Lance and Keith sat silently in the car, the sound of the rubber wheels against the concrete road and the quiet radio in the background filling up the empty space. Keith cleared his throat slightly, it felt hoarse and dry. Glancing sideways at Lance, who was driving his blue beat up car, focussing on the road. His hands tightened around the steering wheel as he took a deep breath.

Keith tensed up, as he trailed his eyes back to his window, looking at the passing scenery. He felt so awkward around Lance, it was embarrassing. Ever since yesterday morning, the first day of the new year, Lance had started to distance himself from Keith, and he didn't know why. Keith tried to reach out multiple times but Lance kept silently refusing. Ever since they said their goodbyes and got on the plane, Lance had been silent, beside small sentences. And Keith was getting fed up with it.

The not so pale anymore, sunburnt male sighed out his frustrations, and glared at his reflection in the window. He finally gathered his courage and spoke out in a small tone, "What's up with you Lance?''

Lance flinched, Keith could see it in the mirroring reflection, the latino cleared his throat and opened his mouth slightly as if to answer, but nothing came out. Instead he slumped back against his car seat, rubbing his temple with one hand.

"Not right now, 'kay?'' He spoke out after a while. This took Keith's full attention as the raven-head turned in his seat facing Lance as much as possible. "I gave you enough time already. Tell me,'' Keith more demanded than asked, his patience was running thin with this boy.

"Fine, you really wanna know?'' Lance grumbled as he glanced at Keith swiftly and then focused back on the road. Keith nodded, humming an agreement. "I've been scared okay?'' Lance spoke out harshly,  breathing out a heavy sigh.

Keith was taken aback, "W-What?'' He slightly stuttered, his eyebrows forming a frown, as he huffed out an aggravated breath.  "Why?'' He followed through.

"Just-, never mind. It's stupid.'' Lance rolled his eyes, tapping his fingers against the leather steering wheel rapidly. "You're being stupid right now so I can handle it. Did you make another assumption?'' Keith said in a sarcastic tone but he calmed down, the look that was plastered on Lance's face was one that Keith had seen many times when Lance had gotten jealous, he knew that look.

"It's just that,'' Lance stopped his finger tapping and ran his hand through his hair pushing back his bangs trying to stop them from tickling his forehead. "What if-," He seemed to struggle with his words, "What if all this was just a vacation fling?"

Keith raised his eyebrow in disbelieve of what he just heard, Lance glanced at him with the corner of his eye, "What?'' Lance asked followed by an uncomfortable, breathy, nervous laugh. "Seriously?" Keith tried not to snap at him, "Seriously Lance?'' He repeated while trying to keep his calm.

He took a deep breath when he saw the frightened look on Lance's face. "Can you just-," Keith tried to find the right words, "Just stop making assumptions? Lance you've been ignoring me the past day, the last day just because your stupid brain thinks that was 'just a fling'? Are you kidding me?!" Keith ended up raising his voice slightly, followed by Lance flinching at his tone.

"I, I just-," Lance started to panic, this is exactly why he didn't tell Keith about his thoughts, "No Lance! Stop thinking for me! Unless you feel like it was just a fling? Is that it?'' Keith felt the familiar feeling in his chest, it swelled up and he felt nauseous, his eyes starting to sting. After all they've been through Lance is pulling this? He understood Lance was very insecure despite his open flirty personality but still, Keith didn't know anymore.

"No!'' Lance's voice pierced through Keith's raging thoughts and everything went quiet. "Never. I genuinely love you Keith, I still am falling in love. I'm sorry, I- You know I overthink too much and-" Lance took a sharp breath, Keith noticed the tears brimming his eyes, "I'm sorry for these past days," his hands tightened around the wheel again, "I shouldn't have, but I'm just afraid, we're back in 'our' world, what if you find someone better than me? What if you get tired of me? What if-" Lance was blurting it all out, everything he had been holding back the past day, all his worries, all his thoughts, they were spilling. But he was Interrupted by soft lips on his cheek as his entire body posture relaxed, he sniffed quietly glancing at Keith.

"Stop,'' Keith's voice was gentle, soft, "I should be the one worrying about that, and you know it. I'm not the one flirting with every pretty human you know?" Keith sighed sadly and laid his hand on Lance's thigh, rubbing soothing circles with his thumb. "But," Keith continued, "I can't know what you're feeling unless you tell me, same goes for me, just," Keith huffed out a short breath, "We'll see what happens okay? We can figure it out. Together." Lance had never seen this side of Keith, or barely, he enjoyed it and he calmed down, nodding his head.

