Chapter 15 Summary

In the final chapter of the book, we find Zoe back at her house sick and distraught. In this chapter she visits her mother in hospital and has a deep conversation where she talks to her mother about her illness and probable death from cancer. The chapter ends with her last meeting with Simon, where she helps the vampire to die.

Zoe is allowed to stay home from school after her dad finds her being sick, thinking that she is ill (but is in fact feeling revulsion and shock at what she had witnessed in the previous chapter). During the day she considers what will happen now, whether she will become a girlfriend to the vampire youth, and whether she could cope with the life of a vampire (she decides that she cannot) before she goes to visit her mother in hospital.

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