Noodles

My name is David Aaronson, my friends used to call me Noodles. I grew up in the Jewish Ghetto on the lower east side of New York City, I live in Buffalo now. I moved here many years ago after I got my best friend Max killed while trying to save his life. My whole life ended that day, all my friends were dead....except Deborah. I still remember the day I met Max Bercovicz...I must have been about 13 years old. My gang and I used to do some jobs for the neighborhood boss Bugsy, we burned out this schmuck's news stand and we woulda earned a dollar for it, but we had the choice to roll a drunk instead, so chose to roll the drunk, only Max got to him first. Later on that day I saw Max again, he was moving into a house on my street, while his hands were full I took back the watch we were supposed to steal from the drunk. Soon as I had it in my hands that cop we called "fartface" showed up and pinched it from us, we were friends ever since. Me, him, Cockeye and Patsy started working together after that...on our own. Bugsy got wind of our new junior crime syndicate and cornered me and Maxie in the alley behind Moe's, him and his boys beat us half to death, that was the same day I kissed Deborah for the first time. The boys and I somehow managed to start doing some work for the Capuanos, recovering the liqour they had to throw over board during a raid from the river, thanks to my invention (they don't call me Noodles for nothin'). Soon as Bugsy heard about that he decided to kill us. He ambushed us down by the bridge, we didn't even see it comin' and thats when he shot Dominick. I ran out to Bugsy with my spring knife open and stabbed him in the belly til' he dropped, a cop ran up behind me and whacked me in the head with a nightstick, I stabbed him in his belly too, I didn't really mean to stab the cop, it must have been the heat of the moment or something. I got locked up for a while after that, but Maxie was waiting for me when I got out.