On Love: Agape!!!

Chapter 41

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7:28 am
St.Petersburg Official Hotel
December 8th, 2023

Yurio awoke to the sound of the door opening, followed by slightly muffled soft footsteps. He looked over at his phone, and when he saw the time looked over at Masha and smiled.

"Good morning Masha." He greeted, still not getting out of his bed, by shifting over to allow her and her giant bundle of blankets to get in. The hotel had given the group of five two rooms, one a little bigger with 3 single beds, and the smaller a full size and a twin, connected by a shared closet. From what Yurio assumed, the hotel intended for the party to be split into hotel rooms by gender. While this wasn't the first time that Hotels had done something like this, it was the first time he had experienced a hotel blatantly try and out a child in a separate room than their parents, which was, of course, was diverted from the fact that Yuri and Viktor were married. Little jabs of prejudice like that pissed off Yurio the most because the cowardly bastards could play it off as a mistake. Didn't make yurio want to fight them any less. They, of course, had done some rearranging, ending up with yurio in the bed meant for a literal child. He had ended up falling asleep cursing the fact that even though he was a 22-year-old man, to his eternal fury, puberty had done nothing to change his build, with the exception of adding 7 measly centimeters to his final height.

"Thanks for letting us come hang out with you." Mahsa appreciated, rolling herself onto the bed, giving both of them enough space.

"No problem, your Dads could use the sleep. Who did you bring this time?" Yurio inquired, knowing enough about his niece that she never traveled alone.

"Just Little Elly. Nobody else would fit." Masha explained. "Little Elly did tell me that she wanted to bring the Ipad, so I let her carry it."

"Was it cold for you last night?" Yurio wondered. Not that he would ever admit it to anyone, but he had even cocooned himself in the covers the night before, so he could barely imagine what it would be like for a 6-year-old who had grown up in a place with walls that actually functioned in keeping out the cold, unlike his childhood home with Plisetskaya.

Да." Maira admitted. "It was hard to fall asleep though. Papa said it was time to go to bed but my head said it was time to stay awake."

"Jet lag will do that to you." Yurio sympathized. The jet lag would mostly hit I'm in the beginning of the season, and by the Grand Prix final, he was usually immune.

"I can't wait for today!!!" Masha whisper-exclaimed. "Last night Papa said today we going to go to his old neighborhood and see where he grew up and we were going to have lunch in the diner he liked to have Dinner in when he was my age!

"Wait what?!" Yurio gasped sitting right up. Was Viktor insane?! He had told everyone that he was taking Masha around the city, but had regretted to inform them that he was going to take is 6-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER TO THE SAME PLACE HE HAD BEEN KICKED OUT OF 10 YEARS PRIOR!!!

"That's just what he said." Masha reiterated, shrugging her shoulders and opening the Disney emoji game she loved.

"I'll be back." Yurip hurriedly excused, hiding his bubbling anger and he got up and marched towards the door.