Chapter 1 ~

"Hey Yuri!" Yuri heard a soft voice enter the room, and he turned towards it as the store bell rang. On making eye contact, yuri sees one of his regulars Chris, and he smiles in chris' direction.

"Good morning Chris! Wasn't expecting you today," Yuri says in a sarcastic, but cheery tone.

Fact was, Yuri always expected Chris. He would make an effort to come into Yuri's store every day without fail to check out the new books that had been delivered.

"Looking good," Chris says, and Yuri smiles.

"Thanks Chris," Phichit, Yuri's business partner says upon entering the store front,

"I quite like the books that came in today, Victor Nikiforov's new book probably tops the cake!"

"I wasn't talking about the books, dumbass. I was talking about Yuri." Chris says winking at Yuri. As Yuri's eyes widen, chris takes the opportunity to 'accidentally' knock a book over and as he begins to bend over and pick it up, he makes sure his rear end is sticking out towards Yuri.

"Okay, chris it was nice seeing you!" Phichit and Yuri both shrug at each other as chris gives a final wink towards Yuri, placing the book on the shelf again and exiting the store.

Mid way thought laughing to himself, Yuri stops in his tracks, "Wait, phitchit.."

"Yes Yuri?"

"Did you just say that Victor's new book was delivered here, TODAY?" Yuri shouts in excitement. Yuri's favourite author was Victor Nikiforov. Yuri had admired him since a little kid, purchased every novel he ever published and could only dream of meeting such a fantastic author one day.

"Hello? Yuri? Are you there" Yuri shook his head to rid the thoughts of one day meeting Victor from his head.

"Sorry yes?" Yuri spoke sincerely to Phichit.

"It's about a guys journey through life, and how he connects with the world spiritually," phitchit take his eyes off the blurb and turns to Yuri, "do you think it's actually about Victor himself?"

The boys spoke endlessly about Victors new novel, who it could be based off and they had actually read a few chapters to each other as the day went by. This is why they had opened the Book Store. The love they shared of reading and Victor, inspired them to have a shop filled of the things that they loved most.

They next day, Yuri was rearranging books in the window of the shop when the store bell rings.

As Yuri turned to say a cheerful 'welcome to the store', he froze. Yuri could not believe his eyes.

"V-victor?" He stutters.

"Oh, hello!," Victor smiles and waves at Yuri, "are you the owner of the store?" He questions and tilts his head.

"Ah- I - yes?" Yuri manages to say after a few stutters, "what are you doing here?"

"Was I not allowed here?" Victor asks, very surprised.

"Oh-no I- um"

Victor walks closer to Yuri as he continues to stutter. He reaches out and places his hand tenderly on Yuri's face, and yuri instanatly freezes. The soft pads of victors fingers softly caress his cheek.

Yuri is stunned, his feet are glued to the floor.

"I am only joking Yuri," victor smiles, "I've heard your book store is the best, am I wrong?" He pulls his hand from Yuri's cheek and turns to scan the books on display. As he does this the heat evades Yuri's face and he snaps out of his daze.

"Oh, well we're the only store that sells books only, uh - sir?" Yuri addresses Victor unsurely. Victor turns to Yuri with a frown on his face, "Victor is fine."

"Ahh Victor, you're here!" Phichit exclaims as he sees Victor from across the room.

"Wait you knew he was coming?" Yuri asks Phichit through gritted teeth. Yuri was almost mad at Phichit for not telling him his favourite author was in town, let alone in his book store.

"Yes he was was the one that called me!" Yuri turns towards Victor shocked at what he just heard. "He also told me it was a special day."

Yuri furrows his eyebrows in confusion, unsure of what Victor was going on about a 'special day'. "What do yo-"

Yuri was cut off by Victor, "show me your favourite books Yuri, I would like to know more about you!" Victor yells suddenly, leaping towards the small sofa that was placed in the middle of the store so that customers could read, taking Yuri with him.

Yuri couldn't help but notice the eye conversation that Victor and Phichit had seconds before he was yanked down onto the sofa by Victor but he shrugged it off anyway.

As Yuri pointed out his favourite novels and authors, Victor Included, Victor couldn't help but find himself feeling comfortable in the Aura that Yuri was giving off. He couldn't stop admiring the way that his eyes would light up when he spoke about something he enjoyed so much. The way Yuri would lean into Victors chest a little as he laughed at something he had said. Or the way Yuri would look at the ground and cross his legs when he felt uncomfortable. Even though Victor had known Yuri just a day, He knew a lot about him.

"Um, Victor," Yuri said breaking Victor from his thoughts, "I don't mean to sound rude, but you've been staring at me all day, is something wrong?" Yuri looked down, breaking eye contact from Victor.

Victor reached out his arm and lightly grabbed Yuri's face turning it towards him. He moved close, slightly brushing Yuri's bottom lip with his thumb. Victor had gotten so close to Yuri that their noses were almost brushing against each other. In a swift movement, Victor moved his head to Yuri's right ear. His lips brushed Yuri's earlobe with every word that escaped his mouth as Victor whispered, "I like to admire beautiful things from time to time."

Victor pulls away from Yuri smiling, and he gets up.

"I'll come see you tomorrow for that special day?" Yuri was at a lost for words, something that seemed to be happening a lot today since meeting Victor. All Yuri could do was nod and mutter a quick 'bye' before Victor left.

"PHICHITTT" Yuri screamed when he finally came back to reality, "WHAT WAS THAT!"

Phichit just smiled, "I'll see you tomorrow dear friend, you can lock up tonight! Bye"

Next day.

Yuri did not get a wink of sleep. So when he woke up he considered not going into work.

"Phichit, i can't id be falling asleep on all of the shelves when sorting them." Yuri pleaded to his best friend.

"I swear if you don't get your ass here," Phichit said, "Victors waiting for you."

At the mention of Victor, Yuri's eyes widen and his breath hitches in his throat.

"I'll be there."