Abecedarian

"That was a breakup," she said as the door slammed. He stormed through the kitchen, stomping loudly and knocking a plate off the kitchen table as he went -- and one of the blocks as well. His brother looked up from the colored letter-blocks still on the table that, at 27 years of age, he barely understood, his idiot lips apart and his wide idiot eyes brimming with surprise, incomprehension, and tears.