He’s making excuses. Excuses, excuses, Yuri is as sick of them as he was before, perhaps even more so now. He’s heard them all repeatedly, been given every single one that could have been imagined in the past. Yuri doesn’t care for such things, he finds them ridiculous, and yet the most pathetic one he can recall are the ones he’s telling himself now.
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Yuri Plisetsky has disappeared without a trace, leaving behind his best friend and worried "parents". It doesn't take much before the champions of the figure skating world are suddenly thrown into a man hunt across the globe, and for the love of all that there is, he's somehow forgotten his phone.