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"You know what, Lance? Fuck off!"
"Keith! Damn it, listen to me!"
Keith ran up the stairs and I just heared the door slamming shut. I ran after him, as fast as I could, almost tripping over my feet. Trying to open the door, I came to the realisation that he had locked it. Of course.
"Baby, I already told you! She kissed me!"
"Are you stupid? I said fuck off! I-", he hiccuped.
Oh that was bad, so bad-
"I have enough of your lies. Just because you can't keep your hands from other women, even though you're married to me?!" His voice was trembling and it sounded, like Keith was sitting right infront of the door.
"But it wasn't like that, I swear! Please-", I tried to catch my breath:"Please let me in!"
i tried to convince him to listen to me, but there was no hope. Keith just punched the door, yelling something at me, but I couldn't really grasp the words inbetween his cries.
I slowly got up and went outside. Where was it...
I grabbed the ladder from the backyard that we used a few days ago to repair our roof and leaned it against the bedroom window. I approached it slowly, hoping that the window was still open. It was
I climbed through it, but the only thing I saw was the open door. He already ran out.
"Keith, wait!"
He didn't listen. He never does, when he's like that. When we were like that. Figjhting, arguing over some bullshit. But this time, it wasn't bullshit. I mean, of course it wasn't true, of course i didn't cheat on him. Why should I? But it was serious and Keith ran away from things like that. From problems, serious things. Though he loved to pick fights with me. Like we did back when we were kids. But this was different. It wasn't a fight about which car should be our new one, or wether Kosmo should be allowed to teleport our daughter to God knows where. This time he thought that I had played around.
Fast stomps ran over the creaking wood, then another door got slammed shut. Fuck, that was all my fault.
I tried to run after him, skipping the last steps, but he was already outside in our car. He pointed his middle finger towards me, then driving off.
I felt tears dripping down my face. Why did this have to happen to us?
This was such a bad idea in the first place. We made time for us, after not having some alone time in a long time. We loved our family life, dog and kid. Our wonderful daughter, Maria that we had given to Shiro and Adam for the weekend. A weekend with her grandpas. They loved it. They treated her like a queen, and Maria let them. Diva.
So we dropped her off and drove to a near bar, where Acxa, a friend of ours, works. We sat right at the bar, before Keith left to go to the bathroom. he wanted me to save our seats, so I stayed. I was just vibing a bit to the music, nibbling at my drink, when this random woman sat down beside me. I was unsure why she sat down right next to me and I didn't want to seem rude.
Gosh, Lance. You are so fucking stupid. How can someone be so blind?
I told her that the seat was already taken and she just waved it off, that she was just here to quickly grab a drink.
Then, she started talking to me. I had hoped that it would solely stay at the small talk stage.
"Heyyy, how you like it here?"
"Wow, you got some recommendations?"
"This song is so nice!"
She leaned closer and closer to me, I backed off as much as I could. I tried to get Acxa's attention, but she was busy.
I felt uneasier by the second and then happened, what I had feared.
"You know, you look really handsome. Care to grab another drink with me?"
Okay girl, back off. I tried to cut her off, because I am definetly not interested in anyone else than Keith. We're happily married for 6 years now, together for 9. Well, till today atleast.
So I pointed at my finger, telling her about me being happily married and then I realized: My ring was gone. I know that I had gotten pale, like the room was turning! It was a fucking catastrophy.
And that's when I remembered: I took it off this morning, as I was building a snowman with Maria. And of course I forgot to put it back on. And this bitch thought that I had lied to her or something and instead of leaving me alone, she got even closer, grabbed my face and kissed me!
I pushed her away immediatly, but of course Keith already saw everything. I would have told him about this incident either way, but that looked so wrong! I just saw his shocked face before he ran out.
He walked home, I drove right beside him. I tried convincing him into entering our damn car, but he wouldn't listen to me. And we just fought. Not our usual fun fights, but this hell.
And now he was gone. Just like that.
Either he drove off to Hunk, or Shiro. I should probably look after him at Shiro's first.
But without a car? I walked to the nearest busstation, and wo - lucky me! I just had to wait a few minutes for the next bus, taking me near the Shirogane residence.
