Chapter 6

Yuri Plisetsky . P.O.V.

Today morning I woke up and got ready. I went to the airport to receive my friend, Otabek Altin. He's coming back from Germany, he went to spend his vacation with his family there. We both have been friends since childhood.

I was standing outside the airport. I called him and he answered after a few rings.

"Hey, I'm outside, where are you?" I said while looking for him at the entrance.

"Coming just a few minutes." He said with a soft tone.

"Okkay." I said and ended the call.

I was searching for him at the entrance and a girl bumped into me. She said sorry right after bumping but she seemed to be lost somewhere. Then I spoke my words and till then the apology look on her face vanished and she became fierce and we ended up having an argument.

Before she can counter attack and for sure we end up fighting at the entrance of the airport, a woman in a wheelchair called her and beside her was my coach. Maybe the coach knows this girl, it's better not to fight with her.

That woman called her and that's when I knew her name 'Cordina' and that lady in the wheelchair is her mother. She went towards her mom with a fierce face.

They drove away. I don't know why the name 'Cordina' felt similar. It felt like I heard that name a long long time ago, like a really long time ago, but I can't quite remember it.

I was thinking about that, when my Otabek jumped on me out of nowhere and scared me.

"What the hell." I said, giving a scared face.

"I called you, but you didn't respond. You left me no choice man." He said, shrugging his shoulders.

"Yeah yeah, whatever. Come on let's go." I said, in a cold tone.

"Why are you so moody?" He said looking at me.

"I'm not moody. Just not in the mood to talk." I said in an annoying tone.

"I can sense something happened. What is it?" He said.

He's not gonna leave this matter. So, I should say it or else he'll start acting like a mum showing extra care for her child, that's way more annoying than that girl I had an argument with.

"Nothing, just got into an argument with a jaguar and cat hybrid animal, that's it." I said looking at the road for a cab.

"You know that's the shittiest comparison i ever heard." He said with a weird look.

"Yeah? Maybe it's because she's like that." I said showing my hand to a cab to stop.

The driver stopped the cab in front of us and I was helping him to keep his luggage into the cab.

"So it was a girl." He said highlighting the word 'girl'.

"Yeah, it's a girl, what's so special in it?" I said getting inside the cab.

He sat beside me on the back seat, the driver started driving the cab.

"Nothing, I never saw you fighting with a girl either in academy or in school. Well most of them are of the 'I don't care about them' category and the others are 'I have a crush on him' Category." He said thinking about the students.

"Aren't those two categories the same?" I asked with a doubtful look.

"Well, they have a crush on you but you give them a cold shoulder. I feel sorry for them though" He said in a mocking way.

"What should I say when I'm not interested in them? That I'll date you and then I'll leave you?" I said with a questioning face.

"Such a cold heart, just like the ice rink." He said.

"Stop it, You came back after 2 months and all you talk about is girls." I said rolling my eyes.

"Fine, I'll stop." He said with a smile.

We both went to his dorm and kept the luggage in there. We had lunch and it was evening so I went back home.

When I opened the door I saw grandpa coming towards me with a knife in his hands.

"Grandpa?" I said looking at the knife.

Grandpa saw the knife and lowered it.

"I was cutting vegetables for dinner, go and fresh-up, dinner's almost ready." Grandpa said with a smile.

"Okkay." I said and went upstairs into my room. I went into the bathroom and got fresh-up. I came downstairs and saw grandpa serving the food at the table. We both sat at the dining table and started having dinner.

"Yuri, we are going to my friend's house tomorrow morning." He said, looking at me.

"Which friend?" I asked with a doubt.

Grandpa didn't have many friends and mostly they come to our house and even if grandpa wants to go to their house he won't take me. Then why is this friend so special that he wants to take me there.

"An old friend of mine, they came to Russia after a long time, I wanted you too to come with me and pay a visit." He said.

"But I have practice tomorrow." I said, well that's the best excuse I got.

"I know your practice is in the evening, don't try to fool me and especially don't even try to excuse it." He said with a bit of an angry tone.

"Fine, I'll come." I said with a dull tone.

