bhwS

by Cr0w0019

this is a fanfic of a bhwS book i read with a little bit of things edited to make it better

12. Chapter 12

Preparations For The Olympics

After that game, Jake went to the basketball court saying goodbye to everyone, as there would be no more competitions this year. Jake saw no further advantage in continuing to train with the basketball team.

He had already talked to this with his teammates the day before and was just warning Coach Mike, Jake could always train basketball at home and in system space as well.

The physical training that was most important to Jake would continue to go on sometimes in the training of the football team or at his own home gym, in a few more weeks the court and the athletic field would finally be completed at Jake's house.

"I'm glad to have been your coach Jake, you are sure to become an NBA star in the future, and it will be a pride for me as it is now."

"I also really enjoyed training with you Coach Mike, hope I can come here to talk to you sometimes."

"For sure, you will always be welcome Hahaha."

After that Jake would only have the classes to go to school, Jake already had the grades he needed to enter university, he knew that even if he took too much of his time school was an experience he would miss in the future, just as he had in the past.

At the end of the day, Jake returned home and took his shower and went to the bedroom to rest before his mother arrived, with the maids at home Jake no longer had to do homework as he had before.

He had run the 60 km again on the school's athletic field, if others knew of Jake's training routine would think he was preparing for the Ironman instead of the marathon.

But that was the only way Jake knew how to prepare for the Olympics, after all, he didn't need the race time to win better, so he could only increase the training distance to make it easier at race time.

When he lay down to rest Jake recalled yesterday's game, Jake himself thought that this was the best game he had ever played for his opponent's results and difficulty, Jake felt he had climbed another wall, but the system said nothing.

"Fate, what did you think of my performance in the final?"

[You played very well, what happened in the game is that you were able to make the most of your skills after you stopped holding back, it was smart to get my tip on space training from imagination training.]

"So you're telling me that I didn't really cross any of my limits and just did what I should with my ability?"

[Exactly, to be exact if you crossed a line was the barrier you put yourself in your way, yet it was amazing that you were able to do it alone in times of need.]

Jake was a little disappointed by that, in fact, what the system was saying was that he was incompetent before because he couldn't use his own resource as a player, the only thing he did in this game is to get back what was his own.

[Don't underestimate yourself so much Jake, you did it because it was necessary, you shouldn't always play your best against your teammates and weaker opponents than your team, otherwise, you can stand out and make people unhappy.]

[The important thing is that you now know how to make the most of your skills when you need them, at university, you will never have to hide your skills because there are still a lot of people who are better than you now.]

Jake knew that too and was excited for the new challenge, just as when he entered high school and was excited to face opponents who were better than him, unfortunately, he didn't get that opportunity because the coach didn't like him.

But on the college team, Jake knew that the coach could give him the opportunity to play with stronger opponents than him, it's exciting for Jake to start out weaker than others and fight to become the best in a few years.

He knew that after college he would no longer have this opportunity, as the system said he would now be entering the world of professionals when he had enough skill to be the best at university he would be considered good in the NBA.

That was a difference Jake had from other talented players his age, Jake knew why he had the system that wasn't the best and wasn't arrogant even though he was almost always the high school national championship MVP.

So he never tried to stop improving, very skilled young people thought that being the best in high school would be enough to get into the NBA and become a superstar, so the coaches liked Jake who didn't have that arrogance.

In fact just as the system said Jake was different from others and thanks to the system could also be considering a great genius so if he went straight into the NBA with a few years playing he could become a star just the same.

That was the difference between Jake and others, yet Jake still chose the best way to improve his college basketball skills, since what Jake needed most now was time to improve his skills.

Even though this was an important year for Jake in his life in general because it was the beginning of college and also the Olympics, this time after the national championship was surprisingly a time where Jake had nothing to do.

He didn't have to worry about basketball games to play and didn't have a business to take care of, Emily was watching the stock market, and even that wasn't necessary for Jake who knew about the future.

His partnership with Amazon was a success, and Jake knew that if he didn't get involved with the company even though it had its tough times, it would grow to be one of the world's biggest companies in the future, and Matthew's company was just bothering to sell digital cameras and earn the profit.

Of course, several people in the company were busy finished developing the new digital camera for sale next year and also in the technology to prepare digital cameras for placing on a computer and future smartphones.

With Jake's huge profit last year on the advice of Jake, Matthew gave great incentives and bonuses as well as raising the salary of all his technology development experts.

That plus the company's non-disclosure agreement would help prevent big companies from trying to steal their experts, Matthew also promised them that after this year their salaries would rise again.

The advantage of Matthew's company to the other big companies in the market was that they only specialized in selling digital cameras and developing this technology while other big companies had to share their investment with other electronics.

This plus Jake's knowledge of the right way forward would help the company become one of the leaders in the international market.

Since Jake had nothing more to worry about, he decided to start preparing for the Olympics first, even though he said that all he had to do was continue training as he did every day.

After all, they were still in March and there were a few months left to think about the Olympics, surely for Jake, the preparation for the Olympics was probably the simplest of all athletes in other sports.

Of course few could run 60 km every day like him at Jake's speed, Jake tried to increase the distance but realized that currently, 60 km was his limit, in physical training Jake was also getting close to his body limit.

That's because Jake remembered the system saying that it would only have 2 more years for his body to stop developing as it did now if now he needed 7 months of hard training to get a 2-year physical statistic it took almost 2 years to increase each statistic.

So Jake decided that he had given up on such intense physical training after these two years, he would still do like other athletes, but it would not be as much as now because Jake understood that he could earn statistics points slowly now because his statistics were below authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

But next year Jake was thinking of fighting to win all 4 other major marathons, this year he would still try to win in New York to redeem himself from defeat last year, and after doing so he would earn 5 more stats points in agility and Resistance.

So in those two years of physical training, it would be hard to even get 1 extra stat, of course, Jake also knew that after reaching 50 statistics he would be stronger than the others and no longer needed physical training and just skill.

In fact, even the system was amazed at how fast Jake improved, and the system was estimated to take Jake about 10 years to reach the level it was now, with a number of statistics rewards Jake didn't receive.

The system still knew that next year Jake would further improve his physical stats, after all, Jake could only win the marathon because he had trained very hard and increased endurance very fast.

So Jake could increase stamina by winning the major marathons, for the system that wouldn't be possible before Jake was 20, as that was all merit of Jake who knew how to use the system well was just that he was better than the others your age.

In early June Jake would have to go to the Olympic center, so it was still four months away if it wasn't for his determination before Jake could still try to run the Boston Marathon as well.

But that could end up drawing a lot of attention to him who would still compete in the Olympics, just as he was criticized after getting hurt by the media last year for competing in the New York marathon after a few months of winning in Chicago.

While thinking he had plenty of free time Jake received an unexpected invitation, John had called Jake informing him that a movie director had invited Jake to a party at the Miami Beach hotel.

It seemed that this director had met Jake when he was doing the commercial for John and Alan's companies earlier this year, Jake naturally accepted the invitation.

Jake was very fond of movies and also always wanted to act if given the opportunity, of course, he preferred many things before acting, but after suffering the accident that left him unable to walk in his past life and lose his mother, acting was one of few things Jake thought he could do.

But that didn't change the fact that he enjoyed acting and even trained for many years in his past life, so he had an easier time recording commercials that didn't require a skill.

Besides, it looked like this Miami beach party would have some Hollywood stars, as Jake had nothing to do It wasn't a bad idea to meet maybe some of his idols.

Jake had been invited by Cameron Crowe a Hollywood director who in addition to acting also wrote, Jake vaguely remembered him but was glad to have been invited no matter what the director wanted.

In fact, since Jake hardly ever left home if it wasn't for training or going to his mom's restaurant or school, besides, wherever he went it was by car, so Jake didn't know he was famous all over the country.

And that was even more so for Miami who always had Eric and other reporters talking about him, when Jake was younger he was just a very talented child, but in recent years he has recorded three television commercials and still appeared after coming to the first few two major marathon placements and tests for the Olympics this year.

Besides, Jake was very handsome and his friends even joked that he looked like a Hollywood actor, so it was impossible that he was not recognized, so it was appropriate for him to come to this party even more with the director's invitation.

So after two days, Jake went to the party, he was wearing a suit he had bought a few months as soon as he got the money from Matthew's company, after all, someone with millions of dollars in the bank account not having a decent suit was a disgrace.

Jake also thought of buying a better car, but eventually gave up on this idea, after all, he had his car less than a year and buying another was unnecessary, after all, no one knew that Jake was rich yet and an athlete usually did not earn much.

When Jake left home with the same suit Eva thought her son was very handsome, even more so than her husband from whom Jake inherited some of his looks, she was proud of her son being so and was glad Lola didn't see Jake in suit, otherwise, she would fall in love with him forever.

Jake came to the taxi party and when he entered the party everyone looked at Jake at least once, the women looked over and over and sometimes didn't even look away from him, Jake had arrived very early at the party so just stood in one corner from the hall and waited for others to arrive.

