Chapter 201: Oversleeping V


    “You said the name of thepany was BetFuse, correct?” Jason asked as he picked up his phone, intending to search for the name of thepany on the inte, but then he put his phone back down,


    “Never mind, first tell me about the other threepanies that want me to do a paid advert,” he said, taking his hand off his phone, having changed his mind.


    “Oh, okay, well, one is from a juicepany, one from a skincarepany, and one from a perfumepany,” Adele replied.


    “So, I justmake apost on my social media about the products I’m supposed to endorse?” Jason askedashe was new to this paid advertisement thing.


    “For the juicepany and the lotionpany, pretty much, but for the perfumepany, things are a bit moreplicated,” Adele answered,her wordssuggesting that there was more to the offer of the perfumepany.


    “What do you mean?” Jason already picked up on herobviouswordsandheasked out of curiosity.


    “Well, despite it not being an endorsement deal, the perfumepany wants you to appear in amercial video, not as the lead, but aslikea side character,” Adele exined.


    “Lead? Side character? I didn’t realize that thepany owner read light novels…” Jason scoffed before going on to ask, “What was the name of thepany again?”


    “… Scentual Escapes…”Adele replied after a pauseandit was immediately clear to Jason thatthere was some hesitation in her voice, but his mind was already narrowing down the reason.


    “I find it hard to detect any masculine presence in that name…” Jason mutteredhiseyes narrowing into slints as he stared hard at Adele.


    “…Well… they’re apany that makes female perfumes… mostly, also why are you staring at me like I’ve done something wrong, I’monly telling you what they told me,” Adele said, her voice gradually rising towards the end of her sentence.


    “Huh, is that so?” Jason replied, the look of suspicion still on his face as he stared at Adele.


    “What will I evenbe doing in amercial for a female perfume?Shooting people with perfume guns?” Jason asked in disbelief.


    “LuckilyI’m good with guns,” Jason added for no reason.


    “You’re good with guns?”Adele asked, ignoring what he first said about the perfumemercialwhichwas the topic they wereactuallysupposed to be talking about.


    “I’m a ck kid who has lived in America for most of his life, ofcourseI’m good with guns,” Jason stated matter of factly, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.


    “Really? Does that mean all African American kids are good with guns?” Adele asked in surprise.


    “Nah, not really, it’sthe hood kids that always need to have a piece strapped on at everymomentasthey must never be caughcking,” Jason answered.


    “Most of them are not good with guns thoughandcan only wave it around like idiots,” he added for good measure.


    “So you’re a ‘hood kid’?” Adele asked out of curiosity.


    “Not reallyI mean,we did live in the hood for a while, but it was still a nice neighborhood wherehouses weren’t shot upmore than twice a month,” Jason answeredreminiscinga bit about the old times.


    “I changed houses when I waslike13though,” he added.


    “You call a neighborhood where houses are shot up twice a month ‘a nice neighborhood’?” Adele asked with her mouth wide open.


    “Yeah…”Jason answered becausebyhood standards, that was already almost a paradisend, so he couldn’t initially understandthe reason for her confusion.


    Itter dawned on him that their standards for ‘a nice neighborhood’ were not the same, afterall, the hood was an inherently different ce from other living areas.


    It was like a warzone that could break out anytimeandall it usually needed was one little push from one gun-wielding idiot before all hell broke loose.


    Ni**as in the hood had had so many experiences running away from gun battles that they never bothered to get on treadmills whenever they got to the gym and instead focused on working on their upper body because their legs were already in tip-top shape thanks to real-life experience.


    “Anyway, let’s get back on track, mybeing good with guns probably has nothing to do with thismercial thingy,” Jason said as he remembered that they were supposed to be discussing.


    “What’s their n for me in themercial?” hewent on to ask.


    “I don’t know yet, Ionly know about their offer,” Adele answered.


    “Okay, anyhow, it seems interesting, don’treject it yet and just tell them I am interested, but I’ll only make my decision after hearing about whatever it is they want me to do in theirmercial,” Jasonstarted speaking, deciding one after the other.


    “I don’t remember you telling me the names of the lotionpany or the juicepany, but I’ll ept their offers for now, sendme their detailster,”


    “I think I’ll also ept the Gilette offer since there is no harm in doing so, but I’ll first have to look at the number of years on the contract before I’ll sign anything… butput that BetFuse deal on a holdfor now, I’m notreallyinterested in that for now,” Jason gave his verdicts on all the endorsement deals currently avable to him.


    He had thought about them for a whileandhebelieved that the ones he had agreed to wouldn’t cause any problems for him and would bequitebeneficial, andheespecially liked the paid advertisementsthathe was supposed to promote on his social media.


    They were easy to do and required almost no effort from him, and most important of all, they didn’t have any long-term attachment.


    “Okay, so stall Scentual Escapades, stall Gilette for a while, ept SkinSerenity,and Chi, and then almost outrightly reject BetFuse, didI get it all?”Adele asked after noting down all that Jason had recited.


    “Yeahthat’s about it,”Jason confirmed her words, and then his face shifted into a more serious one,


    “Now, let’s talk about those ‘rumors’,” he said with a smileon his facedespite his serious tone.