"I would say sorry but I feel like you deserve this."Lance said, making the two of them laugh. Lance was about to say something else when he remembered what game the two were playing and the obvious fact Matt was on the other team.
"A broken arm for a bruise, fair trade." Matt said. Lance rolled his eyes and grabbed the laser gun, pointing it at Matt’s vest. Matt's eyes widened and he quickly grabbed his, pointing it at Lance's vest. The two froze, unsure who was going to shoot first. Without thinking, Lance spoke to get himself out of the situation.
"If you shoot me, you owe me a kiss." Lance blushed and opened his mouth to take it back but Matt beat him to it.
"If you shoot me, you owe me a date." Matt winked and Lance almost squeaked in surprise. He opened his mouth to respond but nothing came out.
Matt took that as a response though and shot Lances vest. The vibration of the vest knocked Lance out of his daze and he dramatically gasped.
"You cheated!" He yelled, "You distracted me!"
Instead of answering Matt leaned up and grabbed Lance’s vest collar, pulling him down and pushing their lips together. Before Lance could properly process it, Matt pulled away and flopped back onto the ground.
"I think that was a distraction." Matt said. Once Lance regained his thought he rolled his eyes and shot Matts vest, watching the purple turn red.
"Guess you owe me a date now." Lance said before standing up and taking a step away from Matt. Matt’s brunette eyes widened and he looked between his vest and Lance. Before he could say anything though, Lance gave Matt the finger guns and ran off to go find another victim.
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Thirty minutes later, Lance and Matt sat across from each other at the snack booth alone. Nyma went home to pick up Tammy from Marlene's, and Rolo had joined her while Allura and Shiro went off to play some arcade games.
"So," Matt said, watching Lance take a sip of his drink, "What does winning feel like?"
"Oh you know, amazing and superior." Lance shrugged, "What does losing feel like."
"Humble and sad." Matt said with a smile. Lance laughed and nodded like what Matt said made perfect sense.
After that, the two were silent for a few more minutes. Occasionally one would open their mouth to say something before closing it again, neither knowing how to approach the elephant in the room.
"I was thinking we could go see Wonder Woman." Lance finally said. Matt coughed, accidentally inhaling the sip of his drink in surprise.
"What if i wanted to see Captain Underpants?" Matt asked, adjusting his glasses before folding his hands in front of him. Lance laughed and raised and eyebrow.
"You would rather that over the glorious Wonderwoman?" He asked, "Cause if so i don't know if i can go on a date with you anymore."
"I don't know if I can go on a date with someone who would turn down the Captain Underpants movie." Matt said dramatically, "You can't just disrespect one of the greatest gay icons out there."
"Oh god, you're right." Lance gasped, eyes widening as he put his hands to his heart, "Macklemore didn't die for this."
The two stared at each other for a few seconds before bursting out into laughter. Matt leaned back and stared at the ceiling trying not to cry from laughing so much, while Lance let his laughing tears run freely.
After a few minutes of calming down then looking at each other and bursting into laughter repativally, the two finally calmed down enough to look at each other and not laugh.
"In all seriousness a movie would be nice." Matt said, "Any movie, not just Captain Underpants."
"Cool, we can do it next weekend?" Lance asked, "It's the last weekend I have free before the zoo has to start preparing for summer."
"Sound good!" Matt said, unlocking his phone to put the date in his calendar, "How about Saturday?"
"Saturday is perfect, Nyma is taking the twins to a birthday party so they'll be gone till six." Lance smiled wider, the realization that he was actually going to go on a date with Matt slowly setting in.
"Well then, it's almost like fate has planned this for us." Matt joked, the same realization setting in for him, "You want to choose the movie and just text me the time for it?"
"If you don't mind." Lance shrugged.
"I don’t." Matt said, taking a sip of his drink.
The two sat in a comfortable silence, watching couples and friends running around the arcade. Occasionally they would look at each other and smile, both feeling like teenagers with their first crush. A few minutes later Allura and Shiro sat down, exhausted from whatever game they just played.
Lance looked at Matt and winked when the boy looked at him. Matt rolled his eyes but smiled while he turned his attention to Shiro who was sharing a story.
Maybe running into people wasn't such a bad thing, Lance thought, especially if it ended up like this.