Long ass chapter ahead almost 4000 words.-
(credit to Starla's art studio for making the base I'll use for the outfits shown.)

Two months later-

Arthur happened to be playing with a biscuit with a feather on a stick when his brothers called him. "Seam... I'm not even going try to say that name and Brian?" Victoria asked when she grabbed the phone to give it to Arthur.

"Oh, it's my brothers. I wonder what they want," he asked picking up the phone.

(S for Seamas, B for Brian, A for Arthur, 2 for both Seamas and Brian.)

A" Hello?"

2" Iggy!! How are you?"

A" Hey guys! I'm doing good? How are you guys doing? How's Peter?"

S" We're doing good, good! Works been tough."

B" Peter has been a butt like always, But he met a few friends, he's actually at a sleepover right now."

Arthur laughs at his brother's comment about Peter.

A" Well I'm glad he's gotten some friends to stay with when you guys aren't there. So, what did you call for? You guys usually don't call like this."

2" Know us too when Arthur."

B" We want to invite you to a show!"

S" Would you like to come to one of our shows? You can come with a friend of course! Peter is coming with two friends and one of the kid's parents."

B" Since your family, you get a discount! Buy one get one free! How about it?"

A" Guys, of course, I'll go. I don't have anything to do anyway. When's the show?"

2" July 4th! Sales will be off the roof on that day! Since it's Independence Day!"

An" Alright in a week then! I'll see you guys then just text me the information."

B" Yessir! We'll get you the best seats in the tent!"

Arthur laughs at his brothers extra-ness.

An" Alright I love you guys."

2" LOVE YOU TOO ARTIE!"

Their voices being heard from outside the phone.

A" Bye."

2" Bye."

"So, what they want?" Victoria asked getting curious. "They invited me to one of their shows," Arthur says petting Biscuit's orange fur. "Hey, Vicky are you free on the 4th?" he asks.

Victoria taps her pen to her lip. "I don't... Actually, wait. Yeah! Yeah, I am! I'll be planning Alfred's birthday party. His birthday is on the forth." Victoria says starting to write math equations. "Shit," Arthur mutters and falls back as Biscuit jumps on his owner. Arthur wants to go to see his brothers, but he also wants to wish Alfred a happy birthday.

Victoria hums for a moment. "I have an idea. Why don't you distract Alfred during his birthday and take him to the circus? Then when you get back to his house there's a birthday party?" Victoria says. Grabbing another book from the coffee table. Arthur thinks for a moment. "That sounds okay to me," Arthur says. "Great I'll let the others in, in the plan."

-A week later-
(Because really what is the author gonna write for every until July 4? No.)
Arthur's POV

It was around 11 when I woke up. Victoria and I have planned this trip with our friends in the past few days. I'd like to say I'm ready but... That would be a lie.

We celebrated Matthew's birthday 3 days ago and we all got really drunk, but this one feels different?

After washing up and getting dressed I went up into the living room to see Victoria ready.

" Let's get going," Victoria says grabbing the car keys.

We got to a large apartment complex but before going in Victoria stopped me. "You're gonna go in first. Then when you and Alfred leave we'll go in, Matthew will open the door for you." Victoria says. I nod. Going in...

Then walking back out again.

"What floor and number?" I ask. "Fifth floor, number 308," She says shooing me away.

I get to the door Victoria tells me and ring the doorbell. Matthew opens the door trying to push back two large dogs. "Hey, come in, come in. Kumadurro! Stop." he scolds the dog. I get in to be smelt by a large white dog. "Hi, there!" I coo the dog getting on my knees to play with its hair. The dog licks my face. "Oh, he likes you," Matthew says. I smile at the large dog.

"What's his name?" I ask. "Uh... Just look at his collar." Matthew says blushing a bit. "Kumajiro. Cute." I say. I get up from the floor to be greeted to a familiar face. It was a golden retriever with an American flag bandana. The dog notices me and excitedly comes to me.

I, of course, give this dog love too. "Hi, there buddy! Hii. Hi Maxxy!" The dog gets excited when I call him by his name. Now I had two dogs around me as I start falling to the floor I laugh. "what's going on," a voice said. I look over to see Alfred shirtless holding a camera. "Hello, Alfred, "I say getting up. "Iggy! Hey, what's up, dude?" he says.

