All We Could Have Been

Childhood One-shot

Lance never forgot that day in April back in the second grade. It was the day he meet someone he would soon fall in love till middle school.

Throughout kindergarten and first grade lance liked someone else, a pretty girl name Allura, but then she got cooties from Lotor on the monkey bars one day at recess and Lance decided he could never be with someone who had cooties. Gross!

Then in the first grade there was a new student, his name was Keef. Keef was pretty cool, he always found the biggest bugs at recess, so no girls liked him. Keef also liked the play in the mud and every day got in trouble by the teacher for getting dirty at recess. Keef was also covered in bandaids, the biggest one being on his cheek from when he fell down the stairs and got cut.

Today he has a wicked scar from the incident. But Keef was the most daring, brave, and coolest boy in school. He won every fight at recess, every wrestling match, and lately.... he had been into ninjas.

Ninjas were awesome, and Keef was training to be a black belt someday, right now he had a yellow belt in karate, which he brought for show and tell.

Lance always was jealous of how cool Keef was. That was.... until one day.

Keef has brought a ninja knife to school that he had gotten for his birthday. It was a real knife too!

He had hide it all day in his jacket pocket until recess when he took it out for all the boys to gather around and see.

"Woah!" Lance and the other boys, Hunk (fellow second grader), Matt (4th grader), and Pidge (Who was a girl in the first grade, But was cool enough to be here) said as they gazed at the knife.

"My dad got it for me." Keef said as he waved it around. "It's a legit ninja knife from Japan!"

"Woah be careful!" Hunk said as he ducked his head.

"I'm basically a ninja already, I don't need to be careful, I got lightning reflexes!" Keef said.

"Oh yeah, well my parents just signed me up for karate too!" Lance bragged. "I'm gonna he a black belt!"

"You can't be a black belt Lance." Keef said. "You gotta start at white."

"Well I'm a cool ninja sharpshooter." Lance said. "I got skills too Keef."

"It's Keith." Keef corrected him.

But lance couldn't say his name because he was missing his two front teeth. "Whatever mullet." He said. "I bet I could fight you in any march and win. Your not that good at karate anyways."

"I am too!" Keef argues.

"Actually Lance Keith is good." Matt said. "He is a yellow belt."

"Well yellow is a color for wimps." Lance said.

"Well you wanna fight right now?" Keef challenged Lance.

"Yeah let's fight!" Lance grabbed a stick off the ground. "And I'm going to win."

"Umm guys..." Hunk said.

But it was too late the two boys were already attacking each other.

But the fight did not end in Lance winning. Not at all. In ended in Lance accidentally getting stabbed with the knife in the arm.

"Ahhh!!" Lance screamed and cried.

"I'm sorry!!" Keef covered his mouth with his hands, leaving the knife there. "I didn't...."

"You stabbed me!!" Lance cried. Matt Ryan to go get a teacher.

Keef stood there in shock, never had he ever hurt anyone before. Lance's blood dropped on the grass, staining it red.

"I'm sorry...." Keef said.

"You jerk! You stupid head! I hate you!" Lance cried. "I'm gonna die now! It's all your fault!"

Keef couldn't take it and he just ran off to the playground to hide. He hide under the side and pulled himself into a little ball and cried. He didn't mean to hurt him.... no not at all. And now lance hates him.

Lance was rushed to the ER, where he got three stitches and he would be alright.

But this was not the moment that lance would remember for the rest of his life. No.

He got a scar from Keith Krogan that day, but also something else when he came to school the next day.

"I'm sorry...." Keith said as he looked down as he walked over to lance.

"You should be! I could of died!" Lance snapped.

Keith was hiding something behind his back. "I am sorry...."

"Your just a stupid head now." Lance said.

Keith sniffles at being called that name. "I am not!" He said. "Here! Just take it!" He shoved two things into his chest before running to the other side of the room where his desk was and sitting down, laying his head into his arms as he cried.

"I hate you Keef!" Lance yelled at him and took his own seat.

He looked at what Keith had gotten him. One was a jar with a big red beetle inside of it with a stick and some grass. The other was a piece of paper.

This piece of paper, Lance would keep throughout middle school and into high school. A reminder.... of how his crush all started on the day he got this note from a certain little mullet boy who wanted to be a ninja.

The note read:

I'm sorry I stabbed you
I love you
—Keith

Lance was shocked when he read it. He looked over at Keith across the room then back down at the note. Did Keith really mean this? He loved him?

But wasn't that weird? Loving another boy?

"Hey hunk?" Lance leaned over and whispered to his friend. "I'm feeling something weird."

"Do you have to poop?" Hunk asked.

"No. It's different weird." Lance said. "I looked at Keith and I felt myself get all hot and tingly."

"Hmmm...." hunk thought. "Have you ever felt like this before?"

"Ummm...." lance thought. "Yeah! When I saw Allura picking flowers in that pretty blue dress."

"Ooo I know it! It's love." Hunk said.

"Love?" Lance questioned, he looked at Keith again and felt his cheeks blush when he saw Keith run his fingers through his hair as he sat up to listen to the teacher.

Yes it was indeed love.

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