Get_Back_to_Where_You_Once_Belonged

Get back to where you once belonged Brent is on his way home from school Tuesday afternoon. He lives in the northwestern part of Birmingham, a neighborhood that normally is known as “The Ghetto” of the city. Brent is 16 years old. He’s neither popular nor lonely, and as a schoolman it’s the same story, just an average kid. Brent joined a gang couple weeks ago named: “The White Gangsters” and they are having a meeting today. The main reasons for Brent joining the gang are that his friend, Nick is the founder of it, and that Brent recently stopped playing football, so he needed something to do in his free time. The gang has got about 10 members, but Brent did only know Nick, the founder and their classmate Ashton when it was founded. The gang is only for white guys at the age of 15-19 and its purpose is to have a better status than the “colored” gangs in the neighborhood. The meeting takes place at Nick’s place, not so far away from Brent’s flat. At the meeting the gang decides to accept a fight offer from one of the foreign gangs in the ghetto called “Pakistani Crushers”. This is the first serious fight the gang fights and a really good opportunity to prove the status of the gang. The members plan to meet them in the park next evening. After the meeting Brent and Ashton walk home and discuss the upcoming fight. Brent acts cool and says that the fight isn’t going to be tough at all. Ashton is not so confident but he really hates the foreigners and is so willing to prove his white power. When Brent comes home he starts thinking about what kind of mess he’s committed himself to do. He actually doesn’t have anything against foreigners, and begins to think about all the foreign people he knows. He doesn’t remember them doing anything bad to him at all. Anyway, he knows that there isn’t a choice to back out of the gang now, because then he will lose all his friends and will be known as “the chicken that backed out” at school. The morning after, Brent wakes up and goes to school. He can’t concentrate at all in class and the day at school is totally ruined. In the lunch break he manages to look confident in the gang members’ eyes. But he is so nervous for the evening’s big clash that the members can easily see through him. After school he takes a long nap to recharge himself. He eats dinner with his family and then lies to them that he’s going to study and play computer games with Ashton at eight o’clock. It’s the moment of truth and Brent goes outside and takes the direction straight to the park. He meets the rest of the gang and they begin to prepare a strategy and some tactics for the fight. Now they are ready and the only thing that is missing to start the fight is the other gang. They wait more than thirty minutes for The Pakistani Crunchers, but they don’t show up. The gang then decides to grab an ice cone in the shop at the corner. Suddenly, everything starts to be foggy. Brent begins to see famous actors ringing the doorbell to his flat. Birmingham is winning the Premier League. Space ships are invading all Britain. He can’t handle this anymore, he’s got to do something. Brent wakes up, what a dream, he thinks. The clock is only 4 and there are still 3 hours until he has to wake up. He decides to get some more sleep, but is very confused about the dream he had dreamt. Later at school, Brent got asked if he would like to join some kind of a group called “Foreigners, get back to your own country”. It didn’t take Brent a split of a second to refuse the offer. He was very glad that Nick and Ashton did the same thing as he. Now he knew that the dream was only a silly dream and nothing else.