"Not much, now get dressed it's your birthday, we're going to get breakfast. I mean really what were are you doing filming a porno?" I laugh. Alfred blushes "Wow okay that's what you think of me? Thanks. First of all, I'm not Francis." I cut him off by laughing with Matthew "Second of all I'm vlogging my birthday, so say hi to the Camera." I wave at the camera and start to hide my face. "Adorable, I'll blur your face when I'm editing. Third of all. Yes. Hell yes, food. Let me change." Alfred says then points the camera to himself "So I'm gonna go change I'll record when we get food." Alfred says turning off the camera. "Wait you're bringing that bloody large camera to eat?" I ask.

He puts the camera down and grabs a smaller camera "Well not that one, I know you're probably still uncomfortable." Alfred says going to his room. "wait Iggy come with me!" Alfred says grabbing my hand and taking me to his room. He puts me on his bed and goes to a corner to grab something.

This is a soft ass bed.

"Okay, I want you to meet Usa!" He says showing off a small bunny. "aww." I say as he puts her on my lap. I brush her fur with my hand and smile. "She's adorable." I say. "right? I got her a few days ago. You know when I was younger I had a bunny just like her. But that's when Matthews grandma was alive... Okay, too many feelings. Did you ever have any other pets that aren't just Biscuit?" he asks with a soft voice and smile patting the bunny on my lap.

"I also had a bunny. His name was Mint. He died when I was 12 though. My mom was the one who games me Mint for a birthday. Then when my dad died mint was killed along with him." I say. "Oh. I'm sorry." he says. " it's okay, I never really knew my dad, but that doesn't stop me from missing him, My older brothers got really sad when he died though." I say giving him the bunny I get up and ruffle his hair since he's on the floor. "Go on and change," I say.

After a bit, we both were in Alfred's car. I text Victoria "you guys in yet?" I text. I put my phone down.

"Bob Evens" Alfred ask.

"No, I had a bad experience one time I went there."

"Waffle House."

"no??"

"hooters?"

"what's that?"

"Okay, no you're too innocent for that."

"IHOP?" he asks

I think. "I've actually never been to IHOP so sure."

"What!? Okay yeah, we're definitely going to IHOP."Alfred says making a u-turn. We get to a large building that was obviously a restaurant. Alfred parks and grabs his camera.

"Okay, so I just learned that my friend here," Alfred says pointing the camera to me I cover my face. "Has never had IHOP. Like... Is there no IHOP in England?" Alfred asks"n-no... And Francis took me to Bob Evan my first week in America. Which was horrible." I say to him. "can we go eat please?" I ask he smiles. He points the camera to himself. "See you guys inside.".

Our food finally came and Alfred turns on his camera " So we just got our food."

"After what felt like hours." I say cutting a piece of my legs. "but for them, it was like a second. So Iggy. What did you get?" Alfred asks showing the camera what I ordered "Sirloin Tips & Eggs but also came with hash brown and American pancakes" I say "is it good?" he asks "yes its quite nice, but probably to be at least the sirloin tips are too seasoned?" I say "want to try?" I ask getting a fork with sirloin and egg and some hash brown. "Sure," he says and opens his mouth.

I put the fork in mouth and take it back. He tastes the food and smiles " it's good, but yeah I can see what you mean with the meat. It's still eatable and tastes good though. Balances out with the sweetness from the pancake." he says I nod and keep eating.

"so what did you get?" I ask him. He smiles and shows off his pancake, I start to laugh. "i-is that a face? Isn't that from the kid's menu?" I ask. Trying to hold in my giggles. "Why yes Arthur it is a face, and he's absolutely beautiful." Alfred said playfully offended. "alright you child, you owe me a bite," I say opening my mouth. Alfred cuts a piece and puts a bit of everything on it. He feeds me the bite and stares at me "Its sweeter than my pancakes but I guess that makes sense since you literally drenched them in syrup. I mean really, give me the camera for a second." he gives me the camera.

I point the lenses at him "Look at this kids, you look up to this guy, but truthfully he's a mess. You can see them from the way he put syrup on his fucking pancakes! I mean really look at this! Do you see this? This is the syrup dispenser before we got here this thing was filled to the brim, but now look. Alfred looks at this." I look at him and show the dispenser to him. "Iggy stop exposing me!" "No, look. Look what you did." I show the pancake. "you can't even call that food. It's a pool. It's a bloody pool of syrup. Bad. Bad Alfred." I say to him.

"Okay, thanks, mom." Alfred says grabbing the camera "We're gonna finish eating and I update you guys to whatever happens next."