Jake, who was very shy with people he didn't know, felt a little lost in such an environment, even though it was a party, in fact, it looked more like a cocktail party where the music was just for accompaniment and the waiters carried trays everywhere.

Even though he was invited by director Crowe, Jake didn't really know what he was like despite knowing him by name, so Jake would have to wait until the director came to him while he waited. Jake tried to find someone famous at the party.

After all that was what he came to the party for, unfortunately, it didn't look like anyone famous had arrived at the party yet, thinking that it was normal for the most famous to arrive later at this party.

After a few minutes Jake had understood the purpose of this party, he had heard that many people here were directors and filmmakers and also had some business owners as well as young actors and actresses who were looking for an opportunity to become famous.

Jake wasn't interested in any of this, if he really wanted to he could become well known for being a director or writer of dozens of movies over the next 20 years just using his knowledge of the future.

But Jake thought that could be a lot of dishonesty, especially since he didn't need it and could get rich just by making the right investments in the stock market, but he wouldn't mind playing in some of these very successful movies.

Thinking about it he remembered that Titanic had started production now, it would be very nice if he could participate in a movie like this, it was impossible for him now because he could not spend several months shooting.

After a few more minutes Jake was having fun even though he didn't talk to anyone, many women here were interested in him, but most were married or were accompanying someone.

The young actresses were also more concerned with pleasing some producers and directors than talking to Jake even though he was handsome, so lucky for him that he wanted to be alone as soon as someone came near him with a glass of champagne in his hands.

"Not many beautiful women here? But these are not good places to meet someone, these women are often much more tempted by interests than by people."

Jake looked at the man who approached him, and just nodded and then looked away, this man was young and didn't look ten years older than Jake, so Jake thought he might be the director.

"I'm glad you came with my invitation."

"I appreciate the invitation, Director Crowe."

"I saw you that day when you were shooting those commercials, even though it wasn't very complicated scenes, I was impressed that you did everything at once."

"As you said the scenes themselves weren't that complicated, and I have a good memory not to forget the little details."

"This is another good quality for an actor, with your looks you could be successful in Hollywood, too bad you chose the sport, with your talent I think you have no interest in anything else."

"That's not true, I really love sports and basketball besides running in marathons right now, but I still do other things and think about doing even more if it can fit my schedule."

That's what Jake thought, he would do anything that interested as long as he had time for it, after all, he had priorities too, basketball was the most important and deserved prominence in his agenda for example.

But Jake knew that there could always be opportunities to do something else, only when he entered the NBA that he wouldn't have time to do anything else, before that he wanted to take any opportunity he had.

Director Crowe was happy to hear Jake say that if Jake had an interest in the cinema everything could be arranged, even if a director couldn't make the entire movie shooting schedule around an unknown actor some scenes would not be a problem.

"This year are you competing for the Olympics?"

"Yes, I qualified to run the marathon, I plan to bring another gold medal to our country."

"After that, you'll be much more famous than now."

"I don't know about that, nowadays nobody remembers many athletes who won important medals for our country, so I just want to do my part."Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

"But you can still get famous for playing basketball, can't you?"

"If I win, I will be known for it, this year our team won the national championship, now I'll see if I can win at university too."

Headmaster Crowe nodded in agreement, he knew Jake was gifted by what he saw on sports television, so it seemed like it was really worth inviting a talent like that to work with him.

If Jake really got a gold medal in the Olympics would be a big promotion for his movie, after all, it was directly sports-related, and he saw that Jake was talented and good looking, so he saw only advantages for that.

"I called you here Jake because I think you're very talented and can be a hit in Hollywood, unfortunately, I don't have any characters in a movie of mine for you to play in the near future."

"But this year we will release a movie that has something to do with sports, so I would like to invite you to make a cameo with some scenes."

"What is the name of the film?"

"The name of the movie is Jerry Maguire, it's a movie that tells the story of a sports agent who after a while gets tired of dishonesty in the sports business and decides to have fewer clients to be more efficient…"

Then director Crowe kept talking about the movie with great enthusiasm, but Jake didn't listen to anything else because he knew the story of the movie well and had even watched it several times, It was a movie that he liked a lot and was very successful critically and also at the box office.

"So what do you think?"

"I accept if I have a role that needs a test to try I am willing too, after all, I am playing few various sports, a while ago I played quarterback on the school football team for a friendly."

"If it was another year I would call you, but unfortunately this year you have to participate in the Olympics and so we would have less time to film if you weren't available with a bigger role, but if you get the chance I'll talk to you."

Jake understood that well, he was just excited, it was hard for him who had no acting experience to play a major role in an important movie like this one. Jake knew well that actors played a key role in the film's end result.

After a while, Tom Cruise showed up at the party and Jake cheered up and went along with the director to greet one of his idols, after all, he knew that Tom Cruise played the main character of the movie that director Crowe invited him to.

The director also went along with Jake when he saw that the person who had arrived was Tom Cruise, so the director introduced Jake to Tom Cruise and Jake had to control himself not to ask for an autograph, after all, he would just embarrass the director by doing so.

After Jake stayed a little longer at the party and left, he was wondering if he could really get a chance to participate in such a big movie, after all even if the director invited him it was hard to know if the director couldn't change his mind.

When he returned home late at night and told Eva who he met his mother reprimanded him for not asking her for an autograph.

Jake was very excited about becoming an actor in a well-known movie, but the other day he went back to his routine normally as if nothing had happened.

After all, the Olympics were approaching and he didn't even know if the opportunity to actually appear in the movie could actually happen, but his training was real, that's what he could count on to improve both in marathon and basketball.

With his daily training of 60 km, a day he gained more and more in his running ability, proof of this was that in the last race he had managed to maintain a steady running pace with the help of the system.

Many of these things he could only learn after running for many months or years, at some time he thought that he might not even need the system panel to know the right pace of running.

He also spent part of his time every day in the school library teaching his classmates who had the worst grades, Joseph and Liza were not in this group because his grades were already enough.

In the last semester of high school Jake became one of the most beloved students in both class and teachers after showing kindness by using his time to help many classmates, they regretted ignoring Jake in recent years.

Unfortunately, they no longer had time to become friends with Jake that even though he was still kind he was hurt by all of them, it was normal for that to happen even if Jake had a more experienced mindset they couldn't have cold enough blood not to suffer from the pain. the treatment he suffered from his colleagues.

The players on the American football team were also very fond of Jake as a person and as a friend this past semester, but they didn't have time to form a deep friendship with Jake either.

But Jake was still happy about it because it was a sign that when people got older and without such prejudice, it would be easier for him to make friends, so maybe at university, he has the opportunity to make several friends.

Jake also felt that Liza finally seemed to be maturing and maybe really changing to be with Joseph, Jake was curious how the friend who seemed so shy some years ago now had the charisma to make his girlfriend improve for his sake.

So the only person who was still at this school that had disappointed Jake so much was precisely his ex-girlfriend, he was very sad that she didn't even try to talk to him after the breakup, even more, when he had his house invaded and she didn't even have to appear to hear from him.

Jake had previously been heartbroken over his problem in his past life of having spent more than 20 years without a relationship, now it's even closer, Jake knew that if it wasn't for that he might already be dating Lola now.

So a few weeks went by and Jake's routine still hasn't changed, Jake was still talking to some friends a few times at the time, just Tiffany and Clara he didn't talk too much, after all, Tiffany was always busy right now and even though Clara improved she didn't It was more like before.

Just as she had told Jake until she could regain the actions that were in Robert's hands she could no longer be happy as before, and she knew she could do nothing about it with Tiffany's help for at least a few more years.

Jake had thought that if he could get Matthew's company profit share again, he would at least buy the stock from Robert's hands to see Clara happy again.

The same day thinking about his friends Tiffany had called Jake asking to have dinner with him, Jake naturally accepted but didn't know why this time was a dinner as they usually talk about business at lunch.

The place was a restaurant Jake had gone to only once, it was an interesting place to talk about business because it had too few tables and the places were isolated from other restaurant customers, so everyone had more privacy to talk to.

When Jake arrived at the restaurant, it was still a few minutes to the time Tiffany had agreed with him, but when Jake said Tiffany's name that he had reserved a table, it seemed that the receptionist had seen his savior.

Jake was a little confused by this but saw that even the waiter who led him to the table in the closed room seemed nervous, as soon as the waiter opened the door to the room Jake smelled incredible alcohol from inside.

"What is it? You must have brought me into the room with the wrong table."

"No sir, this is the right room, it's reserved for Mrs. Tiffany."

"Then switch the room reserved for another without the smell of alcohol, this is not a service that a respected restaurant should offer, when Tiffany arrives, she's sure she won't be satisfied."

"That's not it sir, the lady who booked this room is already in there for a few hours."

Hearing this Jake didn't understand what the waiter meant at first, but soon understood why everyone seemed so uncomfortable, it seemed like Tiffany had been drinking here since a few hours ago.

