Sleepless in St. Petersburg
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Sometimes Viktor Nikiforov just wanted to feel like he didn't need to skate and smile away the fear of being discarded back to his hometown with parents who didn't second guess nor cry when he was practically given away to the Russian Athletics Federation. But skating was his lifeline. The only thing that made him feel alive, besides music and his ambition. So he just kept smiling and winning while the hollow emptiness kept growing inside him.
He was thirteen when an envelope with pink flower stamps and an address written with weird symbols appeared at the bottom of his fan mail.
''You can just be Viktor and I can be your friend. Would you like that?''
A spark fluttered inside him.
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- Part 1 of Sleepless in St. Petersburg
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Three years ago, while on a train back to Hasetsu, Katsuki Yuuri made himself a promise to not lose important things in life because of his anxiety and fear. And kept that promise, even when it felt like screaming into the void to a long-lost friend.
Now, fifteen and about to start an incredible opportunity, he sat on a train from Geneva to Bern and felt like bursting with anxiety—what if his choice had been different? What if he had gone to America, trained in Detroit? Would he have taken Vicchan too? Would everything feel as big and monumental as it did now? As it started to get overwhelming, he remembered what his therapist told him: write it down.
So he did. Not just to fill a page. Not to himself. But to someone special who once made the world feel a little less lonely.
"I can be Yuuri, and still be your friend. Would you like that?"
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- Part 2 of Sleepless in St. Petersburg