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Yuuri had promised his family to help out in the onsen today. A local business decided to have a meeting there, so it would be busier than usually. It was hard for him to get up this early after talking to Spitz until late into the night. He swore that this had been a lot easier as a teenager.
Spitz was usually at work while Yuuri slept, so it was unusual for him to wake up to new messages. Then he remembered that their time difference changed, and now Spitz came home right when Yuuri was about to go to sleep. The recent messages from Spitz were all complaining that he had been looking forward to talk to Yuuri after work, which wasn't possible anymore. According to the time in Detroit, Spitz wouldn't be awake for another 6 hours.
He was about to close the app and go take a shower, until he saw a familiar face. The front page had a “Sugar Daddies in your area” section. Usually, Yuuri didn't pay any attention to it. Detroit was big enough and Yuuri wasn't known there. Nobody would recognise him. (For a short moment he wondered if any of his fans were rich.) But the person on his screen looked extremely familiar and Yuuri closed the app out of shame.
There was someone who could recognise him very close by. Would they think it was someone trying to catfish using Yuuri's information? Or would they notice that he was only showing up on LLS after coming back from Detroit?
He had to delete his profile before that person noticed him.
But what about Spitz? Yuuri had no way of contacting him outside of LLS. Spitz could contact him on Instagram, but Yuuri had no way of initiating contact. Maybe if he sent him a message about it and then deleted the account? Would his sent messages get removed, too?
He could remove all information from his account.
A few minutes later, his account was nothing else than his gender, a false age and as a name just an “Y”. Yuuri would write Spitz about this as soon as he woke up, it wouldn’t surprise him if Spitz had notifications on over night and he didn't want to wake him up shortly after he went to bed.
Yuuri got ready for the day and then went Mari to get a short introduction to his work for today. It had been a long time since he helped out his family but it didn't look like a lot has changed. The day would be stressful to that he nearly forgot to talk to Spitz before he went to work.
Y: “Good morning! :) I won't have any time today until later, sorry! Helping my family out today. Ttyl? Oh, this is Yuuri btw. One of our regulars uses LLS and I didn't want him to find me…”
As soon as he sent the message, his mother called him to help.
VICTOR: "CHRIS”
VICTOR: "CHRIS HELP ME”
CHRIS: "morning”
VICTOR: "YUURI IS GONE”
CHRIS: "?”
VICTOR: "I CAN'T FIND HIM IN MY RECENT CONTACTS”
VICTOR: "DID HE DELETE HIS ACC????”
CHRIS: "uh”
CHRIS: "maybe?”
VICTOR: "CHRIS”
CHRIS: "write him a letter or smth”
VICTOR: "i'm gonna visit him”
VICTOR: "he told me the name of his town”
CHRIS: "lol”
VICTOR: "yakov will be angry but w/e i need to find him”
CHRIS: "oh you're serious”
VICTOR: "OF COURSE I AM I CAN'T FIN YUURU”
VICTOR: "YUURI”
VICTOR: "find”
CHRIS: "you have his ig”
VICTOR: "OH”
VICTOR: "i can contact him”
VICTOR: "thanks”
CHRIS: "np”
VICTOR: "WAIT”
VICTOR: "HE'S BARELY USING IT”
VICTOR: ":(“
VICTOR: "i could contact his friend”
CHRIS: "good luck”
CHRIS: "I'm going back to sleep”
CHRIS: "at 4 am”
VICTOR: "sorry”
CHRIS: "ur not”
VICTOR: "true”
Victor opened Instagram and looked first for Yuuri’s account to see if there were any updates, and then at Phichit's profile. He looked for the last picture with Yuuri and commented, still in caps lock, “PHICHIT DID YUURI DELETE HIS ACCOUNT??”
He reloaded the comment section until there was a reply from Phichit full of question marks. Victor was exasperated, it was so obvious what he was talking about. He posted a simple “LLS” and reloaded the comment section once, twice and his comments were gone, three, four times and the only remainder of their whole conversation was an email address from Phichit. As soon as Victor sent him an email, the last comment was gone, too.
Phichit Chulanont
Subject: RE: Yuuri
I asked Yuuri about LLS, but he told me this morning (like 12 hours ago, no idea when it was your time) that he would talk to you? Are you still arguing?
Victor Nikiforov
We talked!!! He told me about what you two were talking about and everything seemed fine????
But I can't find him on my recent conversations!!!
Phichit Chulanont
So… while we wait for Yuuri to reply to me… You're really Victor?
Victor took a moment to reply, staring horrified at the email. He has used his own Instagram account to contact Phichit. He was so desperate to know what happened to Yuuri that he forgot to keep his identity secret.
Victor Nikiforov
Fuck
Phichit Chulanont
Omfg that's hilarious??? How did THIS happen??
Victor Nikiforov
Please don't tell him
Phichit Chulanont
Hmmmm I'm not gonna lie to him. But I'm also not gonna ruin his chances of having Victor Nikiforov as his sugar daddy. I'll tell him that I know who you are but not WHO you are.
But don't you ever dare to use any of the information you have from him against him.
Victor Nikiforov
Of course not
Phichit Chulanont
Ok.
He hasn't replied yet, btw.
Aren't you late for work anyway? Well i guess for practice.
Victor Nikiforov
I won't be able to focus so w/e. Sent Yakov a message that I'll be there later.
Phichit Chulanont
Oh yeah, before I forget about it: When you're gonna flirt w/ Yuuri, you have to tell him that you're flirting. Like say something like “the next comment is fully intentioned to be a mating call”
You're welcome.
Yuuri checked his phone to see if there was a reply from Spitz. Surprisingly, there was nothing. Instead he had a wall of messages from Phichit.
PHICHIT: "DUDE SPITZ JUST CONTACTED ME ON INSTA TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR ACC”
PHICHIT: "BUT LIKE WITH HIS PERSONAL INSTA SO NOW I KNOW WHO IT IS???”
PHICHIT: "i had to promise him that i won't tell you”
PHICHIT: "but yuuri”
PHICHIT: "keep that man HOLY FUCK”
PHICHIT: "(also what happened to your lls acc lol)”
YUURI: "PHICHIT TELL ME WHO IT IS”
PHICHIT: "LOL NOPE”
PHICHIT: "but i told him the mating call thing”
PHICHIT: "you're welcome”
YUURI: "PHICHIT”
PHICHIT: "honestly yuuri trust me that guy is a catch”
PHICHIT: "just keep him”
PHICHIT: "you're doing a great job btw that guy was desperate to find out what happened to you”
YUURI: "Tell him to look at the messages from ‘Y’, I explained everything”
YUURI: "And we're not done yet, I still want to know who it is. But I have to get back to work”
At the same moment he received a message from Spitz.
∪･ω･∪ SPITZ: "YUURI”
∪･ω･∪ SPITZ: "I DIDN'T NOTICE THIS BC I KEEP GETTING NEW MESSAGES FROM STRANGERS”
Y: “I can't believe you told Phichit who you are but not me”
∪･ω･∪ SPITZ: "i didn't tell him, i panicked”
∪･ω･∪ SPITZ: "he didn't tell you right?”
Y: “of course not he promised you”
Y: “sorry really gtg”
∪･ω･∪ SPITZ: "<3”
Y: “<3”
∪･ω･∪ SPITZ: "oh yuuri?”
∪･ω･∪ SPITZ: "im flirting with you”
Y: “I'm going to punch Phichit as soon as I'm back in Detroit”