Victuri: Walls ✔️

Chapter 4

I wake up in an unfamiliar place, I'm lying on a bed but its not mine and the room I'm in is covered in posters of what looks like people ice skating. I attempt to sit up but am quickly stopped by the throbbing of my head and the pain in my side so lie back down. I hear the door creak and turn my head to see victor walk in with what looks like a mug of hot chocolate, he places it carefully on the bedside table and turns to look at me, I gesture that I want to sit up and he slowly helps me.

Thats when I notice a big dark bruise covering the right side of his face. Does this mean that he was the silhouette? The bruise covers his cheek and his eye is almost completely swollen.

My eyes start to heat up and I feel tears begin to roll down my face. All victor has ever been is nice to me and in return he gets this. I reach up to touch his cheek and my fingers graze his skin lightly, careful not to cause him any more pain. I look into his eyes, they're wide and full of sadness. I pull my hand back then put them both up to my face to conceal the tears that are starting to fall more rapidly.

"Yuri, whats wrong?" He says softly

"I'm so sorry" I say my voice muffled by my hands.

"For what?" He replies confused.

"This is all my fault if I hadn't let you become friends with me this would never have happened." I sob "You wouldn't have tried to help me and gotten hurt."

"Yuri, I need you to listen to me very carefully" he says calmly "this is not your fault, I became friends with you out of my own free will and I don't regret it for a second. This," he points to his face smiling "Its nothing, I can barely feel it."

"I must seem so pathetic to you" I sniffle wiping away my tears.

"Not at all, Yuri I only got hit once or twice, you took about 10 hits. And yet after all of the pain you've gone through you're worried about me. You have a kind heart and that is nothing to be ashamed of."

I try to give him a smile but wince at the pain that shoots through my face and end up letting out more tears. He sits down on the bed next to me and puts his arm around me in an attempt to comfort me.

"Yuri, why were they attacking you and who were they?"

I look down and think for a few seconds. I come to the conclusion that victor deserves to know since he's involved now.

"The truth is that I didn't get a good look at who it was. But I imagine it was JJ and his gang. You see back when I was younger me and JJ were good friends but when we went to high school everything changed. We started drifting apart and I've always had anxiety issues and find it difficult to make new friends, so I've just been alone ever since. But JJ started hanging out with some not very nice people and for some reason decided he hated me. And for the past few years he's been calling me a loner and a freak and he uses me as a punching bag to take out his anger every now and again."

"Why didn't you tell me about this?"

"Its not your problem victor." I say "its mine"

He has a concerned look in his eyes. I have noticed before but his eyes are so pretty, people say that eyes are windows to the soul and for victor that couldn't be more true, I can always tell what he's feeling.