Jake knew that this restaurant was very strict in politics that although the rooms were private and offered a more private environment, it was just for business, it didn't allow any kind of intimacy between customers nor what was happening with Tiffany now.

But since Tiffany was an important customer for the restaurant they didn't want to kick her out of the restaurant and lose an important customer and were waiting for Jake who was the guest to arrive to sort it out.

Jake understood the waiter's intent and didn't care, he quickly walked into the room and closed the door and went to see how Tiffany was and why she was doing it, surprisingly despite having several open and empty wine bottles Tiffany had not yet passed out So much to authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

"Tiffany, what happened to you?"

"Jake, you're here, so it seems like my drinking time is over, at least I could relax a little."

Surprisingly Tiffany wasn't quite drunk yet and could talk to Jake, Jake was impressed by her ability to handle such alcohol.

"Tell me what's going on and you'll feel better than drinking."

"Oh, you talk like you've been through this without being old enough to drink."

Jake just smiled bitterly without answering, in his past life he went through very difficult times and drinking was the only thing he could do as he had no friends to forget about the problems.

But it never worked out no matter how much he drank, so he found that it was best not to forget the problems but to accept them, but only after suffering for many years alone.

"I really intend to tell you what I've been holding in my heart for years, that's why I drank before you arrived."

"Then tell me."

"You know I'm 31 now don't you? I reached the peak of my career a few years ago, now I'm just trying to keep what I have, you ever wondered why I'm still single after so many years?"

Jake had really thought about it, usually, working women got married a little later after achieving some of their professional goals, but even getting married later they still had some relationships in the meantime, but Jake never knew Tiffany had any relationship at all being as beautiful and successful as she was.

"You may have wondered that too, just like everyone else, no one knows why I did what I did. My family doesn't comment on it thinking I want to achieve something else in my life."

"The truth is, I fell in love many years ago, I fell in love after I turned 21 and stayed in love until recently."

Jake wasn't surprised to hear that Tiffany was in love, after all, that would be the only explanation for her staying so many years without a relationship, which was odd was that Tiffany never even talked about it to Clara, and Jake only heard Tiffany talk about Clara when they talked.

"Not even you should have imagined who I liked even being that clever, but earlier this week I decided to finally declare myself and end this romance at once, or the person I loved would accept me or I'd give up at once."

"You must imagine now why I'm drinking so much today, aren't you?"

"You were right to at least try, otherwise you would be stuck in a hopeless relationship for several more years without knowing if you could be with the one you love."

"You're beautiful Tiffany, I have no doubt that if one day you fall in love with someone again that person will not reject you, just choose carefully."

"You surprised me by saying that, I thought you would ask me who the person I liked or would tell me to keep trying to win over the one I love."

"I'm not very good at giving advice on feelings, but I know that if you were as decisive as you are, you wouldn't spend 10 years liking someone without saying anything if you didn't have a very sensible reason for it."

"Now you have declared yourself and been rejected, and you don't seem to want to love this person anymore, so I hope you do what you have decided and don't listen to others' opinions about it."

The more Jake spoke the more he curled up with the words, he really didn't understand anything about the affairs of the heart, he was just saying anything to try to cheer up Tiffany and comfort her.

Tiffany noticed this and also smiled, she was right to look for Jake to talk to him about it, she intended to tell him everything because it was important that Jake also knew about it and because Tiffany knew that Jake would never tell about it anybody else.

But she ended up being comforted even though Jake was clumsy, because she felt the sincerity of the words he tried to say, so she decided to really forget about everything and just leave things as it was now.

"I'm sorry to call you to dinner and not eat anything Jake, but I'm in no condition to eat and I won't be good company for you today."

"No problem, the important thing is that you get well, I eat at home with my mother later, after all there and better than the food of many restaurants."

"That's true, so could you take me home? I'm in no condition to drive or walk, to tell the truth."

"Sure, I'll take you, but without drinking like that again, you almost ruined the 'nice girl' picture I had of you if you have problems just call me to talk."

"Hahaha, so I was a nice girl to you."

"Still, just don't drink like that anymore."

After playing a little to lighten the mood, Jake set a large amount of money on the table that should pay for all this wine and then supported Tiffany out of the room and they walked to the exit of the restaurant.

Jake took Tiffany in his arms after apologizing and put her in the car slowly, then he did the same when he arrived at her house while traveling on the way to Tiffany's house she fell asleep in the car and Jake saw her crying while dreaming.

After leaving Tiffany on her couch Jake left, he couldn't take her to her bed because it would be disrespectful and didn't think he was that close to staying at her house taking care of her, so he could just put a blanket over she gets warm and then leaves.

On the way home Jake couldn't stop wondering who this person might have rejected someone like Tiffany, he didn't know the circumstances, but he didn't think there would be many people who were better than her in Miami.

Of course, Jake didn't ask Tiffany to say who it was because clearly, she was still suffering from it, just as he felt bad after seeing Clara frail after breaking up, he thought the same about Tiffany now.

But at home, he stopped thinking about it, after eating with his mother he went to rest to return to his training routine the next day.

A few more weeks passed with Jake focused on training, Jake received from Emily some reports on the stock changes Cisco had had in those months, unlike before the company now had hundreds of millions of dollars invested.

So even if the report didn't have to be monthly, she decided to do a half-yearly, it was much more exciting to see how stocks had appreciated at that time when profits were shown in the millions of dollars.

Jake asked Emily to send a copy of the report to investors, Jake even put an estimate of expected stock growth in a year, which for him was actually growth as he already knew the future.

Investors and Matthew were very pleased when they saw the profit and partly believed Jake's estimated earnings on the stock, Matthew was mostly beaming so that it was possible for him to earn a 100 percent profit on that investment.

A $ 300 million profit was something he did not even expect before seeing these reports, of course, he would have no way of knowing that it would actually appreciate more than 5 times his initial investment.

Jake was now talking to Tiffany more constantly after dinner that day, Jake was glad to hear that Tiffany's company had made a big profit last year, even though it had stopped investing in the company earlier this year she was getting the return from those more 3 years of constant investment.

Company directors pointed out that Jake's popularity last year in winning the marathons has also helped his company make big profits like that.

This year Jake was even more on display after recording two more commercials, if Jake could really win a medal Tiffany's company will still make a lot of profit even without investing anything.

Tiffany also commented that Clara's company also had a lot of profit last year, with Clara handling things carefully that didn't make the value of the company further, and that profit made everyone happy.

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The competing company that had a high percentage of the stock and also received good profit-sharing money, but they were not happy because they realized that Clara's company had made more profit than they would in proportion to the size of the companies.

Of course, the competing company received a lot more money, but they also had tens of years in the market and a valuation dozens of times higher than Clara's company, which made them more decisive in buying Clara's company.

With that money, Tiffany and Clara received they were able to narrowly replenish the money Tiffany took from the company to lend Clara that she had to buy more stock, of course, Jake also strongly recommended that Tiffany never do something like that again.

Jake was very pleased to receive these reports, he wanted to advise Jeff Bezos not to spend money to buy companies that would go bankrupt a few years later but eventually did not risk risking the future even more.

After all, sometimes mistakes like this make the company cautious not to make similar mistakes in the future, and besides, a company that would be the most valuable in the world could not know what it was doing.

Jake was doing the training very willingly and was very exhausting because there was no apparent improvement in his training, he knew naturally that these things needed years to have apparent results.

But in recent years Jake got used to seeing immediate results in his training thanks to the system, it was hard for him to do such hard training without seeing immediate results.

Jake was also waiting for a contact from director Cameron Crowe, it was exciting the opportunity to appear in a Hollywood movie if he could act in just one movie he would be happy enough about it.

In the midst of his training, he was again asked for a seat that was unexpected to him, the coach of the football team had called Jake while he was doing his training with the football team as he always did.

"Coach Jim, did you want to talk to me?"

"Yes Jake, you're really my lucky star, I need your help again, we have 1 game again the other week."

"How can I help?"

"Both of our team's quarterbacks are injured again, this year we didn't have much luck and even with the defensive line around QB being very good they ended up getting injured in the few Sack they got in the games."

"Fortunately all is not lost and as you said you needed to use our field for physical training this past semester I registered you like our team's reserve QB so now if you can play we can still play for the title this year."

Jake was shocked by this coaching revelation, he thought that using the team's football pitch just to do physical training had no problem, he didn't expect Coach Jim to have to register him as a player for that.

"But I thought the team was out of season now?"

"Yes, but as we are a relatively new and unfamiliar team we need as much training as possible, and we are also taking part in a small tournament made by the city to give prestige to the school."

Jake knew that there were rules for the number of games players played in the year, this was to avoid possible injuries and other problems, especially for the high school students who had the future ahead.

Clearly, the Elite school was not very respectful of these rules and they were playing too many 'friendly games' to train the team and build a new reputation for the school, the result being that the team's QB had been injured again.

Luckily Jake didn't have to worry about injuries, the system said the Resistance statistic he had also helped prevent injuries from external factors, so he was much harder to get hurt by others in games.

