After school, Kaede stands in the temple with her hands pressed together and her eyes closed, ostensibly praying, but mostly avoiding going home. She knows, logically, that it was just a childish crush and Barnaby was never actually going to return her affections, and she knows, logically, the dream that he would was only ever that.

But that doesn't change how much it hurts in the meantime to find out he's in love with someone else, especially when that "someone else" is her dad.