✔️ Body and Mind 3

Fridays

Yuzuru was already waiting outside when her taxi pulled up in front of his building.
He took both of her bags and after a short quarrel also one of her guitars and led her up the stairs.
Once they got in, he gave her a pack of keys he had made for her that afternoon and showed her into his former room.

Emily looked around, shocked at how fancy everything looked already from the hallway. The flat being way more spacious than Yuzuru originally described.

-If you wouldn't like anything whatsoever just let me know, the furniture can be replaced.

-No, no...it's...perfect.

-Alright, but really, tell me if you would ever need anything, okay?

-Yeah, um, are you sure you are really okay with all this? Having a girl here like this, I don't want to be invading your privacy or anything.

-I lived with women my whole life, already used to it. Also if I would live alone, I wouldn't be able to do this now.

And he lifted her up, wrapping her legs around him and kissing her as he walked towards his own bedroom.
Seeing that Emily had no objections whatsoever, he put her down on his bed, following right after her and hoping that he did tighten all the screws in the bed correctly when he was assembling it.

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For the next several weeks, Yuzuru spent most of his time at the rink and the gym, getting increasingly frustrated with not being anywhere near landing the quad Axel. At least not as near as he hoped to be at that point.

Emily tried to mostly stay out of his way, glad that she is slowly getting more and more individual students and making quite a good living for herself.
But she was also glad that no matter how busy Yuzuru was, he always made the time to be home for early dinner on Friday. Always praising whatever she would cook, even when she tried to experiment a bit. And always being extremely kind and treating her with respect. Especially when she cooked for him.
They then usually ended up watching TV together each Friday, having sex, and then watching some more TV.
Overall, she was pretty content, just wishing his recent sad mood would improve.

-Another of your science magazines arrived today, I left it on the table in the living room.

Emily said as she sat down at the table and dug into her food, hoping that Yuzuru will like this new dish. But considering he always liked whatever she put in front of him, she wasn't much worried.

-And nothing else? No note to pick up something at the post office?

-No. You expecting something?

-No.

Yuzuru sighed and dug into his food as well, his mood getting even crappier. At this point, he wasn't sure if he is more annoyed because of the 4A or because Anya still didn't send him her jacket.

Somehow it felt okay for him when he put all those things into the box to start a new chapter, but not so okay when it looked like she did the same. He also texted her a week ago congratulating her for qualifying for the Worlds but didn't receive any reply.

-Is the food okay, Zu?

-Yeah, sorry, just getting lost in my own thoughts. It's really tasty. You are an amazing cook.

He gave her a smile but she could still see it was kind of a distant one.

-I really like this.

-The food?

-No, I mean that you always find the time for our Fridays.

-Oh. It was actually a Javi's thing. He always made us quit our training earlier on Fridays and it kind of became a tradition that I like keeping.

-Well, I should give him my thanks next time I see him.

Yuzuru's eyes finally lit up a bit and an honest smile spread across his face.

-He is actually coming over this summer! Brian told me that he is planning to start coaching in Spain and is coming for a summer coaching workshop at TCC!

-That's great! I haven't seen him for ages!

-You two know each other?

-Yeah! Nathan introduced us. Which he, later on, regretted as he got pretty jealous.

Emily laughed, recalling all Nathan's possessive overreactions that always made her feel kind of proud and happy.

-Actually, Zu....would it be okay if you wouldn't tell him we are living together? In case it would somehow get to Nathan. I don't want him to know.

-Yeah, sure. But we should also tell Nyx, cause I am sure that sooner or later we will end up with him at the cafe.

-Good point, I will take care of her. Wanna watch a movie after the dinner?

-If okay, I would actually rather be alone. Wanted to play some chess anyway.

-Oh. You too.

-What do you mean?

-Nathan played chess a lot as well. He even had some professional player in a chess app on his phone.

At that, Emily giggled and Yuzuru got curious, knowing very well that the player she meant was Anya.

-What is so funny?

-Ah, he was really frustrated during one of their games. He was already half way through but knew he is losing terribly and for a month didn't dare to make a move. Hoping he would figure out something. In the end he resolved to kind of trying to outsmart her with his friend from Yale, but they failed horribly. She won in like half an hour.

Yuzuru was now sure, she means the game where Anya was in the hospital in Japan, noticing that she is not playing against Nathan and winning the game even when she barely paid any attention to it.

-What exactly did they do?

-I mean, I didn't pay much attention as chess is really not my forte. That was that one thing we definitely didn't have in common with Nate. But as far as I know, his friend created a really sophisticated chess software where you could upload the games of the opponent to try and predict their moves and then also set up a certain difficulty the software should play. So they uploaded the history of their games into it and set the difficulty to Grandmaster.
You should see their faces! They even brought beers, thinking it would be a fun night and the game was over before they finished their first bottles.

That familiar feeling of pride he felt towards Anya's accomplishments started to again spread through his chest and Yuzuru felt himself getting giddier and giddier.

-Why are you smirking like that?

-No reason. But I think we could actually watch that movie if you like.

-I would like that very much!

Emily winked at him and took another bite, happy that there might be in the end some action tonight.
And even though they didn't have anymore that kind of sex like the first time, she was still enjoying it immensely, finding out that the more she was with Yuzuru, the less she missed Nathan.
As much as she liked her independence, she couldn't help but feel really good in the presence of somebody so kind and caring, making her feel like she is the center of the Universe anytime they were together.
She just really loved those Fridays.