Can't go abc on his words. So I have to agree. We had our dinner and I went upstairs to sleep. I laid myself on bed and closed my eyes and.........… I saw her. Yes, the girl who got into an argument with me.

I opened my eyes and sat on the bed. Why do I keep thinking of her?. And why does her name and face look familiar?. Ugh it's driving me crazy. I laid myself on bed again and tried to sleep trying to clear allt shoe thoughts.

After sometime the sleep hit my eyes and I went into sleep. The next morning I woke up with loud knocks on my door. I went towards the door and opened it. It was grandpa.

"Grandpa, why are you baging the door?" I said while rubbing my eyes.

"I told you we are going to our friends house. Got ready." He said and before I could say anything he left.

I went into the bathroom and got ready. I came back and wore my jaguar pendant chain and went downstairs to have breakfast. That chain is so important to me. Want to know why?

It's because I got it from a friend a long time ago. That friend of mine was a girl, I don't quite remember her face and name but she was the first who wanted to be my friend. We both met while ice skating on a rink.

All I remember was the promise she made and the necklace she gave. She said she will come on next vacation to play with me here. I waited for her every year but she didn't come. It's Already been 10 years and my brain wiped her face and name, the memory I wanted to restore.

After that I metOtabek and we became good friends. He knows this story but he wants me to leave that memory and move on. But how can I do that? I made a promise to her.

Anyway, it's a long time ago, no use to recall all those memories. I went downstairs to have breakfast but instead of breakfast all I saw was grandpa wearing his coat to go out.

"What about breakfast?" I said looking at grandpa.

"You can have at her house." He said while taking his car keys.

"I don't eat breakfast at strangers' houses." I said giving a weird look to grandpa.

I sat in the car quietly as we drove to her house. Wondering who grandpa's friend was. I wonder what my best friend will look like after not seeing me for 10 years.

As we stopped in front of a house that was in the middle of the woods.The house was large and sat near a big oak tree. Grandpa and I went towards the front door of the house and I kept my head down, it was so frustrating, because of three things.

First he banged the door like there was an emergency, scaring the hell out of me. Second he didn't even allow me to have breakfast at least and third why the hell I'm supposed to be at his old friend's house? Oh right I came here to eat breakfast, the weirdest thing I ever heard.

Now there are only two possibilities, either grandpa went nuts or he wants me to go crazy. I think the second one applies more.

Anyway, he rang the doorbell, a girl came, I didn't even bother to look at her. I went inside the house with grandpa. Grandpa went straight into the kitchen and there was an old lady in a wheelchair.

Her daughter told her something, meh I didn't even pay attention, I was busy with finding ways and reasons to escape this uncomfortable situation. Grandpa introduced me to that lady as if she knows me since I was a kid, that really felt strange.

Then I raised my head when that lady introduced her daughter to me and boom there she was the same jaquar and cat hybrid who got into an argument yesterday at the airport.

Oh, god. As expected we both got into another argument, damn she's so annoying. Grandpa stopped me and told me to apologise and so was her mother to her. Grandpa was angry when he told that so I apologised so was she, but I know that we didn't really mean those words, those were just an excuse to let our quarrel postpone in front of elders.

We all sat at the dining table and started having her breakfast, grandpa and that lady, her name was Lilie by the way, they both were talking about the olden days and all the boring stuff elders do.

I got to know that that hybrid girl's name was Cordina. Cordina..........why am I getting this feeling that I know this name for the whole time? It felt like it wasn't the first time I heard this name, I heard it sometime, I can't remember when and where but I definitely heard that name.

When I looked closely she did feel similar, I don't remember seeing her face like a few years back but I definitely saw Brown eyes, those eyes they give me a feeling like those eyes were the ones that spoke to me once like a really long time ago.

I was looking at her and then she suddenly looked at me, actually glared at me. She's definitely planning on ways to murder me. I can see that in her eyes, but why do I feel like those eyes are cute rather than angry?

I let the thoughts go. I came out of the house and the first thing grandpa did was to scold me for the behavior. Geez, he definitely wants me to go crazy. I apologised to him, the best way to escape from his nagging.

