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chapter 7

It's been a month since I met Sebastian. So far I have only told Yurio that we are dating as to not raise too many questions from everyone. I'm almost positive that Yurio told Otabeak everything and I've heard rumors about us in the skating world. I would like to think that our plan is coming along nicely. Starting next week we will start to be seen together on "dates". I hate having to wait this long just so we can start actually investigating but Sebastian says it will be better in the long run. We are going to be telling everyone about us as soon as the skating season begins. Sebastian is going to be competing with me. I told him that he can't be super demony and win everything really soon. Of course he didn't like that idea as much. He kept muttering about how much time that will waste but I pointed out that he shouldn't be raising questions. Overall things are moving slowly but surly towards my goal of revenge. Pretty soon, I will find out what happen to Yuri and who did it and then they will wish they were never born!

"Victor, I have a question," A deep voice suddenly jolted me out of my train of thought. Looking up from my phone I saw Sebastian walking into the living room. He was wearing all black as usual. I couldn't recall him in anything other then that one color. I sat up from the couch to make room for him to sit down. He paused for a moment, then decided to sit down, "Tell me, what kind of "dates" do people go on?"

This question shocked me. What person didn't know what you did on dates? Then I remembered that Sebastian may look like a normal human but he is, in fact, a soul eating demon who probably never actually even went on a date before in his life. "You know, dinner or a movie or maybe a romantic walk. Could even be an activity like bowling or skating. Just about anything you do together could be called a date."

Sebastian rested his chin on his thumb, "hmm, I will need you to write a list of date idea you would like to do so that I can properly  prepare." 

"I don't really care what we do as long as people see us doing it. The whole point of these "dates" is so that people will stat gossiping about us anyway."

"Still, I should like to be prepared. We need them to believe the lie so it has to be convincing." He got up and left the room for a minute then came back with a small notebook and a pen. "Here, write your top date ideas down so that I will know what you like." Grabbing the notebook and pen, I quickly jotted some ideas down.

Ice skating

Movies

Dinner at a nice restaurant

Walk through park

Sight seeing 

A feeling of sadness overcame me as I looked the list over. I use to do all of these with Yuri. The bitter-sweet memories of all of our dates fluttered through my mind. I quickly gave Sebastian the list and went to my room. Before I even had a chance to shut the door the tears were already falling. I flopped on my bed and curled up with my blanket. Makkachin got up with me, putting his nose on my arm.

I suddenly felt like I could not go through with our plan. If just thinking about doing those things with anyone or thing made me cry, how could I go through it? It did not matter to me that the dates would be fake I could never do it. But I have to because I need to find Yuri's murderer and punish them.

I wiped the tears from my eyes, patted Makkachin on the head, and stretched out. It was only 6:00 pm but I felt tired after my cry session so I went to bed. As I drifted off, my thought once again went to Yuri. This time; however, I wasn't saddened by these thoughts but instead I fell asleep with a smile on my face.