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It was a normal day, Lance woke up, started his skincare routine, and made his way to the dining room 

He noticed something different when everyone had suddenly gone silent when he entered the room Hunk making his way to him "Hey man, how's your morning?" He asked sweat coming down his forehead, Lance raised an eyebrow "Hunk, bud I just woke up" he replied, a smile forming on his face "what are you hiding buddy?" He questioned leaning forward his smile turning into a smirk 

"me? Hiding something? From you? Hah! never I would tell you everything, where buddies, best friends, amigos, brothers and I'm definitely not hidi-" is babbling was cut off by Keith's hand, the raven boy glaring at him, Lance glancing between the two of them confused "we should eat now, we have training to do!" Coran jumped in, stoping Hunk from talking more

Lance gave them a suspicious look, but shrug it off grabbing a bowl and filling it with goo "so Coran what are we gonna do for training today? Hand to hand combat? " He asked glancing at Coran while making his way to his seat "oh no no, my boy, today we are going to train long range combat!"

Lance face lit up and a smile  painting his face, "really?" Coran nodded a small smile on his face, "alright team let's finish breakfast and start training " 

"Ughhhhhhhhh" 

"It's not that bad Pidge"

"UGHHHHHHHHHHHH"

The training went smoothly ( Pidge almost shot Keith and Shiro two times, but eh) Lance stretched out his arms, a satisfying pop being heard, "careful Lance you're getting old" Pidge joked, rolling out the l, Lance glared at them then smirked "says the one whose the back sound like it's breaking when they stretch" he remarked, the green paladin sticking out their tongue, which he returned 

"As much as it's awesome to see you two bickering like siblings, me and Pidge have some work to do" Hunk joked, glancing at Pidge, who got up and followed the older boy, "do you guys need help with it?, I can go too" Lance asked, he didn't know much about altean technology but he wanted to spend time with his friends 

Hunk started to look nervous and looked everywhere but at him while Pidge rubbed their hands together "no! There's no need for it Lance we'll be doing some very boring stuff so I think you should do something else!" They explained rushing Hunk out of the room

Lance looked at the floor, eyebrows knitted together and a frown in his lips, "weird" he muttered under his breath, looking at Shiro and Keith who where whispering to each other 'maybe he could hang out with one of them' he thought, "hey mullet! Do you wanna spar?" He called 

The raven boy jumped at being called and looked around the room, he then glanced back at Lance, he opened his mouth to say something but Shiro interrupted him  "sorry Lance me and Keith have some stuff to talk about" he expressed, a apologetic expression in his face, "no need to worry I'll just walk around the castle" 'since I'm not worthy spending time with '

He huffed walking out of the room with a frown in his face, he sniffed trying to hold back tears 'maybe he should spend some time in the observatory room'

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Lance sat alone in the observatory, watching silently as the stars moved quickly, he didn't know what to do, he wanted to expend time with his friends, but he also didn't want to bother them at the point of them to kick him out of there

He groaned, pressing his hands in his eyes and lying down on the cold floor, he hated being alone, he grew up with a big family for god sakes. He didn't even know what silence was until he got to the garrison and it wasn't even as bad as space was, it was too quiet and he didn't like it, it made his thoughts louder and louder, and when it happened he always ended up in moody or snappy or even both, he hated it

Maybe he should've stayed home, maybe he shouldn't have left Cuba, he wanted his mom's hugs so bad, he wanted to sleep knowing that he wouldn't have to fight someone tomorrow, he wanted...he wanted to go home

He wanted to go home so, so bad

But he couldn't he was a defender of the universe now, and he had to protect the universe, which he though was kinda funny, children , fucking children had the weight of the universe's future in their shoulder, he frowned, they shouldn't be here they should be at earth studying, drinking coffee until it took their blood place, and being dump teenagers because that what they should be

He got up, feeling his blood boiling ' great now I'm moody, just wonderful ' he got up making his way to his room, he needed to cool off he shouldn't even be angry in the first place! He should be greatful that he's even alive

He arrived his room, stepping in and letting the door closed with a swoosh, he would just do his skin care and then go to sleep, yup that's what he needed a long good nap

He entered the bathroom, eyeing his products, he should probably take a shower first, he's still sweaty from the training

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After the bath he began his routine, sighing and feeling himself relax at the coolness of the beauty products, he got out of the bathroom, making his way to bed he yawed

' did they noticed you where away? Did they care? Do they care about yo-' he stopped that trail of though before he got in a bad mood again, but it was too quiet, and in the quiet the thoughts got louder

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Now his mood was even worse, he didn't want to get out of bed, he didn't want to open his eyes, he didn't want to do anything

Maybe he just needed to sleep it off

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 Everything was ready Hunk had made the cake, Shiro, Keith, Coran and Allura had helped with the decorations while Pidge had done a playlist with Lance favorite music

 Now they just needed to make Lance come to the training room (what? it is a big place, it's good for parties...) 

