"Hey honey," I heard Victor's voice behind me as he was sliding his arms against the leather couch. The squeaking of the friction between his arm and the leather couch was bothering, so I turned around to face him.
"Is there something you need?" I ask, staring back at him with innocent eyes.
"Yes," He cleared his throat. We're going back to Japan! Because I'm going to visit my two cousins." He jumped off the floor, making the floor bounce.
"Your...cousins…?" I wasn't sure if it was an excuse or not to make me visit my brother.
"Yes!" He vigorously nodded his head. "He plays a sport… I forgot what sport though. But let's go and see him play!" He dragged me to our rooms to pack our things.
The next day later, we arrived in Tokyo. "I've already told my cousin that we are crashing in their house for the time being." He smiled at me, dragging me to their house.
He pressed the doorbell of the house. "Have you been in Tokyo before?"
"Time to time…" I mumbled out.
The door opened up to see his cousin's parent that is his cousin. It's really confusing, I know. They even looked like Victor with the grey hair but different eye colors. "Hi, Victor!" The couple hugged him. "You must be his fiancee." The wife glanced at me up and down.
"Yes, my name is Liu Suyin." I introduced myself to the couple.
"This is my husband, Ryozo Haiba and my name is Lucya Haiba, Victor's first cousin." Lucya shook my hands.
"Nice to meet you" I smiled back at her. She was beautiful with her hair light grey hair with green eyes. She was Russian and her husband was Japanese.
"Come inside," She ushered us inside her house.
Their house was beautiful. The interior was modern but had a hint of a traditional Japanese home.
"Alisa…! Your uncle is here!" Lucya turned to us, "It's either to say Uncle than Cousin because it can get confusing." I nodded, understanding what she meant because it is confusing. He might as well call his cousin's kids niece and nephew so I won't get confused.
There the tall, slim, long haired young woman came walking towards us. I was at awe looking at her. She was beautiful just as her mother. Kids these days….be looking gorgeous. I remember my days where we didn't have all those fashion and makeup. Her eyes were two different colors, one light brown and the other blue. In up close, she was taller than me, close to Victor's height… Her eyelashes was long and thick, how beautiful it was. Ryozo and Lucya made some beautiful kids.
"Hi Uncle Victor! She must be your fiancee that you proposed to her on air." She glanced at me then back to Victor.
"Yes she is. My Suyin is very cute." Victor pulled me into a hug.
"Alisa." She told me her name.
"Suyin." I replied.
"You looked so beautiful in the interview! You dress looked so cute."
"Oh thank you…!" I slightly blushed, covering my mouth.
"You're making her blush, Alisa." Victor teased, earning a laugh from her.
"Come on you guys, our guests just got here. Let them rest in their room for a bit." Lucya reminded Alisa.
We were guided to our guest room that we shared. Victor jumped onto the bed, laying out like a starfish with arms and legs spread out. "Don't take all the space," I scolded him, getting on the bed, making it sink, placing myself inside his arm.
"OH MY GOD!" He pulled me up in the process as he screamed.
"What is it?" I looked at him with a stank face.
"My cousin has a game."
"Just say nephew, so I won't get confused."
"I need one of them to show us his school because there's a tournament. He's playing against this other Japanese school team." He carried me in his arms as he walked out of the bedroom to the living room.
"Lucya, where is his school?" He asked, still carrying me.
"I'll just take you. I don't want you guys to get lost in Tokyo." Lucya offered, taking us to her car.
Less than twenty minutes later, we arrived to the school. The high school was a decent size and there was even a flag telling us its name: Metropolitan Nekoma High. "That's a long name for a school…" I looked over at Victor who was still talking with Lucya. I love how Victor can bond with his cousin even at the far distance like this. "Victor! Come on!" I yelled to him, then he waved goodbye to Lucya before running up to me.
"Sorry, Lucya was just telling me her plans for us. She wants to spend much quality time with us because we're family from far distance." He led me inside, as we searched where the tournament will be taken placed.
"Victor, do you even know where you are going?" I asked, as we went around in circles.
"Are you guys lost?" We both turned around to see a boy with light brown hair.
"Yeah, my fiance and I are trying to find where the tournament is taking place. We're seeing his relative play a sport that even my fiance doesn't know." I explained to the light brown haired teen. We were about the same height as stood afar from each other.
"Oh! You mean the volleyball tournament?" He asked.
"VOLLEYBALL! Yes the volleyball tournament." Victor screamed, then remembering to lower down his voice.
"Well, come this way. We're doing our warm ups." He gestured us and we followed behind the young teen.
In no time, we arrived to the gym. I looked at Victor with a tensed face. "Why didn't we think about the gym…" I sighed, feeling dumb that most sports are taken in the GYM.
"We wouldn't find it anyways." He slung an arm around my shoulders.
