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ve been walking here since early this morning. As Yuuri approached him, he greeted him with a smile.

"Good morning Yuuri", Phichit said, "Did you have fun yesterday?"

"Yes, I did, thanks. You should visit me more often", Yuuri replied as the bell rang for the start of class.

Phichit chuckled.

"Maybe when I'm not stuck working my ass off."

Yuuri smirked at him.

"What do you mean?", he asked.

Phichit's eyes widened a bit.

"Uh, nothing!" He quickly averted Yuuri's gaze and scratched the back of his neck awkwardly. Yuuri stared at him curiously, wondering what exactly Phichit had meant. Did something happen on Saturday, he wondered, and he was hiding it? Or was it something else entirely, Yuuri wondered, because something clearly bothered Phichit, but what?

After a while, Victor and Yuuri made their way into the classroom and took seats next to each other. They spent the whole lesson chatting casually, occasionally stealing glances at each other during class. It was hard for them not to notice that they weren't talking about school stuff, since Yuuri never missed an opportunity to tell Victor what he had done in his free skate performance. However, neither of them minded. It was kind of fun to hear how well Yuuri performed.

When class was over, the two boys headed towards the locker rooms so that they could grab their things before they had to make their way to homeroom. When they arrived at the lockers, Victor found something he couldn't believe. His phone buzzed inside his pocket as soon as he picked up his locker, and upon pulling it out, he looked at who the text message was from and read it quickly to see who was texting him and why they were sending him messages right at that moment. It was from Yuuri.

[From: Yuuri

To: Phichit (8:47pm): Hey, sorry I haven't been replying to your texts lately. My mom called last night and we kind of argued again so i haven't been able to respond to anyone.

From: Victor

To: Yuuri (8:51pm): You're fine! :) Don't worry about it. You've been busy with skating season anyway so I understand :)

It was only then that Yuuri remembered that Victor didn't know what was happening between him and Yurio. He hadn't forgotten, though. Yuuri couldn't forget what he'd done in the middle of the night, especially considering that Yurio hadn'

t seemed upset at all by his actions. Actually, aside from his outburst at the skate show, he'd seemed happy with the results. Then again, Yurio was hardly ever happy unless he was getting revenge on someone. Which made sense actually. Yurio had plenty of reasons to be upset and upset people.

Yuuri put his phone back into his bag and closed it, then walked up to Victor.

"Hey", he smiled, "Are you okay? You look upset…"

Victor nodded as he zipped his locker up and grabbed his bag from the floor.

"Yeah… Yeah, I'm fine".

He pulled open the door to leave the locker room and then turned and looked back at Yuuri.

"Actually, I need to talk to you."

Yuuri blinked a couple times, not quite sure what was going on anymore. Before he could ask Victor about it, he heard the sound of a girl screaming outside in the hall. Instantly, he tensed up and glanced nervously around the hallway.

"I'll be right back, okay?"

Yuuri nodded, still unsure what was going on. Victor stepped outside, closing the door behind himself, and peered cautiously around the corner of the hallway. There, standing just inside the doorway to Yuuri's classroom, was Yuuko Nishigori