"I'm sorry," Lance managed to force out and Keith squeezed his thigh in response. There finally was a comfortable silence, soon a 'bing' sound radiated around in the car. Keith's hand left Lance's thigh, which disappointed the latter. Keith pulled out his phone from his red jacket, "Shiro messaged me," Keith said aloud, "What'd he say?'' Lance asked trying to get a glance of the phone screen but failed. "To meet him at Allura's apartment immediately?'' Keith said in a worried and questionable tone. "Mhm, that's strange?'' Lance knitted his eyebrows together anxiously.

Another "bing" was heard and Lance could hear the relieve in Keith's sigh. "What?'' Lance wanted to know what had been sent to Keith, "He said it wasn't urgent, but they just really needed to catch up with us? Or we with them?''

"I guess they are just excited to see us?'' Lance proposed and he could feel Keith shrug beside him. Keith put his phone back in his pocket, and rested his head on Lance's shoulder, a pleasant silence followed.

"Hey," Keith said softly, tugging at the strings of Lance's jacket in boredom, "Hm?'' Lance hummed. "Let's talk about earlier, like, later okay? We still need to talk those things out." Keith drifted off, and let out a hum at the end of the sentence. He snuggled closer to Lance as he shivered a little. Lance carefully put the heater higher and Keith comfortably drifted off to sleep.

Keith was awakened by someone shaking him silently, he opened his eyes to be met by a smiling Lance, he looked quite charming. "Wake up sleepy head, were here,'' Lance let out a soft chuckle as Keith raised his head rubbing his eyes.

They both got out of the car and Into the freezing temperatures outside. "Wow it's a cold winter isn't it?'' Lance shivered as they both headed inside through the back entrance. They went up the stairs that lead to Allura's apartment complex, and opened the door to be surprised by everyone. They hurried inside and closed the door, the welcoming warmth surrounding both the boys.

"Welcome back, did Klance happen?'' Pidge got her nose into their business immediately, using that stupid nickname she made up at Christmas eve in the group chat. "Maybe," Lance smirked towards Pidge, Keith just rolled his eyes.

"So what's so important? Did we miss that much?" Keith asked as he and Lance took a seat on the sofa opposite of everyone in the room.

"A few things yeah," Pidge snorted, "We can't wait to tell you," Hunk said happily, Shiro looked nervous and embarrassed. "Good or bad news first?" Hunk beamed out with a smile, Keith noticed Shay sitting beside him, looking shy but comfortable. Didn't they break up?

Both the boys glanced at each other and Keith mentioned for Lance to choose. "Bad news first," Lance decided.

"Okay, Quiznak," Shiro fumbled with his shirt, "Okay so as you all know, beside Keith and Lance, Allura and I broke up, but not why-" Keith tensed up,"What? Why?" Was his first response, Shiro cleared his throat as he guiltily glanced at Allura. "I-," Shiro took a deep breath, "We had a fight and I got drunk, like." Shiro laughed to himself, "shit headed drunk, really drunk," Keith cleared his throat, "We get it, continue," He needed to know what happened.

"I had not been satisfied for a long time, I'm never satisfied, that's why I never introduced you and Allura, I wasn't sure." He sighed, "I, I met this boy, and we kinda had a one night stand, his name was Adam. I truthfully told Allura, we broke up; as I would've expected, I'm sorry, I really am."

"After the breakup, Adam and I kept contact and it turned into something more than just a one night stand, he liked me but," Shiro sighed, "He already had a boyfriend, I made him choose, like I had to. He chose him, not me." Shiro finished.

Keith frowned deeply, he didn't know what to think. He felt a comforting hand on the small of his back as he glanced at Lance who gave him an encouraging smile. Keith tried to smile back at him and finally looked up at Shiro and Allura. He opened his mouth to say something but he was just stunned. No words came out but Shiro understood the look on his brother's face.

"We're still friends, I mean, I'm hurt. But in time I can forgive him, it's still rocky right now, it happened a little after you guys left. But I always felt that it wasn't completely right, so all's fine now.'' Allura beat shiro to it and smiled gently at Keith to reassure him, and Keith nodded his head dumbfound. Shiro gave her an appreciative smile. Keith tried to focus on Lance's hand drawing comforting circles on the small of his back, Keith relaxed and leaned against Lance slightly.

