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Vladimir and his boyfriend, Georgi, silently waited by the front doors of Vladimir's little brother's school, waiting for said child to emerge from them after his short day at kindergarten.
After a while, the two saw a turf of brunet hair emerging from the doors, with the blonde kindergarten teacher leading little Aurel to his big brothers, who waved happily at him.
"Vladdy! Georgi!" Aurel shouted in glee as he raced into both of their arms, hugging them each.
Georgi laughed delightfully at the small, energetic child, while Vladimir smiled and patted his brother's small head. "Aurel!" he exclaimed. "Did you have fun at kindergarten today?"
Aurel pulled away a little and nodded vigorously. "Yeah! Ooo, ooo!—" He then plopped his red backpack onto the ground and began to rummage through it. "I made another drawing today! Wanna see it?"
"Sure!" Georgi responded.
Aurel dug through the backpack for a few more seconds before pulling out a piece of paper; he handed it to Vladimir. He looked at it, with Georgi glancing over his shoulder. It was a picture of all three of them—Vladimir to the right, Aurel in the middle, and Georgi to the left—holding hands; Vladimir and Aurel both had overexaggerated long fangs, while Georgi had...something...in his hand. Vladimir couldn't tell what it was until he saw the arrow pointed at the thing, and yogert written above it. He let out a small snort at this, but then looked down at his brother and smiled. "Wow, I love this drawing, Aurel! You think me and Georgi should hang it up in our bedroom?"
Aurel nearly squealed at this. "Yeah!"
Georgi looked over at Vladimir and laughed. The Romanian laughed back, and then glanced back down at his brother. "Okay! We will then."
"Yay!" was Aurel's response. The little boy then grasped one hand with Vladimir and the other with Georgi and the trio began to walk back to the car.
Once they were all there, Georgi helped Aurel into his car seat while Vladimir started up the car; Georgi took his seat next to his boyfriend, who soon began to drive. "Hey," Georgi said to Vladimir, "do you want me to tell him now?"
Aurel must've overheard this. "Tell me what?!" he asked excitedly.
"Sure," Vladimir answered, chuckling.
Georgi turned half of his body around to face the little boy. "Well, me and Vlad decided that since you were such a good boy this whole week, we're gonna take you to get..." He paused for a few moments for added dramatic effect. "...Ice cream!"
Aurel gasped with delight and his eyes seemed to glisten over. "Really?! Yay!" he exclaimed, beyond happy now. He began to clap and jump around in his seat.
Georgi laughed happily at this. He and Vladimir both knew how much the boy enjoyed sweets. Usually, he was limited to just one dessert after dinner per day since of course, they couldn't have his little teeth rotting with cavities. But, on either Friday or the weekends, they both tried to treat Aurel, typically either taking him to the candy store or the bakery, or sometimes even the ice cream shop twenty minutes outside of their town—though the latter was only reserved for when he was especially good. And Aurel had been, all week. He ate all his veggies at mealtimes, got good notes from his teachers, and tried his best in school. So, to say the least, he deserved the treat.
A little drive and about ten cheesy pop songs later (to which the trio all sang along to happily), they arrived at the shop. They all got out, with Georgi helping Aurel out of his car seat, and went up to the stand. Aurel ran ahead of Vladimir and Georgi, his arms swinging, a big grin on his face. Once at the stand, Vladimir and Georgi ordered a banana split to share and got Aurel a kid-sized chocolate ice cream in a waffle cone.
Carrying their ice creams, the three went to sit at a bench. As he dug his spoon into his banana split, Vladimir glanced down at Aurel out of the corner of his eye, taking a big lick of his ice cream, his eyes lighting up. Vladimir chuckled at this. "Taste good?"
Aurel looked at his older brother and flashed a wide grin and a thumbs up. "Yes!" he tried to say, though he was muffled by all the ice cream that was still in his mouth, which made Vladimir, as well as Georgi, laugh.
The three continued to eat and talk, with Aurel snuggling up close to his brother. He finished his treat rather quickly and, afterward, he crawled into his brother's lap fully, his amber eyes half-closing tiredly. Vladimir wrapped an arm around the little boy as he ate his own dessert and talked with his boyfriend. Once they were done, Georgi went to throw the banana split away. Vladimir looked down again at his little brother, a bit surprised to see him fast asleep. Aurel's eyelashes fluttered lightly as he slept, as if he were having a pleasant dream, and he held onto his big brother's arm tightly, sort of like a little koala. Vladimir smiled sweetly at this sight.
"Hey, Georgi," Vladimir called as the Bulgarian man walked back. Once Georgi laid eyes on him, Vladimir pointed down in his lap at the sleeping Aurel.
Georgi instantly shared the same grin as Vladimir. He sat down and carefully ruffled the top of Aurel's brunet head. "Awww," he sighed out. "Now isn't that something—usually chocolate makes kids hyper," he joked.
Vladimir chuckled and shrugged. "Ah, kid must've had a long day at school." He paused for a moment to give Aurel a kiss on the forehead—the Romanian could've sworn he saw a tiny grin flash on his brother's face as he did that. He turned toward his boyfriend again. "C'mon, we should get going now."
Georgi nodded his head in agreement and stood up. Vladimir did as well, slowly, his arms wrapped tightly around his small brother. The family of three walked back to the car, bellies filled with sweet desserts, all of them feeling very happy indeed on that sunny Friday afternoon.