You Gotta Want It by Jake Paul

Author:Jake Paul
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books

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19. Again, I don’t have the original texts, but I re-created the conversation as best as possible.

A MISS TEEN TEXAS DREAM COMES TRUE

Early the next morning, I got into a car with Jerry and Max and we began the drive to Dallas. All of us looked like we’d just woken up, and we had. I was still exhausted, and about an hour into the drive I fell asleep in the backseat. When I woke up, my head was in that halfway place between sleep and awake, where I was trying to make sense of my life at that moment: I was in the backseat of a car, heading to Dallas with two of the biggest social-media stars in the world, both of whom had helped me celebrate my birthday the night before. It seemed more dreamlike than real; I never wanted to wake up from this feeling.

A song by Soulja Boy and Drake came on the radio, and I heard them rapping, “We made it.” It was a magical, exhilarating instance of life and the universe all seeming perfectly in sync with the music. Everything just felt right and good, to the point where, as I lay in the backseat, I became one with everything about that song, from the beat to the story the lyrics told, how they had finally made it after a lifetime of no one caring about their dreams or believing they could actually achieve them. They were describing the way I felt just then, and I was so into it.

By the end of the song, I was fully awake and sitting up, looking out the window at the towering Dallas skyline in the distance. I’d never seen a city like the one ahead of us or experienced anything like this tour. I was with my idols. I’d just turned seventeen. I was meeting fans. I was having so much fun.

And then, of course, I was texting Kellie, asking if she would show up and just say hi.

“What are you doing, bro?” one of the guys asked.

“Texting Kellie.”

“Who?”

“Miss Teen Texas.”

They laughed, as did I, except I was in on the joke. Less than a year earlier I had asked myself what I wanted to do with my life, and now I knew. Not only that, I was headed in the right direction. Though I hadn’t made it yet, I was confident I would eventually get there—not by taking the traditional route of high school, college, and more schooling. It was going to be a different path, one that I’d been on for a long time whether I knew it or not. I was living and loving this thing I’d created, and I couldn’t think of anything else . well, almost anything else. There was still Miss Teen Texas.

I checked my phone. No messages from Kellie.

Frustrating.

Anyway.

We did the event, which lasted the rest of the day. The Dallas crowd was just like Houston’s, only more people showed up. Jerry and Max saw me checking my phone for word from Kellie.

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