Where Yuuri remembers the banquet, Viktor forgets, and Yakov Feltsman has his own plans.
“I’ve been made aware of your recent break with Celestino Cialdini, and would like to offer you a trial period where you train under me, in St. Petersburg. There are only three conditions: you will board with another one of my students, you will take ballet with Madame Baranovskaya, and you will help me coach Yuri Plisetsky, who refuses to listen to my criticisms of his spins.” Yakov nods at this point, leans forwards and looks Yuuri in the eye. “I will charge no coaching fees.” With a deal like that, even if it means he has to face Viktor again, Yuuri has no choice but to agree.
“You already know what I look like naked,” Viktor says, “so I think it’d be quite easy to pretend I’m your boyfriend.”
Yuuri gets himself into trouble at a bar before he even gets drunk. Luckily for Yuuri, his hot neighbor and longtime crush, who Yuuri tries not to peek at while he wanders around his apartment, is also at the bar.
Having worked in a jewelry store for his entire life, Viktor recognizes what’s happening long before the beautiful— if sloppily dressed—stranger even enters the shop. The pacing, the light flush, the way his amber eyes linger on the displays as he passes the storefront again and again: all of them easy signs.
He’s a man who wants to propose to his significant other, but is incredibly nervous about it.
The captain of the football team and the head of the cheerleading squad are supposed to be together. Everybody in high school knows this to be fact. Yuuri, who’s head of the cheerleading squad, knows better than to believe it.
He keeps interrupting Viktor Nikiforov setting up Prom-posals for a mystery crush, after all.
Agent Katsuki Yuuri left his figure skating career years ago, after a failed Seniors debut. But when the Worlds competition receives a bomb threat, he's thrown back into the competitive scene. Fortunately, a community of skaters and one Viktor Nikiforov are there to catch him-- though Yuuri's idol is certainly acting suspicious...