Keith didn't pick up his calls, and neither Adam, nor Shiro wanted to talk to me. They did tell me that Keith was with them, but they also told me to leave hime alone.
But...
He was acting weird for days now. I should really talk to him. I can't loose him over a stupid misunderstanding. Something else was going on.
"But you can't tell him, seriously. That's for the best right now. When he asks you where I am, you won't tell him either, okay? I mean, what does he think he is? What does he hold me for? A naive idiot? He kisses another chick - oh and by the way, he wasn't wearing his damn wedding ring - and then tells me that it isn't as it seems?!"
"Keith, you need tocalm down. This isn't good for you. The things that Lance did are horrible, I can't imagine how you are feeling right now. Him denying it is almost worse, especially after you two went through so much shit together. I know that he's always been a "loverboy", but I would've never imagined him being a cheater.", Shiro treid to calm me down. He drew soft circles on my back and I felt myself shaking.
"Try not to think too much about it. Yeah, you two are married, you have a child, and so on. But Adam's getting you a hot chocolate, you'll be staying with us and watch some random mothman videos, just like back when you had your first heartbrake. Yeah?"
"My first heartbreak was fucking Taylor. You know, Lance?!", I cried out. Oh fuck, shit was bad.
"Calm down, please. Breath in and out, don't stress yourself too much. You can think about it as much as you like tomorrow. Just don't make any fast decisions now."
Wow, and all this shit happening during the holidays. And I thought that I was finally free of my curse. I had spend many of the past holidays alone in the desert, in my freezing shed. Fighting against half of the universe as Voltron didn't make celebrating easier. But ever since Lance and me... Everything magically went right for me, for us. I never felt this good in my entire life. We had often visited his family and sometimes we just stayed here, Adam and Shiro visiting us. Sometimes even the others joining in. And then, Maria was here, things were just getting better.
But now, everything was over. Lance, he-
"Hey, Keith. Come here...", Adam took me in his embrace. All my walls broke down and I was mere than a sobbing mess.
"I-"
"Shhh, just let it all out. Everything will get better, I promise", he tried to soothe me.
The minutes I cried felt like hours. The pictures of Lance and this whore were jumping in my mind. I tried to calm myself, but it just didn't work. All my good memoriesfought against this bad one, loosing over and over again. Every good memory was connected to him.
Suddenly I heared a high pitched voice, but I couldn't hear the words it formed.
I quickly tried to wipe away my tears, I didn't want her to see me like this.
Oh my God, how could I explain something like this to her?!
"Do you want to be alone for now? We will get Maria to bed. Everything will turn out to be okay."
Wow. It was not just Lance ruining our marriage, no. We were even making Adam and Shiro's life harder.
"Thank you...", I just mumbled, then walking towards my daughter.
Crazy enough that I could even have one. Weird galra genes.
"Daddy!", she threw hear little hands at me and I picked her up, holding her tight.
"Why are you still awake. You should be sleeping!"
I layed her down into her bed, then pressing a kiss onto her cheek:"Good night, kiddo."
I almost left the room, before she yelled one more thing after me:"Where's papi?"
Take a deep breath, Keith.
"Papi will be here tomorrow. Good night, princess."
Better a short answer, than a mean one.
I went into the bathroom, splashing cold water at my face. My phone was ringing again, this time it was Acxa.
"Hey?"
"Hey, keith! Everything's alright?"
"Did Lance told you to get onto my nerves? Tell him that he has fucked up big time."
"No, he di not- Listen, Keith. I just saw you storming off! is it because of this girl flirting with Lance?"
"Flirting with Lance?", I scoffed:"They kissed, that was not just flirting."
"That girl isn't even allowed to be here in the first place. Got detention like weeks ago. She's here every weekend throwing herself at random men! I had so many complains from dudes because they felt violated by her-"
"I don't wanna talk about it, Acxa"
"Sorry, but what you are accusing Lance of is just wrong. He is the victim!"
"Victim?"
"Yeah! I mean I wasn't with him every second, but I tried to. I saw him pointing at his ringfinger and turning literally white when he realized that his ring wasn't there! And then she just pushed his hand away, grabbing his face and pulling him right onto her lips. Poor fella couldn't even really grab her because she was blocking him off! And he pushed her away surprisingly fast, really. And that's when you got there."
