[The old cliche of working hard to get to where you want seems to exist only to mock Lance. He's busted his ass to get into the Garrison, to become a fighter pilot, but it always seemed to come with a tag hanging off of everything. A tag that has the word "But" written on it. He got into the Garrison, but everybody expected him to be as good as Veronica. He got promoted from cargo to fighter, but only because Keith flunked out. He tried to be the best barista he could be, spending hours practicing with cups of hot water, balancing them in a way he would have to with multiple cups of coffee, researching the different kinds of beans, grounds, and brewing processes... busting his ass doing too much for someone only making a little more than minimum wage.
And the but here is someone else coming along and doing it way better in a super impressive way and while it's not strictly about drinks, it's the principle of the matter. No matter how hard Lance tries at something, there'll always be someone in his face that's superior at it. Working hard just to get nowhere.
Even now, Shiro is better at brushing things under the rug than Lance is. Lance shouldn't have said anything. Shiro has his own problems to worry about. Just should have kept the topic at license requirements and let Shiro think that's what's stopping him. The hand in front of him stops him only because Lance knows if he brushes through it, it'll probably clamp down on his shoulder and make him stay. There's only but so far he can run in this house that suddenly seems smaller than it actually is.]
What's there to talk about? It's fine. [It is not fine and it hasn't been fine for almost three months now and Lance should know better than to use that line on someone like Shiro. Not even the forced smile on Lance's face will have anybody with a lick of sense believing it.] Getting a license to do hair is going to take a long time, that's all. Longer than whatever time I probably have here.
[Just enough time for him to learn how to push everything down deeper and prevent everybody from seeing him change from a goofball to a whining goofball.]
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And the but here is someone else coming along and doing it way better in a super impressive way and while it's not strictly about drinks, it's the principle of the matter. No matter how hard Lance tries at something, there'll always be someone in his face that's superior at it. Working hard just to get nowhere.
Even now, Shiro is better at brushing things under the rug than Lance is. Lance shouldn't have said anything. Shiro has his own problems to worry about. Just should have kept the topic at license requirements and let Shiro think that's what's stopping him. The hand in front of him stops him only because Lance knows if he brushes through it, it'll probably clamp down on his shoulder and make him stay. There's only but so far he can run in this house that suddenly seems smaller than it actually is.]
What's there to talk about? It's fine. [It is not fine and it hasn't been fine for almost three months now and Lance should know better than to use that line on someone like Shiro. Not even the forced smile on Lance's face will have anybody with a lick of sense believing it.] Getting a license to do hair is going to take a long time, that's all. Longer than whatever time I probably have here.
[Just enough time for him to learn how to push everything down deeper and prevent everybody from seeing him change from a goofball to a whining goofball.]