 "Okay who'll be the one to call him?" Shiro asked, there was a tick of silence before Pidge broke it "not it" she spurted out, the others following after Keith being the last one, he groaned

 " come on!, can't Shiro go, since he's the leader, and the oldest, and more mature!" He stated giving the older a pointed look, "that's exactly why I'm ordering you to go, I'm the leader, I'm older and I'm more mature, and I'm your older brother" Shiro smirked

 Keith flipped him off, making his way to Lance's room, "fuck you Shiro, just because you're my brother doesn't mean you can say what I have to do, you bitch"he mumbled

 Finally knocking on the blue paladin door, but no answer came "Lance?" He called, but still got no answers, his eyebrows furrowed ' okay that's weird, maybe he's sleeping ' he placed his palm on the hand print, the door opening with a swoosh 

 The light where on so the raven boy could see the other boy laying on his bed, breath slow and steady and muscle relaxed, even though he was a fair distance away from him, he could still see the freckles in his face, splattered across his face like stars, he felt drawn to them wanting nothing but to kis-

 He shook his head, stopping that trail of though before it got out of control, he got closer to Lance standing right in front of him and shaking him slowly "hey Lance! Lance wake up" he whispered, but the boy just turned to his side groaning a ' five more minutes ' he sighed before, shaking him again more roughly this time 

 The boy jumping awake with wide eyes, "what? Who? When?!" Keith stepped aside from the bed before Lance could fall on him causing him to fall on the floor instead 

 The boy groaned running a hand through his head while getting up, he looked up to see Keith holding back a laugh he frowned, ' looks like I'm still in a bad mood ' he thought, "what do you want mullet" he snapped, Keith was taken back by it, smile dropping quickly, if Lance was being honest even him was taken back by it, but he didn't show it at least he hoped so

 "the team is needs you at the training deck" he explained " for what exactly?" He asked raising an eyebrow, the other boy shrugged looking at everything but Lance "whatever it is they can wait until tomorrow, I'm too tired for training now anyway " he grunted, making his way to the bathroom room to wash off his anger, but a hand on his shoulder stopped him "Lance we need you today " Keith stated, annoyance in his voice 

 He felt his blood boiling again, "didn't seem like it the whole fucking day, did it?" He asked and he couldn't control the anger in his voice he didn't turn around, shrugging Keith's hand off and getting in the bathroom 

 He turned on the water off the sink, letting it run through his hands with a sigh, before washing his face

 When he got out of the bathroom Keith was still there, "Lance let's just go to the training room" he muttered, his voice more softer than before like he was trying to comfort him? He didn't need comfort he needed to be alone, he wanted to be alone, why did they want him now, he frowned once more before sitting down on the floor "well you'll have to take me there yourself mullet, cus I'm not getting up" he growled, glaring at him the raven boy glared back 

 "Alright" he took off his jacket throwing it into Lance's bed "if that's really what you want" he walked to him crouching down in front of him "are you sure you don't want to do it the easy way?" He asked, Lance just stuck his tongue out, he sighed 

 "KEITH WHAT THE FUCK PUT ME DOWN!" Lance scream could be heard from the training room, everyone looked at Shiro who had a guilty expression on his face "okay maybe it wasn't a good idea to put Keith to go get him" 

 Keith appeared on the training room door with Lance thrown over his shoulder, "KEITH PUT ME DOWN OR I SWEAR TO GOD" Lance shouted, the others eyes wide at the anger in his voice, "well damn, Keith what did you do?" Pidge asked, Keith frowned "me?! He woke up like this! I just called him for the training room!" He growled,  "YEAH AFTER LEAVING ME THE WHOLE FUCKING DAY ALONE!" Lance screamed, a sob scaping his lips, everyone went silent, the only sounds being the castle energy and the tanned boy sobs "I hate being alone " he told, voice broken Keith placed him down, his face guilty and soft, he hugged him

 "I'm sorry Lance, I didn't mean to make you feel like this" Keith muttered, holding the other boy tightly Lance felt a hand on his shoulder "yeah man, none of us did, we were just so focused on your birthday party that we didn't pay enough attention to you" Hunk added "we are sorry dude" Lance froze pushing away from the hug "excuse me, my what?" He questioned "your surprise party, duh" Pidge replied, Lance stood there for some seconds before, a chuckle came out of his lips, then a whole laugh 

 The others looked at him like he had gone mad "I'm sorry, I'm sorry it's just" he giggled " I may or may not have forgotten it was my birthday.." he stated a small sheepishly smile on his face, the others where quiet for some minutes before Hunk began to laugh, the others soon joining in 

 When they finally stopped, Lance looked at then a guilty expression on his face "I'm sorry" he muttered, looking at everything but at the others "for what?" Keith asked, "what do you mean for what? I got angry at you guys for no reason! " He replied, "it's alright, my boy, you had your reasons and we had some fault in it, we should've at least told someone to stay with you, after all we are living together for quite a time we should have known of this " Coran smiled, "now as you earthlings say, let's get this party starting!" He yelled the others laughing 

 Lance sat at the observatory deck, hood up, a plate with a piece of cake in his hand, he heard the swoosh of the door opening, looking up to see Keith sitting beside him, "hey man" he greeted, the other humming in acknowledge, the two of them sat in a somewhat comfortable silence, Lance placed his plate beside him

 "Alright" he sighed "whatcha doing here samurai?" he asked, " you where alone" he replied simply, like it answered all the questions in the universe then it hit him "oh" 

 They stayed there in the silence, Keith felt a finger in his hand and looked away, a small smile in his face, "thanks man" Lance said, finally lacing their hands, a smile forming in his face "no problem"