"Drag me down?" Yuri on ice SOULMATES AU

13. Home

Yuuri looked at the paper with the girl's number on it, he started thinking about the girl's soulmate. Does she have one? Yuuri was in no rush, he was wet, yes, but he had no where to be. He could go home and see Phichit, but it would be too early to apologize and makes the whole situation look ridiculous. And feeding the cat was an optional choice he made, he could leave the cat for someone else to deal with, but Yuuri was not taking it. Vicchan would maybe like 'Mika the cat' considering on how well Vicchan gets along with Minako-sensei's cats.

Yuuri then searches for a bus stop that wasn't vandalized or dirty, which was often hard. He needed to get out of the rain before he looked like he had jumped into a fountain. His jacket was waterproof so that was sort of a win, his phone was safe along with the cat food being stored inside his inside pockets. The paper and the receipt though, they were sort of wet. Yuuri read the name along with the heart sign, and the number was neatly written as well.

Yuuri sighs and looks around the street, seeing a few people with umbrellas and some with their jackets over their heads as they run towards home or somewhere. He sighs and then leaves the cat, he knows he'll see the cat someday, but when? Maybe when the rain stops pouring, or when Yuuri will feel betrayed again? Who knows. Yuuri decides to get an umbrella but needs information on where to get it. He then runs back to the store where he had bought the food from.

"Kiki?" Yuuri says, looking at her.

"Ah, Yuuri! It's really nice to see you again, what is it?" She smiled.

"Is there any other stores that sells umbrellas around here?" Yuuri asks awkwardly.

"Oh, um...there is one store down the street called 'demellion', it has a lot of stuff there." She says, pointing at the map that hung off the board in the entrance in the small store they both currently are in. "So...are you going to call me?" She asked smiling.

"Huh?" Yuuri says.

"You have my number. Will you call me? I mean--I'll be busy on some days considering it's my last year in college but yeah, will you?" She asks nervously. "I may not be cute or as pretty as you, but I like you, so that's something? I...I know we just met and I alrea--"

"Do you have a soulmate?" Yuuri asks interrupting Kiki. She tenses up and says, "Why? Do you...?" She says, small words so quietly coming out of her mouth.

"I am asking you." Yuuri says.

"No, well, yeah, but...she's....she's horrible! She doesn't listen and she does not care abut anything!" She admits. Kiki is a soulmate to an unfaithful girl, who doesn't treat anyone right. "I don't even like her, I know there are ways to get rid of a soulmate, but I am just scared. What if I die? I'd rather commit adultery than be with her," She says, tears falling out of her eyes.

"I-I'm sorry for prying like--"

"No...no, I am sorry for telling you about this," She says sadly letting out a small chuckle and wiping her eyes and mumbling out 'This is ridiculous, I am sorry'.

"I have no soulmate. I had one. But yeah...I can help you get rid of yours, not killing of course," Yuuri offers, nervously laughing at the end. "Really? I don't want to drag you into my mess," She says.

"It's not a mess, it's a problem that needs to be fixed, even though, I want to help you," Yuuri says with a sincerity. He put every happy emotion in that sentence to show it'll be alright, for him and her.

"I got rid of mine, the string is now gone. I hope," Yuuri says, whispering at the part of 'I hope' in the sentence.

"T-Thank you, I-I'll buy you something at the demotion store! In return, of course," She chuckles, blushing on her face. Yuuri smiles and says thank you and then says, "Wait, how will you buy me something if you're at work?" Yuuri asks curious on what she meant.

"I quit!" Kiki says, laughing.

"W-What? Really? Why?" Yuuri says, worrying if he turned a switch.

"My boss is horrible, she's mean and now she's my ex-soulmate!" She says, taking off her uniform sweater and then putting on her leather jacket. "I quit," She repeats, smiling. So...Kiki's soulmate was her boss, explains one reason now why she was horrible. Maybe that was why Kiki worked there.

"Let's go, before they find out!" She says, taking Yuuri by the arm and then running outside of the store door. "W-what about the cameras?" Yuuri asks. "I disabled them 3 weeks ago!" She says. They ran down the street in the rain, and headed towards a store for umbrellas. Kiki and Yuuri. Yuuri and Kiki. Kiki and Yuuri together. Sounds weird and off, Yuuri thought. He started to think about Viktor and how this'll effect him if he sees Yuuri and Kiki together, and Yuuri has a lot to talk about with Kiki along with some stuff that has to be done.