"True, but we could've still search for it."
Walking into the gym, we were stared at. "Yaku, who are these people?" I'm guessing it was the captain that asked.
"They were searching for the gym so they could watch our tournament."
So that boy's name is Yaku…
"Lyovochka!" Victor yelled, opening his arms out to the giant volleyball player with light grey hair and green eyes.
"Uncle Vitya!" He came and hugged Victor.
I stood at the sideline looking at them. They seem to have the bubbly and optimistic personality. Does it run in their bloodline?
The giant volleyball player turned to me with a boyish smile. "You must be Aunt Suyin…!" He came in and hugged me, shocking me in the process with my body tensed up a bit, but slowly relaxed into his hug. I patted his back slowly with a small smile.
"Suyin, this is Lev. Isn't he a giant player?! I'm proud of him that he's playing in a sport." Victor stood next to me.
Lev released me. "I feel short! Why are Russian so tall?! Like Alisa is tall, Lucya is tall, and even Lev is taller than them…! But I also noticed that Lucya has a thing for an asian guy and like you, you have a thing for this asian girl." I pointed out to him.
"Yes, that's true." Victor agreed.
"Oh, Uncle Victor and Aunt Suyin, this is my volleyball team…" Lev introduced us to his teammates.
"WAIT I'VE SEEN YOU BEFORE!" Yamamoto yelled, scrunching up his mohawk. "YOU'RE...YOU'RE VICTOR NIKIFOROV, THE ICE SKATERRRR AND OLYMPIAN…!" He jumped around as everyone started to take notice of who he was.
"Aren't you famous." I snickered at Victor, nugging him.
"You're the girl that he proposed to when he was doing his interview, right?" One of them asked.
"Wouldn't it be me? Who else did he propose other than me?" I stared up at Victor who looked shook by what I said.
"You're the only girl that I've ever proposed to and who broke my heart long ago…" He nervously chuckled, grabbing onto me.
"Let's go sit down." I rubbed his back, leading him to the benches.
After the intense play of two schools playing against each other, we were walking home together. "Aunt Suyin, you and Uncle Victor had some history, right? I remember my mom telling me this when I asked about Uncle Victor." I didn't expect him to bring that up.
"Yeah, we did… Your mom told you everything that happened right?" I nervously chuckled. I'm not scared to talk about it, but is came out of nowhere.
"Yeah, she blamed Victor for breaking your heart." I bursted out laughing.
"It is his fault….!" I kept on laughing until, I was suddenly pulled by Victor around my waist.
"Hey...I'm right here, you know?" I heard the pain in his voice.
"I'm not mad. It's all in the past, okay? We all make mistakes in our lives." I placed a kiss on his cheek.
We got home before the night fell. Lucya already made food as we arrived at home. "Come you guys! It's time for dinner!" Lucya made delicious food to eat.
Lucya leaned in to speak to me, "Have you and Victor ever had sex yet?" I almost choked on my food that I was eating.
"No, because I was pregnant with my late husband's child until I had a miscarriage like a month ago." I explained to her. "So we never did it." I shyly said, even though I'm a grown woman.
"You guys will have to do it. It's going to happen sooner or later. Every man wants to love their true love, knowing that they'll be with them through thick and thin. I bet he has been holding it back because he loves and respects you and your boundary." She whispered.
"What are you two talking about?" Victor chimed in, leaning onto me, wanting to hear the conversation that was taking place between us girls.
"Girl talk, Victor. Something you'll not understand." Lucya replied to his question, shutting him down.
Later as we still ate... "Come on, Suyin, you need to eat more so you have a lot of meat to bare a child!" Lucya scolded me.
"I can't eat anymoreeee!" I cried out, banging my head against the wooden table with arms out. I felt Victor's hand rubbing my back in circles. "My stomach is going to explode…" I groaned.
"Lucya, we're both going to rest for tonight." Victor said, carrying me in his arm to our room.
He placed me on the bed as he crawled to the other side. "Lucya's right. You need to eat more to have my kids." He teased, earning a hit to his shoulder.
"We have to get marry at least, meaning after our wedding then we can have a kid."
"But we're engaged." He whined, pulling me into his chest.
"But I wanna look nice for the wedding day…" I whined back at him like a child wanting to throw a tantrum.
"You're going to be beautiful even if you are pregnant on our wedding day." His hand trailed down from my back to my butt, squeezing it firmly, making me jerk.
"Vitya! I-I mean Victor!" I accidentally didn't mean to say 'Vitya', it came out from my mouth and so I quickly covered my mouth.
He slowly position himself on top of me as a smirk grew on his lips. "I've been holding back for a long time, Suyin. After what you called me, I can't hold back the beast inside… You better prepared yourself."
I sighed, preparing myself because like Lucya said, it was going to happen sooner or later.