Chapter 4!

Alfred was just just pulled inside to get warmed up right? That's what Alfred originally thought. However, it's been half an hour or maybe more since he'd started thawing and he's now toasty and ready to get back out to find his brother.

"I think what you need is another cup of tea." Arthur suggested when hearing the younger one's plans.

The American rolled his eyes and said, "No, actually, I think I better go find my brother." then he stood up.

"One more cup couldn't hurt?" the Brit said with his voice displaying his desperation.

"Yeah, it could- Mattie could be stranded out there in the cold! Having tea takes up the time he has for me to find him!" Alfred was determined to go, so he went.

Outside was worse than it had been earlier. The snow was piling up making it harder to walk and the snow was falling fast. The wind blowing at an angle so his hat came off and flew back to the Kirkland residence just as as bundled Brit stumbled down the stairs.

Trudging through the snow, Arthur called, "Hey! I'm coming with you!"

"Why? You'll freeze to death! You should go back in."

"If you think I'll freeze to death, so will you! You're the one who should be going back inside." he replied, already shivering as they walked down the street.

"I need to get my brother and that's that." they ended up just walking in silence down a few streets.

"Where are we going?" Artie asked, "I don't think I can stand not knowing the plan."

"Plan? What plan? I'm just walking around until I find him, then we can bring him back to your house or something."

Arthur stopped walking, "Wait- do you know where we are?" he asked.

"No, do you? And why does it even matter?"

"What do you mean 'why does it even matter'! How can we get back to my house if we don't know where we are?"

"We can just look at he street signs." Alfred explained then looked up to see that all the signs were iced and snowed over far past the point of being able to be read.

"That's just brilliant." Arthur murmured, "Do you recognize anything that might give us a hint?"

"Like what? Everything's covered in snow."

"I have no bloody idea, just look around. It's too cold out here, we have to get back." It seemed like the cold made Arthur angry, Alfred made a mental note to remember that later. He looked around and at first all he saw was snow and more snow. Then he looked closer at a small snow covered building.

"I think I might recognize that place, I need to look closer though." Alfred said then began walking over to it. He brushed off the snow from one side of the building and saw a familiar sign that read: NO TRESPASSING ON CITY PROPERTY in faded red words.

"I know this place, come on." Alfred said, waving his cold boyfriend over and opening the door. On the inside you could tell that it was a hand made shed made from wood and concrete. There were small windows along the top of the walls under the edge of the roof that looked out to the tiny city park. Underneath the windows were shelves with gardening equipment and a lawnmower sat abandoned in the corner.

"The sign says no trespassing." Arthur commented but he still followed Alfred and closed the door behind them.

"That's what it says, but I don't think they'll mind if we use it for a little while." Alfred said looking around and remembering when he was younger, "Me and Mattie-"

"Mattie and I" Arthur corrected.

"Right, Mattie and I came here for easter along time ago." Alfred said, sitting down on the ground and Arthur did the same, "We found that dad had hid eggs everywhere. He has a tendency to forget about Matthew, so he hid an uneven number of eggs that were just for me. I wanted to give half of them to Mattie, but when I did, there was an even amount. Dad said that there was one more hidden somewhere so we spent the rest of the day looking for it. When we finally found it, it was hidden fight here." Alfred pointed to a bucket on a shelf to his right.

"After that we would come here every easter and pretend that we didn't know were the last egg was hidden. Then we'd come here and find it. Our parents always acted so surprised when we found it, as if they thought it was impossible to find. Then Mattie, being Mattie, would always give the last one to me saying that I deserved it 'cuz I'm the hero."

Arthur replied with silence to let the American have his moment.

"You know, he's probably safe and warm at a friends house right now."

"I know."

Arthur was surprised, "Then why did we have to go out searching for him?"

"Because I'm his brother, and I have to try to save him even if it's 99% chance that he doesn't needs saving. That 1% chance that's left could mean losing him and not just that: he would think that I didn't care about him." Alfred knew he wasn't always there for his bro, and he regretted that.

Arthur leaned over and kissed his cheek, then his lips. Alfred pulled him closer, thankful for the warmth. The older one seemed just as happy about the warmth, but decided to pull of Alfred's jacket anyway. When he did, he heard a clunk when it hit the floor.

"What was that?" he asked.

"My phone. But can't we just go back to kissing?"

"You had a phone this whole time? Why didn't you just call Matthew's phone?"

"I, I-uh," Alfred had to think for a second, "I'm not sure." he admitted.

Arthur got up, grabbed the phone out from the jacket's pocket, and began searching through the contacts until he found "Bro" then he pushed send. He held the phone to his ear, and waited for someone to pick up.

When they did, they said, "Hey, Awesome speaking, who is it?"

Arthur automatically said, "Mr. Kirkland." before he could stop him self.

So I the phone that rang ending the last chapter is this phone call, just in case you didn't catch that :)

so the next chapter finally will bring everyone together!