Pairing: Shatt (Shiro/Matt)
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count:Ā 960
Summary:Ā Matt finally tells his parents about his eyesight, and his new glasses arrive before school one day.
Notes: For @voltronweeks Shatt Week, Day 2: Wedding/Childhood Friends
When Shiro sees Matt, his mouth drops open. It only makes Matt hunch a little lower, wishing he was better at faking sick so he didnāt have to go to school and be seen like this. Ā That feeling only gets worse as Shiro rushes over to him.
Theyāve been friends long enough now, since they were in pre-school, really, that Matt knows Shiro wonāt hesitate to say exactly what he thinks, before thinking about how it might make Matt feel. Which is fine. Itās not like Matt has ever cared about his appearance before. They laughed over his dorky haircut together when he was eight. And his braces in the same year. He never cared about them, and so Shiro didnāt hold back the jokes, since Matt usually stated them.
But somehow this feels different than a stupid, horrible haircut and braces. The hair grew out, the braces were temporary. This isnāt.
āYou didnāt say you were getting glasses!ā Shiro exclaims as he meets Matt halfway across the schoolyard. His hands are already flying up to touch the rims. āWhen did you even get tested? You didnāt say anything!ā
Matt shrugs and resists the urge to bat Shiroās hands away. Shiroās always been handsy, and Mattās never cared, even when everyone started whispering about them once they hit high school. Rumours they were dating that wound up becoming true in the end.
Heās been struggling to see for ages, and heād told Shiro long before his parents. Shiro had just shrugged and let Matt read his notes in class so he didnāt have to glare at the board at the front of the room anymore.
Really, itās stupid he hadnāt told him when he got tested, and Matt suddenly feels his face heat. Heās never kept anything secret from Shiro before, he feels weird about it.
āWicked,ā Shiro breathes, and before Matt can stop him, heās pulling the glasses off Mattās face.
āHey!ā Matt snaps, trying to reach for them. Damn Shiro and that damn growth spurt heād had that summer. He looms over Matt now, and thereās no hope if he holds something up high.
Shiro looks at the glasses, holding them at different angles, before suddenly cramming them on his face. He grins down at Matt and the huge wire frames look even more stupid on him than they do on Matt.
āDo I look cool?ā Shiro asks, striking a stupid pose.
Matt has to bite the inside of his cheek to stop himself from laughing. āI canāt see you,ā he lies. Theyāre for far away things, which Shiro probably knows, but early in the mornings heās pretty easy to fool.
As expected, Shiroās face falls, and he quickly whips them off and passes them back. āSorry, sorry,ā he mutters. āDidnāt think. They just look pretty cool. They make you look even smarter. Which isnāt fair, since youāre already a genius!ā
Matt takes them back and frowns up at him. āThey look stupid,ā he says bluntly. Two big circles like bullseyes proclaiming his defect to everyone. Shiroās silliness had made him feel better for a moment, but now heās remembering why he hates them.
Shiro shakes his head as Matt puts them back on. āNuh-uh. They look awesome! Iām going to look even stupider next to you now.ā
Matt rolls his eyes. āQuit fishing. Youāre second in class.ā
Shiro lifts his hands and touches the rims of his glasses again, brushing Mattās cheeks at the same time with the edges of his fingers. Ā āSecond to you, smarty pants,ā he says, and then his fingers are retreating from the rims of his glasses and sliding down the sides of his face.
Mattās cheeks grow even hotter. He canāt return the gesture without looking silly for reaching up so high. He really hates that growth spurt of his, even if it means Shiro can reach the books on the high shelves in the library for him.
āI like them,ā Shiro adds, grinning at him, all teeth and unrestrained glee. āEven if they made everything look weird for me.ā
Matt quirks an eyebrow, but heās already accepting it. Shiro just doesnāt lie about things. Heās too honest. Ever since he was little. Always saying whatās on his mind. It made him useless to pull pranks with when they were in elementary school. He always caved under questioning.
āEverything looks weird to you anyway,ā Matt mutters, looking around. As usual no one stops to notice them being handsy with each other anymore. Everyone had accepted them together before they even were. āWay up high like that.ā
Shiro laughs and crouches down. āEverything looks so weird down here with the tiny geniuses.ā
Matt rolls his eyes, but takes the chance to easily reach out and brush Shiroās cheek with the back of his fingers.
Mattās smiling before he can help himself, his mind already shifting away from his glasses. Ā āIāll catch up to you, just you wait!ā
Shiro laughs again, before standing tall. āCanāt wait. Hope itās before I get an old person hunch from kissing you though.ā
Matt slaps his arm playfully before rising to the tips of his toes, grabbing Shiroās face, and pulling him down that last bit of distance to give him a quick peck on the lips.
āI can compromise till then,ā he says, grinning as Shiroās face goes pink. Surprise kisses always have that effect and it never gets old. He brushes his cheek again while heās up there, and then drops back down.
Shiro makes a scoffing sound, before wrapping an arm around Mattās shoulders and setting them off towards the school building. Matt peeks up and sees Shiroās face is still pink and grins again. Heās forgotten to care about his glasses already.
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