Written by Marcie Lucas

With Ideas from Anthony Lucas

It had been a hard day as Billy Costigan walked up and down pacing the interrogation room, the criminal that he had been talking to had been giving him the run around. He was tired of it. Frustration brought out the worst in him; this criminal had not seen his ugly side.

“Are we almost done yet? I got shit to do! Everything is so bad at home, you wouldn’t know the half of it.” Martin had began to feel uncomfortable as Billy paced the room.

“Listen you think your life is bad, you should have tried living my life.” Billy had been frustrated so much he slammed down the file he had been carrying.

“What so bad about your life?   You got everything a good job and a helluva lot of woman or so I heard.” Martin had been envious of his life.

“Despite what you might think, you know nothing about me, Martin." "You wanna know me, fine. I’ll tell you my story.” Billy sat down finally and began to tell his story.

“When I was young, I was living with my mom who was married to this guy who was eaten by these Critters. He was such an asshole luckily he was my step-dad. After he died my mom remarried to a man who use to treat me like shit and beat me for doing anything he didn’t approve of. I started to write a book called “This Boy’s Life.” From so much beatings, he abuse my mind and I began to drift away. They said I was retarded and that I could go at any time. I lived with my friend Robert’s family, the Grapes. During this point my brother who was from my mother’s first marriage learned about me, luckily for me the status of my condition was not permanent. My older brother killed my stepfather when he found out that he use to beat me. As I got older I became infatuated with the old west I use to call myself The Kid, slowly I began to realize that everything was becoming more clearer so being without a father I started experimenting with drugs, sex, violence, and basketball. It got so bad that I became bi-sexual. I went to France and met a man named Verlaine, posing as a poet called Arthur Rimbaud, he became my lover after finding out that was all he wanted. I left to Verona Beach where I met a girl named Juliet that was not into guns and violence and slowly I got out of drugs and gangs. Being straight for so many months, I found out that my mom’s sister needed a bone marrow transplant in Florida, so I decided to take a trip on the Titanic where I drew portraits for 10 cents a piece, the ship ended up sinking and I ended up on the beach where I met another girl, Francoise and fell in love. Now she was the chief’s daughter who I was not allowed to be with, she was off limits. But I didn’t care I needed her as much as she needed me. So we made love and when the chief found out he put me in an iron mask as a disgrace to the entire community. I went on my way via a raft out to sea for doing what I had done, and a ship found me and I ended up in New York . While in New York, I got the mask off by this doctor, with no money I traveled and looked for a job, two gangs members took hold of me and grabbed my medallion my father left me and through everything we had became good friends and so I decided to join the gang as well we were known as the Gangs of New York. While in the streets the officials were looking for me in order to escape, I started to pretend to be an airline pilot I use to tell them, “Catch Me If You Can”, by this time I found out that my brother had passed away, he had married my friend’s sister Amy Grape and left me a fortune. As I grew older I decided to build my own planes I even made a few films working under the title “Howard Hughes, the aviator”. With the money and power that I had, I became a Celebrity and starred in movies. At one point in time something bad happened and I lost everything. And now here I am in this building talking to you working as a detective to put criminals and mobsters like you back where they belong.” After remembering it all he just wanted to forget it.

“Wow I had no idea.”Martin had been shocked.

”Yeah that’s the story of my life so if you thought you had it hard, think again.” Billy hit him upside the head.

"So am I charged or not.” Martin asked.

“No, we got no evidence to keep you, but if your out of line next time. I’ll be on your back. You’ll never see me and you’ll never know I’m there. But remember this if I could go through all my life doing what I have done, killing you won't be of any consequence to me.” Billy had meant it.

"In that case Mr. Costigan. You will never see me here again." Martin had been scared of Billy now.

Martin closed the door, vowing to never get into trouble again. After hearing Billy's Life all he wanted to do was live a straight life.

THE END