The Ice Prince // Yuzuvier Fan Fic

Chapter Thirteen

Yuzuru:

I chewed on my lip as I skated towards Coach Brian who was waiting on the ice for me already. I wasn't late so there could only be one reason why he was waiting for me.

"Yuzuru. Good morning." I mumbled a good morning too and gave him a stiff semi bow. I'd been in too much of a rush to notice this morning, but my head was killing me.

Silence.

"Yuzu, look." He sighed eventually. "I know young people always find it hard to believe, but I was young once too you know." He started. "I understand that this sport...it's a lot. Its a lot for anyone, but especially for someone your age so I'm not going to ask you why your mother was calling me to ask where you were." He reached out to lay a hand on my shoulder and squeezed gently. "I know that ...late blooming teenage rebellion aside, you do care about skating. But the second that changes, we're gonna have problems, OK?" I swallowed hard.

"Yes, Coach." I whispered. "Thank you. For ... not saying anything to my mother."

"Of course." He smiled briefly and folded his arms, getting serious now. "Its almost time for the beginning of the season so we really need to work on your music and costumes now. Tracy has some samples at the back and we can go though them later, but have you picked a song?"

We were still working on deciding how many jumps to put in my program when the door to the rink blew open and Javi hurried inside. My entire body buzzed with awareness and I could acutely feel all the scratches that had been left all over my body. I'd spotted a red mark just under my neck in the bathroom shower this morning. My hand went up to touch it over my shirt lightly.

"Out." Coach Brian said before Javi could say anything.

"Coach, come on... you know it was my birthday yesterday." He paused with his gym bag in his hand.

"You're nearly an hour late. Out."

"But..." Javi's eyes flickered towards me and I fought to keep a straight face. I wasn't quite sure it was working so I looked down at my skates.

"If Yuzu could get here on time, so could you. No excuses." Coach said as he spotted Coach Ghislain at the other side of the rink. "Since you had such a good time at Mistress Ekaterina's studio, she'll be happy to have you again."

"Coach!"

"Be here on time next time tomorrow and we won't have any problems. OK?" He said and Javi sighed heavily in defeat. I peeked at him from under my lashes and saw he was looking at me. His lips were pinched tight and he he looked like he wanted to speak to me, but I was too afraid of what he would say to skate over to him right now.

I hadn't given it that much thought since I woke up in his bed, but what if... I know I had been drunk last night but he had been too, right? What if he thought that sleeping with me was a mistake and ... I mean, Javi wasn't gay, right? I knew for a fact he wasn't. It had been all the world could talk about ever since his flippant statement that had shook the world and cost him the gold at the Olympics. I had forgotten all about that for a moment and now my heart was beating fast in my chest for another reason.

"Yuzuru." Coach Brian called out.

"Hai." I answered absently in Japanese.

"Costumes." He said and I hurried over to the other side of the rink.

"Coming."