"oh my God I love bacon," I say eating a piece of bacon. "what time is it?" I ask "3:39," Alfred says. "aright eat up, we still have 3 hours left until your extra special surprise." I say.

Alfred looks at me confused "Extra special?" he asks I just nod and continue eating.

Around 45 minutes passed when we finished. "we have two hours and something left. Want to go shopping?" I ask him. "Sure there's a cool shopping center near here." he says and starts up the car and drives. "can you give me hint on where we're going?" he asks. I think for a moment.

"Something you would call someone." I say, he grones knowing he won't get it. We found our way to the parking lot, and Alfred grabs his camera. He points it at himself. "So this guy is full of surprises. Turns out he has a surprise for me... Somewhere but I still don't know what it is! I asked for a clue and you know what he said?" pointing the camera to me "what did you say." he says I giggle "Something you call someone" I say. He quickly points to himself "what kind of hint is that!?" he yells. "anyways, the surprise starts in 2 hours so we're going shopping right now."

"is this where you say 'Okay guys I'll see you in a shop.' and turn off your camera?" I say. "you already know me too well, but yes mister smartie pants. Well, guys like my smart friend said, we'll see you inside." Alfred shuts off the camera.

After an hour an a half of shopping Alfred got three bags while I only got two. Our bags were small but expensive. " let's get going. I have to get you there early so you can meet them!" I say grabbing his hand and started running toward the car. " I'm gonna but the GPS turn on the car. I say as he unlocks the car. I get the Siri ready and the car was turned on.

" I'm nervous but really excited." He says grabbing the wheel as he starts to drive. "oh don't be! You'll have fun trust me." Alfred takes a left. We got closer to a large tent out of the way from the city and more on a plain area. "head in through the back this way." I say pointing right. "oh and before I forget, are you afraid of clowns??" I ask with a smile. He looks back at me and smirks "are you?" "No after all you are a clown."

"something you can call someone... A clown! YOU CAN CALL SOMEONE A CLOWN! Iggy, you are smart." Alfred says parking. I laugh and get out. "Come one I want you to meet them." I say as he grabs his hand. "Wait let me get my camera going." he points the Camera at himself. "So it turns out that my surprise was the circus..." Alfred says. "Its where you belong." I said dragging him from the hand.

"Arthur!" I hear two voices say. "Seamus, Brian!" I yell letting go of Alfred's hand. My brothers and I collide to a hug "Iggy are you okay?" Alfred asks coming over to us. I was still in the middle of my brothers as they hug me as if they're protecting me. "Alfred, these are my brothers Seamas and Brian, they do trapeze with another lady," I said introducing them. The twins let go of me and put a hand out to Alfred. "Oh uh wait, Iggy can you hold this," he says giving me the camera Alfred crosses both of his arm to shake hands with them at the same time.

After settling things down and all, Alfred meeting the crew the twins brought us to our seating. We saw a family and three kids.

"Peter!" I yell over to one of the kids, Peter noticed me and runs over jumping onto me. I quickly grab him an hug him. "Iggy! I want you too to meet my friends." Peter said getting down and tugging on my sleeve. "We have to get back to practice." Seamas said, "Yeah we should get on that." Brian says. " Bye Peter, Artie" The two hug us. "Nice to meet you, Alfred." Brain says shaking his hand. "Don't fucking hurt him" Seamas whispered but loud enough to hear.

"W-with pleaser."

"Artie come on." Peter says now dragging me I laugh. "okay okay, just stop pulling." I say walking Alfred following behind. We get to a family to see two dads and a boy and a girl.

"Oh! Are you two peters parents." the smaller one asks. He wore mostly blue and a white beanie. I blush. "N-no, I'm Peters brother and this is a friend of mine which peter." I look down at him "hasn't said hi to yet." I say Peter backs up a bit chuckles.

"oh! I'm sorry! I'm Tino and this is my Husband Berwald." he says the taller male grunts in response, he had this permanent glare on his face that makes him look scary. "This is Ladonia our son. This is Wendy she's our son and your brother's friend." Tino says the two kids make a hmph sound. I smile. "well I'm Arthur, and this is my friend Alfred." I say and shake Tino's hand "Its a so great to meet you, Arthur!".

"please It's great to meet you, I'm just surprised how you deal with my demon of a brother." We both laugh "Please, your brother has been nothing but a sweetheart, he made my son come out of his shell. Ladonia didn't really have any friends until Peter." Tino says "You here that Arthur? I've been a sweetheart." Peter says "well that's a first. Come on let's all sit down before it gets too crowded." I say and look back to... A snack monster?

