Chapter Ten“I never used to go with girls,” said Holly as we lay in bed together. “Before I was a vampire I mean. Before I was a vampire, I used to like boys well enough. But soon as I got turned, well, girls just seemed more, I don't know, appealing somehow.”
That was us, me and Holly lying in bed together on Christmas morning, a year later. And yes, lying in an actual bed and not on a mattress dropped on the floor. Didn't take her long, I can hear you say, between her having the love of her life die in her arms and then finding herself in bed with another girl. Well, if that's what you're thinking, you can take a long walk off a short plank.
There wasn't a day went by, and there still isn't a day goes by, when I don't think of Poppy. And at the beginning, in those first dark days and n
