The weather in LA began to change as the sun finally called it quits. Massy and Odell's backyard had finally died down. You could smell the rain in the air, so people took it upon themselves to head out before it started, to avoid the heavy traffic and crazy drivers. Kobe and Vanessa sat comfortably next to one another in the high kitchen stools, even sitting down Kobe still towered over her petite 5'4 frame. The ring on her left wedding finger was the size of a large grape, yet it paled in comparison to what she went through and sacrificed to be in a relationship with Kobe since she was seventeen and being married to him for fourteen years. I pretty much traded everything. My friends, my family, my identity, my body, hell... My humanity all in pursuit of this... This basketball immort

