Later that afternoon, after Regina helped Eminem write a few lyrics he owned up to his promise and took her to lunch. They talked and joked like this was this was their usual Saturday routine.

“Damn, I still can’t believe I did that,” Regina said shaking her head.

“I can’t either,” Eminem replied.

“Can I have my book back?” Regina asked out of the blue.

“What? Oh, no, I’m not finished reading through it.” He replied taking a bite of his food.

“Come on already,” Regina said, her mood quickly going from relaxed to annoyed.

“I’ll give it back to you when I’m finished reading it.”

“You’re doing this just to piss me off,” she said smiling slightly.

“Hey, you want to go out sometime or something?” he asked awkwardly, pushing the food around on his plate.

“Huh?” she asked surprised.

“You know, a date I guess,” he replied. She laughed slightly, she couldn’t believe that Eminem was asking her for a date.

“What the fuck are you laughing for?” he asked sitting up and looking at her with a furrowed brow.

“Nothing, nothing. Look, I got to get going. Thanks for lunch,” she said standing up and grabbing her purse.

“You’re just gonna leave?” he asked watching her.

“Yeah, as per the agreement, lunch, I’m gone. I’ll see ya, bye Eminem,” she said tugging on his cap and smiling before walking away.

“It’s Marshall!” he called after her retreating form. She turned, smiled as she continued walking, waved once and turned before continuing to walk out the door.

“Shit,” he said to himself. He leaned back in the chair and felt the notebook sticking out of his back pocket. Good, he had an excuse to talk to her again. He pulled it out and flipped through it. She really did have a good angle on him. He stopped to read a full page of her hand writing, it was her obvious attempt at writing an editorial about his music.

“Violence, sex, drugs, racism, hate crimes, guns, gay bashing only make up a small list of the subjects the King of Controversy, Eminem, raps about. He’s constantly being dragged into court to defend his lyrics against his right to freedom of speech, and for what? Half attempts at discrediting songs and albums that the accusing attorneys cannot take the time to even listen to the songs all the way through. If you’re going to try and shoot down the man with the fastest mouth in the entire hip-hop arena, you should know everything he ever written, said and done since he was born. Why is it so controversial when someone opens their mouth and gives their opinion? It becomes controversial the second it doesn’t agree with the thin skinned, dirtier than thou behind closed doors politicians that have nothing better to do with their time than pick a loosing battle with the freedom of speech. They’ve run out of ammo, fist it was Ozzy, then it was Marylin Mason, and if they had taken the time to listen to his music, they would know that Eminem even comments on these events. The biggest irony is why is he being targeted by the lyrics he markets when other industries are pumping out pornography by the ten-ton truck semi? Why is the pornography industry not targeted just as much? Freedom of the press, freedom of speech! But they do not have to explain the reasoning for their product, they do not have to defend themselves. Repeatedly Eminem has said the references in his songs are jokes, several times in many different songs. He’s had a parental advisory sticker slapped on everything he produces and still it is not enough. Obviously Eminem’s albums are not for children, the parental advisory sticker on the label says that. So where are the parents when the kids get a hold of his albums? Who is supposed to be the one making sure the kids don’t listen to what they are not supposed to? Eminem is not responsible for the world’s children, and people would do well to remember that.”

He looked up from the article and closed the notebook. He had to see her again.