"So, the good news?'' Lance said in a hopeful voice, trying to lift up the aura. "Of course! Me and Shay got back together as you can see!'' Hunk smiled proudly, resting his arm protectively around her. Shay smiled shyly and giggled at the affection. Lance smiled, "That's great man! You know I was rooting for 'ya!'' Lance laughed and the rest followed, he glanced down at Keith who had an adorable smile situated on his chapped, soft looking lips.

"The second portion of good news!" Pidge said, this took everyones attention, "Since it's so cold, and me and Keith are in our last year anyway, we don't have to go to classes for another two months until March!" Pidge jumped in her seat, and Keith chuckled, "Good, I wasn't feeling it to go back to uni."

"And thirdly, good news for all of us," Allura spoke up, which confused some, "Pidge, Coran and I have been discussing it and," Allura paused a bit to make some tension in the room, "We're going on a road trip!"

Everyone was silent, staring wide eyed at them, "It's way too cold here so we thought why not do a road trip through California,Texas, Florida and some other states!" Allura sheered in happiness.

"Details?" Lance asked, not sure about this. "Coran has an old hippy van where we can all fit in, we leave tomorrow if y'all are in?"

There weren't many details, it was risky and dangerous, "What about money? Clothes?" Hunk was worried, "Tututuh, shut it. Money? What money? And there are always laundry shops where you can wash them. Showers? We're not sure yet, maybe in motels? It's cheap! Also, I forgot! We might be staying in a beach house for a week, or more. It was previously owned by my dad, but he passed away like you all know." Allura said, not seemingly affected by the loss, not anymore. Everyone was thinking about the offer.

The room was silent, and breaths were being held.

"I'm in," Keith said first, which surprised Lance. "Then I'm also in." Lance stated directly, not having a second thought. He wrapped his arm around Keith's waist slowly and pulled him closer. He loosened up a bit so Keith could still push away if he wanted to, but he leaned in Instead. Lance sighed pleased, tightening his hold.

"Count me in also!" Shay said, "Make that two then!'' Hunk said laughing and kissing Shay's cheek. Lance wished he had the guts to do that to Keith. Soon, he thought.

Soon.

Everyone looked at Shiro, "I," He shook his head, "I guess if everyone is going? Me too?" Allura smiled and pushed shiro's arm teasingly which made him smile and roll his eyes.

Lance jumped slightly when something tickled his neck, he glanced down to see Keith resting his head on his shoulder again. "Soooo," Lance heard the annoying voice of a Pidgeon. He was about to retreat a comment to her but Keith beat him to it, "We're not dating, but there's definitely something there and we're taking it slow." He stated, there was a slight waver in his voice, but only Lance seemed to notice as the others awed immediately. "You guys are my OTP now, you better become Cannon, until then I won't get off your back." Pidge huffed and plopped down on her chair again.

Lance remembered that yes indeed, they never established their relationship two days ago. Keith was tense, probably because they hadn't discussed what he just had claimed. Lance breath out a breath and caressed Keith's side with his thumb while he buried his face in Keith's hair. Snuggling closer, "PDA, please stop or I'm going to barf," Pidge said loudly as she threw a pillow against the two cuddled up boys. Keith shot up and threw the pillow back knocking off her glasses. She stuck out her tongue and focused on Hunk while he was telling his Christmas events. Keith relaxed again and rested his head back against Lance's comfortable shoulder. Listening to everyone catching up, even him telling his experiences at the McClain's household and his crazy family.

Keith noticed he had the same kind of smile as when Lance talked about his family. He really felt at home there, he felt at home with Lance.

He was prepared for the obstacles that were up ahead, but he knew for sure he and Lance could figure it out.

Their paths had crossed for a reason, right?

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Word count; 2467

So, welcome! This is the sequel to "Shooting stars", I hope ya'll enjoyed it already! I don't know if I'll continue, I've been having a H U G E writer's block and just wanted to test out my writing. Be free to point me at mild grammar mistakes! I was quite tired while rereading 😅 Also I want to know if people liked this, or will like. Else I won't bother my time with this project.

Alright! Thank you for reading!