Lucas Z.

The contender Lucas Zambrano

Alfred is a 17-year-old black teenager in a dangerous neighborhood. His best friend is going out with some scary gangster boys that he doesn’t like much. When his best friend and those other boys try to rob the grocery store where he works at his best friend gets caught. The other boys start to bully him and tell him it was his fault his friend was in jail. Alfred got into a boxing gym. He had a very strict schedule. He had to get up and run at 5 am and run around the park, then eat broiled eggs for breakfast, go to work, eat little lunch, and a lot of dinner and repeat it every day. He went on his first day and there were so many people he got scared but he finally got the courage to go. He made a few friends and saw how brutal boxing could be. Then he went to Madison square garden to see one of the guys in the gym fight. He got to see the real thing. After that one of his friends offered to take him home. When he got home the gangsters where waiting for him and started telling him he had to disconnect the alarm in the store. Alfred had gained courage and without thinking twice said no and went home