The Way the Wind Blows: The Light Upon the Fire

By William Cook

Everyone runs on secrets All of our life stories depend on secrets.

High school is supposed to be fun and excitingyou have friends, healthy relationships, and a supportive family. However, for a group of ninth graders, high school is nothing more than a disaster.

Adam, Jake, Madison, Dakota, Hannah; pregnancies, break-ups, secret crushes, betrayal. These adolescents have their own stories; their own secrets.

Katiy, Chad, Dan, Brittney, Mike, Mrs. Gonzales; divorce, marriage, crime, infidelity. These adults have secrets of their own which are too frightening to divulge.

In The Way The Wind Blows, all these characters lives are intertwined in ways unimagined by the secrets that haunt them. These secrets either tear them all apart or bring them together.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 2, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465380401

William Cook

William Cook is the author of Ha Bloody Ha, The Comedy Store and 25 Years of Viz. He edited Tragically I Was An Only Twin – The Complete Peter Cook and Goodbye Again – The Definitive Peter Cook & Dudley Moore. He has worked for the BBC and has written for the Guardian, the Mail on Sunday, the New Statesman and Condé Nast Traveller.

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Copyright © 2011 by William Cook.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2011918510

ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4653-8039-5

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Contents

Preface Adam

Chapter One The Beginning of the Worthless End-Adam

Chapter Two The Big Shots in the Hallway-Hannah

Chapter Three The High School Sweetheart-Chad

Chapter Four Something No One Knows About Me-Katiy

Chapter Five A Secret Bond-Dakota

Chapter Six Secret Friendship-Jake

Chapter Seven Backstabbers-Madison

Chapter Eight My Job-Brittney

Chapter Nine The Classroom—Mrs. Gonzales

Chapter Ten Dinner with Hannah-Adam

Chapter Eleven Honeymoon Nights—Mike

Chapter Twelve The Husband—Dan

Chapter Thirteen The Poem Show—Chad

Chapter Fourteen The Doctor’s Appointment

Chapter Fifteen The Doctors Appointment

Chapter Sixteen The Date—Katiy

Chapter Seventeen Romances—Dakota

Chapter Eighteen The Secret is Revealed—Madison

Chapter Nineteen A Secret Filled Court Room

Chapter Twenty A Secret Filled Court Room

Chapter Twenty-One The Worthless End of the New Beginning-Adam

Epilogue Katiy

About The Author

Dedicated To:

William Richard Cook Jr.

June 3rd 1967-April 13th 2009

R.I.P Dad, I love you and miss you.

I know that one day I will make you proud of me. One day I know I will get to see your face again. I Love you. Where ever you are I hope that you can see me. I wish that you were still here to see that my dreams are coming true. I love you.

Please come back to me. I miss you.

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than

to speak out and remove all doubt."

-Mark Twain

Some people say to look in the mirror and that you will see your reflection but all I see is my other half.

-William Cook

An Inspiring Quote

"People don’t say stuff about me behind my back . . .

just to my face!"

-William Cook

My undead Soul

A knife stabs into my unwanted life

My tears fall like snow covering ice from my broken heart

Fire burns the forest in my mind and then it melts the tears

Anger covers my emotions and builds up in my burning stomach

The anger triggers a cold shiver and it runs through my invisible existence

Pain fills my own body and then is starts to shake

My thoughts travel away from the earth; they go where I should be

They float away from my body and flow into nothing

The cold finger tips of mine touch my reflection in the mirror

It hits the floor because of my undead soul

Glass slashes my skin and blood rushes into the red reality

It drips into my unwanted by undead life and soul

-William Cook

Looking through Broken Glass

I start to walk back into my dark life and all my thoughts

start to travel inward

My thoughts catch a piece of broken glass in my own mind

The crystal blue sky eyes of mine look into my own

broken soul and my heart

They find mistakes and what should be in my thoughts

not hate and suffering

A scream starts to echo into my human body

It travels into my secrets and what my life should be

They find lies and mistakes and then the real truth

comes into a depressed reality

Deep cuts start to cover my light skin and blood covers the truth

War breaks out like a swarm of cancer cells

They start to cover up the anger and hate

Even now I know it will never stop even when the waves crash into my eyes and make rain fall tears

When they hit the ground that is when my life crashes

down into my true colors

-William Cook

Who Am I Really?

I feel nothing but hatred and pain