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Story on a Song: No Love by Eminem

It all started when he was 11. The first day of school he broke down crying, and it would ruin his life, Eric was a new kid transferring because of his mom's work. It was tough living on their own but they got by somehow. He moved in this little 2 bedroom apartment right in the middle of Detroit. He was much shorter than the kids and looked a lot more nervous, he started crying in 2nd period, crying for his mom while a group of 3 boys laughed and called him tons of names. Two of the boys were just monstrous fat while the other was real tall and skinny, he looked like a tree. At the size Eric was, he had no way of fighting them and winning, so he sat there and cried and took the abuse from them. Things went on like that for a while, then the name calling turned into physical abuse. They would hang around in the halls sometimes and wait for Eric to go to the bathroom and jump him in the bathroom. When this started with was turning 13 in the 7th grade. Eric would go home with bruises, black eyes, bloody noses, yet him mom didn't pay much attention to them. He couldn't take the abuse for much longer but what could he do, he tried talking to the teachers but they just talked to the boys and sent them back, almost on fire, ready to beat on him again. The best part of his day was being able to go home, relax, and listen to him music, feeling safe for once. At the age of 14 he started to try and fight back but there wasn't much he could do still. One of his friends introduced him to the drug world and he ended up missing this one day, then another. Eventually it ended up with him missing 6 days of school because he had been on the streets, selling cocaine. He felt like he had found his purpose, until the police officer walked up to him and arrested him in the middle of his neighborhood. He wasn't sentenced to jail, but he wouldn't do much of anything after that. One day he was just walking in the halls and his football coach asked him if he wanted to go to football practice and try out for the team. He had grown a lot since he was 11, and he was now a much taller muscular figure, so he agreed. Sophomore year he was the starting quarterback for his school's varsity team. He led them to a 13-3 season coming in 2nd during the playoffs and they were looking to do the same the next year. He had tons of scholarships and scouts from across the country who had heard about him watching every game. In the championship game of his junior year, the boys who had harassed him his entire life planted cocaine in his locker and the police had found it. He was kicked out of school, spent 3 months in prison, he couldn't play football, the scouts abandoned him, he was hopeless for his future. He had nothing to do that year so he sat around, working out, doing nothing. He realized that he hadn't ever touched the drugs so they couldn't say they were his. He ran to the school and explained everything, they looked, and he had no prints on the cocaine. He was put back in school and could play football again. It was getting better for him and he knew it wouldn't last. The boys came up to him with a bat, they tried to jump him, he walked away from the fight with no injuries, while the other boys could hardly walk. They got, No Love.