romantically speaking

“It’s just that I don’t know what’s going to happen on this assignment,” he starts, trying his best to tamp down the gnawing feeling in the pit in his stomach as Keith frowns. “And I don’t think I would be able to forgive myself if I didn’t say anything before I lost the chance, so, uh.”Keith’s hands slip out of his pockets and back down to his sides. “Lance, you’re officially freaking me out. Is everything okay?”“Okay here goes,” Lance breathes out, glancing up and inhaling a lungful of air before finally mustering up the courage to look back down at Keith and say what he’s been dying to say for months now, probably. “I really wish something could happen between us. Romantically speaking.”