IF WE WERE A MOVIE! jack brewer

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE, a slip down memory lane

Kate was so relieved that her ankle was fully healed. Those crutches were so annoying. She stood by Rudy, watching excitedly as Jack broke four bricks. 

Rudy raises his arms in victory. "Oh!" 

"Yeah!" Jack cheered, high fiving Rudy.

"Jack, that was amazing!" Kate beams at him, pulling him into a hug. "I'll never understand how you don't hurt yourself by breaking those bricks."

Jack chuckles and doesn't hesitate to hug her back. "Thanks, Kate." When they pull away from the hug, Jack grins at everyone. "Did it again, I am on fire!" He then sings in a high-pitched voice, "Fire!" Kate giggled, smiling at him with amusement.

"More bricks, Eddie." Rudy said and Eddie picks up the bricks out of a nearby wheel barrel. "Okay, just think, in a couple of hours, Jack is gonna break the world record for most bricks broken by anyone under 15." Rudy smiled widely.

"And I'm breakin' a world record too," Eddie speaks up. "For most bricks wheelbarrowed from one place to another." He grins, crossing his arms. "Right, Rudy?"

"Yes, you are." Rudy smiles, pointing at him. Eddie smiles excitedly, giving him two thumbs up. Rudy turns to look at the others, shaking his head and mouths, "Oh, no, he's not."

"Some of the records in this book are crazy." Kim comments from where she sat on the bench by Ashton while Kate helped Rudy put the bricks that Eddie set on the floor onto the bench. "There was a woman in Michigan who ate her own car."

"How would that even be possible?" Ashton questioned.

Kate shakes her head with a grimaced look. "I don't think I wanna know."

"Come look at this picture, guys." Kim smiled, gesturing to Kate and Jack with a wave of her hand for them to join her and Ashton. They walked over to her, their eyes widening in surprise.

"Wow." Jack comments. "She literally has a trunk in her junk."

"Yeah." Kim grimaced.

"Would you let him, focus, Kim?" Rudy asks. "The judge from the burgess book of world records is gonna be here in a few hours."

"He's right." Jack nods, walking back over to the two cement blocks the bricks would be put on. "This is my last chance to break the record. After I turn 15 next week, I won't be eligible." 

"You know, you getting your name and, more importantly, this dojo's name in that record book, is like the biggest thing that's ever happened to us." Rudy smiled.

"Come on, Rudy. The biggest?" Kim chuckled in disbelief, closing the book and stood.

"When I became sensei, I had two goals, saving the president from a ninja attack, and getting my dojo's name in a record book that's read by millions of people on their toilets."

Kim's face contorts to disgust as she glances at the book she held. She drops it in the trash. "I'm out!" She then walked away as Milton and Jerry walked in.

Jerry sighs. "What's up, yo?" He smirks. "Record breaker in the house"

Rudy scoffs. "What record are you gonna break?"

"A record I've been training for my whole life." Jerry replies, taking off the sunglasses he wore. "Yeah, the world's longest armpit hair. Check it." He took his red jacket off, revealing his armpit hair.

"Wow, that is pretty long." Rudy nodded.

Jerry chuckles. "Please." He raised his arms, revealing his armpit hair was braided on both sides. Everyone stared at him with shock.