Fiber trends everyone's favorite hat help

Can someone please explain to me what the instructions between the () are telling me to do? I tried knit two pearl two but it looks horrible.

Round 1: ssk, p1, [k2, p2] 1 (2,4) x, k2,p1, k2tog

I then repeat this four times to get from 96 stitches to 88 meaning 22 stitches after each round. Please help!

Those numbers (2,4) are for different sizes.
For the smallest size you do the [k2,p2] once, for the second size do it twice, for the third size do it four times (the [I][B]x[/B][/I]).

Thanks so much for including the pattern name. It helps a lot. Since you couldn’t post the link I looked it up for you.