Ivan told Chris, “Well, you’ll have to get that thing from me in the morning, because I’m beat right now. That’s on the real.”

She nodded to him and didn’t sweat it. “Okay, as long as I’m the one who’s here with you.”

DERRICK DROVE back up to L.A. after spending a reckless weekend in San Diego, leaving Ivan at peace to prepare himself for the upcoming party of his life. When the San Diego News Link article hit the press, asking the question “Who is Ivan David?” followed by the San Diego Union Tribune feature, “Ivan David: The Party Promoter,” he started getting inquiries about his big event from everyone. The tickets sold briskly, while the IDPromotions.com website jumped from an average of twelve thousand unique hits a day to close to thirty thousand, boosting the daily impressions to more than three hundred thousand.

Thomas Jones called Ivan at his apartment office excitedly. He asked him, “Do you know what you’re about to do, Ivan? You’re about to graduate to a whole new level of business, young brother. I don’t even think you realize it yet.”

Ivan told him, “All I know is that I’m tired, man. This shit is wearing me out.”

Thomas laughed and told him, “It’s all about momentum, Ivan. You deserve to be tired now. But you’ve already done most of the work to receive the fruits of your labor. And you’re not even twenty-nine yet. That’s how you do it right there.”

He said, “I’m still working on the property sales. I’m just trying to hold out a little longer to get our prices. But we just might be able to do it after this big event. We can just call it ‘celebrity-owned property,’” he joked.

But Ivan didn’t laugh at the idea. He stopped and said, “Well, we should put it on my website, then. I didn’t figure it would take you this long to sell.”

Thomas said, “Ivan, I could have sold them both at two-eighty three weeks ago. But I’m holding out for three-twenty, at least. And when you got the money, you can afford to do that.”

Ivan said, “Yeah, but let’s get rid of them after this party, man. Then we’ll have enough to go shopping for these development deals. I got a football player asking me about it now. He’s ready to invest.”

“You got it, partner.”

Ivan called to check up on his website team over at the office.

“Everything is falling right into place, my friend,” Eddie K. told him. “The phones are ringing off the hook over here.” He said, “This birthday party was an awesome idea. Now we have all of corporate San Diego wondering who else is going to be there.”

When he talked to Jeff and Paul, they had news for him on another note.