Page 67 of The Champion
It never failed. When I was home alone they’d come over,so I made the executive decision to move back to Mooresville.
Along with a pair of restraining orders, it was the bestthing for everyone.
After they broke into our house, which I later learnedwas not actually a “break in” but a “let in” by Spencer. Regardless, it waswhat sealed the deal for me.
By the way, Spencer paid the price for this “let in”incident and spent two days in the hospital because Jameson tased him with a taser.This wouldn’t have ordinarily landed someone in the hospital but Jameson did itat the worst possible time he could. Spencer was driving.
The conversation between Nancy and Jameson was the mostentertaining when he had to tell them who tased Spencer.
“What do you mean you tased your brother?” Nancy gasped.“Jameson, that doesn’t sound like a very nice thing to do.”
Jameson’s response: “It wasn’t a nice thing to do but helet Dana inmyhouse while we were on our honeymoon. That wasn’t verynice.”
She turned to Spencer and his broken arm.
“Spencer,” she scolded. “That woman is crazy! Why wouldyou do something like that?”
That went on for an hour and in the end, Nancy was upsetwith Spencer and took Jameson’s side in the whole situation. No surprise there,Jameson was her baby and could do little wrong in her eyes.
Just so we’re clear, that taser was taken away after thatby Jimi.
Andrea had taken over my position at the track andJameson hired a whole array of staff to fill in the voids from us not beingthere. I flew home every few weeks to make sure everything was running smoothlybut other than that, Axel and I traveled with Jameson, in our home away fromhome...the motor coach.
This worked well but if I was being honest with you,raising a kid on the road was not easy nor was it easy raising a kid ingeneral. There were times Jameson got stressed out and took our parentingfrustrations out on each other but looking at our families, we understood thatwas completely normal. Hell Alley and Spencer once stopped talking for a weekover grounding Lane for sticking toothpaste up his nose. You may think this isnot a normal thing to ground a kid for but the little shit did this weekly. Itwas like he was lacking mint or something.
Alley, the amazing super woman that she was, had justgiven birth to Alexis Nicole Riley a few weeks back when we were in Daytona.Days after her birth, she was back to working. I couldn’t understand howquickly she recovered from childbirth. I still felt out of shape after havingAxel. Or maybe that was the ten pounds I still carried around with me.
With everyone starting families, Spencer and Alleydecided to have a house built near ours in Mooresville and across the streetfor Aiden and Emma. Their fifteen hundred square foot apartment in Charlottewas apparently not big enough any longer.
Having the entire family living within walking distanceto one another was like living with the cast from thoseJackassmovies.The boys were always thinking of stupid shit to do and usually, one of themended up in the hospital or with a concussion.
In the last four months, Jameson had three concussions,six stitches above his left eyebrow, two broken fingers and three broken ribs.And those injuries were just at home, not racing.
Aiden and Spencer’s injuries were similar only worse attimes because Jameson had a flair for talking them into the dangerous shit. Heusually say something along the lines of: “I bet you can’t make that.” And thenhe’d rattle off with some ridiculous dare. Everysingletime they tookthe challenge.
After the third concussion, Simplex, concerned theirdriver was crazy, forced him to sign a contract that prevented him fromengaging in reckless or unsafe behavior that would prevent him from living upto his end of his five year contract with them.
I wouldn’t say it was all the activities they were doing,just the way they were doing them that made it so dangerous. They were crazy.He may have signed the agreement but I think Simplex knew damn well he didn’tstop riding his dirt bike or racing sprint cars. Two things he’d rather diethan give up. Asking a guy like Jameson to give up sprint car racing was likeasking him to give up sex.
That was clearly not an option.
Emma and Aiden were busy getting everything ready fortheir littleonesthat were due in November. The shocking revelationreally came when they found out they were having twins. Aiden was not at allexcited about this but eventually came to terms with it.
Emma was wrong to have decided amajorlife decisionwithout him but they worked everything out after a few weeks and Jimi’s wordsof wisdom.
His exact words to the two of them after a very publicfight at a restaurant outside of Atlanta, “Listen you two...I’m tired of this shit. Act like fuckingadults! So you fuck up and get married in Vegas, did you really expect eitherof you to make responsible decisions when it came to becoming parents?” Neitherof them said anything so he continued with, “That’s what I thought.”
I was almost positive Emma learned her lesson when shefound out she was having twins and Aiden’s response was, “See...that’s what you get.”
Emma had always wanted children but she also neverthought the decision through. She had no idea the impact those tiny humans wereabout to have on their lives.
When you think about it, you would assume the driver ofthe car has the most grueling schedule, that’s not the case.
Take Aiden for example. Monday through Wednesday, Aidenwas usually free, until Thursday when he was required to be at the trackspotting for Jameson during practices, qualifying and the race. He’d stay therewith him until Sunday. Monday the process started all over again at a differenttrack, different city. Aiden also spots for Jameson during any Busch or Truckrace too and this year, he was scheduled to run thirteen Busch races and sevenin the Truck series.
Emma was less constricted because most of her workrevolved around Jameson’s fan club and charity events she scheduled for him. Sonow, you add twin boys into that picture and that wouldn’t exactly result inmuch family time.
Spencer’s schedule was the similar to Aiden’s but Alley...poor Alley went everywhere Jameson went.Being his publicist, she had her work cut out for her. Now that she had twolittle ones, it wasn’t unusual to see Alley running around with Lane attachedto her back and Lexi snuggled into a Baby Bjorn.