So Jake was thinking of accepting the coach's request and helping the football team again, after all, he was a little tired of just training for months before the Olympics, it was better that he just did this game to train a little.

"Alright coach, I'll play this game."

"Great, I knew I could count on you, so let's go to team play training starting today as well."

Jake accepted and went to play training again, the football team players already knew Jake well and were happy to play with him again, especially since they knew that Jake was not a rival for them to get a sports scholarship through the football

Jake still remembered all the tactics he had studied at the time he trained while on vacation while doing physical training several times a week Jake also paid close attention to his teammates from other positions.

Now he was more aware than last time who was the best WR and RB on the team, one of them being the tallest Jake had used as bait to win the friendly match during the holidays.

It looked like he was one of the best on the team and so Jake can fool both teammates and opponents by using him as bait, after all completely believed that Jake would pass the ball to him at the most important moment of the game.

Jake did simulated game training every day like last time, now it was much simpler as he had more familiarity and rapport with his teammates after spending several months training with the team.

Jake wouldn't let go of his normal training and ran the 60 km every day even when he was tired of training, he felt that at least the strength statistic could increase after a few more days.

This was the one Jake most trained alone, after all, he would be left behind as he would gain some agility points and Resistance winning the competing marathons, Jake even asked the system what weight limit he could use as training without risk suffers no injury.

Jake was confident of increasing his strength stat for at least 3 in two years of training, and that was also helping with his passing and throwing skills in football training.

So the days passed and the day of the game had come different from basketball the game was later, so Jake left home without telling his mother that would play again.

Coach Jim was a lot less worried this time than Jake's first game on vacation, after which the team was just going back to training and everyone wasn't excited to be playing on vacation.

In addition, the opposing team was weak and the players were not very motivated, Jake was also just a bet for Coach Jim at the time and even he didn't know if Jake could do as well in the game as he was in training.

Fortunately just as Coach Jim thought Jake was a talented born athlete, he could probably play well in any sport with proper training as he had the fitness to do so, so Jake led the team to an easy win.

This time the opposing team was much stronger Miami was a very big city and American football in the city was very important, so all teams had very skilled players.

But with that Coach Jim was more comfortable because his players were well trained and motivated for this game and Coach knew Jake was skilled enough, and even if they lost it would not be a shame as it would be in the friendly holiday game.

After the two teams were already set up and ready the game started the crowd that had come to see a game like this was much bigger than the crowd that would see a basketball team game, this showed how football was more important to Americans.

This time it was Jake's football team that would start attacking, so Jake was to start the first play, even though it was only his second game Jake was much more relaxed and confident this time around.

Just as before the team's first attempt was a race, Jake passed the ball to his team's RB on his right, RB ran into a space that his teammates opened for him and slide managed to advance 3 yards.

Quickly the team rearranged for the second attempt, Jake again tried the race with the RB, this time he tried out from the left, after advancing 5 yards he was knocked down.

The third play was a race again, the RB managed to advance 3 more yards and secured the first down for the Elite team.

Jake was impressed by the change in the attitude of his teammates to today's game, he had heard in training that in addition to the team with the best defense in 4 years in a row the Elite team had not a strong attack.

But the best players in the Elite team attack were the RBs, Jake didn't believe him when he heard that, after all, he didn't think the RBs were very good on this team and even on television he thought very badly of the players in the RB position.

Jake thought that in addition to some very talented RB who could make unexpected plays and had the skill and the times the opposing defense failed, the RB was only used to gain a few yards.

Of course, it was because Jake didn't follow football very well to understand the game well enough, especially in high school that QBs weren't always the team highlights and some lacked the strength and precision to make good passes during games.

So the RBs were very important for the team's attacking moves, as Jake had no problem making the longer passes he preferred to rely on the team's WRs that also had quality.

After a few more plays the WR failed to hold the ball and the Elite team missed the first attack of the game, Jake was making the passes correctly, but the opposing defenders also had the skill and disrupted the WR who could not receive the pass.

After his second game, Jake finally realized that being a QB wasn't as easy as he thought, the player in addition to strength and precision had to have a lot of intelligence and ability to understand the possible development of the move quickly.

Having some agility was also important, above all QB was too dependent on his teammates to show his talents, even though for Jake as PG it was similar, he could still with his ability score several points and show his skills.

But if all the teammates of a great quarterback were bad, no one could figure out his talents, in that team, Jake now saw that while the WRs were talented, they weren't as good as he thought during the friendly holiday game.

The best players were the ones who protected him long enough for him to think about the moves he had to make, fortunately for today's game Jake could also count on the RBs who were performing well.

Coach Jim naturally knew this better than Jake, the football team's problem was just that, although the WRs were talented the team quarterbacks were very weak so the team could not properly train the WRs to receive passes with a defense difficult.

So the offensive team left and the defensive team entered, everyone was resting and talking about something while the opposing team attacked only Jake and a few more players accompanied the opposing team's attacking move.

Jake was following and realized that this team they were facing this time was much better than the team they faced in the friendly, even with the good defense of the Elite team the opposing team advanced 70 yards.

But the Elite team managed to prevent the attack of the opposing team that advanced 6 more yards with only 3 chances, so in the fourth attempt they tried a field goal and ended up missing.

The game was very similar and Jake was not trying to invent much as the quarterback in the attacks and just tried the moves that the assistant coach recommended, the opponents could not get past Jake's protectors once to try Sack.

So Jake really believed that the previous QBs were just unlucky to get injured, yet the Elite team couldn't advance more than 60 yards and couldn't even try the Field goal.

In the third period of play only that the opposing team got a touchdown and made the first 6 points of the game, it was a quick pass from the opposing quarterback when there was a defensive failure this time leaving a WR left free to receive the pass and run 25 yards and touchdown.

The crowd was delighted to finally see the score go from scratch, but Jake was not happy to lose this game, he probably cared more than the coach for the win, yet he could not play alone and the opposing defense was destroying the goal Elite team attack.

At the end of the third period the opposing team got 3 more points increasing the lead to 9 points, some of Jake's teammates seemed to have given up the game but Jake was still trying to find a way out.

If he thought it possible he would run the ball himself to attempt the touchdown, but Jake never saw enough room for him to attempt a race, he could win a maximum of 1 or 3 yards but could do no more.

So Jake didn't even risk and tried to find an opportunity to catch the opponent by surprise, at the beginning of the fourth period Jake had an opportunity but did not try the race and made the pass to just down and continue the attack.

Jake felt he could not get the touchdown in this race and he could be being tested in this play, in the next few moves Jake always saw the opportunity to run and even did one without much enthusiasm to win 2 yards.

After all, even a bad quarterback would try a few runs if the opponent always had that opportunity, reaching 60 yards in one attack. Jake started to cheer up, he asked to be placed 3 WR again and yet ran with RB in the first two attempts advancing 7 yards.

On the third try, Jake was in the Shotgun position and pretended to try a race with the RB, again Jake saw room to run but did not try it because this time the WR on the pass route recommended by the assistant cut right and was free.

Jake made a 15-yard pass and the WR received and still tried the race, after advancing a little further he was knocked down just 4 yards from Endzone.

Jake and the whole team moaned so little that was missing, Jake kept the 3 WR for the first try, Jake was in Shotgun position and tried the race on the right, two Safeties seemed to be expecting it and tried to intercept Jake 2 yards away to Endzone.

Before being knocked out Jake made a long side pass for the WR that had not advanced, it was a rehearsed move that Jake saw between plays and trained during the week, WR was alone and after receiving the pass advanced the final yards and made the touchdown quietly.

Jake trained this move because he thought he could fool his opponents and because he was confident of making a good side pass after playing so many years of basketball, even if it's different, it just required his adaptation.

Soon after they still converted the extra point and were just 2 points behind on the scoreboard, after a few more moves the opposing team almost made a touchdown and the final pass was intercepted by the defender who still recovered a few yards into the attack before being knocked down.

This time Jake returned to the original lineup with just two WRs and advanced the first few yards with a few RB races, Jake was convinced they were really skilled at being able to win several yards at important authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

When they were running out of time the RB made a beautiful race with a Juke and a Hurdle and advanced 28 yards before being knocked down to gain precious time for the last attack at the end of the game.

Jake also managed with a 20-yard long pass to get the team under 30 yards for Endzone, so if they hit a touchdown or even a field goal they could win this game and win that title.

The opposing team took advantage of all the times they had and tried to delay the game as much as possible and end the final momentum of Jake's team, Jake was calm on the last move because he had a lot of confidence in himself.

Unfortunately the same could not be said for Coach Jim, even if he thought Jake could be a great player he would not risk a great chance of winning by putting the game in the hands of a player who did not even play frequently for the team.

So at one time Jake was called by coach Jim to talk, Jake naturally respected the coach very much and rushed to hear what instructions he had for this endgame.

"Jake you were doing very well in this game, I honestly didn't expect us to get so close to victory and you contributed a lot to us getting here."

