Hiro stopped for a second before answering. "My dad's at work. And my mom is... Dead." She said softly. To clear her mind she kept on cooking, chopping some vegetables and throwing them in a pot of boiling broth for a soup as an appetizer. She cleared her throat before speaking again. "Don't worry, it's alright. No need to apologize. She's been gone for a while but I miss her. She taught me everything I know about cooking, she always said that I would make my husband very happy." She paused and then laughed to herself. "If my stubbornness doesn't scare them off." She giggled again before handing Alex a cup of tea for him to sip on and she sat down and looked over his books and homework and started to help him with it with a smile she put on her face.