Keith, Lance, and Reign walked up to the counter in Starbucks, and waited silently for the barista. When the guy showed up and asked for their orders, Lance and Keith both said "I'll have a hot chocolate" in unison then they stared at each other as Reign just laughed. "We'll take two hot chocolates and a mocha with extra sugar." The barista took wrote the order down and walked off, leaving Lance and Keith to start talking to each other so fast that nobody could understand them. Finally, Keith realized quick talking wasn't working so he put up his hand to shut Lance up. "I didn't know you don't like coffee." Lance looked at him, "Are you kidding? No matter how much sugar and sweetener you add, coffee just sucks, I prefer true chocolatey goodness." Reign just looked at the two of them, "I actually find coffee quite refreshing." She stated simply.

"honestly, you shouldn't even be drinking coffee" Lance rolled his eyes at his sister, "its bad for kids your age.." "I'm not a kid!" she interjected, "I'm fourteen!" Keith laughed a little at the bickering siblings, "just give her decaf" he mumbled in Lance's ear with a smirk.

Lance nodded at Keith, "yeah okay" Reign looked at Lance questioningly, but only got a shrug from her brother. Before she could voice her question, the drinks were ready and the three sat down at a table to drink and talk.

Reign drank her coffee gingerly, listening in on Lance and Keith's conversation. "so I was thinking we could maybe visit a.."Keith trailed off when he realized the girl staring intently, "w-what?"
"oh nothing.." she smirked, Lance glared at his sister for sounding so creepy, but her smiled didn't falter.

The boys would've questioned her further, except at that moment the door opened and Lance's face went white. He sat there, staring and causing Reign and Keith to look too. "What's up Lance?" Keith asked, concerned, but Lance didn't respond, he just kept staring. Then a boy around their age came and stood by their table "well if it isn't the faggot boy" he said with an evil grin. Lance looked ready to stab some one, but clenched his fists instead. "HEY!" Keith shouted, "Bullying is a big no no, so how about you shut up and leave us alone, go back to your own friends and mind your own business." The boy looked shocked-clearly nobody had ever stood up to him like that before-but he was quick to recover. "Oh? And what're you gonna do if I don't, jackass?" Keith stood up, cracking his knuckles, "I'll show you what-" "ENOUGH" Lance shouted. Then he turned to the boy, "Randal, let's just get this done and over with.." Keith and Reign stared at Lance, "is there a problem over here?" It was the manager.

Randal turned slowly, clearly loosing his nerve with the manager watching "no...of course..." he glared at Lance as the employee went back to their post, Randal grabbed Lance's collar "your gonna get it come monday" he hissed. Lance let go a heavy sigh "sorry you had to see that.." Lance muttered after the guy left.

"Don't be" Reign said, "we're just glad we could stop him. It seemed like nobody had ever talked to him like that before." Lance looked down and mumbled "yeah, 'stop him' right." But in his mind, he knew that whatever went down Monday wouldn't be pretty and he made a mental note to bring concealer to school with him Monday.

Keith frowned, he really needed to talk to Lance privately about all the abuse. "now where we going?" Reign smiled, clearly bouncing back to her usual bubbly mood. "where to lance?" keith made a fake smile to hide his concern.

Lance looked a little surprised as Reign addressed him, like he was being pulled into reality from a dream-or nightmare, but in a way, he kind of was. Lance shrugged, "how should I know?" Reign stared at him "well you're driving, so I'd hope you know where you're gonna take us." Naturally this hadn't occurred to Lance "oh. Yeah. Right. I knew that. Uh it's a surprise" and with that the three of them exited Starbucks and hopped in the car again.

Lance tapped his hands nervously on the wheel, yet to put the key in. keith seemed to notice the state Lance was in, as he put a delicate hand on his shoulder. Lance melted into Keith's touch very easily. "You done yet lover birds?" she smirked. Lance glared. While he loved his sister, sometimes he wished she wasn't quite so 'involved' in his love-life.

Keith quickly removed his hand from Lance's shoulder and Lance nodded and took a deep breath before driving off. They'd only been driving for a few minutes when Reign lost all patience "are we there yet?" She'd ask and when Lance answered "no" she'd wait a bit, then ask "what about now" it was like a big, annoying game that didn't end till Lance finally said "yes"

"finaaaalllllly" she sighed "you guys took for-EVER" she said dramatically. Climbing out. "where are we?" she asked again. Lance smiled, it had gotten dark due from the long drive, they were in a little clearing with long grass and wild flowers, you could easily see the beautiful stars and moon, as well as the little fireflies that shined just as bright. He walked close to Kieth, wanting desperately to hold his hand. he was interruppted by Reign, whom complained that there was no WiFi, earning a small chuckle from both boys.

Keith asked, "so uh Lance? Where are we again?" Lance seemed a little surprised, but quickly realized he hadn't told them yet. "Oh um we're in a clearing, I like to call it Hopping Hills." Keith looked questioning, "why 'Hopping Hills'?" Lance grinned, "you'll see. Come on" and he took off running down the small slope they were perched on top of. When they got to the bottom, the title of the clearing made perfect sense. There were hills everywhere, smaller ones, bigger ones, and the arrangement of the hills almost made it look like they were hopping over one another, if you spun around.

"Come'on!" Lance grinned, pure joy in his eyes as he held Keith's hand, pulling him very close to the edge Keith gasped breathlessly. And grabbed onto Lance desperately, about to scream, Lance covered his mouth because it was still late

Keith pushed Lance's hand off his mouth and started off, slowly down the slope, Lance right next to him. When they got to the bottom (they kissed ... nah I wish though) Lance started to run, dragging Keith around with him, while Reign stood at the top of the hill, filming the whole thing. Finally, Lance slowed to a stop, letting go of Keith's hand to catch a breath. Reign ran down to tease the two "I got proof of the ship" she sang, waving her phone around. "Ooh what should we call it? Leith? No. Um Kance? No. Oooh! How about Klance? Yeah that's it, it has a nice ring to it."

Both turned beet red(even if they didn't hear her mumble under her breath). "come'on" he motioned to Keith, grabbing onto his hand again(partly to get away from Reign to somewhere a bit more hidden away, partly because he wanted to hold Keith's hand longer). Lance led Keith to a place where the trees were thicker, so the stars were brighter(of those you could see) as well as the fireflies. He looked a Keith with a genuine smile. It made him happy to be there with Keith. He never wanted to go. So he kept quiet not wanting to ruin it like always. However, Keith ended it this time. "So...did you just wanna hold my hand?" Lance couldn't see his face, but he assumed Keith was smirking. He turned red all over again.