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Today was the day! The boys had received new sleds for Christmas and they were eager to try them. Unfortunately, they had to wait for one of their parents to be free. What with Penn and his ‘bringing home the bacon’ as he called it, (though neither boy had seen their father bring home large amounts of pork…) and their mother’s tending to the house; they had to be patient. Both children nearly brought down the house when their mother finally gave in and agreed to take them to the nearby park to sled.

The moment the door was open, the Sascha dived bodily into the snow off the walkway in the yard. “Look, mama! Snow angel!” he giggled flapping both his arms and legs in the snow. To which Gotts sighed and helped the boy to his feet to dust the snow off his belly.

“Joo’r supposed to be on yer back…” Aus sighed as he tugged his sled by its rope behind him. Blinking a bit as his eyes adjusted to the sun reflecting off the snow, he looked a few houses down at the spray of white kicking up from the yard.

“Hay, der is…Wat is that person doink, mother?”

“Shoveling, it looks like. A task you two will become quite acquainted with in the future, my boy.” Gotts said with a smirk.

“Let’s see he vhants to go vit us!” Sascha gasped, taking off up the sidewalk before either his mother or brother could stop him. Or at least made short bounds in the deep snow as he called to the other boy.

As he got closer, it became more apparent that the other boy wasn’t just moving really fast; he DID have an extra set of arms after all! Sascha’s eyes grew round as he came to a halt at the end of where Canti’s walk would be once the snow cleared. Totally floored by this discovery, the young boy could only cry out.

“WOW!! Four arms!!”

“Sascha, that’s not very nice. What do you say?” Gotts corrected then felt himself go flush as he was addressed as the boys’ mother as well. Inside the home was one thing, but outside was just humiliating for the man.

“Oops, sorry..” the young jaguar boy said hanging his head a bit, but quickly looking up to smile back at Canti, “Ve’re going sleddink! “Vant to go sledding vit us?”

He returned the wave, following the trail his son had made. “Why, thank you, young man, that would be very nice of you. I’d be willing to pay you for it too.” He offered.

“Are joo a bug?” Sascha said, peeking from around Gotts’ wing. Studying the older boy curiously from a distance.

All three strangers stared at the door as it came open. Gotts’ greeting getting cut off at the knees before it even got out of the gate as the red-head called for the paper and gave the boy permission and vanished all at once. He scratched at his temple slightly and sighed smiling at Canti.
“Yes, with money. Certainly wouldn’t expect you to do it for free.”

Sascha cheered and hopped up and down happily. They got to play with their new friend! This good day was going to be a great day! Not expecting a straight answer, Aus came around from his hiding spot and smiled back, “I’m Ausleir.”

“I’m Sascha,” The other twin said happily then looked around in confusion, “Hey mommy? Can I share mein sled vit Canti??”

“Sure you –may-, honey.”

“Please, call me Gotts.” He said with another polite smile, inwardly begging; anything but ‘mommy’.

“Danke.” Aus said, puffing a little with pride. “Joo’r name is nice as vell. Zer are som hillz in zee park.” Aus said pointing toward the collection of trees about a block up. “Zat is where ve are goink.”

“Ja! Und joo can sled vit me!” Sascha said offering one side of his sled’s rope to Canti. He was eager to see how well someone with four arms could play with a sled. He’d have to remember to invite him with them to play water pistols and that he’d be on his team in the summer.

Gotts lead the boys to the park, making sure that they looked both ways before crossing the street and everything. Once there, he sat himself down on a bench nodded. “Okay, boys. You have fun. Come get me when you get tired.”

“You two can go first, I vill be the ref.” Aus said offering his sled to Cani. “Zat whey et von’t be unfair.” He didn’t mind sledding second. There was no telling if these things were safe and sometimes sacrifices had to be made for discovery. Or so he learned from the History Channel. He made his way down to the bottom of the hill drawing a line in the snow for the finish line.

“Goot idea!” The darker furred boy wagged the tip of his tail as he grinned, “First von down?” He tilted his head as he noticed Canti looking at his abdomen. “Vhat’s wrong?”

Admittedly, Sascha didn’t know the first thing about sledding but what Canti was doing looked correct enough to him. Sit on sled, hold on tight, have fun! Simple as that, right? He nodded enthusiastically to the older boy, happy to see that he seemed to fit on the wooden sled. He did the same on his own sled. “Ja, looks right.”

“Ja, I von’t let my brother cheat.” From the bottom of the hill, Aus cupped his hands either side of his face to call toward the other two were waiting. “Okay! Ready?? Set—“ He waved an arm, “GO!”

As soon as he heard the signal, Sascha pushed off the top of the hill to start his decent down the hill. “Vhahoo!!”

“C-Canti!” Both boys yelped, the ruckus rousing the attention of their guardian. Sascha half leapt half tumbled off the sled as he ran over to where Canti had fallen. Joined by his brother and Gotts alike they all got there in time to see that he was not hurt but in fact he had seemed to like the ride in then long run.

“Are joo okay??” Aus asked, checking Canti for injuries. He was right to let the boy go first it seems. Right, and now very guilty that he might of gotten their new friend hurt.

“You vhent so fast!” Sascha twittered, relieved to see that he hadn’t been seriously injured. “Joo vere like PEW!!! And ve were like ‘Ahhh~!’ and mom was like ‘Eeee~~’..It vas awesome!!”