Chapter 438 - End of Time at the University 10
So he had to accept to go to Australia because he knew he was already delaying the recording of the film a lot, the actors in Australia started filming in April and they were expected to finish in August.
But because of Jake, they would shoot until September and Jake would shoot until October if necessary, maybe Jake was one of the only players who would like the NBA lockout, the other players would not like it because with fewer games they would not get paid and would lose popularity.
But Jake didn"t mind losing wages or sponsors.h.i.+p money if he could have a few more months to adapt before the NBA season started, he could shoot the movie, run the marathon and stay home more because of this.
Arriving in Miami, Jake again did not go to Eva"s restaurant, even though everyone said that Lola had already overcome the situation and had forgotten about Jake, he felt that he had to respect her and not go to the restaurant since after that he would stay a few more months before heading back to Miami again.
Now Jake even knew that soon it was very possible that he would start dating Kate, he liked her and Jake knew that Kate liked him too, the problem was that they hadn"t yet had a chance to meet even though she had been together with his game.
After filming in Australia Jake thought he would have time to have some dates with Kate and he thought about asking her to date when that happened, he was a basketball player who had a lot to do and Kate was a singer who was busy in the year all.
So Jake thought about starting dating Kate now and in time the media would know it and accept it before they even had time to be together when they had time for it, after all, it was bad for Jake to have a vacation and not be able to be with Kate just to escape the media.
More than that, Jake wanted to start dating Kate well before the 2000s, because it was now known to the media that Kate had more money than he did even though it was far from true because the media didn"t know about Jake"s business.
But after 2000, all of Jake"s and Matthew"s businesses would certainly be revealed, because they would receive billions of dollars after the sale of shares in the company Cisco, so Jake wanted to be dating Kate for a long time so that no strange rumors start as the media loved to do.
Since Jake was at home Eva wanted to close the restaurant that week to stay with him at home, but Jake said that was not necessary, Jake knew it was not good for the restaurant"s reputation to close for no reason many times.
The problem was that Eva and Anna were the chefs and also the ones who ran the restaurant, but Anna was getting older and Eva didn"t want her to run the restaurant alone when she had to leave.
Anna was already 62 years old and that"s why Eva was worried about her, of course, fortunately, Anna was in very good health and would still live more than 25 years with the health she had and could even continue working at that time.
Eva did not think about hiring more chefs in the restaurant because normally it would take no more than two chefs and that would cause problems in the authority they had under the cooks if they had a lot of people to send.
The best part was that the restaurant had a lot of profits even though it hadn"t changed prices in the last few years, because of inflation and market changes the restaurant"s profit decreased every year, but as they always had a full restaurant this wasn"t a problem.
Jake thought about increasing the size of the restaurant, but Eva said that in order to do that they would have more work and would have to hire more employees, Jake thought a lot about the business side, but Eva knew she was not taking care of this restaurant to get rich but to do it her dream.
She already had a successful restaurant and considered the restaurant staff to be members of her family, so Eva was satisfied with things as they were and didn"t want to change anything at the restaurant.
Of course, Jake knew that, but he had to ask why sometimes people can change their minds and have new dreams, who knows if Eva might want to create a restaurant chain or increase her restaurant to serve more customers.
His job was always to ask what his mother wanted and if Eva wanted to change anything Jake would do to make her happier, Jake could invest all his money and live a simpler life because of that.
But he knew that if it was necessary he could spend millions of dollars in a few days after Jake started receiving his salary on the NBA team and sponsorsh.i.p.s, Jake could start spending more money to make him more comfortable and for his mother.
Meanwhile Jake cooked every day while in Miami for his mom and they went out on a few days to go to the beach to relax after Jake joined the NBA he thought about taking his mom on some trips, even though he had to hire some chefs to run the restaurant while she was away.
The relations.h.i.+p between them was very good, but there was a problem and that problem was that Eva trusted Jake too much and that is why they didn"t talk about almost anything about Jake"s decisions, whether at work or in his personal life.
Of course, seeing the success that Jake had, it could be said that Eva was sure not to worry, but that ended up driving away a little bit them who didn"t talk about subjects like that and lived most of the year apart.
Thinking about it Jake always talked to Eva about all his decisions, Jake just didn"t talk about his investments because that way he would have to say he knew the future, Jake told Eva why he decided to go to the NBA draft this season and also said that would probably play for the Lakers" team.
Jake also said that he intended to start dating Kate that year if it was possible, and Eva was very happy to see that Jake trusted her and told people about him even without her asking.
Eva was very proud to have Jake as her son and didn"t know that Jake was like that because his mental age was even greater than hers and Jake was extra careful to talk to her because of what happened before Jake had the second chance his.
Jake spent his week at home very well and the media didn"t have so much time to think about Jake that he would just be an NBA newbie with the problem of a possible NBA lockout by the owners that could even end this NBA season.
With such a serious problem and also rumors that Michael Jordan might not play next season made fans very concerned and Jake wouldn"t have mattered until NBA draft day, and Jake was happy with that because he would have peace to film his movie.
This was really one of the most different seasons that happened in the NBA and Jake wanted to use a 50 game season like this to debut in the NBA, so even if he didn"t have many minutes to play in the debut season he could still show his skills.
So Jake could take advantage of this season to convince the coach that he was able to become a starting player on that team, good players usually had no problem getting a spot as a starting player after a season.
It would all depend on the team"s coach, Jake knew that if he played with Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O"Neal, he would definitely have a great debut season even if he scored an average of fewer than 10 points per game.
That"s because with the skill that Jake already had he knew that he could do a lot of a.s.sists for these two players and also get some steals and rebounds for the Lakers "team, with that he could help the Lakers" team to win the games.
Jake knew well that the stars of this Lakers team would be Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O"Neal, and because of that he was prepared to help both of them play well for the Lakers" team to win, after playing a few seasons with these two Jake had I"m sure he would be able to play much better after getting experience and becoming an NBA star.
The days pa.s.sed quickly and the last day that Jake would stay at home arrived, for that day Eva decided to close the restaurant, Anna said that it was not necessary and that she would take care of the restaurant and close earlier.
Knowing that Eva was not going to work at the restaurant Jake decided to go out with his mother to a different place that he wanted to go with his mother, what Jake had prepared was a different tour so that the two could volunteer for a day in a center of children with cancer.
Jake was very sensitive to this because he had an accident in his past life and was unable to walk because of it, even Eva ended up dying of depression because of it before Jake went back in time, so Jake always thought about doing something to help others, people, if he had the financial means to do that.
So he found a center that helped families that had children with cancer and decided to stay a day as a volunteer and make a donation of 100 thousand dollars, Jake thought after 2000 that he would win his shares of the company Cisco in making a donation very more generous, but for now, he wanted to help with $ 100,000.
With Jake saying he would make this donation, the cancer center made it easier for both of them to volunteer, Jake called Eva because he knew his mother would like this and he was right because Eva was happy when she knew she would help take care of the children.