outside, starting to get sunflowers planted.

starts to cry when she can't find him and flops to the ground near his house. "Where are you, braht?"

hears a very familiar small voice, it sounded like Natalya when they were kids... He put the shovel in the ground and went to find the

source of that voice. A bit worried it was Natalya playing a trick to get him outside.

pulls her knees in close to her and sobs. "B-braht!"

hears the sobs and follows her, he bent down, she looked just like Natalya used to.. "Are you lost, little one?"

blinks up at him and starts to wiggle away, scared.

"Natalya?" He saw her face, it had to be her.

backs away, starting to cry. "G-Go away! I don't want to be with that fag! I want my braht!!"

"Fag? What fag? Natalya.. It's me, braht. I'm just big now." He was now on his knees, smiling, he was trying not to scare her more.

blinks at him, confused, before noticing his scarf. She clings to it.

looks down at her. "See Natalya, nothing to be scared of." She was much less threatening at this size..

sniffles. "Why are you so big?"

shifts to sit on his butt pulling her into his lap. "I didn't get big, you got small.."

pouts. "I don't want to be small..."

"Why not?"

leans against him. "If I was big I wouldn't have to listen to the fags and I could be with you more."

nods to her. "Well.. Until you are big again, you can stay with me, da?" He was still her big brother after all.

smiles and cuddles him. "Even if the fags try to take me away?"

nods, he wondered who these 'fags' were.

usually called Lithuania and Poland fags. She wasn't the most polite person... She nods back and hugs him. "Spasiba."

remembers that now. "So you will stay with braht?"

nods and smiles. "Da. I will stay with you forever."

makes a small sound. "Until you can go home.."

whimpers. "I don't want to go home... The fags are mean to me..."

leans down and kisses her head. "Da, but when you get bigger you have to go home."

whimpers. "B-but you said we would always be together..."