Skipping back to fourteen and Ciaran was struggling with continuously witnessing his mother suffering domestic, he would spend most of his time with friends of his mum. The people that Ciaran was staying with were nice enough, but soon after he started taking him to the horse tracks, they would even give him an allowance to place bets with and Ciaran won quite a bit from his bets.
Gambling wasn't the only thing Ciaran involved with, he would go to the local supermarket with a list and steal the item, at first it wasn't a large amount but the better Ciaran got, the more he would go and steal.
You name it Ciaran would steal from loads of meats and cheese, to a full trolley worth he would be over there multiple times a day and after a few weeks, they had started to sell DVD players when they had first starting being sold everywhere.
Over the next two weeks Ciaran stole sixteen DVD players and then one day when he was with friends of his, he went in to the supermarket and filled up a big bag of pick n mix, walking to the exit and just before leaving, the security stops him and asks him if he paid, ciaran pay but he plays dumb pretending to look for his money. It's safe to safe he could steal from there anymore.
It wasn't long after that, that Ciaran's mother found out about the stealing and then the gambling stopping him from going there, though that didn't stop Ciaran and he can just hang out with the friends he wanted to.
After not long moving to a new area, Ciaran had started making new friends, most of them were older and friends of my sister. The friends my age and myself had not really to be in too much back then and most of the time we would be out stealing bikes or shoplifting, but one day on his way back school Ciaran was walking back from school, he enters his local park and sees someone riding a moped in there, he gets close and notices it was one of his young brothers.
Ciaran jumps on the moped and rides it around but then decides to go out on the road, it didn't take long before someone calls the police, luckily the had been so many alleyways and it didn't take Ciaran to lose them and get back to the park and when he did, he asked his brothers where they had got the bike from and put it back it the same place.
It wasn't long until Ciaran and his friends were hanging around with the older people, they had been from two separate gangs, the one I was in the Freemantle boys and to other gang SMMB would spend a lot of time in our area, nobody knew that they were there and it was also easy to get away or get to other places easy.
With Ciaran being able to run fast and also having no fear would earn a bit of money stealing for the older teenagers. One day sat at a bench with friends, one of the elder teenagers from the other gang came, on his way there he noticed an expensive coat on the back seat of a car and asked Ciaran to get it for him, he even gave Ciaran a break glass emergency hammer to get in the car with.
Finding the car easily Ciaran walks up to the window and taps it in the corner with the hammer, nothing so he kept trying moving round the window and then hit harder, that fails so Ciaran grabbed a brick from nearby and that hadn't worked either, determined now he picks up handful after handful of small stones and nothing but he has been trying to get in to the car for at least ten minutes so he had to give up and he walks back to his friends.
Now sat back with his friends, one of them had a moped they had stolen that morning, it was almost out of petrol so to dispose of it, he had plugged the petrol tank with a cloth and set that on fire and just before it explodes the police arrive and walk up to them.
The had started to talk to Ciaran, they had said that a member of the public had reported someone matching my description trying to break it to a car and of course it was me, but the person that had asked me to do it was stood behind me, he was the first person to say that I was there with them the whole time and everyone followed after agreeing.
During the conversation the bike explodes behind them and their reaction was priceless with them almost dropping to the floor, but noticing our lack of reaction stand up straight again, they ask if it was any of us though they were not expecting any of us to admit it.
A couple of weeks after that happened, Ciaran was in the park with my friends and was play fighting with one of them, he had got him down and was over him, instead of punching him in the with being a friend and all, Ciaran punches the grass just left of his face, Ciaran lifts his right hand and when he looked he could see the base of a broken vodka bottle hanging out of his wrist.
Not thinking Ciaran removes it and for thirty seconds nothing, he could see everything from muscle and tendons to bone Ciaran panicking with the lack of blood and then a gush of blood appears, his older friends had noticed and kicked in to gear, the apply pressure by hand and one had dialled the emergency line, they had started walking him home but quickly realised that he would not make it, two of his friends sit him on their shoulders with one of them applying pressure.
Ciaran's friends didn't know a lot of the information the paramedics needed over the phone so they had given the phone to Ciaran and he started to give his information when then women on the phone started to question whether it was a hoax call but Ciaran convinced her that it wasn't, it must have been the way he said that if she didn't send an ambulance he would die.
Ciaran's friends decided that they would take him to one of theirs that was closer, they had not been sure he would make it to his with the amount of blood that he lost and getting there they burst through the back door his mum cooking, she turns and looks at the back door to see nearly twenty people enter, seeing blood over several of them she grabs a tea towel while his friends lay him on the ground, the paramedic on the phone had said to do so and to elevate his legs to a forty-five-degree angle so they put his feet up on one of the chairs at the dining room table.
Everyone had the time to relax now, Ciaran's wrist is now wrapped and the blood is no longer pouring out and it wasn't long until the ambulance arrives, they come in to the kitchen and ask what had happened, they asked Ciaran if they could have a look, Ciaran agrees and unwraps his wrist.
Taking the last of the tea towel from his wrist everyone's eyes on the area, the friend that Ciaran had been play fighting with when he down had been right beside him, out of everyone including Ciaran, it was him that was affected the most and that had its moment of laughter when it was exposed, in Ciaran's palm was a large clot, his friend seeing his shout his guts, his guts are in his hands, every single person other than himself and burst in to laughter, I mean everyone Ciaran included.
The paramedics bandage his wrist and take him up the hospital. With Ciaran only being fourteen the had asked officers to notify his mother and they go to Ciaran's house to tell her but they don't tell her the truth, they tell his mother that her was wrestling on top of a car he had stolen and that he had accidently put his hand through a window.
The next afternoon Ciaran was in surgery to repair the tendons that had been severed, a glue-like fluid and if not repaired quickly it will set and then Ciaran would no longer have use of his right hand. Before Ciaran woke up the had already put his wrist in a cast with his wrist set folded fully forward, he only lasted three with this on and he was lucky to take it off when he did, he had spoken to someone shortly after taking it off and their hand had been set half folded forward because he had kept the cast on in a similar situation.