"Hunk!" Katie bumped into her coworker, smirking. Hunk immediately knew what this was about. "Your new girlfriend is absolutely the sweetest!"

Hunk groaned and whined, cheeks red. "Pidge! Why do you have to-"

"Hunk's got a girlfriend!?"

"Oh great." Hunk slumped as Lance came up, attempting to toss his arm around his best friend's shoulders.

"Hunk, my man!" Lance grinned. "I'm proud of ya! Who's this cute girl you got?"

Katie grinned and held up her phone to show Lance the picture she took the day previous when out with her mother shopped and spotting Hunk with his mysterious girlfriend. Lance whistled as he studied the picture. "Isn't she so pretty? Hunk, you really gotta introduce us!"

The Hawaiian shook his head. "Come on, guys," he muttered, trying to get Katie to tuck her phone away. "Shay and I kinda just wanna-"

"Shay?" Lance stood straight. "Wow! Pretty name for a pretty lady! Hunk, I'm surprised yet so proud of you!"

Keith groaned as he walked by. "Shut up, Lance. People are working, unlike you."

Lance stuck his tongue out. "You can't tell me what to do, mullet. And I'm on break."

Katie giggled, bouncing on her toes. "C'mon, Hunk! We've gotta go on a double date! It's gonna be so fun!"

"No!" Lance shouted, eyes sparkling with a new idea. "Fucking group date! Nyma wants to meet my friends!"

Katie looked to the side, calculating as Hunk muttered and groaned. "That is actually a really good idea! Except, I didn't know you got a girlfriend, Lance?"

Lance smirked. "I do. Her name's Nyma." He pulled out his phone and clicked on a picture. "Isn't she beautiful?"

Katie and Hunk studied the picture as if making sure it wasn't photoshopped. "Yeah... Almost too beautiful," Hunk murmured, eyes narrowed.

Lance pulled his phone back and gasped. "How dare you say that like I'm not good enough for her!" Katie shrugged and Hunk gave a sympathetic noise. "So are we good on a group date."

"I don't see why not." Katie fixed her glasses, looking up at Hunk.

Hunk slumped and sighed. "Fine. I'll talk to Shay about it."

Lance pumped his fist and Katie grinned, placing her hands on her waist. "Sweet! I'll talk to Shiro!"

~

"A group date?"

"Yes."

"With Lance and Hunk and their girlfriends?"

"Exactly."

Shiro hummed, brows furrowed. "Sounds... Interesting."

Katie grinned, taking his hand. "Can we? Please? I really want to meet their girlfriends. And it'll be fun!"

The taller man chuckled. "Alright. When can we have this date?" Katie's grin dropped to a calculated stare. Shiro raised a brow at her.

"Uh..." Katie looked down, brows furrowed. "I think Lance Hunk and I were going to talk about that tomorrow at work."

"Lance is off tomorrow."

"Oh yeah." Katie hummed, tapping her chin. "I'll text him after Hunk and I talk. I think it should be this weekend since all of us are off, but I'm not sure about Nyma or Shay. I don't know when they work."

Shiro shook his head at her, smiling. "It's nice that you want to do something with your friends. You usually do everything you possibly can to stay away from them. Well, Lance. You talk to Keith and Hunk all the time." Katie  giggles softly. Shiro ran his thumbs over the back of her hands. "You've changed since we got together. You're nicer."

"What can I say?" Katie shrugged, shuffling forward to embrace him. "You bring out the best in me." Shiro laughed softly, wrapping his arms around her. "But this is a great opportunity to dump spiders down Lance's pants."

~

"You must be Pidgeon! I'm Shay!" The tall blonde gasped, smiling brightly as she held out her hand to the short girl. Katie blinked, then glanced up at Hunk.

Hunk placed his hand on Shay's waist. "Shay, it's Pidge. Not Pidgeon. Please don't listen to Lance."

"Oh!" Shay gasped, then drew back to herself and looked apologetically at Katie. "I am terribly sorry!"

Katie chuckled, shaking her head. "It's fine. Just call me Pidge. Don't listen to Lance at all."

Lance snickered, his arm wrapped around Nyma's waist. "It was funny while it lasted. Wasn't it, babe?" Lance glanced down to his thin, blonde girlfriend. Nyma giggled, but everyone else was sure it was fake.

"Okay," Katie mused, dragging on 'ay.' "Let's get this picnic on the road. Shiro and I got the wine and sandwiches."

Hunk beamed as he stepped forward. "I got the blanket and fruits and vegetables and soup!"

Lance released Nyma to pick up his assignment. "And we brought the apple pie! And peanut butter cookies for Pidge."

Katie squeaked, shoving the wine into Shiro's arms to snatch the bowl of cookies. "I fucking love peanut butter cookies!"

Shiro sighed. "Why don't we set up the picnic and have our date?"

~

Katie nestled next to Shiro, stuffing her face with cookies and wine. Shay was the sweetest thing any of them ever met and Hunk's gaze never left her. Lance constantly flirted with Nyma, completely oblivious to her violet eyes raking over Shiro like she was a predator and he was prey she wanted to leap on and devour. And not in the hungry sence. Katie didn't like that look at all and how oblivious Shiro was to it, and to say in the least, the wine was making her feel more feisty than usual.

"Hey, Nyma? Are we going to have a problem?" Katie set her glass and bowl of cookies down.

Everyone blinked, looking at the short girl in confusion. Katie huffed, crawling into Shiro's lap. "Whoa, uh, Katie!" Shiro didn't push her away as she plopped into his lap, wrapping her arms around his shoulders and resting her head on his chest.

"He's my pretty, sweet, kind boyfriend." Katie pet his shoulder, glaring at Nyma. "You have a boyfriend. He's sitting next to you, flirting his non-existent ass off. Stop eyeing mine."

Lance raised a brow at Nyma. "Were you checking Shiro out?"

Nyma opened her mouth to respond, but Katie snorted. "More like eye-raping him. Back off, hoe."

Nyma shrieked indignantly, launching herself at Katie. The short girl yelped in surprise, but didn't back down as she was tackled out of Shiro's lap and into the grass. "How dare you!?"

"Katie!"

"Nyma!"

Katie gasped as her hair was yanked and an elbow dug into her ribcage. "You bitch!" Katie snarled, jerking on Nyma's hair and jammed her knee into the taller girl's stomach.

Nyma cried out, pulling her arms back to cradle her stomach. Katie punched Nyma across her cheek, tossing the taller girl off. Katie rolled on top of her, pinning Nyma down. "Fuck off, bitch!" Katie grinned, then yelped as she was pulled up off Nyma.

"Mios dio, Pidge!" Lance scurried over and to Nyma. "What the hell was that!?"

Katie whined and struggled in familiar hands. "Shiro!"

Shiro sighed, pulling her away from the others. "Katie, you can't do that!" Shiro firmly set Katie down and turned her to face him. Katie blinked. "You can't say things like that!"

Katie huffed and pouted. "She was looking at you like she was just gonna jump on you. I wanted to make sure she wasn't going to do that."

"Katie," Shiro scolded, "you can't do things like that on a date. You're the one who wanted to do this, why would you attack Nyma?"

"I didn't, Takashi!" Katie crossed her arms, narrowing her eyes. "She attacked me! I just said something mean, and she attacked me! And I was totally fair in doing so because you're my boyfriend."

Shiro shook his head. "Katie, clearly you've been effected by the wine. Let's get you back home. Hunk, Lance, I'll catch you at work tomorrow!"

Takashi lead Katie out of the park, and to the car.