Christmas Eve was a day away, Alfred's aunt had already arived with her boyfriend, they took Alfred's room. This meant that the two stepbrothers would be sharing a room that only had one bed, the guest bed was in Alfred's room pressed against his bed so there would be enough room for Justine and Sam. Alfred and Matthew got dressed, the two of them made plans that day to see their boyfriend's. Gilbert was coming at noon to pick Matthew up and he was kind enough to drop Alfred off at Arthur's.

Alfred hid Arthur's present in his backpack with a smile, he got in the backseat. "Hey Gil what did you get Matty?" He asked and Gilbert laughed and shook his head. He looked over at Matthew real quick before looking back at the road.

"I'm not telling. What did you get Arthur, think he'll put out?" Gilbert joked and Matthew softly nudged him in the side, smirking at him. Alfred pulled out the box that held it out, Matthew took it so he could show the bracelets to Gilbert who waited until he reached a red light before he looked. "Wow those are nice, he's going to love it." Gilbert said as he lightly pressed on the gas.

"Thanks for the ride Gil, I think I can get Arthur to drop me off home. You two play safe." He winked and ran off. Matthew rolled his eyes and Gilbert drove off. They didn't talk much, Gilbert kept one hand on the wheel and the other reached over to take Matthew's hand. Matthew looked over at him and felt his face grow warm. Gilbert drove home, he had Matthew;s present in his room, sitting waiting for him on his bed.

Gilbert's grandfather was at home, cleaning out a few of his guns out on the kitchen table. "Gilbert when you're friend goes home I need to you to dust the living room and start on laundry, you were suppose to do it yesterday. Keep the door open." Mr. Weillschmidt grumbled as he held one of the guns in the light. Gilbert mumbled a silent 'fine' back, taking Matthew by the hand and taking him to his bed room. His blanket covered the stick and he had his plush toys hidden away in the closet, they were just a couple bears. It was a little awkward having to his his bears next to Ludwig's secret porn stash.

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Alfred knocked on the apartment door, Antonio was the one who opened it. "Arthur's still in the shower, your welcome to wait on the couch." He said and opened the door wide enough to let him inside. Lovino was already sitting on the couch, he looked a toxic mixture of annoyed, bored and angry. Alfred sat on the couch but as far away from him as he could, Lovino's temperature had always been short and Alfred hated to be anywhere near him when he exploded.

Lovino's leg was shaking and he was chewing on his thumb nail. It was like watching the time clock on a explosive. Tic tock, tick tock, boom. Alfred made sure not to stare at him, staring would only make thing worse. He stared over at Antonio, the poor bastard didn't have any clue what was going to happen. He wondered what he had done to get Lovino all worked up like this.

The bathroom door opened and a fully dressed Arthur came walking out, Alfred quickly stood up and took his hand leading him towards the door. Arthur grabbed his wallet and allowed himself to be dragged along. Once outside the apartment Alfred turned to him. "Your friend is fucked." He whispered so that he couldn't be heard from inside.

"Why do you say that?" Arthur asked as he dug for his keys in his coat pocket. Once he found them he started making his way toward the car. Ice covered everything and was hidden under neath mountains of snow. He looked up, there was even more snow coming down in marble sized fluffs.

"Lovino is mad about something, like super mad. Do you have any idea what Antonio could have done to get him all worked up like that?" he asked and Arthur shrugged his shoulders. The more he thought about it, there was plenty that Lovino could be mad about, Antonio was forgetful sometimes, and a bit of a flirt, actually he was the worse kind of flirt, he flirted without even realizing that he was doing it. It used to drive him up all wall when they dated.

The two of them on into the car, Alfred looked out the window and hoped nothing bad would happen between the two of them. Arthur drove so slow in the snow it was like he wasn't even moving at all, he didn't even allow the radio to turn on. Winter driving wasn't something he was real comfortable with. They stopped at a cafe for something warm to drink. They sat in the back, holding their drinks close. Adel was playing faintly over the speakers, it was calming in what normally would be a tense situation.

The cafe was crowded due to the cold, students from the high school stood in line whining for their fix of coffee. It was nerve wrecking sitting there with Alfred, anyone could get the wrong impression, worse case scenario would be that they were found out. Arthur lowered his head, he couldn't be seen on a date by the students or their parents. Then the English teacher he was assigned to walked inside. Arthur's heart stopped. "We should get out of here." He whispered and kept his eyes glued to the teacher.