"I said I would help coach so I am trying my best so the team can win."

"I believe that but you don't have much experience in football, so I want this last attack to just follow what the assistant coach says."

At first, Jake didn't understand, he was doing it from the beginning of the game, he just followed the assistant's recommendations and only changed the moves when he saw a better opportunity or if he saw that the recommended play would not work.

"I don't understand coach, I'm following the assistant's recommendations whenever I can in this game."

"Exactly, what I mean to you is that in this final attack it's not recommendations, it's ordered, what he tells you to do you do, after all, we'll pick the best option."

So Jake finally understood, the coach meant that for the final play of an important game he didn't trust him to make the decision, after all, he wasn't really on the team after all and the coach feared that Jake would ruin everything.

In the last game, the coach gave Jake full authority to make the decisions because it was just a friendly game, but now Jake was just following the team's order.

Jake felt a little offended by the lack of confidence but told the coach that he understood, Jake thought he had made good decisions and that is why the team came up with the last play with the possibility of winning.

But he wasn't really a player on this team and today could possibly be the last time he played football, so he would obey the coach's orders and not care about the outcome of the game.

Coach Jim knew he might have damaged Jake's pride with that order, but he had his own priorities and would not choose to please a player who would not even continue his football career.

If he won this game the Elite school would gain more reputation and the president promised coach Jim a prize, but when the second quarterback was injured he understood that against a strong opponent he would not have a chance to win.

So he called Jake and left everything to him and said the game was unimportant not to put pressure on the young man, now that he saw the opportunity to win could no longer trust Jake who had no experience.

Jake put on his helmet and returned to the field had started the first attempt for the down, the assistant told Jake to try a race and Jake did it and with a handoff handed the ball to the right-hand RB.

The first attempt advanced just 1 yard for the team, Jake understood well that the opposing team had strengthened the defense and were determined to win this game, in the second attempt Jake tried the race again for RB to advance only 2 yards.

On the third play, the assistant again recommended a run and Jake did it, the RB this time advancing just 1 yard and was knocked down.

Jake was very disappointed by Coach Jim, in these 3 plays he saw an opportunity to make a pass and another opportunity to make a run, both plays could guarantee at least one more down.

On the fourth attempt the kicker entered the game, they wanted a field goal that was recommended with Endzone less than 25 yards away.

Jake looked down at the bench and saw that the coach and assistant looked very pleased, so Jake understood that they were thinking of betting on the Field goal from the start, so he was not allowed to try any different play.

Unfortunately while Jake just watched he saw the kicker go wrong and the Elite team missed the chance of victory, Jake could see that everyone was disappointed to lose, the opponents cheered happily.

Jake wasn't happy about that, he hated losing, especially when he knew he had the chance to win, soon after Jake changed and after saying goodbye to the players he left home unhappy.

Coach Jim thought Jake should be more sympathetic to the coach's decision and was being irrational, of course, he didn't know that Jake had two chances to maybe win the game and because he lost was even angrier.

After all Jake was very busy with training, even though he had nothing to do officially, he still trained every day, so he agreed to do the coach a favor because he thought he could win and out of consideration for the coach.

But he ended up losing because the coach who invited him ended up not trusting him at the most important moment of the game, Jake didn't even want to complain about that respect for the coach as he knew the coach had a right to demand it and also because he thought he could be held responsible for the defeat if the coach were unreasonable.

This was normal, after all, Jake was a winning athlete who always had good results in the most disputed marathons and would still compete in the Olympics and besides, was a captain of the basketball team that was respected by the coach, it was impossible that Jake was not a little proud and arrogant later and conquer it all.

After arriving home Jake forgot all this when he had dinner with Eva, Jake wondered if there was still something his mother wanted in this life, she probably wanted to see Jake graduated from college and married.

But Jake didn't know if she wanted anything for herself, he realized her dream of having a restaurant and Eva had friends and a good home, Jake didn't know if Eva ever thought of remarrying.

Anna said she already talked to her about it and Eva said she never thought and didn't want to do it, but he wasn't sure about it, even though his mother always had it, Jake knew from experience how bad it was not to have a mate to love.

Unfortunately, he didn't have the heart to talk about it to her, maybe if Eva had contact with any man Jake could comment on that, but Eva didn't talk to anyone but Julius and Jake knew for sure that, his mother didn't like him.

After a few days Jake returned to training normally, he would still sometimes train with the football team, but did not try and even refrain from talking again with Coach Jim, in a few more days the court and the athletic field would be ready in the house from Jake and he would no longer come to train at school.

Jake also learned that Mark had recently recovered and Jake waited to meet his friend at school, but Mark, as well as all the players in the last year, would not come training with the basketball team after a few weeks that Jake left.

Some really wanted to leave and so Coach Mike decided to say goodbye to everyone and enjoy the rest of the semester to train the new players who will be the pillar of the team next year, fortunately he still had Lucas and Nathan who improved a lot in that first year and would be the main players of the team in the coming years.

Knowing this Jake had no choice but to call Mark and call him to talk at a mall dinner, after all, Jake didn't even want to think about visiting Mark's house and meeting his mother who must hate Jake now after he visited Mark when She was not at home.

After a few hours, Jake took advantage of the fact that he had arrived earlier at the mall and besides buying a souvenir for his mother took the opportunity to go again to the music store to see if he could find any new album from Kate.

After meeting her for just once Jake never forgot Kate again, just as he Jake is also very successful in the music world and has done many advertising campaigns that Jake saw on television.

Jake knew that she probably should have forgotten him, after all, they only saw each other once and Kate was much more famous than Jake and in a different way, now Jake suspected she was one of the people the system said had an Unfair fate like him.

The system said that when he went back to the past with Jake it would change their lives for what it should be, it was impossible that Jake had never heard of such a famous singer that she almost won several music awards even though she was just a little older than Jake.

After seeing that there was nothing new about her in the music store Jake was the diner where he had scheduled to talk to Mark when Jake arrived Mark was already waiting.

"Mark my friend, how are you? Have you fully recovered?"

"Hi Jake, yes I am fortunately recovered, but it will still be a while before I can play again, fortunately, we are far from university entrance time and I can recover completely."

"Glad to hear it, I hope you keep playing basketball at the university, I know you're going to a university that is better at studying than at sports, but you have to enjoy this time well."

"I will believe me."

Jake knew well that Mark was a little disappointed by that, with the fame he made being one of the best players on the team who was a three-time national champion in four years, it was impossible for him not to receive university proposals with better basketball teams.

But this university Mark was going to had a deal with the Elite school a few years ago and through the school, they spoke to Mark's mother and convinced her that education was more important to Mark and Mark's mother accepted the university's generous offer.

Mark knew he wasn't so talented at basketball to become a pro, but he wanted to play and try to win some titles with a strong basketball team and then if he was lucky enough to get into a professional basketball team even if he went to Europe.

But it seemed that Mark's mother realized that her son was thinking about it and killed his dream by choosing a university that would not give Mark a chance to develop, Mark also knew it and gave up on becoming a professional.

So Jake just wanted his friend to have fun playing over the next 4 years, at least it was certain that Mark would be the starting lineup from the first year and could perhaps improve playing with stronger opponents from stronger authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

"And you Jake, go to a good university now, do you think you can get a place in the starting lineup from the first year?"

"I don't think so, maybe if it's the same way Coach Mike did with Lucas and Nathan, maybe I'll go into some reserve games and then start later if I play well."

Jake knew it would be hard to become a starter playing at a university with a strong basketball team as it was the University of North Carolina; he was not arrogant to think that the coach would trust him right away.

But as he talked to Mark the question was not whether he could become the team owner but when that would happen, Jake had a lot of confidence as his target was the NBA and Mark also believed that this would not be a problem for Jake.

"If I can I'll see you playing on television, I want to see how many titles you will earn at university, it won't be as easy as playing with weaker opponents in high school, I'm sure some are even better than you."

"I have no doubt about that, but I am confident that I will be able to improve until the end of university, as for winning the titles you know that it is not just up to me."

"I know that, but Jake, we all want to see you in the NBA one day, my dream is that you will become MVP in a few years and I can be proud of my coworkers that I played with you, that I taught you playing as Center and you're my friend."

After finishing talking Mark eventually started crying, it must be hard for someone who loves basketball as much as Mark knew he couldn't be a player if he decided on his own it wouldn't be so painful.

But he was pretty much obliged, Jake didn't know how to comfort his friend, after all, Mark could be happier in the future having a good job than spending a lifetime trying to become a player.

Jake also knew that knowing that Mark had practically given up on being a player broke the spirit of all of Jake's teammates who were going to college this authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

After all, Mark was the best after Jake, if neither Mark could become a pro they also thought that unfortunately, they could not be the reality of thousands of young people every year.

Many high school basketball geniuses did not even have the opportunity to enter a good university to showcase their talents, and many at the university did not have the opportunity to become professionals.

