Dirt On Victor Nikiforov:
From Teen Gossip
Author: Liliya Kalinina
Ladies, it's Liliya again and I'm here with some news that you may or may not want to hear! Whether or not you want to hear it depends on if you're a fan of the famed Russian skater Victor Nikiforov.
Now I know at this point many of you are sitting there, or standing (I won't judge if you read a magazine standing up), looking at this article confused as to whatever I could mean, and boy do I have quite a story for you. If you're a long time follower of my articles in this magazine, or even if you're not, you most likely know how I used to interview Victor Nikiforov quite a bit.
Usually these interviews were in reference to soulmates - his in particular. As you all, the readers, were constantly asking for more and more about our rising skating star. It was usually a happy interview and Victor could almost always be quoted saying something along the lines about how he was actively looking for his soulmate.
How many of us actually believed that though? He's the top figure skater in Russia, as well as the entire world, and we're supposed to believe that he was able to take a break and search for his soulmate. Of course not.
Did anyone believe that he was waiting to find his soulmate before engaging in more 'intimate' acts? Most likely not. At least most of us didn't.
I went to get a simple interview with Victor once again, as I had many times before. When I was asking him one of my questions, he simply became angry at me for basically no reason. Whenever I would attempt to speak to calm him down all he did was cut me off.
During his angry outburst at one point he almost told me to shut up and let him talk. Now, this doesn't seem like the Victor we all know and love. But aside from the unwarranted angry outbursts, while he was talking he said something interesting relating to what I said above.
Victor blurted out that in fact he has had many lovers. I put emphasis on the word ma-
Victor's eyes barely reached the second reiteration of the word "many" before his glare shot up to Yakov who was sitting across from him. His coach had angrily slammed the magazine down on the table, plainly telling him to read the article that the magazine was open to.
The skater obliged, picking up the magazine to read the mentioned article. As he continued down the page he had to do everything in his power to not rip the magazine in half.
"Mila ran in to show this to me this morning. Want to explain?" Yakov stated with annoyance and slight anger in his voice. He stared Victor down from across the table they were sitting at, his arms were crossed in front of his chest.
A quiet growl escaped Victor's mouth as he continued to glare at this disgrace of an article in front of him.
"This is from when she came in months ago I assume?" The sound of annoyance not leaving Yakov's voice for even a second as he continued to question the skater in front of him.
"Yes." Victor's voice was low and was also laced with annoyance and anger. He was angry at both himself and the reporter who decided to write this. Inside Victor began beating himself up over the fact that he didn't watch his tongue like he learned to so long ago when he was talking to her. This was his fault. He knew it.
"Explain why and how this happened." Yakov continued to lay into Victor, ultimately just wanting to get an answer out of him. This type of negative article in the media could drastically affect the skater's career if he wasn't careful. Something he already proved that he hadn't been.
Earlier that morning, when she ran in with the article, Mila assured Yakov that this magazine wasn't one of the overly popular ones. It had a following, but the news wouldn't immediately spread like wildfire.
"I was going to answer her questions. I swear I was. But she didn't come here for questions, Yakov. It's all a lie. She's lying in her article. I didn't just start angrily yelling at her without anything to provoke me." Victor placed his face in his hands and let out a loud exasperated groan at what he would call his own stupidity. He silently cursed himself.
'"Vitya," Yakov sighed. Victor barely looked up from his hands but it was enough for Yakov to continue what he was going to say. "I really want to yell at you right now. I do," Victor chuckled at the thought of Yakov not yelling at him. Yakov just sent him a glare that brought him to a stop. "But your birthday's tomorrow. Go rest, I'll figure this out." Yakov let out a deep sigh as he finished, "Victor you will never do this again, or your career will most likely fall right out of your grasp."
~oO0Oo~
The following day Victor had to drag himself out of his bed and plaster a smile on his face. He never wanted this whole article problem to affect him to the degree that it had. No matter what he felt, inside he knew that once he was in the public eye again he'd have to be the happy skater everyone knew and loved.
Anything at this point could become an issue. Of course, being positive was the only thing Victor could think of that could possibly bring this conflict to an end. Although Yakov did say he would take care of it, the question was how long that would take.
It didn't help him that today was his birthday. Another birthday, another year closer to retirement from the sport he loved so much. The sport that he dedicated his entire life, entire being to. Victor sighed as he tamed his unruly hair with his fingers, he decided that he should probably cut the long locks at some point coming up.
Although he was only 22, 23 later that day, retirement came up fairly quickly for figure skaters. Their beloved sport was beyond taxing on all of their bodies.
