Mrs. Williams stood in the kitchen, using her shoulder to hold her phone to her ear. "No, don't get a hotel, you guys can stay here for Christmas. You two can use Alfred's room, he wouldn't mind." She said with a big huge smiled. Alfred looked up from the table after hearing his his name. Matthew was still asleep, he saw no reason why he should have to get out of bed this early on a weekend, plus it was Christmas vacation. Mrs. Williams talked a while longer before hanging up. "Looks like Justine and her boyfriend are staying here for Christmas." She was really excited about this.

"Really! That's awesome, I haven't seen her in years." Alfred said. His Aunt Justine is blind, has been ever since birth, but she never let this hold her back, she is now a lawyer. Her boyfriend Sam is a military recruiter, he pretty much goes around to different schools telling them about the military. After all the military is a career, its not something you can do as a last resort, you have to want to be there.

Libby nodded, it had been awhile since her and her little sister spent any real time together and she was really excited to meet the boyfriend. After n another hour or so Matthew finally awake from his slummer and walked heavy footed down the steps. His hair was a mess, just like every other time he woke up, the tangled cluster fuck of twisting turning waves never ceased to puzzle and anger him. He grabbed something to eat before slumping his way back up the stairs.

Alfred cornered him just as he was about to enter the bathroom for his daily ritual of taming his wild mane of hair. "We're going shopping." He told him, there was no room for debate in the matter. Matthew tried to move past him, he wasn't about to go anywhere looking the way he did, but his brother was stubborn and kept blocking his path. "You have to help me find Arthur something for Christmas! I can help you find something for Gilbert." He said and Matthew stopped.

He still needed to get Gilbert something, so with out much thought on the matter he agreed. Alfred then moved out of his way, allowing him to enter the bathroom. Matthew closed the door behind him and locked it so he would have a moment of privacy. He fixed his hair and exited, Alfred was waiting just outside the door. He shoved a change of clothes into his brother's arms and shoved him back into the bathroom. With a annoyed grumbled Matthew got changed and the two of them went down stairs.

Alfred then begged for his mother to take them to go Christmas shopping. She stared at her child and began to wonder why all her teachings of manners never sunk in but with a sigh she gave in and drove the boys up to the mall, dropping them off so she could do some shopping of her own. "Remeber Alfred keep it under a hundred dollars this year please, and for the love of god do not buy your own present. As for you Matthew the same rules aply." She handed them one of her credit cards, whispering a silent prayer as it slipped though her fingers and into the unknown.

Her son smiled and she frowned, she watched as her card slid into his pocket and out of her sight. Before she could change her mind she drove off, leaving them there and hoping that they would listen to her. If not she was taking one of their presents back, no matter how bad it made her feels, rules have to be followed.
Matthew and Alfred entered the mall, they looked over at each other. "So do you have any idea what you want to get Arthur?" Matthew asked and Alfred nodded his head with a grate big smile.

"Matching bracelets, come on I'll show you. I already asked the lady about them and well just come on." He grabbed Matthew by the wrist and pulled him into the jewelery story. He pointed at to bracelets, one of them was more feminine and the other more masculine. These were clearly boyfriend girlfriend bracelets and not the cheep kind either, even on sale they were still over seventy dollars. Alfred peered in at them and Matthew stared at him, his brother looked like a love stuck fool.

He frowned he never seen anything as adorable as this. "You're really serious about him aren't you?" Matthew asked and Alfred looked up at him, still smiling as big as ever.

"Yeah I mean I like him a whole lot, it might even be love at this point. You must think its weird,the age difference between him and me...he can't even touch me, it against the law, but I want to go further then just what we are now...I can tell that he does to. We can be intimate without being sexual, but being intimate with him just its just ahhh." Alfred's face got all red and he looked back at the bracelets.

Matthew patted him on the back. "The age difference isn't weird Al, look at our parents. My friend Yao, his parents have a eleven year age gap and they worked out just fine. You'll be eighteen before you know it, relax." He said and Alfred smirked and gave a laugh.