Of course, this wasn't everyone's basketball dream, but many saw his dream of falling apart after years, Jake knew Mark wasn't that skilled, he was good at rebounding and was improving fast.

But if even Jake didn't currently have the ability to stand out, his friend Mark and his other teammates much less, then Jake thought it might be better if they quit early as Carter and Harrison did.

Of course, Jake didn't know if Mark could get the chance to become a pro if he kept trying this way, so Jake had the best thing to do was back whatever decision they made.

Jake knew he was lucky to have such an understanding mother as if his mother were like Mark's, he might not have the opportunity to go back and everything would be different.

"Are you going to race at the Jake Olympics?"

"Yes I will, I didn't think you knew."

"Of course we knew, we all have a television at home, we saw your television commercials too, I didn't expect you to be good at running either, that explains why you can play a whole game full of energy."

"Hahaha that's not true, all of us on the team can play an entire game without being replaced."

"True, but seriously I hope you can win, so we'll be much more proud to talk about playing with you."

"I will try."

After crying a little Mark seemed much more relaxed, they talked much longer before saying goodbye and Jake going home, Eva was happy to receive more chocolate from Jake.

After a few more days Jake was still going through his training routine and finally got a call to record, but it wasn't director Crowe to talk about the movie, but NBC asking Jake to help with making some recordings for the station to make some calls to the Olympics.

After all Jake was one of the main subjects of this Olympics, unfortunately, it was not about his talent although he won the Chicago Marathon and came second in New York, it was more because he was young and also playing basketball besides participating in the marathon competition in the Olympics.

Luckily, they now only gathered some information about him in school and sports, but didn't get too deep into it if everyone found out about the sponsorship he received or even his various investments would be problematic for him.

After all, a genius athlete in two sports and being young was already drawing too much attention, if it turned out that he was also a talented young millionaire and investor it would often be more complicated for him to get out of the media focus.

What's more, the sports media didn't favor Jake's chances of getting a medal, they thought that a lack of focus on a sport would make Jake stand out in neither athletics nor basketball.

It was all too normal that even seasoned athletes would lose after getting nervous in competitions at the Olympics, it was perfectly normal for everyone to expect Jake to fail as well.

Marathon competition would also take place only at the end of the Olympics, so they did not want to focus too much on an athlete who was unlikely to win and would not compete at the start of the competition.

Jake was very happy that this happened, he didn't want to stand out before the competition started, even though Jake liked to receive respect for his victories was only after he won.

Jake was one day at one of the NBC studios and took several pictures and made some videos he didn't even know would be used, Jake expected an interview too, but it seemed that the station didn't think it was necessary.

They just asked Jake to confirm some information about him that would be spoken on the broadcast and after that, he was dismissed, even though Jake didn't expect much he didn't think he would be so despised.

It seemed that people thought very little of athletics athletes, Jake remembered seeing an old athlete saying that, only those who won the competitions and got a gold medal were a little respected.

After all, US athletics was known to be the strongest of all countries, so if American athletes beat everyone they thought it was normal and if they came second they would often be considered losers.

After that Jake continued his training for several weeks, the month of April had arrived and was almost over just as Jake's high school time, in just over a month his last semester would end and Jake would go to university.

Jake told his friend Joseph that he was much calmer after securing a good university for him and Liza, after all with good grades and the money the two families had, it was not difficult to secure a place.

But Joseph seemed to have matured and was no longer so arrogant as in recent years, Jake found it interesting to see how his friend changed so much in his teens, of course, he knew this was normal, Jake just did not go through it because his mind was no longer young.

Even though Jake also underwent some personality changes after going through adolescence for the second time, now he also slowly returned to his old personality, Jake spent many years trying to pretend that he was young was an important experience for him to train acting.

"Jake, I know you're busy with your training and the Olympics are coming for you too, but you're not going to miss the school prom, are you?"

"I don't think I'm going to Joseph, it's not for me after all the prom is nothing more than a dance party and I have no one to dance with me."

Jake had already missed his first ball after suffering the accident, so he wasn't interested in the second ball either, if he could invite someone outside he would take Lola to the ball, but Elite school was a private school and had several rules, One was that only people at school could attend the ball.

So Jake had no interest in that anymore, after all, even though he'd made a lot of colleagues this past semester, everyone would be with his peers, and Jake didn't want to hold sail for anyone.

"Don't say that Jake, you can invite any of our class, girls won't reject you if they don't have any partners so far."

"I'll think about it, if I feel like it, I'll show up."

Jake didn't really want to go to the prom, for him the high school time was over after the national championship was over now Jake just had to stay and wait for the semester to end because of his student responsibilities.

Even though after a few years he might miss high school it wouldn't be now, and maybe he wouldn't even miss it after a few years, after all, he had the opportunity to go through it twice.

The university got Jake's attention much more, besides basketball he wanted to know what the envy would be like, so jealous so many years after suffering the accident and missing the opportunity to study.

He hoped he wouldn't be too disappointed, after all, he would just go there for the moment, to play basketball and get his degree, after all, Jake didn't think there was anything else to learn at university after reading books on economics and business administration for over 10 years.

Also, Jake wanted to take his time at university to see if he could find some business talent to work with him in the future, even if he couldn't find it at his university he was sure he could find someone at the other top universities. such as Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia.

After all Jake is past the time to worry about how to make money, he already had a lot of money and also secured his future, he just had to think about how to manage his money in the short term to make the most of it.

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After 2000 they would also have plenty of opportunities, so he needed to have business talents near him to make the most of the fortune he would receive and invest, even though he knew that in more than 20 years Amazon's stock would appreciate, to become the company most valuable in the world didn't mean so much to investors.

After all, the company would not distribute its dividends to investors, so apart from selling Jake shares it could do nothing at this time of wealth, so even if he could not make that much money and invest in other companies he would need to earn something from it.

It was a pity that the world's most valuable internet-related companies didn't pay dividends before 2000, the ones that paid would not return nearly as much as Jake invested.

It would be much more profitable just to sell the stock after a few years than to invest a lot in low-return companies just because of dividends, so Jake was now even more determined to invest a lot in companies like Matthew's.

They were companies that could value a lot in a short time and Jake could make a large percentage of profits to offset the low total value of the company, surely it would be worth having 30 percent of an average company than 1 percent of a giant company market that paid no dividends.

That's why Jake decided to invest so much in Cisco's stock even though he knew the company would devalue long after the bubble broke, so he could sell all the stock he invested without having any regrets that could have valued more.

For the next few days Jake continued to train hard in preparation for the Olympics, Jake could now feel that his training was beginning to yield more results if he tried Jake believed he could increase the daily running distance to 65 km now.

But he didn't want to push his body a little over a month before the Olympics, his daily training could be shocking to other athletes at the moment, and Jake knew that once he got better now he couldn't improve again until the Olympics.

So forcing yourself to increase training would not be a smart decision, after all, if he did as he normally did in daily training he would guarantee victory, with this routine even if he is in poor condition on marathon day he would still win because he was used to running almost 20 km more every day.

Jake was always someone who tried to be safe in everything he did so he scolded himself so much for losing in New York for being rushed, so he was giving the utmost importance to make sure he would win the Olympics this time because the marathon in New York was every year, but the Olympics was only every 4 years.

So Jake couldn't accept defeat knowing that he could win, even though he was still young now in another 4 years he planned to be at another point in his life, Jake was thinking that in the upcoming Olympics he would at least try to compete for 3 medals of gold.

Jake hoped that after 4 years of training and winning 5 more major marathons, he could greatly increase his Resistance stats and so long-distance racing would no longer be a challenge for him.

Fortunately, he would also gain 5 agility points which would further increase his chances of competing in competitions that demanded as much speed as Resistance, Jake was expecting a lot from the training he could do in the coming years with his new coach.

The other day while Jake was getting ready to go training he finally got a call from director Crowe, Jake thought the director had already given up inviting him to make a cameo in the movie.

After all, it was only a few months before the Olympics, and after the Olympics were over, the director's movie would be close to release, but it seems that the director wanted to shoot some early scenes and call Jake only when it was time for the director to prepare the scene for him.

Jake went to where the scenes would be shot, the director seemed to be shooting some scenes near Miami and thought it was the right time to call Jake to film.

Jake met with director Crowe at a restaurant near Miami to talk before the movie, as they had no studio in Miami and the scenes they would shoot would be in the open The recording crew was in a nearby hotel.

The crew would do some scenes with Tom Cruise who was in town too, so Jake was curious to know what kind of scenes he would do, he already knew the director didn't give him any major roles, but Jake hoped to have some scenes with at least lines.

"Hi Jake, thanks for coming when I called."

"I appreciate the director opportunity, I always wanted to play a Hollywood movie, but after I started playing basketball I thought I wouldn't have that opportunity until I met you."

Jake was being modest of course, he couldn't say that he was thinking of financing a less well-known movie to play in Hollywood, after all, Jake also knew about low-investment films that became famous.