Alfred looked over his shoulder to see what Arthur was looking at, he cursed when he saw the teacher and he quickly stood taking his drink and lowering his head down. They slipped out the door and quickly drove off. Alfred let out a sigh and he sunk down into his seat, his seat belt dug into his neck. "That was close, we should get to my house before we run into anyone else." he suggested and Arthur quickly agreed.

At least at Alfred's they didn't have to worry about getting caught. They reached Alfred's house without any further stress to ruin their date. They went inside and Alfred introduced him to his aunt Justine and her boyfriend Sam. After that they left the boys alone, understanding that they needed their privacy to give each other their gifts. Mr. Williams asked them to keep the bed room door open and he was silent after that. He then looked around. "Where's Matthew?" He asked.

"Oh he's at Gil's. He left before you got home, don't worry Gilbert's grandfather has today off." He said and took Arthur up the stairs so he could give him his gift.

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Gilbert sat on his own bed, avoiding the stick just under the covers. He felt the wrapper trying to figure out the gift before he opened it. Matthew watched him smiling. The paper tore off simply in on quick rip, it wasn't wrapped all that well, he had very little tape to work with, his stepmother had to go tape crazy because Alfred had a bad habit of peeking.

So the little fluffy bird sat in his hand, staring up at him with its cute round black eyes. It was so soft and Gilbert blushed, he guess that his secret love of toys wasn't so secret after all. "Thanks Matt it's really cute. He set it down on his night stand and reached under the covers pulling out the stick, it was wrapped but it wasn't hard to see what it was. Matthew smirked at him, taking the the stick from his hands and slipping the blade behind Gilbert's back.

"Come here." He smirked, biting his lower lip. He pulled against the stick, the blade of it pressed a little rougher into Gilbert's back. Gilbert stood from his bed and allowed the stick to pull him in. Matthew reached up and took Gilbert by the collar of his shirt, he tugged him down so their noses were touching. Gilbert filled the space between them, kissing him softly.

They both snapped around as they heard the sound of Mr. Weillschmidt clearing his throat. "You're brother, Feliciano, and Vargas are stuck on the side of the road some where. I have to go get them...behave yourself." He said never breaking eye contact with Gilbert. Matthew looked down blushing, but he licked his lips.

Mr. Weillschmidt sighed and turned around, getting his coat on and leaving. Either of them moved until they heard the sound of the car crushing snow under its tires as it drove off. Matthew set the stick behind him on the bed. "Hey Gil come back over here. He's gone." He smirked and watched as Gilbert's face turn red, he was so cute when he was blushing.

He moved back over to him and Matthew grabbed his shirt laughing softly as he pulled him in closer. They kissed again and Matthew leaned back, pulling Gilbert down with him. Matthew wrapped his arms around him, tugging at his shirt and biting at his lip. Gilbert ran his hand's down Matthew's sides, sliding them underneath his hoodie. Matthew kissed his neck, softly biting at his shoulder and sucking at the spot. Matthew moved back to kissing him after leaving behind a deep red mark.

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Alfred handed Arthur his gift and Arthur gave him his. They decided to open them at the same time. Arthur opened the box and saw the matching bracelets inside. "These are amazing Al!" He put one of them on and took the other out of the box and placed it onto Alfred's wrist for him. Alfred was wearing the necklace with the ring on it, smiling like a fool.

"Is this your ring?" He asked and Arthur nodded his head and Alfred kissed him, suddenly without warning. His eyes went wide but he closed them. A knock came from the open door. Alfred's aunt had her stick out still lightly tapping on the door.

"Pants on boys dinner is done. Arthie honey we have a place set for you, you are staying right?" She asked leaning against the door frame.

"Of course, we'll be down in just a second." He told her and she smiled at them, waving her hand in the air and walking off. Arthur turned back to Alfred and leaned in kissing him before standing up. He reached his hand out and smiled at him, Alfred smiled back at him and took his hand and got to his feet. They walked down stairs, holding hands all the way to the table.

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This chapter is part one of two, now if I got Alfred and Matthew almost entirely covered in this chapter then something is definitely going to go down between Lovino and Antonio.

Also by next year I will hopefully be moving out and with some friends. But to do this I have to double my car payment to get it paid off quicker. Hopefully my job decides to keep me.

So please review I will try to get the next chapter up as soon as possible. Sorry that the updates are taking so long, I've just been crazy busy with things going on.