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“I want to break up with you,” Narumi said distractedly as she looked at her group of friends who were silently watching the events unfold before them from a few metres away. Yuuri’s eyebrows furrowed– she what ? They’d been dating for almost three weeks and she wanted to break up with him now ?
“Break up with me?” Yuuri asked in confusion, his mind aware of the giggling thirteen year olds watching him intensely.
“Yes, I don’t want to be with you anymore,” Narumi declared, folding her arms over her chest, adding to her intimidation. Narumi was already a few inches taller than Yuuri and was an alpha . Narumi and Yuuri had grown so close over the last weeks and they’d sat next to each other every single day since the school year had started– that was two months ago. Yuuri felt devastated. But, he couldn’t show that– there were Narumi’s friends there and they would laugh at him if he began crying or even looked sad. They had all been so nice to him a few weeks ago– gushing over how cute and nice he was and how he was different from all the other boys who were big annoying show-offs.
“Fine, I don’t want to be with you either,” Yuuri said, determinedly, blushing from the voice crack in the middle of his statement. Narumi rolled her eyes. Yuuri decided he’d had enough and stormed off, leaving his former ex-girlfriend behind. Yuuri didn’t care if she was his girlfriend anyway.
Frustrated, Yuuri huffed and walked inside and upstairs to his locker. He knew technically he wasn’t allowed to be inside during breaks but Yuuri couldn’t care less. He had a packet of gummy bears in there which he was supposed to save for an afterschool snack but Yuuri didn’t care about that, he wanted those fucking gummy bears now . Just as Yuuri was fast approaching his blue locker, he saw a rather tall boy heading towards him. The boy looked Yuuri dead in the eye and strode towards him. Yuuri immediately felt intimidated– what did the guy want with him? The boy slowed when he came near and stood next to Yuuri and opened his own locker. Of course . Maybe Narumi had made him paranoid, of course the boy wasn’t walking towards him, he just needed to get to his locker. They were strangers, what would the boy want with him anyway? Yuuri shook his head and resumed rummaging through his bag, looking for the sweet treats. Yuuri sighed any frustration when he was unable to find them.
“What are you looking for?” the taller boy asked in perfect Japanese, looking over at Yuuri from his own locker. Yuuri peeked at the owner of the voice from behind his long locker door. The boy was smiling at him, his eyes wide and bright. Finally, someone who didn’t look like they wanted to eat him alive.
“Gummy bears,” Yuuri admitted, looking down at feet. He was nearly fourteen, he shouldn’t need gummy bears anymore– he wasn’t a child.
The other boy laughed– but not in a taunting way or a mean way, it was a nice laugh. A laugh that made Yuuri blush further. “I actually have some gummy bears,” the boy giggled, pulling out a large pack and offering it to Yuuri. Yuuri went onto his tiptoes to look into the bag and smiled, taking two blue ones. “Is blue your favourite?” The boy, who was now towering over Yuuri since he’d stepped a little closer. Yuuri shyly nodded. “Ah, mine is pink!”
“I like pink too,” Yuuri replied, still avoiding looking at the other boy, which wasn’t very hard considering how tall he way. How tall was this guy? He had to be at least 5’7! While Yuuri was only a mere 5’2. Yuuri took a bite out of one of the gummies. “Um, thank you for the gummy bears…” Yuuri trailed off when he didn’t know the other boy’s name.
“Victor,” Victor supplied.
“Ah, well, thank you, Victor,” Yuuri finished, smiling at the older boy. Victor smiled back.
“And your name is?”
“Katsuki Yuuri,” Yuuri informed Victor before eating his last gummy bear. “Uh, Victor, why is your locker situated here? I know all of the year eight lockers have been allocated to this area but you don’t seem like you would be in year eight.”
“Ah, well, I’m in year nine so really my lockers should be on the floor above, but I enrolled at this school very recently and there were no spaces next to the other year nine students,” Victor told Yuuri, popping a blue gummy into his mouth before putting the gummies away into his locker.
“Oh,” Yuuri said in understanding, nodding. Then the bell sounded, alerting the pair that they needed to get to class.
“Well, I better go but I’ll see you around, Yuuri,” Victor said sweetly before grabbing some text books from his locker and walking to get to his next class. Yuuri watched as Victor met up with his friends, who all looked a whole lot cooler than him.
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“Hey, Victor!” Takanari shouted as Victor jogged up to them, books in arms and threatening to spill out everywhere.
“Hey Taka, hey Ken,” Victor greeted his two new found friends before turning his head to look back to Yuuri where he last seen him. He saw the short boy walking away in the other direction, arms filled with books, much like Victor. “You guys have Biology next, right?”