In a few more years Jake would even be able to finance such a movie to be able to act after all this movie had less than 60 million invested, Jake could finance 10 percent of the movie and have a chance to act and would not lose money on that movie yet which raised more than 4 times the amount invested.

But he was glad he didn't have to do it and had found an opportunity before, after all even if he could act he would be slighted for paying to have a chance to appear in the movie rather than receive like the other actors.

"That's good so you must be curious about what you're going to do, aren't you?"

"Yes I am, I'm a little apprehensive about whether I will be able to perform correctly on such a great movie."

"I trust your skills, in fact, the scene you're going to do was not in the script and I thought about it after I met you."

"And how are you going to be a director?"

"I'll give you the script for you to study, then there is the information of what you are going to do on the scene, if you do it well you will be remembered even if you have only a small part in the movie, but if it doesn't look like I think I'll have to cut in editing. "

"Believe me, director, I won't let you down."

After that Jake went to a nearby hotel where he would be staying in the next few days, after all, he had money to pay the hotel did not make sense that he would come and go home every day, it was a very long distance that could disrupt the filming.

Jake had never participated in any movies before so he didn't know how it would be done or how many hours the crew would have to work every day, even if his scene wasn't particularly big he would have some talk with Tom Cruise, that was enough to leave he excited.

Over the next few days Jake watched some filming while he waited for his turn, most of the filming they were doing was with Tom Cruise, but Jake didn't remember many of those scenes.

Maybe they were all cut into editing, Jake remembered seeing somewhere that the best movies sometimes had more than 10 hours of footage to be edited for less than 2 hours, in the end, Jake knew this would be a great movie so maybe it was the case.

As a guarantee he brought one of Matthew's cameras that were camcorders as well, so he would leave a copy of what he did in case the scenes were cut and he didn't appear in the movie, so he would post the movie on youtube after a few years.

Since he was just a small character he didn't have to sign any confidentiality terms, so it was not forbidden for him to record a scene he did, at the end of the recordings he wanted an opportunity to talk to Tom Cruise.

But it was hard to find the right time to talk to the actor, after all when he wasn't recording he was talking to someone on the film crew or the director, it seemed to be true that he took the job very seriously.

But Jake knew he would have a chance to talk to him the day he was recording with Tom Cruise, he had seen that Cruise was very polite and talked to all the actors opposite him, even the ones he didn't talk to much.

Jake had decorated his lines and the lines of other actors while waiting for it so he was the only actor on the set without a script in his hands, the others just as Jake always watched when Cruise acted, after all, it was like a class for new actors.

After a few days, everyone's scenes were almost over and they got some rest and the principal took the opportunity to call Jake to do the scenes he had to do it because Jake's scenes would be done at a school that allowed filming.

So the headmaster had to be fast on recordings and it would take fewer people not to bother the students who were in school yet, thankfully the headmaster had Jake to shoot the scenes quickly.

The first scene was in the athletic field, and Jake just had to do a run as he did in training and the cameraman would choose a part of the shoot to put a small part in the movie.

Then Jake went to the court and in the school basketball team's uniform would have to make a few plays with other extras for a small scene to be chosen.

Normally the actors knew nothing about what the movie would look like so they just recorded the scenes as the director told them and had to replay the scenes several times, but Jake knew these scenes would be edited to form the scene that took place at the beginning of the movie.

It would be a scene in the beginning when the character Jerry played by Tom Cruise would tell a story about several talented young athletes from many different sports, Jake understood why the director said he decided to rewrite the script after meeting him.

That was because Jake would probably be presented by the character Jerry as someone who played two sports if Jake won the Olympics would be even better for director Crowe's movie and in the future even more if Jake excelled in basketball.

If Jake could ever win several gold medals and win some NBA awards, the director would be considered a visionary for talking about it in the movie, of course, the director was probably not thinking about it.

In fact, Director Crowe didn't even count on Jake being able to win the marathon at these Olympics, he just knew that Jake was really talented and that they would compete at this Olympiad and perhaps several other Olympics.

So the director was thinking more about the short-term impact that Jake could have on the movie if Jake was good at the Olympics the director could use Jake as part of the movie's marketing and attract more people to watch the movie.

After all Director Crowe didn't know about the future like Jake, he had no way of knowing that his movie even without Jake helping in marketing could become one of the box office champions that year 1996, if that happens after Jake appears the director might even relate Jake's appearance with the success of the movie.

Jake hoped something like this would happen, so he could have more invitations to perform in other movies in the future, so Jake could choose to appear only in movies where he knew the movie would be a hit or had good reviews.

So Jake could be known for only acting in hit movies which would be good for his image as an actor, Jake was only 17 now and could still stay in the movie business for another 25 years with his looks.

On the first day, Jake spent a few hours shooting the scenes that director Crowe wanted as the director hoped Jake had great acting skills and went through exactly what the director wanted in a few tries.

It was impossible for Jake to get it all at first, even knowing what the director wanted him to do after all This was not just a regular commercial but a Hollywood movie that was known for its quality.

After a few hours Principal Crowe and the film crew left school, the principal did not have time to check on the video if the scenes had turned out well, but the time they had asked for the recording school was over.

As a guarantee, the director had asked for three days, but he didn't think it would be necessary after Jake was acting after they returned to the hotel the director checked the recording and saw that they got better than he expected so the recordings of these scenes with Jake were closed.

Jake still had one more scene to record and then his participation in the movie would end, after all the movie was more about American football than other sports, and Jake could not participate in those scenes.

Jake was thinking that he could play Frank Cushman the "Cush", Cush was a quarterback that would be the number one pick in the NFL Draft, but even that Cush didn't have many appearances in the movie.

After checking Jake's recordings for the day, director Crowe called Jake to dinner with him at the hotel, after all the director was also a big sports fan and hoped that Jake could really succeed in sports not just because of the movie.

Because the director thought Jake was very talented and could also add a lot to the sport in the coming years, Jake didn't know what director Crowe was thinking but accepted dinner with the director because he thought they would talk about the movie.

"You were very good at recording today Jake, I thought you had talent when I saw you recording those commercials, but the way you performed today it seemed like you had taken drama classes before."

"I've never done any of this in my 17 years of life, not because I didn't want to, but because I never had time, having to go to school all these years I found it hard to have time to train for basketball games."

Crowe also agreed with what Jake was saying, someone who played basketball and studied should not have time for anything, let alone do some drama classes, if that still showed Jake had a huge talent and potential for film.

Prior to this movie director, Crowe just considered inviting Jake to his movie on a whim, but now it seemed that in the future he might give Jake a chance to play a bigger role in one of his future films.

"You must have spent many years training to be so good at marathons too, haven't you?"

"Not really, I've started working hard for athletics in the last 2 years, but I was so successful because I've been training my body for basketball since I was 10, so I was over 4 years old before to start training."Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Crowe was impressed by this, he had heard that basketball and football were the most demanding sports and training in the world, especially in the United States that had the NFL and the NBA.

He even once heard that a player who can excel in the NBA or NFL could compete at a high level in any sport, now he had to believe that because Jake was proof that this was true.

"Do I have to shoot any scenes, tomorrow director?"

"Yes, luckily you did very well today so we could get our work done a few days, so let's try to shoot this scene in the next few days so you can get back to your training."

Jake was happy to have more scenes to shoot the other day, even if he wanted more scenes he knew this was impossible, so it was better to get it over with quickly and so Jake would be totally focused on his training until the start of the Olympics.

Even if he had been expecting so much Jake knew he had a good chance he might not even appear in the movie after director Crowe was edited, but he would be happy to have recorded for that movie just the same.

Not to mention that he had today's recordings on his camcorder as well, after that they talked about a few more things before Jake left for his hotel, the next day he would record with Tom Cruise, so he was anxious.

Arriving at the hotel Jake thought of sleeping early to wake up well-rested, but was very eager to sleep, he knew he had done well on the day of recording because he was alone and so could just do the way he knew.

But he did not know how the scene would be recorded the next day, after all in the script just said he would have a dialogue with Tom Cruise, but did not say exactly how it would be done, Jake knew more or less in which scene this speech could happen, but that it was impossible to happen in Miami.

Jake tried to calm down because he knew that being nervous and insecure could cause him to fail to act properly the next day, so while he was thinking about how to calm down and sleep the system spoke to him again.

[If you are not confident that everything will work out of course why not make acting as your fourth job?]

"You yourself said that having too many jobs could affect my focus, even if you said that for sports I think this goes for all my jobs, after all, I am trying to increase the statistics of my second job after I got it."

[If that's what you're worried about, you can rest easy, this work won't create any new statistics and can still give you some useful skills.]

Jake was excited after hearing this, he knew that when the system said something was good that thing could help him a lot in the future, so Jake decided not to hesitate anymore and accept the councils of the system as he always did.

"Alright then, Fate, I want my fourth job to be an actor."

[So that's done, do you want to see your statistics window?]

"Yes, show me."

[Here it is.]

