❛ you’re my home, and i’m homesick. ❜
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already he had been on the verge of crying, affected by viktor’s saccharine words drifting through the receiver--so warm and tender that a part of yuuri can pretend he’s here, imagine that the pillow he’s laying against is the warm expanse of viktor’s chest, and that the weight of the blanket around his waist is really viktor’s arms around him.
but this--this is too much. breaks the illusion yuuri had created, and snaps him back to the harsh reality of the moment. viktor isn’t here, had turned down his offer to stay for the holiday season for reasons yuuri can’t understand. suddenly the blanket around him and the pillow he’s lying against seem so petty, and fall so short of what he needs.
nothing can amount to viktor nikiforov.
it feels like a slap to the face--a mockery, almost. he doesn’t get it. what gives viktor the right to be saying such things, honeyed and sweet on the outside, but biting in essence, acting like he truly misses yuuri, when he’s the one who left?
“ that’s not fair. that’s really not fair– ” he hiccups, feels tears stream down his face, and tries not to imagine how pathetic he sounds as he succumbs to his emotion. he feels petulant, knows there must be a completely valid reason for why viktor is gone, that he should be trying as hard as possible to understand, but it doesn’t stop the torrent of words.
“ you can’t say stuff like that when–when you’re the one who left. ” and he must sound like an entitled, greedy child. he knows, in his heart, that viktor must have a reason–but that doesn’t make it hurt any less, and that doesn’t make him want to forgive viktor any more.
“ i h-- i hate you-- ” it’s a lie, god is it a lie. yuuri has never said anything more untrue in his life, and yet--as the tears fall heavy onto his sheets, and he struggles to breathe through the sobs and hiccups, he thinks, maybe--it might also be the truest thing he’s ever said.