' Seung Gil and I are the only ones who are yet to ask you a question. '

Seung Gil

Yuuri thought of the former Korean skater.

He had not had an easy life.

Soon after the Grand Prix finals, he had completed in the four continents where he met with a terrible accident which ended up crippling him. He had to give up skating after that. He spent the next ten years in South Korea where he worked as a teacher. Yuuri had not talked much to him, but some of the others had kept in touch, including Phichit. Phichit had mentioned that he had never really gotten over the fact that he couldn't skate anymore.

'Viktor.' Yuuri said. 'We had recently talked to all the skaters we had completed against ten years ago, except for Seung Gil.'

'Why don't you call him, then ? We can talk to him.'

Yuuri nodded, and dialed the Korean's number.

'So, Seung Gil.' Yuuri said. 'How are you?'

'I am fine.' Seung Gil said, rather stiffly.

'It's been a long time.' Viktor added.

'I had heard about the game you guys had played with Phichit, Chris and the others.'

'Ah, yes.' Viktor said. 'Would you like to ask us something?'

'Uh, okay.' the Korean paused for a while, and then said 'Yuuri, you were infatuated with Viktor right from your childhood, weren't you?'

'Yes.'

'When did you realize how deep your feelings for him went?'

Yuuri blushed.

'I have a crush on Miyuki.' one of the boys in my class declared.

We were a bunch of 13 year olds and my classmates could not stop talking about crushes. 'Hey, Yuuri who is your crush?' another boy asked.

'Huh? Crush? What do you mean?'

'Dont you know what a crush is?'

'is there anyone who makes your heart quicken when you look at them?' one of the girls said.

I thought for a moment. There was only one person who made me feel that way.

'Viktor.' I said.

'Viktor? There is no Viktor in this school.'

'Viktor Nikiforov.'

'That's skater?' everyone burst into laughter. 'No, Yuuri. You have to pick someone you know.'

'Someone I know?'

'Someone from our school...One of the girls, maybe.'

I wasn't close to any of the girls from our class. The only girl I was friends with was Yuuko.

Yuuko.

I thought about Yuuko. She was really cute. And she liked ice-skating.'

'I...I think I like Y..Yuuko.'

'Yuuko, eh. So Yuuri likes older women.'

I felt really embarrassed. I needed to get away from here. Quickly.

Takeshi Nishigori was the only one at the rink that day. When he saw me, he insisted on having a talk with me.

'It's about Yuuko.' he said. 'I have a favor to ask you.'

'What is it Takeshi?' I asked. Takeshi and I did not always get along. However, we were now quite good friends.

'I like Yuuko-chan.' he said. 'I want to ask her out. But I don't know if she'll say yes. Can you help me convince her,?'

I thought about what I had said earlier, and I felt embarrassed. Yuuko-chan could do so much better than me. Takeshi was older, stronger and more popular than I was.

Besides, even though I thought of her as cute, and counted her as a good friend, I did not think I liked her like that. I thought about how my heart skipped a beat every time I saw Viktor on TV. I never felt like that with anyone else.