Chapter 336 The Major Marathons 10
Jake didn't understand what his mother had today that she was always talking about this magazine, he didn't even read magazines and newspapers unless his friend said he had something about him, like someone from internet time Jake had lost his custom of reading newspapers.
"I don't understand, Mom, what this magazine has to do with the fact that customers and restaurant staff are looking at you in a different way."
"Look at the magazine yourself and you will know why."
Jake was curious and took the magazine from his mother's hands and understood what she meant when she saw the cover of the magazine, somehow someone took a picture just as Kate hugged him and started crying.
On the cover it still said 'reunion and youthful love between stars', not far from the truth what it said in the magazine aside from the love part, Jake understood that customers looked at his mother strangely because they knew she is the mother him and the employees knew that Lola liked him.
"Luckily Lola wasn't working today, so I didn't know what I could do to talk to her."
"Who is this woman, Jake?"
So Jake explained the whole situation of how they met and what had happened to Kate for her to hug him like that in the middle of the party, so Eva was no longer so angry with Jake and knew how to understand the situation.
"I understand the situation well, but of course, after all, that has happened this woman must like you very much, Jake."
"I think it may be so too, to be honest from the first time I spoke to her I felt something different as well."
So Eva didn't know what to do, she knew well that Jake had done nothing wrong and was a right and single man, but she felt sorry for Lola's situation, after learning of Kate's situation she felt even more sorry for Kate and understood what she felt.
After all, Kate was someone who had lost her parents the same day she first fell in love, she must have felt very bad for a while after she lost her parents and it was thinking about Jake that made her better overcome the loss of her parents.
Besides, Eva knew that Jake was the dream man of many women in America, he was intelligent, good at two different sports, handsome, nice, famous and still rich. Eva couldn't imagine a better quality in a man who was missing on her son.
And Kate had fallen in love with Jake when he was young and not even that famous, so in those years with the death of her parents, this love just increased as Jake looked even better in other years.
Maybe what made Kate not fall in love with Jake completely at that time was the fact that she didn't know if Jake remembered her, but at the meeting, they had this time Jake said he always thought of her too, that must have further strengthened that love.
Luckily some time ago she and the others in the restaurant were trying to make Lola forget about Jake, so after a semester with Jake at university, they might feel that Lola had forgotten about Jake a bit.
What happened this time Lola was going to suffer a lot, but it would be even easier for her to forget about Jake after that happened, as a mother, Eva had to support Jake and what he wanted to do as long as it was right and made him happy and seem that Kate was the one that made Jake happy.
In fact, Jake didn't even think about it that much, he knew he liked Kate a lot, but since he'd never felt it and didn't know exactly how Kate felt about him, Jake didn't think about it as much as Eva.
After that Eva calmed down and the two had dinner together and then Jake went to rest, as someone with many things to do Jake did not think much about this event and the other day returned to focus on his training.
Jake and Kate were very busy and if they didn't agree days in advance could never have time to meet, Kate still got a scolding from her business for doing what she did at the party and so the two would not see each other for a while let the public forget that.
Kate was still a pop singer, but she was more successful with young audiences who would not accept her boyfriend well, she had received a lot of support from her fans a few years ago when she lost her parents and so Kate decided to do it for her. her fans, but she wouldn't forget Jake not easily.
Jake can focus on his training more easily because Coach Davis just like he didn't read magazines or newspapers either, he still continued his positioning training and did what he could to improve his running technique for all forms of athletics.
Coach Davis had to admit that he found Jake's dedication to training inspiring, after all, he didn't even know if Jake would participate in all forms of athletics, in fact he found it impossible for Jake to participate in all forms of athletics.
Even so for many weeks, Jake was very keen to learn everything completely as if he was sure everything would be useful in the future, as Jake had many points in intelligence statistics he was practically a sports genius and learned everything much more easily than the others.
If it wasn't because Jake wanted to learn only once and never forget, he would have learned everything he had to learn a long time ago, in a few days they would learn everything they had to learn and could start training more seriously for others modalities.
The other day after much training Jake got a call from Tiffany who wanted to talk to him over lunch, Jake was a little tired of learning how to position himself in training and agreed to have lunch with her and gave Coach Davis time off.
Jake hoped it was something important for Tiffany to call him on the phone, Jake knew that Tiffany and Clara were busy improving their companies, and soon Jake knew he would have to record a commercial for their companies and was ready for this.
"Hi Jake, thanks for coming, I knew you were training on this vacation, you have to get some rest too and enjoy spending time with your mom."
"I'm resting well, I'm training positioning only in recent weeks."
"That's good so, I saw your picture with that famous singer, I didn't know you started dating while you were in college, she's really pretty, congratulations."
"No, she's not my girlfriend, just a friend, it was just a misunderstanding because she was thrilled about something that happened to her a few years ago, but what you wanted to talk to me about, Tiffany, is about the commercial I will record?"
"That's not it, so we'll be doing the commercial in a few weeks too, I wanted to talk to you about something John passed on to me yesterday."
"It is what it is?"
"It's usually him who talks to you about marathon issues when you're at university, but as you're on vacation he asked me to pass this on to you, our country's athletic organization invited you to participate in a qualifier for this year's Athletics World Championship in Athens."
Jake had really forgotten about this year's Athletics World, he didn't care about these Athletics competitions because he usually didn't have marathons, but this year he had, the Athletics Worlds was the second most important competition for marathon competitors, so it was obvious that Jake wanted to participate.
Everyone expected him to participate because he had won the marathon at last year's Olympics, but Jake had said nothing about it and so the organization decided to talk to John who was responsible for Jake's entries in these competitions.
"I'm going to participate yes, thanks for reminding me, with so much going on this year I had even forgotten, apparently I won't be able to just rest until September as I thought before."
"Good then, in two weeks will be the recording of the commercial, will be in that same studio you like here in Miami."
"Alright, I'll be there in the day."
Jake was excited to participate in this year's Athletics World Championship, he thought he could only participate after he started running in the other athletics worlds, so he would have one more marathon to participate in this year.
But nothing would really change for Jake, because this year's Athens Athletics World Championship would only be August 1-10, 1997, so there were still almost 3 months left to go and nothing would change in Jake's training.
He didn't have time to focus on the marathon training he was confident of winning, he had to keep training the positioning for the next few days and then train for the other athletics while training for the marathon.
After all Jake would train now only for 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters, so the training would not be much different from what he did now, it would only change in the running pace and also the distance he would have to run at each different pace.
The other day Jake told Coach Davis about this year's Athletics World Championship the coach was also surprised that he had forgotten about this important event, he had problems with his family and was also paying more attention to what Jake was doing than he was the sport in general.
But he wasn't surprised when Jake said he didn't want to train anything especially for this World Cup and wanted to continue with their training plans, Coach Davis also thought Jake was ready to run any marathon anytime.