Since in the coming days there would be no training Jake took the opportunity to go out and spend some time with his roommates, they have become very friends in these last 6 months, almost whenever Jake was at university the four went out to eat together.
Jake trained every day with Zack and always talked to him about the marathons he ran, they also talked about other things and got very close, with Aaron that Jake became friends last he also talked a lot.
They always talked about various things about American football that Jake was very fond of watching, Jake didn't have many stories on the high school football team as he played only twice with them.
But Aaron had several stories about his high school years and the expectations he still had to play at university in the year 1997, Aaron also talked a lot about his father and the older brother who lived in New York.
With William, he always went to class every day, in these two semesters they had all classes together, so it was normal for them to always talk, William had much better grades with Jake teaching him.
They also talked about the stock market, Jake didn't mind giving William his knowledge of market movements in the coming years, but unfortunately, William's family couldn't afford to invest in stocks now.
So Jake gave the advice hoping William would gain some understanding of the stock market, Jake looked at the stock market now just as given as he knew what would happen in the coming years.
But for William who knew nothing about the future he could study how the market worked and use Jake's tips to understand how to invest, Jake always reminded William that the stock market situation was now special and something like that would not happen again.
Jake also said that the market was now forming a stock bubble, where people could make a lot of money by investing, but they had to know the right time to exit before losing everything.
He hoped that with these tips William would realize his dream of becoming a great wall street investor if William wanted to become a manager he could work with Jake after a few years.
Jake needed someone with a talent to help Emily take care of his investments, he just didn't think about calling William now because clearly William had no thought of just working in a joint venture and wanted to work with the stock market.
When everyone was sitting together eating lunch and William seemed to be waiting for someone, only Jake realized that and the others were just worried about eating, Jake was curious to see if it was any woman William was looking for.
After a few minutes who appeared was a tall, elegant man, when this person arrived William gave a strange smile as if he was up to something and Jake thought he might know this person who soon walked to the table where they were.
"Hahaha, you finally got Brett, I wanted you to meet Jake for a few months ago."
"William! I told you several times not to call my brother when we went out to eat."
So Jake finally knew who it was, it was Brett Roberts Zack's brother, so Jake thought he knew him from somewhere, Jake had seen a picture of him on Zack's desk in the dormitory and they looked a bit too.
Clearly it was a kind of revenge William was plotting for Zack, William was always annoyed by some Zack jokes and knew that only Brett could stop Zack and so William became friends with Brett.
"Don't be like that Zack, your brother wanted to meet Jake who is the only one in our dormitory he doesn't know, you said you would introduce Jake to him, but several months went by and nothing."
"This has nothing to do with you, this is a matter between me and my brother, Jake has been busy for the last few months after we get back to the dormitory you'll meet me."
"Zack, don't be like that with your friends, so I always have to keep an eye on you, I thank you, William, for inviting me today."
After talking to Zack and William, Brett looked toward Jake, he seemed to be quite calm and cool, but Jake felt that he was also very serious and strict.
"It's a pleasure to finally meet you, Jake, my brother always speaks well of you to my parents when he goes home, I knew you helped him in marathon training, I appreciate always taking care of my brother."
"It's natural to help a friend, and Zack always keeps me company in my morning training, it's nice to have someone to train with, it's nice to meet you too, Brett."
"I know you are very busy with basketball games and studies and you have also been showing your training to Zack, with an elite athlete like you teaching him Zack will easily improve."
Jake liked Brett, he seemed to be very sociable even though he was more serious, Jake knew it wasn't just because he was a year older because he himself had a mindset of someone over 40 and didn't act so different from Zack and from others.
"So to thank you guys for taking care of my brother, I was thinking of taking you to a batting cage to relax a little."
"Great idea, I haven't been in a batting cage in years."
William quickly nodded enthusiastically and Aaron also seemed excited about it, even though Zack who was angry before was happy with the idea, Jake had not been in a batting cage for many years but also liked the idea.
They went somewhere far from the university that even Zack shouldn't know where it was, everyone rented safety equipment to play with because they didn't want to buy it just to play this time.
As it was monday the place was emptier, everyone had played in the batting cage before and so no one had to go to the 50mph batting cage or lower.
Everyone talked for a while and decided to choose the 70mph batting cage, one that everyone could hitch and no one would be ashamed of, Zack and Aaron wanted to go to the 90mph batting cage, but Brett said it was best to stay together.
70 miles was not at all slow and William who was first able to hit only 1 ball out of 20 attempts, Aaron did not want to be ashamed as he had previously asked to go to the 90mph batting cage.
Even so, he missed the first 4 hits, only after the fifth ball he hit and then hit a total of 12 of the 20 hits he tried, even though it went well he was ashamed to have asked for faster balls before and everyone laughed at him mercilessly.
Zack was also afraid that they would laugh at him and so Brett was throwing first, he missed the first and then started hitting, even though he missed a few he still hit 15 of the 20 hits.
Even so, he didn't say he was good at batting and just said he came here many times over the last few months, everyone knew he was being modest, yet Aaron and Zack used that excuse that they didn't hit long and everyone laughed at them again.
Zack was still scared to hit and so Jake passed in front of him, Jake was not very good at batting in his past life and he always stayed in the 60mph batting cages and still missed a few.
The first ball Jake just let go and saw if he could hit, so on the second ball Jake moved quickly and hit easily, then it was a sequence of 18 straight hits without missing a single one.
Jake didn't want to stand out, but with a machine just throwing the ball at the same speed, it was impossible for Jake with 37 agility stat points to miss, with that agility if he took a formula 1 car, in just 10 laps he could catch the way to ride.
His reflexes and speed of thought were much faster than normal people, of course, thanks to the system, and not that anyone who was fast also had these benefits.
Zack regretted letting his brother and Jake go in front of him, yet he actually got 14 hits in 20 attempts, better than Aaron and worse than his brother, as they were just kidding and not competing all kept beating.
After a while, more people arrived and Brett told them to get out of the batting cage as they had been for a long time, but before leaving they all went to the 90mph batting cage for Jake to bat down.
Jake knew they were going to do it so it was just like it was just for fun, the first ball Jake again just let it go to catch the rhythm, the second he hit the ball, it was pretty fast and his hands got a little cushioned with the impact.
The ball came again and Jake hit again, Jake felt that if the non-metal bat would break with him bouncing at that speed, William and the others were amazed at how easily Jake hit the ball.
He would start bouncing just as the ball came out of the machine and did not swing the bat very fast, yet every time he bounced the ball he would always hit the machine back hard.
Seeing this his friends thought they would never have the courage to throw some balls at Jake, if the machine wasn't protected they thought Jake would have hit them a few times, of course, they didn't know that Jake had control over what he was doing.
But if they knew that he had control in hitting at that speed and with such force, then they wouldn't have the courage to hurl Jake who could hit them whenever he wanted.
