diedraechin:
The old Russian woman was once again behind the counter, an old TV and VCR duo was attached to the wall and a staticy Russian remake was playing. It sounded like Doctor Tyrsa, the Russian remake of House MD, but Yuuri couldn’t be sure without slinking closer.
He went back down the aisles and wandered, looking at packages and picking up things that looked familiar. Like the awful Russian candy that Viktor would always have in his pocket, but just tasted awful on Yuuri’s tongue.
“Do you need help?”
The little old Russian woman was standing behind him and Yuuri almost jumped out of his skin before he started rambling. “I’m just looking for some ingredients, but I only know the names and I can’t read Cyrillic and I don’t know what to do. I was thinking of texting my coach, well my ex-coach, so he could send me the words, but I’m really trying to prove to Alexei that I can do this whole being coached by someone else and living on my own thing because I don’t want to be a burden to anyone. Especially after he did so much for me and why can I not stop talking?” Yuuri gasped and shut his mouth, pressing his lips into a tight line.
The Russian woman was no longer frowning and instead looking thoughtful and motioned for him to follow her.
Oh God, Yuuri thought, she’s going to banish me from this store forever.
“Alexei?” She pointed at something framed over the counter. And yes, it was actually a picture of Alexei standing on the podium from the Salt Lake City Olympics cut out of an old Russian newspaper. Yuuri nodded. “I thought you looked like his student.” She took the can of whatever he’d been holding out of his hands. “Alexei was the best skater Russia ever had.”
It took a minute, but Yuuri finally realised that she was speaking in Russian and it dawned on him that he’d probably been babbling in Russian.
So the next chapter clocks in at around 10k and it full of STUFF. It’ll go up Friday or Saturday probably. It’ll be another couple of weeks before I can even start the chapter that comes next (I’m so excited for it, guys!) because of other commitments.
wabi sabi 