All Chapters of Hearts on Ice: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

His breathing broke apart violently.“No—”“Hey—hey hey—” Viktor sat up instantly despite the pain shooting through his ankle aggressively.“Lukas what happened?!”Lukas stared at him like he’d seen a ghost and rain hammered against the apartment windows now. Louder and more violent. The same kind of rain from the dream…from back then when he left.“You—” His voice cracked harshly.“You kissed me.”Viktor froze completely as the silence swallowed the room whole. Then slowly he tilted his head,“…what?”Lukas looked sick to the stomach…actually sick like something rotten had finally clawed its way back to the light after years buried deep enough to survive.“You kissed me,” he whispered again, eyes wide and shaken. “When we were just kids.”Viktor’s expression shifted instantly not from confusion but recognition. It was small at first. Then it was horrible.“Oh.”The sound left him quietly before he could stop it and Lukas noticed immediately and his entire face twisted. with disgust.

The automatic café doors slid open and Nikola walked in first, laughing loud enough for everyone to turn heads immediately.“…and then you looked at me like I personally offended your bloodline.”“You did offend my bloodline,” Elias answered calmly behind him, carrying two coffees and looking painfully unbothered about it.Nikola grinned wider over his shoulder. “You’re already obsessed with me.”“That’s unfortunate for both of us.”It was early. The sky outside still looked pale and sleepy while the rink building buzzed with irritated athletes dragged out of bed for Coach’s “emergency morning training” since the semester was ending. “Last training.” They heard those words at least once every week and coach kept lieing either way. But a training this early meant only one thing…someone fucked up.Nikola stretched dramatically as they walked through the hall toward the rink entrance, hoodie hanging loose over one shoulder while Elias walked beside him slower, calmer…like he always did.

Lukas woke up before Viktor did…mostly because Viktor had somehow slept halfway on top of him during the night again. One leg tangled between Lukas’s, warm breath against his throat and one hand still gripping Lukas’s shirt like even asleep he needed proof Lukas was still there and honestly? Lukas should’ve been annoyed but instead, he just stared at him. The apartment stayed quiet except for distant morning traffic and soft rainwater dripping from somewhere outside while weak sunlight spilled through the curtains slowly and Viktor looked peaceful asleep…too peaceful, like the grief from yesterday got paused temporarily. Lukas reached up absentmindedly and brushed messy blond strands away from his forehead carefully and Viktor immediately made a sleepy sound before digging even closer to Lukas instinctively.“…five more minutes,” he mumbled, almost like a plea, against Lukas’s neck and Lukas snorted quietly.“You said that forty minutes ago.”“That's a lie”“You drooled on my shoulder

Exams started and lasted for two weeks. Two long, exhausting, miserable weeks of sleepless nights, filled coffee cups everywhere and silence so dense inside the apartment it started feeling alive…not loud silence either, not fighting and not screaming…it was worse. The kind where Lukas still handed Viktor painkillers without asking but never touched his fingers while doing it, the kind where Viktor still made coffee for both of them every morning automatically but left Lukas’s mug on the counter instead of giving it to him directly…the kind where they still slept in the same bed every night but stayed on opposite sides like the middle space between them carried landmines. It was unbearable yet neither of them knew how to fix it.***The first few days after the restaurant incident felt awkward enough to be physically hurt. Lukas had become quieter…careful around Viktor almost like he just finally realized Viktor could flinch away from him and now every touch came with hesitation attac

The apartment smelled faintly like coffee and rain and Nikola woke up first which honestly felt weird enough already. H e snuggled against something warm and solid and for a few peaceful seconds then he paused completely, still.sleepy enough that his brain hadn’t started embarrassing him yet. Then slowly, realization crawled back in pieces…it was not his bed, not his apartment, not his pillow…not even a pillow.Oh.Nikola’s eyes blinked open slowly and immediately landed on Elias asleep beneath him and unfortunately for him? That was the sexiest thing Nikola had ever seen in his entire life.Morning light spilled lazily through half-open curtains, stretching gold across Elias’s bare chest while one arm rested loosely around Nikola’s waist like it had just been there naturally all night. His dark hair looked messy from sleep and his face…God. He looked softer asleep, less guarded and Nikola did the only thing he could think of. Stare shamelessly.“…this is actually insane,” he whispere