Hm.
"Keith, you still here?"
Oh yeah, he still needed to answer.
"Sorry, I was just thinking."
"What happened after you two left the bar? Where are you now?"
"Well..."
Quick breath.
"We fought and I rushed off. Now I am at Shiro's. I- I just couldn't-"
And there it was again, the crying.
"Oh, Keith."
I heared a sharp breath, before she talked further:"Sorry, I am bad at this. Just talk to him. I am sure that yoiu two will be fine. You went through much worse than this. Aight?"
I heavily knocked on the door, for the fifth time now. Please, damn it.
"Lance, we told you not to come here. What's wrong with you?"
"Shiro, i really have to talk to Keith! I am so sorry that I -"
"That you what, Lance? Cheated on Keith?"
"-No, no! I-"
And I thought they knew me!
"I would love to tell you to say sorry, but firtsly that wouldn't be enough, and secondly Keith isn't in the mood right now to talk to you. Sorry, I want to stay as neutral as possible, but I can't. Lance, he needs some time alone."
"Give me five minutes, please, I am begging you. I didn't cheat on him!"
"Shiro, what's going on?", Adam mumbled.
"i will never get on your nerves again! Five minutes, not a second more! I just want to clear things up, so he will feel better, okay?"
"Come on in. Just try and clear things up calmly, don't push him too much. Also remember that Maria is here too", Adam spoke softly.
"Adam!", Shiro just yelled.
Ah yes, that's why I am afraid of him.
Glad that this was the differnece between them. That Adam was the calmer one, while Shiro was acting like the helicopter father. What was great for Keith, he needed someone like this in his life, that's no doubt.
"Shiro, just let them talk. There's no way around it. Lance would just stand there until tomorrow morning knocking at our door, Keith would just throw things at him. And you know that. Also, the poor rose. Wouldn't survive these attacks", he chuckled the last words.
"Five minutes. Not a sec more", Shiro grumbled.
Okay, bad cop. And thank you good cop.
What the fuck was going on? I knew that they were a bit overprotective over Keith, but that was knew.
Oh my God.
He is -
I heard voices downstairs. Was that Lance?
Was Acxa right?
Oh my God, I was totally crazy! Of course she was right, there is no way that Lance would do something like that.
One time, when he told me about his problems, he confessed that the only reason he was flirting so excessively was because he wanted to push his self--confidence, but there never was a single other feeling behind it. Well, feelings just started to be involved as he started flirting with me.
He had shared all of his most vulnerable thoughts with me and I just tossed him away. Oh he must be so hurt.
But what the fuck should I have done different? He knew that talking wasn't my thing. Oh my God, this whole-
Someone was coming up the stairs. Then certain someone was knocking at my door.
I opened the door, Lance just stood infront of me. He looked beaten. He must've bawled his eyes out and his tan skin was a sick greyish color.
"c-can we talk for a moment, Keith? Please?", he stuttered. Oh poor boy.
"Is it true? That this is all a misunderstandiong? You didn't lie to me?"
His eyes were dull, tears filling them. I couldn't see much anymore, my eyes filled to the brimm with tears, too.
"Keith", he just cried out:"I really didn't want to- You are my everything! I only love you- You are-"
I pulled him into a hug.
"She pulled me towards her, I really-"
"Acxa told me. I am so sorry-"
We stayed like that for a few moments, before he pushed me away, slightly:"Here, you remember these?"
He gave me a rose. One of the big fucking bouqet he had gifted me, yesterday. Fucking loverboy.
"Sorry, I couldn't really get fresh ones."
I just let out a quiet laughter, before getting serious again:"I am sorry that I didn't trust you. But I-"
"I know, what it ha dlooked like. I should be the one apologizing", Lance just answered.
He softly layed down a hand onto my hip, the other one cupping my face:"How about we just lay down? You and the baby need some rest."
Wait.
How did he-
"The baby? How do you-"
"Oh I just know, mi amor", my husband answered, placing a soft kiss on my cheek.