CHEMICAL SECRET

CHAPTER 1
A NEW START

This chapter starts when John Duncan, who was a tall, thin man, about forty-five years old,
goes to a job interview with David Wilson; he was the owner of paints factory.
There he met Mary Carter, she was one of the best chemists the factory had, in fact she
discovered a new type of paint, and hell work with her.
Mr. Duncan is a biologist, and he had worked for so important companies, but he stopped
working nine years ago, because he and his wife Rachel Horsley (she was a famous sailor),
started a businesss boats, but later his wife had an accident, and things go worst the
business broke and he had to close.
As the interview continue, Mr. Duncan at sometimes felt David was humiliating him with some
of his questions, but John really needed the job.
At the end David Wilson hired John because he needed someone to tell the government the
paint wasnt dangerous to the environment and who better than John that was a biologist.
John will have his own office, and a company car.

CHAPTER 2 -- AT HOME

John had a sixteen year old daughter, Christine, and his son Andrew who was thirteen. They
live in dirty, small flat with old furniture.
When his wife has been alive, they live in a beautiful house with a large garden. He had a
good job, and they didnt need to think about money, but after his wife death and his business
broke, his luck ended.
He gave the good news about his job at the paint factory to his children.

CHAPTER 3 -- RICH MAN.

John started to work with Mary, she showed him the new paint for cars neither acids nor salt
could damage it.
One day when he was working with the paint, he spilt some of the waste in his leg, the paint
left a red painful place on his skin. He went to see a doctor to gave him something to calm the
pain, but the doctor warned the skin will stay red for a year or two.
Chapter 4 The Seals

Chapter 5 The New Experiment

John wanted to show Mary the new experiment he was doing. They went to his laboratory.
There, he was feeding some rats putting a little of the waste products in their foods and drink.
In a first sight, things were alright. Any rats were dead and only a few were ill. But they were
going to have babies and that was the surprised. Those babies were born in a wrong way,
without eyes or legs. John trusted that the company would make some machines to solve the
waste products problems but Mary wasn't as sure as him.
Chapter 6 The report
John wrote a report explaining the waste products problems to David Wilson, his boss. Here,
we saw the two visions of the problem: one is the worried chemist who wants to do things in
the right way; and the other is the businessman, only worried in making more and more
money. David didn't want to build the machines because he would have to fire lots of people
and it would be very expensive He was very sure of this idea.
John tried to persuade David explaining him that the waste products in the river were really
dangerous to the people, but David didn't agree. Also, David threatened John; if he tried to tell
the problem to the media, we would lose his job.
Chapter 7 Christine and Simon
Mary argued a lot with David Wilson about the waste products. He didn't listen to her so
finally; she decided to let the factory and moved to another company. She didn't want to be
worried about the waste products. John tried to convince her talking about the village, where
lots of new buildings like shop and houses were built since the factory started working.
Also, John asked Mary for help. He was losing her daughter because John didn't like his
boyfriend and they were always arguing. Mary came to a meal and talked with Christine. She
wanted to marry Simon but John didn't think in the same way. Finally, John accepted the
wedding. They made a special supper and Mary was invited. Simon was a journalist and his
boss was going to increase his salary. He promised John that he would look after Christine.
Simon was working in a new article of his newspaper. It talked about some seals of the river
which had dead because of a strange disease.

Chapter 8 The wedding

Christine and Simon got married. After the church, they had a little party in John's house
garden. John was talking with Simon's parents. They were very good people and John felt
comfortable with them. They talked about their children. Christine and Simon made a very
good couple and they seemed to be so happy. But Simon was working so hard in the dead of
the seals. There were some theories. One of those, made guilty the sewage products and
everybody believe it. Nobody was thinking in the paint factory yet.

Chapter 9 I don't believe in you

Three months before the wedding, Christine came to John's house with a very good new: she
was going to have a bay. Both of them were too happy. But they started arguing when
Christine started talking about Simon's new article, where he talked about the waste products.
Simon thought that the paint factory was guilty of seals' dead. John had argued with David
Wilson about it and they wrote to the newspaper saying that the
article was false. But people started thinking about it and the government was going to
investigate. Christine couldn't believe her father because she saw him nervous and sadthey
separated their lives a bit more.

Chapter 10 Greenworld
Christine and Simon went to John's house. John wasn't there because he was visiting Mary in
Scotland.
Christine and Simon were looking for the boat. They caught it sailed until they found two
friends, Peter and Susan, in the river. They went near the paint factory with white Tshirts
with Greenworld written in them.
They put some cement bags in the pipes of the factory. The cement would be hard and
nothing unhealthy would be thought by them. They showed some sheets with environmental
messages to the photographers. A man of the factory was shouting at them. It was a windy
day and the boat finished overturned. Everyone was through into the water. Simon helped
Peter and Susan and then tried to swim and catch Christine, who was unconscious. The river
was rebellious and they were pulled a bit far. She didn't breathe, but Simon helped her putting
air in her mouth. Finally, she breathed by herself. Simon finished crying because of all the
accumulated tension.

Chapter 11 The Public Enquiry

There was a public enquiry. John came from Scotland to answer the lawyer questions in front
of everybody.
Some chemists and biologists from London came to taste the river water.
The lawyer asked him about the rats, the water, the seals John was laying. He couldn't tell the
truth because he was threatened by David Wilson.
Suddenly, the lawyer showed John the newspaper which said that his daughter was nearly
drowned in the river, drinking lots of polluted water. At the end, he confessed that the waste
products were dangerous and left the room running.

Chapter 12 The future

John lost his job. He had to leave his house and bought a flat, less big and comfortable. His
daughter was angry with him. John had bought lots of things to her baby, but he didn't find
the moment for give them to her.
The day when the baby was going to come, he called the hospital to know some news, but
finally he decided to go to the hospital to see her directly and give her some flowers and an
excuse