Victor stared at himself in his bathroom mirror for a minute before he was cut off by a knock at the door followed by a female voice calling his name.
The skater let out an audible sigh as he walked towards the door to open it. On the other side of the door stood a portion of the Russian skating team, Mila, Georgi, and their coach Yakov.
Mila and Georgi were the most energetic out of the group, both holding presents in their outstretched hands. Yakov stood off to the side, his arms crossed against his chest looking as though he was dragged here against his will, the party hat on his head made Victor smile a little. It didn't fit the tough persona his coach always assumed.
"Happy birthday, Victor!" Mila and Georgi said in unison as they held their gifts out farther for their fellow skater. "And a Merry Christmas!" Mila added in a sing-song like voice.
Victor smiled as he tilted his head to the side slightly. This was a welcome surprise for him. "Thank you, both of you. Don't be strangers, come in."
"Can we?" The young red haired girl's eyes widened at the idea. Georgi gently nudged her in the side with his elbow in a joking manner.
"Why not?" Victor smiled at the both of them, chuckling at the stars still in Mila's eyes. "Feel free to make yourselves at home, you caught me just after I woke up," Victor continued as he led the three of them into his apartment.
"We wanted to know if you wanted to come to the Christmas party today," Georgi turned to look at the long haired skater after setting the gift he was holding onto the table.
"Sure, it sounds fun," Victor smiled as he reached for some clothes out of his drawer. "I'll go get ready."
A Christmas party would be a perfect opportunity to just possibly turn his day around. Although it had just begun, Victor could already guess that he would need some more cheer that day.
"Come on! Let's go celebrate!" Victor watched as his soulmate was pulled around by his new roommate, Phichit. The conversations they shared became a lot funnier to Victor who now could understand their English.
"Phichit slow down!" His soulmate cried out as he struggled to keep up with his friend.
"Never! We are going to celebrate your first Christmas in America!"
His soulmate groaned as he gave in and ran with Phichit to wherever their destination was to be.
~oO0Oo~
Once Phichit stopped running they both were slightly panting as they attempted to catch their breath. Phichit was the first to stand up straight once again and start talking. "Didn't you say that in Japan Christmas is celebrated as a lover's holiday?"
"Uh huh," He replied nodding his head as well.
"Wouldn't it be amazing to be able to celebrate it like that with your soulmate?" Phichit placed his hands over his heart as he continued in an almost dreamlike state, "Going to view all the beautiful lights, walking down the streets, kisses under the mistletoe, hugs by the fireplace." He happily sighed, "That sounds wonderful. Hey - you never told me if you found your soulmate!"
Victor's heart jumped slightly at the English words. He was the soulmate that the Thai boy was referring to. He figured his soulmate easily would have figured out that the Victor Nikiforov was his soulmate. Especially considering that his own soulmate was not only a fan of figure skating but also specifically a fan of his. Now would be the moment when he would finally hear whether or not he was correct.
"Oh, I guess I never did," His soulmate chuckled a little as he scratched the nape of his neck. "I honestly think I got matched wrong. It can't be right. What was it that you wanted to show me again?"
Although his soulmate's final statement was enough to change Phichit's focus to the Christmas lights that apparently everyone just had to see, they weren't enough for Victor to change thoughts. No. His thoughts were still on the statement that he understood as clear as day, his soulmate didn't believe that he should be matched with Victor.
That moment, while watching his soulmate stand in awe of the amazing lights, Victor vowed to find his soulmate and win his heart. He could tell just simply from these dreams that he would fall in love with this other boy the moment he met him. Victor could only hope the same thing would happen when his soulmate met him and realized that his fears were irrational. The probability that someone had been matched wrong was classified close to none. Not that there weren't anomalies, there were plenty of those.
Victor decided that his Christmas wish was to win the heart of his soulmate when they finally met.
Ahhhh don't hate me! I'm sorry for the slightly angsty holiday chapter! It just happened D: Here's the thing, some of you wanted to see what our favorite reporter would write so it happened! Also Victor kind of hates his birthday because he would have to start thinking about retiring. You guys wanted a holiday chapter, and I obliged like I said I would. Although I never said that it would be a happy holiday chapter, now did I? No I didn't :P But try and keep this in mind as we just may come back to this topic later in the story! I'm planning on having at least 9 more updates for this story, but there will probably be more for the fact that there may be some extras that I want to write ;) I hope you all have a good holiday! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or anything else! I personally celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas :D Remember I love you all so much! Thank you to everyone who favorites, follows, reviews, and reads this story!
Also happy birthday to our wonderful Victor Nikiforov!
See you guys next update! As always this story is betaed by sandypenguin6!