[Name: Jake Smith]

[Age: 17 years]

[Job: Actor]

[Intelligence 59]

[Luck 99]

[Charm 39]

[Eloquence 39]

Active Techniques

[Emotion Control D]

[Communication Skills B]

[Photographic Memory B]

[Positioning B]

Jake was happy to see his new statistics window for his fourth job, just as the system had already said no new statistics were created and just as Jake had thought before the charm and eloquence statistics were the most important he had received from the system. in your second job.

In addition, the skills he had received were as important as the system had said, in terms of maximum utility and rarity they lost a little to the skills of his second job that were the most useful he could have for his life.

But even if those skills were put in his fourth job, they could also be used in basketball games, even more, positioning was a fundamental skill for a Center and for him who was fighting for rebounds.

Jake could also know that if he raised these 4 skills to the S rank he would be the best actor in the world, but of course Jake knew well that raising his skills to the S rank would be much harder until the skills of his third job and just a little easier than basketball.

[I'll explain these skills to you Jake, Emotion Control must be a skill you understand as it works the higher the rank of this skill the more you can control your emotions, you can hide the sadness or start crying suddenly.]

[With the rank of this skill increases you will also be able to perceive the true emotion of others as well, so something that happened to your mother in her past life of hiding that she was depressed can never happen again.]

[Besides, you can also express your emotion much better by your facial expression, so you could even act in a silent movie.]

Jake was surprised that this Emotion Control skill was more useful than he thought before, he could literally control his emotions and know all about it, along with his See Through ability from his second job no one in the world could lie or hide anything anymore for him.

With that Jake could start working as a detective or police officer and even get into the FBI, most importantly that he could better understand his mother and women in general, it would be much easier for him to find a girlfriend now.

If the system knew what Jake was thinking he would go crazy if the statistic of charm and eloquence increased further with his current skills he could win any woman he wanted and would be the ideal man for many who expect to be understood by their husbands.

[Communication Skills is the strongest skill for you in those you received with a fourth job, a skill that will make you much more sociable and will increase the efficiency of all your second and fourth job skills.]

[The higher this skill rank increases the more your communication skills increase, so you can always find the best words to use in important conversations and also the best time to speak, even the right tone of voice to use in a conversation.]

Jake could also understand how this skill would be extremely useful to him, and if used with the leadership statistic or policy would be even better depending on the situation, he could cheer up his teammates a lot and boost their morale even losing the game by dozens of points.

[Photographic Memory is a skill you should be well aware of what you can do, it will improve your memory and further accelerate the speed of thinking you have.]

[You thought you had an excellent memory before, but if this skill gets to the top rank you will be able to remember everything you see after one time, if you pick up a book and just skim through the pages you will remember of content.]

[Of course, remembering the content does not mean that you will learn everything you read, but you will be able to slowly try to understand in your memory after seeing things, not to mention that you can also choose what you want to forget about the top rank of that ability.]Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Jake could also understand how useful this skill was, but for him, it was the least useful skill he had received in this fourth job, after all, Jake already thought his memory was very good and didn't need to improve further.

It would be different if he could learn all things just by looking, but it was not so, as the system said, he would only ever remember what he saw, there were things he might never learn even after memorizing everything.

[Positioning is a skill you can understand well too, so knowing how to position yourself on scenes that you have to shoot instinctively in basketball just might not seem important, but you know better than anyone what that means.]

Just as the system said this was an extremely useful skill for Jake, he could play basketball much more easily, having good positioning is considered a talent in many sports.

In addition to basketball, American football and normal football were good examples of the importance of this skill, a good center forward in football would score hundreds of goals if it had a skill like that at most.

After seeing the skills he had gained Jake was much calmer for the recordings of the other day, even though the rank of those skills was not high yet, Jake knew that just having those skills would greatly improve his acting skills and confidence as well.

The other day later they started shooting Jake's scene, Jake was in a hotel room that was the scene of the scene, just as he thought after remembering the movie, he would be in the scene where Jerry was played by Tom Cruise had just been fired after writing a 'goal plan' and sending it to his colleagues at the company.

He was fired because in his goals plan Jerry said that the company should have fewer customers and care more about them individually, so it went against the company's interests.

After being fired Jerry wants to take revenge on the company and leave the company with all the clients he has worked for several years, so in his office, Jerry calls several clients trying to convince them to continue working with him instead of the SMI company where he was fired.

On one of these calls, he calls Jake and unlike the other calls he doesn't ask Jake to work with him but says Jake doesn't have to work with anyone to succeed and money and suggests that Jake leave the company too.

So Jake says he'll take Jerry's advice and no longer have a sports agent, which is what Jake does in real life, but in Jake's case, he doesn't work with any sports agent because he thinks he doesn't need to.

After all Jake doesn't think about playing basketball just to make money but to do what he likes so he doesn't care much about having the best deals or sponsors paying him tens of millions of dollars a year.

Jake is well aware that he no longer has to earn money to live or get rich, he can count on his investments for that, of course, he will want to earn a fair wage at least, if he is the best player on the team he will not accept having lower staff salaries for example.

Jake really thought this might be the scene he was shooting, but in this scene, Tom Cruise wouldn't need to talk to him, after all, Jerry would be sitting in his office talking to his clients and not personally, just a few that he talks to himself.

After director Crowe explained to Jake that he would just have to hold a phone while pretending to be talking to Tom Cruise that he would not show up at the scene and would stand aside just talking as if he were actually talking on the phone.

This would make it easier for Director Crowe to see what it would look like after editing, so Jake understood and prepared to record the scene, he was standing near the couch in the hotel with his phone in his hands as he prepared to start playing with Tom Cruise.

After getting the fourth job Jake was no longer nervous, especially now that Tom Cruise would just talk to him and not appear on the scene, plus the director said that Jake would play him even in the movie so it could be natural.

"Hi Jake, it's Jerry speaking."

"Jerry, how are you?"

"Not well, I just got fired and I'm calling my clients to find out who will leave SMI with me."

"But you, I'm not trying to take with me, Jake, I wanted to tell you that you no longer have to work with anyone to have a lot of money and success, you can count on your talent and you can do it."

"If you're going to leave SMI then I won't work with anyone else, you know I only accepted working with an agent because it was you, Jerry."

"Hahaha so that's fine, I'll have to talk to other clients."

"Good luck to you Jerry."

"Good luck to you too, Jake, see you around."

It was just a few lines and Jake was very calm and relaxed, he looked worried when he heard that Jerry had been fired and showed gratitude when he heard Jerry's advice, it was simple and this time Director Crowe thought it was perfect, but he still asked to Jake and Tom Cruise do the same scene a few more times to have more options at the time of editing.

After the recordings were over Jake finally relaxed, he seemed calm thanks to his new skills and his confidence, but he was still tense with the pressure of responsibility while shooting the scenes, especially since director Crowe asked the scene to be remade several times.

Jake knew that only a small piece of this scene would be left in the final edition, that if the scene was put into the movie, so he was happy and went off the camcorder that had recorded all the scenes he did and with Tom Cruise appearing in the scene.

Tom Cruise was also surprised by Jake's acting ability and the calmness of his recording, it was difficult for an actor to show empathy on the scene as Jake did as if he really knew some Jerry.

Once the scenes were done he knew that the first time it was perfect, the director just remade the scene a few times to have more material for editing, he knew it as it was in the movie world a long time after the scene was over he decided to talk to Jake.

"Jake!"

Jake was a little surprised by Tom Cruise calling him, but he turned around after being called.

"I meant that I thought you did very well in the scene you did, I even thought you were an experienced actor."

"Thank you so much, this compliment from someone like you means so much to me."

"I was just telling the truth."

"Would you mind giving me and my mom an autograph, we are very fans of you."

"Sure, no problem."

Jake was very happy to be able to talk to Tom Cruise like that and still be praised, Tom Cruise was already very famous now and would be even more in the future, this year besides this movie he would be starring in the movie Mission: Impossible.

After that Jake fired the camera crew and returned home, after all he had to train and had nothing more to do with the camera crew, not to mention that the team would leave town the other day.

Before Jake left, Director Crowe still approached him for a message and an invitation.

"A few months from now when the movie is finished we're going to have a little celebration, but you should be at the Olympics when we do it, so I'll invite you to a party if the movie succeeds at the box office or is nominated for some award."

"So I'll definitely go to this party, I have a feeling that this film will be a success at the box office and also will be successful among film critics and will compete for several awards, maybe even win some."

"I hope you're right, Jake."

"I'm confident in my luck."

After saying that Jake left home, this was the first time he had been away from Eva so long in his second life, he had to admit that he missed his mother, Jake was a little sad to realize that it would be even worse when he went to university.

In a few months, he would also have to leave home long enough to stay in the Olympic village, it was like preparation of what was coming for the second half, Eva said he would watch the marathon competition on the last day, but before that he would not be doing anything.

Luckily he could watch some Olympics competitions as a right, after all, he was an American athlete in an Olympics that was in the United States, it would be absurd if he didn't have some rights.