When Cory's father suddenly dies, his entire perfect world is torn apart. 
Gone is the loving mother, doting sister, lovely house, and the huge allowance. Instead, Cory needs to deal with the bank auctioning off the home he gave his first steps in, an illness that befalls his little sister, and the depression that's eating his mother alive. 
Just as it can't get any worse, Patrick with the golden-brown eyes, the infectious laugh, and the rich life eventually showed interest in Cory. The thing that Cory believed would have made his once almost-perfect world completely perfect now becomes his biggest fear as he tries to keep his new life a secret.
With juggling his depression, suicidal thoughts, and self-harm; Cory just doesn't know if the boy with the infectious laugh has a place in his life anymore.

"Out in the Wind"is not just the story of a teen who is forced to grow up sooner than any kid should. It is also a real story that happens to lots of people around the world on a daily. This is a story full of tears, sadness, hope, loss, faith, and love.

Out in the wind

　　“Thanks for coming so quickly. I wouldn’t have asked if it wasn’t an emergency,” I say to Patrick as I help Andy into the back of his car, Andy sobbing, but I try to ignore it for the moment. I know he’s okay. I took most of the blow from Mandy’s fist, although I am sure it must not have been nice to be hit in the face again after the injuries he was already sporting.


　　Patrick closes the car door behind Andy and draws me to the back of the car where he is sure Andy can’t hear us.


　　“What the hell happened to him? And you? It looks like someone gave you a bit of a shiner,” he says, touching the redness around my eye lightly which makes me winch a little but I try to control myself, because even if it is hurting, I don’t want him to stop touching me either.


　　“Mandy…” I say. “She threw her toys out of the cot and went for Andy. I got in the middle.”


Chapter 31