The rest of the day past quickly, and the last classes seemed like a blur, but that was probably because Victor wasn’t paying attention and instead thinking about Yuuri.
At the end of the day, Victor hung around his locker for a few minutes to see if the raven come back, but eventually Victor had to leave with no word from the other.
Victor took the bus home– his parents driver was busy that day so he had to step on the surprisingly pleasant bus ride it home. And boy, Victor was thankful he did, because in the fourth row, on the left sitting closest to the window seat was the one and only, Katsuki Yuuri. Victor would have screamed if it weren’t for that sort of behaviour being considered strange. Victor hauled his long, lanky legs up the bus steps and immediately sat down next to Yuuri.
“Hello, stranger,” Victor said, startling Yuuri out of his daydream. Yuuri smiled when he saw Victor sit down next to him.
“Hi,” Yuuri greeted, putting down the book he was currently reading. Yuuri didn’t add anything to that greeting which Victor thought was a little awkward, but made Yuuri all the more cuter.
“How was your day, Yuuri?” Victor asked as he settled his backpack between his unusually long legs. Yuuri thought back to Narumi and the break-up. His day was definitely less than good, but he couldn’t tell Victor that. He couldn’t tell Victor that his measly three-week relationship had ended with a girl that barely cared about.
“Alright,” Yuuri answered, grinning through his obvious lie. “How about yours?”
“It was wonderful, Yuuri, especially since I got to share some gummy bears with you, luckik,” Victor said gently, switching between Russian and Japanese.
“Luckik?” Yuuri asked in confusion– was that Russian he was speaking? Or maybe Victor just knew English better than he did.
“It’s Russian for sunbeam,” Victor chuckled, ruffling Yuuri’s hair. The bus started up and began to drive, which told Victor he only had about another five minutes with the younger boy. Yuuri rolled his eyes at Victor’s hair-messing actions.
“Are you from Russia?” Yuuri asked in curiosity, he’d been wondering where Victor was from.
“Mm, yes, I am, but my family moved to Japan a couple years ago for work related things and we’ve just stayed here ever since, so I’m fluent in Russian and English, but my Japanese is a little rusty because I’ve only been learning it for three years,” Victor explained.
“I don’t think it’s rusty at all, Victor! It sounds great– I can’t believe you know three languages,” Yuuri exclaimed as he glanced at the window to make sure he wasn’t going to miss his stop.
“And I’m learning french this year!” Victor chuckled, leaning his head back against the tall chairs on the bus. “What about you, Yuuri? Are you from Tokyo?”
“No, I’m from Hasetsu– it’s a small town by the beach in Kyushu. I moved to Tokyo last year when I took an interest in figure skating. My family moved to Tokyo so I could have access to the best rinks and figure skating coaches,” Yuuri told him. “It’s amazing here, but I sometimes miss Hasetsu.”
“I feel the same, sometimes I miss St. Petersburg too– did you know that St. Petersburg is by the beach too?” Victor giggled, overjoyed that they actually had something in common. “It was always cold there though, I think I like Tokyo better.” Yuuri smiled up at the older boy.
“So, are you turning fifteen this year, Victor? You mentioned you were in year nine,” Yuuri asked.
“Yes, I am. I turn fifteen on December 25th,” Victor informed Yuuri. “When’s your birthday?”
“I’m turning fourteen on November 29th– that’s means our birthdays aren’t even a month apart,” Yuuri realised, smiling at that fact.
“Wow, Yuuri, that’s so cool. Hey, did you say something about figure skating before?” Victor questioned, thinking back to a couple minutes ago. Yuuri grinned and began to tell Victor all about his love for figure skating and that he was going to start internationally competing as a Junior in less than two months. It made Victor very impressed, which of course Yuuri was delighted to know. A few minutes of chatting later, the bus came to halt and the bus driver told the group that this was stop 67– Yuuri’s stop. So, Yuuri politely excused himself and got off the bus, saying goodbye and waving to Victor as he did so. It seemed Victor had gained a new friend– a friend who was a lot better than the ones who had swarmed to him on his first day when they’d found out his parents were the current CEOs for Chanel.
Victor couldn’t wait to talk to Yuuri again.
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Victor patted his belly after he’d finished filling it up with food, content with just laying and staring at the ceiling as Makkachin slept at the foot of his bed. Then his phone buzzed– it was a facebook notification.
‘ Ken Sato has invited you to his event ’
Victor rolled his eyes– probably another party. Victor opened the facebook app and inspected the event. Victor first noticed that there was a whopping 60 people attending and it was being held on Friday the 14th of September. Victor sighed, another crowded boring party to attend. But, if you think you about it… 60 people is a lot of people, maybe Ken wouldn’t mind if he snuck Yuuri in with him…