POV Rick
When I was 19 years old I was working two jobs to make ends meet. I had ran away from home when I was 16 to London and I had to work twice as hard as all the other apprentices because I didn’t have any family ties in the building trade. Some of the older guys would give me a hard time but I was brought up by parents that were scarier than any of them. It was such a manual job that I was huge and I’d always been tall and it didn’t take long for word to spread that I wasn’t to be messed with. I had a cute little girlfriend called Rose and one night I came home from work and she was waiting at my front door. She looked upset and I didn’t have the energy to ask her why. She followed me inside and as I sat down to take off my work boots she told me that she was pregnant and I wanted t
