she remembers a lad who was very interested in nature . jared remembered the first aid course hed been told about when he went rafting with his father the summer before . `` i understand , '' i said-and i really did , even if i hated his logic . i dont want the book at all . perhaps they had more in common than he had thought . the vampire 's hand came up unbelievably fast to snatch it out of the air before it made contact with the side of her head . 