I left for the training class. I was on the ice rink with Otabek. We both were doing our practice when the girls came usually and started cheering. Otabek was shouting beside them. I was doing the basic steps when I heard coach Yakov called us.

All the girls, including me and Otabek went towards him, I was standing on the last, he was announcing a new student to and guess what it was the same brown eyes girl....Cordina.

Ugh....Now I've to see her everyday at training. It felt more like my fate's taking revenge on me. All the members dispersed and guess what we again got into an argument, we were about to fight when Victor saved her.

I went into the changing room, I saw Otabek waiting for me.

"Took you so long to come-in here." He said leaning on the lockers.

"Caught myself into an argument with a hybrid." I said taking out my regular clothes from the locker.

"Wait, that means she's the one who fought with you at the airport?" He said with excitement all over himself.

"Yes and grandpa took me to their home in the morning, we got into an argument there too. I hate her guts. She's annoying." I said, while changing into my regular clothes.

"Can you introduce her?" He said, scratching the back of his neck.

"We aren't friends to introduce you, she probably says 'piss off' if I introduce you. Why do you even want to know that hybrid anyway? She's annoying." I said looking at him all confused.

Then I noticed something, he was shy. Wait, was he shy? I never saw him getting shy or behaving like this. He makes this very same face whenever he has a crush on someone. God, please prove I'm wrong.

"What's the matter, you're acting weird." I said looking at his face.

"I wanna be her friend. She's pretty. I-" His face started turning red. I stopped him before he could even finish his sentence.

"Stop, please don't say that." I said making a whimsical face.

"I've a crush on her." He said with a shy face.

But instead of getting pissed from his behaviour why am I getting angry. It felt like it was wrong for him to have a crush on her.

"You don't even know her."

"Maybe I don't but you do." He said with an evil grin.

I would've punched those very grin on his lips if he wasn't my friend. My hand formed a fist ready to punch.

"Stop it, it's not gonna happen." I said trying hard to calm myself. But my voice came out angry.

"Why are you being serious? She's not your girlfriend isn't she?"

"No, who likes her anyway, she's arrogant, short tempered, foul-mouthed. I hate her." I said pointing out all her negatives.

Even though I did point out her negatives, why does my brain remind me of her blonde hair, those brown eyes. She kinda seemed cute but definitely not pretty.

"It's the first time you're acting like this. Think wisely, do you really hate her? It doesn't look like that though." Otabek said with a confused face.

I sat on the bench in the changing room, trying to figure out this mixed feeling.

"Let's go."

"You go, I'll leave after sometime." I said, still thinking about her.

"Okkay, whatever you're thinking don't overthink it. I'll meet you tomorrow. Bye" He said while picking up his bag from his locker.

"Yeah, bye."

Otabek left. I sat there trying to figure out. A part of me is telling she's foul mouthed, short tempered idiot, but the other part of me is telling I knew her a long time ago, she's kind, and......…...cute.

Why does my brain think she's cute? I should take a rest. I should go home. I stood up, took my bag from the locker and went out of the stadium. I was searching for a cab, but none is visible.

Of all those thoughts there's one feeling I know for sure. I was angry when Otabek said he had a crush on her. But why am I angry? It's not like I know her, or at least spoke to her. Everytime we meet we both end up arguing.

I was thinking of the same thing when someone bumped into me. I saw the one bumping her hair was tangled to my chain. God, it has to happen now, I don't have time for this. I was about to rip off that girl's hair when I saw her face. It was Cordina.

She was close to my chest struggling to untangle her hair. She kinda seemed cute this close. I don't know why I thought that but it seems right. Seeing her this close to me, made my stomach tingle, no wonder why Otabek had a crush on her.

I helped untangle her hair which made me remove my chain. She didn't listen to what I said but all she cared was the jaguar pendant hanging to my chain. I wore my chai again and went away. I took a cab and went home. I had dinner with grandpa and went back to my room and laid myself on bed.

I tried to think of something but my mind started thinking about the incident earlier. Her face closer to my chest, the feeling I had was..........different, the one that I never felt.

I tried so hard to distract myself or think of something else but the face was all that's running in my mind. I didn't notice that I was smiling when I was thinking all this.I held my pendant and closed my eyes.

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