Jacob and the Crystal

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Bryn Archbold English course work set 1

                          Jacob and the Crystal

Living in the Bronx of New York was probably one of the hardest and toughest moments of my life especially when my mom lost her job and the family started to fall apart. So something had to be done and obviously as you can guess I  Jacob Holmes was the one who had to do something about it, and that I did but the strange and funny thing was that it seemed as if it was a fairy tale, a fairy tale that I had heard when I was younger as a boy and had imagined to be true.

   It was May 1994 and summer was on the way, I couldn’t wait as this year Jamal one of my friends that I grew up with in my street was old enough to drive and we were going to go to the beach and everything but then something happened, my mom was working in the local super market and it wasn’t exactly great pay but it was keeping us by and suddenly the super market decided that they had employed to much staff and that she was one of the staff to go so things started to got down hill as money wasn’t exactly coming in and I had to do something about as my dad died when I was 7 and my bro Lebron was hooked up on selling drugs and we didn’t want his money. So the pressure gained, I knew that if I didn’t do anything about it me and my mom would end up sleeping on the streets and if you end up on the streets in the Bronx your basically dead. So I had to figure out a way to bring in the money and getting a job is no good because I left school in 8th grade ,so I looked around and spoke to a few people and set my self up with a job but not just any job, a job that was a skill and was also dangerous, I was a creeper. I was someone that snuck into houses at night and took valuables and would then trade them in for money. It wasn’t excacly the best of jobs  but it was something I was raised around and something that I could get good at quite easly and that’s wot happened as days passed and then weeks and the months until I was one of the top known burglars of the block.

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        Summer had now gone an Christmas wasn’t to long away, so I needed money to make this a great Christmas for my mom as she had fallen into depression not having anything to do. So I needed to work a heavy load an I searched around and found a mansion that didn’t have security. So I aimed it out an did some research in the owners and the house but the funny thing was I couldn’t find any information on the owners or the house. Any ways Christmas wasn’t far away and I needed the job so I called up ...

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