"Alfred... Where did you get all that?" I ask "Don't question me, plus it's for the kids." Alfred says giving a back of sweets and cotton candy to each one of them. "Peter what do you say?" I say to Peter. "Thank you, sir!" he says and sits with his friends giggling. I smile at my little brother. "Alfred, you really didn't have to do that." I say to him sitting down.

"Its nothing dude! I love kids. They're funny and make the future." Alfred says eating some caramel popcorn. "I can see how much you care about him." Alfred says. I blush " of course... He's my little brother, he's grown up so much already." I say. " it's starting." Alfred says.

The air vents start going off to make a cold atmosphere and to make the wind make the clothes they're wearing flow and so the glitter go everywhere. "I guess I'm lucky that I brought two jackets. I realized you wore something to cover your arms so I thought we were going somewhere cold." Alfred says with a smile. "I should have gotten something thinner and not just this thin sweater." I say.

A good looking man who I already knew was Lux (Luxembourg) walked on to the platform wearing ringmasters clothing. Well, it would make sense since he is the ringmaster. "Ladies and Gentlemen! Boys and girls. Pronouns and more Pronouns." he pauses as people laugh. "Wellcome to the annual celebration of the United. States. OF AMERICA!" People cheer. "Today is a very special day for us because this would be our first performance in America and we want to make it special. So team, let's give them a show." The lights go off as a piano version of "the greatest show" from the greatest showman starts to play. Everything was quiet. Then the single beat came on and the circus erupted into the light. People riding elephants came onto the stage making a triangle a strong man came running in with two contortionists on him followed by a tiger and so many others then came the where it would say "don't fight it its coming running at you." my brothers and Emma (Bulgaria) came flying in people started cheering and the crowd started going wild. 

I shiver I really forgot how cold it was. I rub my arms "you good?" Alfred asks looking at me while his camera points to the introduction act.

"y-yeah, just a bit cold," I say. "Here dude, just take one of mine" Alfred puts the camera down and takes off the jacket around his waist. Laying it on me "Alfred you don't have- actually no I'm wearing g this it's warm holy fuck." I say putting my arms through. Alfred laughs and puts an arm around me.

It somehow felt normal and without realizing put my head on his shoulder

After a few jokes, clowns, and many talents being shown my brothers finally got the stage to themselves.

"Ladies and Gentlemen! We have finally come to our finale act, so hold on to your seats and watch these humans fly! Give it up for- THE KIRKLAND BROTHERS AND EMMA! THE TRAPEZE TRIO!" Lux says as the three start their act, their act was of two brothers who fell in love with a girl, the two brothers drifting apart until it ends with the death of the girl as the trapeze goes at the way up in a spinning motion and the lights glisten on her white and gold dress once the trapeze stops at the top Emma finally let go and fell on the net covered with flowers. The twins swing and finally meet in the middle where they both hugged and fell as well. The crowd cheered at the performance and the light goes back on.

I looked at my brother's face and saw how happy they were doing their job... Wait... I don't have a job. I should enlist in one soon.

"Now everyone before you all leaves we would like to bring down a special guest! May Alfred F Jones come down to the stage?" Emma says "Wait for me?" Alfred looks at me. I smile and nod.

"Happy birthday." I say and grab his camera from him and record him going down. "Now everyone, today is Alfreds birthday today, so let's sing happy birthday to him in honor of the country of freedom." Lux says, everyone comes out and starts singing happy birthday, Alfred starts crying, oh no does he not like this?

"Alfred your crying are you okay?" Brian asks as Seamas gives him tissues. "I'm fine, great! Just I want to thank Arthur cause this is the best birthday ever."Alfred takes the tissues. I smile and wave at him he waves back with a grin.

His smile makes me happy, I out my hand back into the sleeve and continue recording, he's a great guy really nice.

I come to a realization.

I still need to look for a job.

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Word count- 3622

So here is an extra- extra long chapter for you all since I won't be able to update for a bit for two reasons

I'll be in Spain for a month and a half (Follow my install @ Could_It_Be_Adri if you want to see pictures)

And

Acrylic nails...... So pretty but so unuseful. This is my first time with them and I love them but I hate them. So yeah- I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and hope you guys have a great pride month! I'll be going to a pride parade in Spain so that's fun! : DDD bye guys <33