Handsome Devil Page #6

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anyone who can't be trusted

to put those issues to one

side can't be part of a team.

We all have sh*t that we're

going through you know.

Do you run?

No.

You stay.

You stay and you

deal with your sh*t

by standing in a field,

blowing a whistle

in the f***ing rain.

Let's go warriors, let's go.

Let's go warriors, let's go.

Hello?

Can I come in?

What do you want?

I want to apologize for

being a terrible friend.

So you knew

about me all along?

I'm so sorry Conor.

I want you to play.

There's still time.

You said that that

wasn't your team.

You've never even

seen us play before.

Look, I was wrong.

Okay, turns out I was wrong

about pretty much everything.

Not everything.

You don't have to

pick a side, Conor.

You don't have to be

one thing or the other.

You can be everything.

I'm not sure I

can play for them.

For weasel, for the coach.

It's for them.

You're not playing for them.

You're playing for us.

It's my team if

you're playing on it.

Reveal to them who you are.

If you dare.

If you dare.

Our team, yeah?

Conor.

What can we do for you?

Late again, sorry

about that lads.

You're mind is shot, right?

You're all over the

place, I understand that.

I wasn't shot.

Well at this point, Conor,

we all heard about the thing.

The thing?

The thing.

The thing?

The thing, the

thing, the thing.

Look, it's not your fault

but you cannot fit

into this team.

Since when?

Since, look,

you're incompatible.

Incompatible according to who?

Us.

According to all of

us, is that right lads?

I don't know if you heard

why I left my old school.

Yeah, we heard you

got in some fights.

I don't know if you

heard why I was fighting.

I was fighting everyone

who found out who I was.

Every last one of them.

But they kept coming

and I couldn't stop them coming

and I couldn't fight them all.

I couldn't stay and keep

denying it so I ran away.

To our school.

Thing is lads,

I'd like to stop

running away, you know.

I'm done with that.

Thanks to Ned here,

you all know who I am.

I'm the same me

that I always was

and I really really wanna

be a part of this team.

I'm here and I'm ready to play

so if you want me on your side.

Wallace has been filling in

and doing a perfectly good job.

Come on Pascal.

No I haven't, Pascal.

Believe in yourself, boy.

I believe I'm f***ing

sh*t at out-half.

I'm weak and you know it.

Come on Pascal, just

put Wallace on the wing.

Well that's a pity Victor

because Wallace has just

put himself on the bench.

There is one coach on this team.

One voice, not 15.

You hear me?

Do you hear me Victor?

Congratulations Victor,

you're off the team now.

You're a pair of f***ing tools.

Lads, I'm sorry but

this lad has ruined

your hard work for the year.

Anyone else walks

off to that side

and they're gone too.

I'll forfeit the

game if I have to.

I can do that.

That's enough, I said.

You hear me?

Ah for f***'s sake.

We all have that one

thing we're ashamed of.

The memory of one

moment so embarrassing,

we don't know if we'll

ever be able to forget it.

A single moment when not only do

we betray everyone around us

but we betrayed ourselves too

in the most terrible way.

Yes we all have that moment.

But the pain of remembering

the embarrassment begins

to fade eventually with

the help of a good friend.

I will never forget that game

for as long as I live.

Conor was everywhere,

everyone noticed him,

the determination

to shut people up,

to prove them wrong.

What he was feeling

spread throughout

the team like a fever.

People talked about

it for months after.

Conor's playing?

Yeah, your Ned found him.

Well he's a good kid, Ned.

Walter, this is Arthur.

Hello Arthur, Walter.

Arthur's me fella.

We're a bit of an item.

Like I said, I don't

think I'll ever be able

to get over the embarrassment

and the shame of what I did.

But in a way, some good

did come out of it.

That year, everyone in school

learned the same lesson.

Not to speak in

a borrowed voice.

You know, one

single year before,

I'd have given

everything I owned

for that kick to be missed.

But people change.

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