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Detroit!

.... I had no idea there was a mailbox thingie in this app. You sent me things before. oops. >_> SO my WIP known as "Detroit." It takes place at the end of Yuuri's first year in, obviously, Detroit. It is probably about 3/4 done. I like many parts of it, though most was written last November and not even cleaned up since. I get the urge to work on it once in a while, but tell myself I can't until the things I am actually posting are done. Here, have 3 snippets for the price of one, since they are tiny. ***

Yuuri was really starting to wonder if he had made a big mistake in moving to Detroit. In the last week he had changed his mind so many times that he’d lost count. Even now, his school schedule was such that he could finish it from Japan, if he went home and found a coach in one of the big cities. It would be easier. It would be more convenient. It would be cheaper. It might be less lonely.

He had been here for a year now, and not made a single friend.

***

“Hey, did you hear the gossip?”

Yuuri just shook his head no. Who did Randy assume would have told him? No one talked to him. In fact, he was sure that Randy was just telling anyone who walked in, and hadn’t been interested in talking to Yuuri specifically.

“It’s about the Leroy kid! He’s been fighting with Coach a lot, right? Well I heard that yesterday he just took off! Decided he was going home and just, like, left? So cray.”

***

Still, there was a bounce to JJ’s foot that made Yuuri think that he was probably just as much anxious as angry, and that he could relate to. “Are you ok?” he asked.

JJ just looked at him for a moment, then sighed. “I just want to go home.”

Yuuri remembered the story he’d heard at the door but wasn’t sure how true it was, having gotten the information secondhand, at best. “Is it your mom who’s here? Isn’t that why she came?”

“Yes, it’s my mom but it’s stupid. Why didn’t they just let me stay home in the first place?”

“Maybe home didn’t have everything you needed.”

“It does though! There’s a perfectly good rink there, my parents skate every day! So why am I the only one who gets sent somewhere else?”

Yuuri considered before answering. “Most skaters consider it a privilege to be able to go to a good school and work with a world class coach. There are probably lots of kids who would love to skate, but their parents can’t or won’t send them to a good school. You are pretty lucky.”

“I could be just as good at skating at home. My parents are great skaters! They have gold medals! They just don’t want me there.”

***

So there you go, @neutronstarchild my dear. ^_^ Feel free to nag me to actually, you know, make progress on the Work in Progress. lol

#i actually wrote this

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