"You make a good point and it could be worse. I could be Lovino, poor guy has so much sexual frustration built up, I'm surprised he hasn't ripped Antonio's clothes off...with his teeth." Alfred said and Matthew made a face due to the mental image that popped in his head. Alfred bought two of the guy bracelets and they walked out of the store. "So what are you getting Gilbert. If you need a clue I'll tell you something. That guy has a serious weak point for fluffy stuffed animals, its actually a really cute feature about that guy. He's all 'I lift fucking wights at the gym, I eat meat like a mother fucker, aww look at the fluffy puppy, I'll punch you.'"

Matthew laughed a little. "You forgot his obsession for the military. For a guy who hates being told what to do, he loves the military with a passion unmatched."

"Ha I beg to differ no one loves the military as much as I do. That's what I want to do after school, join the air force and fly in the open sky, there is nothing more free then that. To bad my eyesight is bad, they won't let me fly but I can still join and do my part." He said and Matthew nodded. Matthew respected the military but it was something he wasn't to keen on joining himself. His goal right now for when he was out of school was to get back to Canada, hopefully with Gilbert still with him.

They walked into another store and Alfred had another question to ask. "How are you guys doing? Like relationship wise. I know it hasn't been that long since things became official but how do you feel about it?" He asked and Matthew stopped walking. His brain was thinking to hard about the questions to also keep the movement of his legs going forward.

"We're doing fine I think...I'm happier now that its like this. Its just I've never been real good at these relationship things, so I try not to think of it like that, instead I think of it like 'hey I like this person so I'm going to hang out with them and make out here and there, no stress'. But I wonder constantly, like am I moving to fast for him, am I going to slow, when do I have him meet dad? Is he at the same stage I am and if he isn't then how do I express myself in a way that won't totally freak him out." He said, his voice growing a little higher in pitch as he talk. Alfred took a step back and stared at him with his eyes a little wider then normal.

"Dude relax...are you freaking because you've had a couple wet dreams." He asked and Matthew's whole face turned red.

"I don't know what yo..."

"Don't lie man, you can smell that shit. Calm down, it happens, I'm not judging you. Everyone gets them and its nothing to be ashamed of, you really need to not put so much thought into it, just jerk it out and chill." Alfred said and Matthew began to walk away from him.

"I am not having this talk with you, this has gotten far to weird. I'm going to look at the stuff animals, meet me there when you're done being creepy." He said and Alfred gave a laugh. Matthew reached the stuff animals. Most of them were bears, a couple were rabbits, which Tim came by and grabbed a couple of the rabbits. He looked over at Matthew.

"He likes birds...if that helps." He said and Matthew looked over at him.

"Thanks, so ho are the rabbits for?" Matthew asked and Tim just stared down at them, it was taking him much longer to answer then Matthew thought it would. Finally he looked up from the toys.

"My sister." He said and quickly walked off. Matthew smirked to himself, Tim didn't have a sister. He looked around, petting the heads of a couple stuffed bubble bees. Then buried under the rainbow colored unicorns was a fluffy yellow shape. Matthew saw it just out of the corner of his eye and he grabbed it, it was a baby chicken no bigger then a baseball. Alfred looked over his shoulder, with out his brother even knowing he was there.

"That one is cute." He said in his ear getting a large frightened jump from Matthew. "Are you going to get it?" He asked. Matthew glared at him but gave a nod. They went to check out, neither saying a word purely out of the fact that they knew it would only turn into a highly awkward and uncomfortable talk about who knows what. Matthew bought the fluffy chicken and they continued to look around, but they didn't buy anything else.

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Hey everyone here is part one of the three part Christmas special. Next up Lovino and Gilbert! I hope you all like it.

As for my life so far I'm still jobless but I'm looking. My birthday is coming up July 19th man its so close I can feel it. Hopefully I get a lot of birthday money from family so I can have some money in the bank to make my car payment for next month. I really hope I find a job soon, I'll be in some pretty deep shit if I don't.

Well please review and have a wonderful day.