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The days began to pass quickly to Yuuri. Every morning he woke up with a smile, something that was a rare occurrence in recent years due to his constant nightmares. It didn't matter if it was sunny or rainy Yuuri's smile was always present.

"I don't know what's come over me," Yuuri told himself one day as he got dressed, "I haven't been this happy since I was a kid."

At that moment Yuuri's smile faded. He hadn't thought about his family in a while. Everyone probably assumed he was dead. If he were ever to come home he wouldn't be surprised if he found a tombstone with his name on it.

"Hey Yuuri," the Japanese boy turned to the door when he heard Phichit from the other side. "Minako says there's a lot clouds out and is worried about a storm coming. Considering what happened last time, we want you to stay inside."

"Okay Phichit," Yuuri called from his side, "don't worry I won't step one foot on the grounds today."

"Thank you!"

Also worried about the storm Yuuri decided to put one of his warmer shirts. He sat in his room for a while. Before becoming bored.

"This is crazy," Yuuri fell back on the floor, "back home leisure time seemed like a fantasy. Now it happens also every day for me."

This was true back at Hatsetsu, the time Yuuri had on the lake made up most of his free time. Much of the day was spent doing chores around the inn, normally helping his mom. While he tried one more than one occasion to help the servants around the mansion, but due to the large staff or boredom the servants hardly ever accepted Yuuri's help.

"Wait a minute," Yuuri exclaimed, "I know what to do."

Soon Yuuri got up and left his room. He walked around the manor before heading to the room he sought out, the library. Once inside Yuuri explored the shelves. What made his search harder was that most of the books were in Russian and despite his time here Yuuri could not understand it when Yurio or Victor spoke it, let alone read it.

For some reason Yuuri found some of the shelves with paper taped to them. Out curiously he approached them. Reading the papers he found they each said what langue the books on the shelves were supposed to be in.

"This is new," Yuuri commented to himself walking into the shelves marked English. Yuuri began examining the shelves books from the past seemed perfectly lined up. One thing Yuuri found odd was that there didn't appear to be many modern books, sure he found classics like King Arthur and Romeo and Juliet but the most modern thing he found was John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and The Pearl. Yuuri was especially not going to be rereading The Pearl anytime soon.

"American Litature 10th grade was not the best," Yuuri said shuttering, holding The Pearl in his hands "what was Steinbeck thinking. How could anyone tell what the ending was saying?"

"Oh Yuuri there you are," Victor said approaching him, "what are you reding?"

"Oh I'm not going to read this," Yuuri said putting empathisi on not, "I had in 10th grade and I hated it. Mainly the ending."

"Isn't that the one about the two men in the Great Depression who work on a ranch and one has a mental disorder?" Victor asked only being able to see the author, not the title.

"No that's Of Mice and Men, this one's The Pearl both have the same author so it could be understable."

"What's that one about?"

"I if remember correctly," Yuuri began pausing, "it follows an indigenous couple on an island who make money with the man hunting for pearls. One day he finds a really big one and it ruins his life. I think it even causes a death but I forget who."

"Well that sounds sad," Victor said lying down.

"Most of the books I've read in high school were pretty sad, almost every one of them had a death in them somewhere in the main narritve. I never once read any of Shakespeare's comedies only his tradigies."

"Oh I have A Midnight Summer's Dream on the shelves somewhere that one is pretty funny."

"I guess I could check that one out," Yuuri pondered putting The Pearl back in its place.

"You should I laughed multiple times at it.

"One time I laughed was when I had to read Ethan Frome."

"Ugh don't mention that one." Victor rolled on his back. "We used to own that one until we had a general consensus to burn it."

"I wish I could do the same. The only reason I laughed was because it was that awful."

"Like the scene where Ethan kissed Maddie. Even the image in my mind made me cringe."

"I watched the movie and I had to watch the scene where Ethan kissed Maddie's sewing twice."

"Why twice?!" Victor sat up.

"We stopped shortly after and our teacher lost our place, so she ended up starting right before he kissed it. No joke my whole class freaked out when it played the second time."

"That might have been funny to see."

"You want to know how bad it was. Even the bookworm in my class hated it. I was in her group and for the first time I heard say that she gave up on the book."

"That doesn't make sense. Surly there was someone in your class that didn't hate the book."

"We had an Ethan is the worst literary character in world group. Half of them for our essay wrote alternate endings where he died."

"Were you part of this group?"

"No I wasn't a fan of Ethan but I disliked Maddie more."

"But Ethan cheated on his sick wife." Yuuri just shrugged as he continued searching through the books.

"You have a pretty decent collection of books in English."

"I used to have many visitors that spoke English. Then they stopped."

Yuuri didn't need to ask why. Knowing how painful this subject was he quickly sought a way to change it. "So which one do you prefer Romeo and Juliet or Julius Caesar?"

"Hmm. I say Romeo and Juliet. I did enjoy reading Julius Caesar, but I do tend to prefer romance stories. Oh I got question. Who do you think was more insane Romeo or Juliet?"

"Well," Yuuir thought for moment grabbing another book, "both did kill themselves and even attempted it beforehand. I guess Juliet because couldn't she just hide somewhere or sneak away with Friar Lawrence instead of taking the potion."

"I would argue Romeo. He's in love with Rosaline but seems Juliet then bam he loves her. Also unhealthy grieving method. You think she died so you poison yourself. He could have just cried over her body."

"Juliet reacted the same way as Romeo after he died."

"I understand hers more. Her love just died in her arms by poisoning himself. Wouldn't you do the same?"

"No I wouldn't die for someone I only knew for three days just to be with them. If I knew them longer maybe but it would have to be to protect them."

"Someone's trying to be a knight in shining amour." Victor laughed slightly.

"You want to go sit somewhere else and continue this conversation?"

"Why would I want this to end," Victor whispered to himself before nodding in reply.

AN: So this is what happens when you jump back from writing you're English research paper to the thing you actually want to write. It also doesn't help that you're still hung up about not being able to see the new Beauty and the Beast movie and hope this is how the library scene in the movie goes. Yeah this chapter was the result of circumstances, but I still got to write Vicuuri which is always a plus. Warning next chapters are going to be Vicuuri center but who cares, we were born to ship it. See you next chapter.