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So far the story has told about Michael's life story as a child until where Michael is now. Michael has grown up in a small, poor part of town and has worked his way up to a rich Christain school. He starts out slow in the learning program but still begins to slowly learn the material for his grade. Leigh Anne a very rich woman with a son and daughter that enroll in Briarcrest finds Michael walking in the rain at night. Then Leigh Anne begins to tear up and tells her husband, Sean, to turn around. Leigh Anne takes Michael back to her home and ask Michael if he has a place to stay but he doesn't so Leigh Anne lets Michael sleep on the couch for a few days. After that Leigh Anne ask Michael if he has any other clothes and he says yes but at his mothers house. But as in earlier in the book his mother had been a drug addict and alcoholic. Michael had been taken away from her as a child. Then he finds that his mother wasn't home due to her apartment house being repossessed. So Leigh Anne takes Michael to buy him clothes to wear and has a very hard time finding clothes that would fit him. After this Leigh Anna makes room in her house for Michael to live and gives him his own room. Michael is surprise about this because in the book he says he has never had his own bed before. Then Michael begins to get good enough grades to play sports and he practices football with the school. Michael doesn't know much about football so the coaches try to explain to him how to do it but Michael doesn't listen to guys and/or yelling. Leigh Anne steps in and tells Michael what to do by telling him the football team was his family and he had to protect the quarter back like it was her, Leigh Anne. Then Michael listens and takes in Leigh Anne and he amazes the coaches at what he can do and how strong he his but also how fast he is for his size.