Nina narrating:
— Actually. — He said when he finally stopped laughing. — Actually, I grew up in Houston. This era, it’s my home. My biological mother, she loved gardening and adored plants and trees. She would sit with me for hours, telling me about every tree or plant we saw. Of course, after the move, I forgot most of what she had shared with me, but I remembered enough to understand her interest, so I researched it, the vampire memory kicking in.
You know we used to grow our own vegetables. My mother used to, but I used to help her, being as close as I was to her. I don’t remember much of it, but I remember that we used to work hard to grow our food, and the taste of those vegetables was different from any other.
— Oh! — I said, not knowing what else to say to him. He seemed so upse
