Chapter 8 Summary

Chapter Eight finds Simon the vampire youth hacking at a broom handle (to turn into a stake, the traditional weapon against vampires). He is angry at the girl Zoe for having disturbed him, and angry at having lost his chance to talk to her. He is upset that he will never find companionship as he contemplates his plan.

He takes his newly created stake and leaves his abandoned school, full of anger as he goes to the house of the little albino boy Christopher. He we see Christopher climbing out of his bedroom window. He follows the boy child Christopher and the reader finally finds out that Christopher too is a vampire, and is the cause of Simon's woe. Christopher seems to know that someone is following him as he appears uneasy, but soon approaches his goal: an underpass by an old train...