-Lance-

Lance walked down the hallways, well aware of the many people staring at him. He occasionally got a punch in his arm, and ice cold glares as he passed by groups of people. He hated it.
"Hey Lance"
Lance was relieved to see the Raven-haired boy, whom he enjoyed, walking towards him. "Hello Keith" he said happily.
"Hello Lance" He smiled, and walked by his side. "Ready for PE?"
PE. Lance groaned in annoyance. I hate PE. "Definitely"
Keith jokingly punched him in the arm, "hey, no sarcasm! Only I can do that!" He laughed, but paused as Lance flinched at the pain in his arm.
Why did that hurt him so bad..? I barely did anything.. he looked at him sadly, and gently took his arm, rolling up the long sleeves of his green jacket. Bruises. Lots and lots of bruises.
"I-I didn't do these purposely" Lance began quickly explaining, but Keith shushed him.
"Enough of your annoying chatter" he chuckled, but it quickly faded and his eyes turned dark, "Who did this to you?"
Lance was lost in his head. Everything seemed like a whirl of pain and fear.
"Lance?" Keith asked, worry sparkled in his eyes.
Lance looked at Keith. He could hear his heart beating
Slowly
In his
Chest.
Keith gently pulled Lance into a hug, and stayed silent as Lance began to cry. He knew Lance needed to cry all his tears out before he'd be able to talk to him.
Lance sobbed loudly, often getting looks of disgust by people in the hallway.
Keith froze as he suddenly understood. He's being bullied. Not just by one person. By lots of people. He sent ice cold glares to the people that laughed at Lance's trembling figure.
After a few moments, a teacher had spotted them.
"Is he okay?" The teacher asked, and Keith quickly recognized her as one of the nurses that worked there.
Keith looked down at Lance, unsure wether to tell he about the many bruises or not. He finally decided not to.
"He's okay" He signed, running his fingers through Lance's brunette hair. That seemed to calm him down a little bit.
"Alright.." the teacher said unsurely, and walked past them.
Keith led Lance out the exit doors of the school, more towards the field, and tried soothing him the whole time.
Lance shuddered and coughed violently, his thoughts spinning in a whirl of confusing and fearful thoughts.
Lance quickly broke the hug Keith had kept, and looked at him, "I can't deal with anyone anymore!" He cried, startling Keith.
"The punching, the kicking, everything! I can't deal with it!"
"Lance, calm down, please-"
"I don't want to deal with it anymore!" Lance had tears running down his face as quickly as they came, and Keith was starting to get fearful.
"Lance. Sit down and we can talk about it-"
"No. no. I can't" Lance was shaking so bad, Keith thought he'd loose balance.
Lance suddenly turned and ran towards the woods, beyond the school.
"Lance!?" Keith ran after, but wasn't fast enough. He lost Lance as soon as he entered the woods.