FADE IN: BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND-1989 We open on a boy. He is 13. Dark, wiry hair. His body lean. His smile a mischievous grin. We see him boarding a bus with his mates. We see him standing in the back with his mates when some men get on. Robbers. They make for the boys. They turn them around, frisk them, take out their wallets. The men don't have weapons. They are just older, bigger. One robber, taking out the boy's wallet, catches him grinning.
ROBBER #1
Why are you smiling?
BOY
I've never been robbed before.
[A pause]
It's kind of cool.
The man just looks at the boy and thenWHACK!-punches him in the face. In the ensuing mayhem, the boy escapes. But the coppers come, drive the boy home, and escort him up to the front door, where his father is waiting, looking as if he's about to throw a punch himself.
The boy's father is a butcher, and his father's father is a butcher, and his father's father's father was a butcher-just butchers all the way down. But the boy doesn't want to be a butcher. He goes down to the shop on Saturdays and makes less than a pound an hour hacking away at fat and bone, and he just thinks to himself: No. He thinks the same thing at school, doesn't pay attention. Why should he? The shop, school, they're backup plans, and a backup plan is just an excuse, innit? An excuse not to make it. After he's mugged, the boy has a plan: He's going to make it.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة May - June 2023 من Men's Health US.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة May - June 2023 من Men's Health US.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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