Tommy Long

## Life Story

His name is Tommy Long, I was born on 10th November 1990 in Aberdeen, Scotland. His Mother, Gemma Long worked as a barmaid in a local bar, she had been working there since she was the age of 18 to try to make a living. His father, Daniel Long worked as a bus driver in a town that was 50 miles away from home. Growing up Tommy never got to see his father all that much as during the week he would stay away from home to minimize the travel. Tommy spent much of childhood being passed between babysitters and his grandparent's house as his father was always away and his mother had to work. Tommy was an unexpected child to a young couple, his mother was 21 and his father was 20 when he was born and they were not prepared mentally or financially for a baby.

As a young child, Tommy was a good kid, he worked hard in school and was always top of the class. He was happy at home and they always had the greatest of holidays every year. Tommy’s favourite holiday was a week away in Norway skiing, this was his first skiing holiday and he would go skiing for 8 consecutive years. He became very good at skiing and even went indoor skiing at a complex in Glasgow, Scotland not too far away from his home. Tommy’s teachers always had high hopes for him and fully expected him to go to university and major in physics and probably work in the space industry as Tommy always had a fascination with space, rockets and observatories.

This was until Tommy was around 10 years old and he became friends with the class clown Royce Knowles. It was at this stage when Tommy started to mess around in class by being disruptive and he stopped paying attention. This was a major cause of concern for his teachers and his parents as they all wanted what was best for Tommy. This went on for a couple years and he ended up dropping out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications

After a couple of years, Tommy tried getting an apprenticeship at a mechanics and they rejected him as he was too young so he tried twice at a takeaway shop because he wanted to start work and make some money and get some free food by the end of the night if they had any, they said he couldn't as he didn't have his car license. Tommy couldn't afford to pay some of the bills he had or even to get basic food so he had to think of a way to get cash fast. He knew a few friends were a bit strapped for cash so this was the start of being a criminal. He asked those friends if they wanted to rob a few corner shops for their money and they agreed eventually… They took a lot of convincing but with the right persuasion they gave in, but with a few consequences if they got caught by the police they would rat Tommy out and give him all of the blame as he convinced them to do it. After the robbery, in which we were armed with hammers, we fled on our bikes as fast as we could peddle and we hid the cash in a backpack in some bushes, which Tommy would return to later that evening to collect. Tommy and his friends then decided they would destroy the clothing that they were wearing so they could destroy the evidence that they used so no one could recognize them by the clothing or the police getting DNA from the clothing, after staying low for a few days Tommy went back out to the open world as his friends nor him did not get caught.

At the age of 20, Tommy did not know what to do with himself as he had no qualifications and never really gave much thought to what he wanted to do with his life. Then, one day as Tommy was walking through the city center he noticed an advertisement to sign up for the British Army, and the guy that was in the poster looked surprisingly like Tommy. So he went home and the more he thought about it the more he wanted to apply. Tommy applied, and enrolled. Over the course of the next 3 years Tommy went on 4 tours of Afghanistan in which he learnt a lot about himself as well as carrying out the tasks required of him. When he went to get checked out medically for his 5th tour he admitted to having nightmares while at home in which he could see the people he had killed screaming in his face. After many medical tests he was told that due to the many killings I had witnessed, he had PTSD.

Due to this, Tommy struggled to find a suitable job and so he slowly fell into alcoholism and gambling. There was not a day that goes by where Tommy wouldn't get drunk and bet on horses. Every week Tommy would lose all the money he earned from doing odd jobs he gets asked from his neighbourhood. This would spiral out of control to the point where Tommy had to take out a loan from the local loan shark. This meant that Tommy owed him a lot of money, which he knew he would struggle to pay back.

Tommy was in debt to the loan shark, he applied for a working visa to the United States, This was accepted and Tommy packed his bags and got on the first flight across to Los Santos, which was in a couple days. In the meantime, Tommy went online to look for jobs in the Los Santos area. He was open to anything and he accepted interviews at a few companies and was excited to get there and leave all his stresses behind.

## Friends

Carter Boom

Lily Knight

Shea Warmwind

Sweets Landry

Adz Trapper

Darius Kingston

Rejjie Shelby

Gray Busche

## Outfits

   this is the uniform that we use at Cluckin' Bell when manager Rico v is working

this the Outfits this Tommy uses when he is chilling