Alia is five years and seven months when she begins to tire of Kurt. He tags after her and Dave all the time, speaking quickly in the language she still yet doesn't understand. And Dave is always staring at him, like he's some kind of God. She doesn't tell Dave her feelings, of course. But she accidently shows them.
Kurt is going off about something, and it really gets on her nerves, so she turns round and hits him over the head with the book from the library she hasn't yet returned. It isn't a hard hit, but hard enough for Kurt to burst into tears and the parents to come hurrying over.
"Веселый!" She shouts at him, shoving the book back into her bag.
Her father clips her over the ear and apologises to Burt in broken English.
"What did she say to my son?" Burt asks, covering Kurt protectively.
"She, um…Called him homosexual." Her father blushed.
Alia glares at Kurt from behind her father's back and curls her fingers into her palm. She doesn't want to hurt him, yet at the same time he hates him for stealing her best friend.
"He's different Отец. I don't like him."
Dave at the same moment wonders if he should love Alia, because he doesn't, just grabs her hand and leaves it at that. For a while.