cigarettes // yuri on ice

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It was when he was 21 that he started smoking again.

Soon he fled to Japan at 18 after the incident he realized that he would have to wait until he was 21 to smoke again, because that's the legal smoking age in Japan. Not that he would want to, or thought he wanted to.

A while went by before he had ever touched one of those things again. The things that let his dad give him cigarette burns and the things that seemed to be the root of all evil.

But then- he tried it again.

He lit up another one.

And he didn't like it at first, not at all. But they don't sell singular cigarettes in stores and this particular Russian didn't want them to go to waste.

So he slowly made his way through the pack, and then got a funny feeling. One of those feelings you've always wanted but never known you wanted. One of those feelings that seem to fill the hole in your heart.

And so the obsession began.

Soon enough he found himself going back there to buy more.

Once, twice, and even three times on a bad day.