Jonathan asked the kid's name, and thinking back to his late father, he said his name was DeAndre. Jonathan took him to a courthouse and, using connections he had within the court, he got Jake registered as a citizen of the United States as DeAndre Coleman. Jonathan let the newly named DeAndre work for him as a protege and taught him in the ways of construction. He entered now thirteen year old DeAndre into high school and helped him study to make up for all the years he missed as a result of DeAndre's foster father. Jonathan's real son, William Fields, who lived with his mother up until a year before and never took Jonathan's last name, also helped DeAndre in studies.
At the age of fourteen, DeAndre was so smart that his father let him run his construction company at the sites, while Jonathan took care of the business side of things. At the start of the tenth grade, DeAndre started to take up football and business at his school. His coach was so impressed with him that he made DeAndre a first string varsity quarterback. Not only that, but DeAndre became the #1 student in his business class, trig class, and chemistry class.
In all of his high school years, DeAndre led his football team to three league championships, and was so advanced in business, math, and science that he was forced to take courses at the local community college because his school didn't offer courses higher than the ones he had passed.
When DeAndre finally graduated from high school, he was valedictorian and had a 4.3 GPA, plus already had obtained numerous college credits. He was given a full sports scholarship to UCLA, but he didn't want to return to LA, and he applied too late to the University of Illinois or University of Chicago, so he was unable to gain a scholarship. He opted to take a year off of school to build up the construction company.
Teens - Part 2
First Break - Part 3
Life Is Good - Part 4
Retirement - Part 5
New Job - Part 6
Back In The Game - Part 7
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