On Love: Agape!!!

Chapter 22

6:12 pm (18:12) Hôtel Patinage Artistique
October 26th, 2017
Nice France

Yurio looked at his reflection. For the past 5 hours, he had primped and preened to utter perfection. He had on the same blue suit he had worn two years prior to the Banquet when the Japanese Yuri had gotten completely wasted. He had let Okaasan put a thin layer of foundation to  'even out complexion' or something, and to cover up acne. However, he had put his foot down when it came to his hair, and wore it down.

Yurio could barely conceal his excitement. Not only did he get to see his favorite musical, but he got to spend the entire time with Otabek! Although he knew that it wouldn't be the same carefree experience it had been after Viktor and the Japanese Yuri's wedding. And even though there were a good 9 people that were dedicating their evening to make sure nothing went wrong, Yurio couldn't help but feel nevus. It wasn't like the last time he went on a date someone had taken a picture that got him fired and signed Otabek up for possible weekly torture.

"Where exactly am I meeting Otabek?"

"Behind the Hôtel Côte D'or, don't worry, I plugged it into your phone so you can find it. Oh, look at the time! You need to go! Don't Forget the tickets!" Okaasan exclaimed. She took out her phone and text Guang Hong Ji, who in turn Turn texted Viktor, Cris, Minami, and Otabek (Guang Hong was the only person that could text Otabek without his coach becoming suspicious) Operation Rochambeau is go!"

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6:20pm (18:20) Hôtel Patinage Artistique

"Thank you all so much for helping Yuri and Otabek." Yuuko thanks, when all the coaches were gathered together.

"No problem, Minami seems to be more excited than Yurio." Kanako Odagaki, Minami's coach giggled.

"Yes, it is our pleasure." Josef Karlisek, Chris's coach confirmed.

"We should probably get going, If we want to pull this off." Xiao Yi, Guang Hong's coach, suggested, and everyone went down to the lobby, hoping they would run into Maksatov there.

As luck would have it, the first person the troop spotted was her. Bibigul Maksatov was rather tall and lean and wore a black suit with a long pencil skirt on her slender frame. Her hair was a chestnut red, and standing next to her was Otabek. With her rounded face and spindly features, Maksatov reminded Yuuko of Black Widow, who had just captured her latest prey

'Crap!' Yuuko thought, and discreetly texted this new piece of information to Guan Hong.

"Hello, Bibigul!" Karlisek called, which made her sharp pointy eyes stare at the group.

"Hello Karlisek, What do you desire?" Maksatov formally asked.

"We just on our way to dinner, would you like to join us?" Xiao Ye invited.

"Жоқ.(No) We already have plans." Maksatov frankly turned down.

'Oh crap!'

"That's too bad." Xiao Yi sighed. "I was really looking forward to hanging out, with just coaches before the competition"

"That's not a coach," Maksatov remarked, staring directly at Yuuko.

"Excuse me?" Yuuko quavered.

"Since you clearly can't understand, let me explain further. You are not a real coach, but just a little girl playing pretend." She stated in a matter-of-fact tone of voice.

Before Yuuko could reason, however, Karlisek politely butted in: "Mrs.Nishikori is a coach, just like the rest of us."

"No, she is not. Come Otabek, we need to go." Maksatov stated and started toward the exit.