"I suppose that makes sense," she replied back, before dropping her face onto his shoulder and groaning. "I keep hearing stories like that about my father when he was a young man. Why would he do that to you?"

It was a legitimate question, really; she herself had never EVER pushed the vampire into doing little mundane things like that, because she hadn't seen the point. The most she'd ever done, when she was little, was asked him to push her in a swing... maybe once or twice, and that was because she'd simply wanted to spend time with him.