Another day another dollar! I woke up revitalized because of our good talk with my mother last night.

I woke up, dressed up for school and went to the Thompsons house. This time Robert opened the door, he stared at me for about one minute and then left the door opened and sat again in his usual chair.

I excitedly went to have breakfast and had a warm greeting even with a hug from Rachael. I told her all the details I remembered from the last night conversation and she was beaming with joy.

She called me like I was behaving like a grown-up man now, taking responsibilities for his actions. That made me proud, no one ever told me something like that before.

As I was leaving I looked at the back of Robert and said "Thanks for your advice Mr. Thompson, you are a really great person!" and made a quick rush to hug his neck and rushed out of the house.

I was so embarrassed, but that was the least I could do to someone who understood the situation way better than me.

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Rachael saw all this and went to his husband and said "Here honey, clean with this tissue"

Robert grabbed the tissue and said "Damn kid! Bringing dust to my eyes from outside!"

Rachael only smiled and went back to his garden while humming and started talking to her plants as usual, but this time the topic was the silly soft husband that she has.

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That week at school I couldn't concentrate. Why was that? Because I was counting the days to the quarter-finals to the Champions League. It was 8 days away! I decided to concentrate on my defense on the recess matches because I could only do that with other people. On my obstacle course, I could train all of the other aspects of my .

Also, I keep going to Arnold, the old newspaper post where we would gift me the old newspaper from yesterday, the sports section. My wall was full of Ronaldo Pictures, I was really a fan of him. Messi didn't have a lot of publicity yet, so I began to slowly increase content about him but not enough to fill even a drawer.

I already told my mother about the dates of the matches of the quarter-finals so we needed to use our T.V. When I was commenting about I was excited about the matches, Ms. Thompson offer us to watch the matches in their house since their T.V. was bigger and Mr. Thompson was gonna watch it anyway. I asked my mom and after her confirmation, we agreed. She also told me to make a scene if my predictions were incorrect. I agreed and we said yes, I only need to endure this 8 days before the matches.

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Finally, It was the 8th of April of 2003. Today they were going to play 2 matches. Ajax vs Milan and Real Madrid vs Manchester United. The first match is supposed to end in a 0 - 0 and the second one was supposed to end 3 - 1 in favor of Real Madrid.

I hope that my bet didn't make a big enough butterfly effect to affect the match. I always wondered about that, if people know that one dude is 100% efficient in their bets they will begin to copy him and that could even affect the players if they know a lot of people bet about them winning or loosing. I don't want to bet like that, with my name known and all that jazz. Later when I have more networks for betting I could distribute my bets in several agencies and spread the money to not raise any eyebrows. I wish I could do anonymous bets, or even from a shell company, but the security about bettings are really tight to prevent arranged matches. Of course, that doesn't stop illegal bettings, but at least the legal ones are strickly controlled. I will not go to the shady deals, yes, I could earn a lot more, but my life will be at risk constantly.

Anyway, since we live in the small city of Grandview, Yakima County, Washington and our state was famous for football enthusiast, I guess I could go to a sports bar to see the match. But I really like to see the matches with my mom, like my past life, some customs are nice to have.

And we need to see the matches in the afternoon, it was a good thing that I was already off the school to see the matches. The first one was at 14:30 Ajax vs Milan.

We gather around the bigger tv of Ronald and had all kinds of snacks all around us, but they were healthier options since they were elders and my mother didn't want me to eat junk. Not that I would want, the only thing that is good about that is that is cheap. But it messes up with your body, even some of the food has addictive properties like the Oreos. But is a good thing to have snacks to ease the nerves, I was eating baby carrots like they were popcorn.

My mother laughed and told me to calm down, either way, is only money and this would a lesson for good or bad. We watch the first match, Robert would grumble about how bad some players were and my mother and Rachael mostly talked about others things or asked the same rules of football again and again. Like...what is offside? FML. I was nervous about the result but it was the same boring 0 - 0 as I remember from my last life!

I shouted in joy and hugged my mother and Rachel! I didn't even try to hug Robert because he was annoyed about me making so much noise. The second match was one hour later and we watched a real game, and ended the same way! Even with the same scorers! I was right ! 2 goals from Gonzales and 1 form Figo from the Real Madrid and 1 goal from Manchester from Nistelrooy.

I was on cloud 9, I was ecstatic, it means that in this 2 games I earned a thousand dollars at least. My predictions were 100% accurate! I wish I could see the face of that Old fucking Fat fuck!

I almost screamed that but remember that my mother would beat my ass if I swear, and even more in a guest house! So I kept my mouth shut while running across the house like a madman.

They were amused about my antics and were laughing and clapping, well all except Robert but he was watching with a smirk on his face.

I told my mom "SEE MOM! I TOLD YOU I WAS RIGHT!!" she laughed and told me to calm down that the people around us would think we had an emergency or something like that.

I didn't calm down though, I went to my obstacle course and trained like a mad man for almost 2 of 3 hours before my mom called me for dinner. I was so euphoric that I didn't notice the time when was the last time I was this excited to train? I need to change a routine from time to time it seems. Not for the but for my mental health.

I arrived at the dinner and we had a juicy fried chicken leg with mashpotetoes, one of my favourites! I slowed down and enjoyed my meal. After the dinner and told my mom "Mom! After the Champions League ends we can eat as much chicken, meat, and other expensive meals every day! I promise!" She nodded and told me "Sure sure honey, now help me pick up the table and clean the dishes!"

I did it with enthusiasm while thinking about a good change for my obstacle course, maybe I should ask Robert! He was in the military, he would certainly know a way to train the body, and for the football technique training I could make my own!

That would be the best alternative yet!

After that, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep so I keep filling my with all random training techniques and even matches the results that I forgot. I fall asleep doing that, maybe it could be a routine from now on.