Venus Vs Mars

Chapter 49

As All Star Weekend closed out the distance between Odell and Massy only grew. Odell not knowing how to deal with her fame being the clear picture. It's not that he wasn't proud of her, or didn't want her to be the greatest she could possibly could, taking advantage of everything life was offering her, he just simply didn't know how to handle her popularity, his girlfriend being bigger than him at the moment taking over the world, being everywhere. He just didn't know, and he was too thick headed to speak up.

Ultimately leaving Massy in the dark without a flashlight, between balancing this goal of having a undefeated season and ending it with a World Cup her rookie year, and trying to figure out why Odell seemed to act as if he was now too busy to say hi to her was not in her plans. Massy had to let one go. She couldn't sit and babysit a grown man because he was too stubborn to open his mouth. With the World Cup matches two months away, Massy had a one track mind. Her career.

Back in sunny San Diego, the Qualcomm Stadium would host both matches agains Mexico and Australia. It felt good to be playing back in the States, their fans there in support, her mother, father, and sister in attendance, USA flags being waved in every corner of the stadium. With Mexico being the first match and another win for Team USA beating them 4-1. All the hype and talk about Mexico being a top team was exactly what it was, talk. Massy did what she did best, her speed and footwork ultimately being the reason for Mexico's down fall, not being able to stop her from scoring three of her five goal attempts. Team USA was now 8-0.

That win wouldn't be the only highlight of her day, after the game Massy was surprised by Kobe Bryant and his family. She may have seen Kobe and his family at All Star Weekend but she never got the chance to speak to meet or speak to him. As he introduced himself and his family Massy tried to get her brain to function. Massy covered her mouth, preventing them from seeing how wide open it was, her eyes also wide open, her eyebrows nearly touching her hairline. As the Bryant family entered the tunnel, his two daughters Natalia and Gianna wearing her jersey. 

Massy still in shock she remained quiet, her hand now on her forehead. "I don't even know?... What?" She said looking around not knowing what to say. Finally snapping out of it and realizing how much she was embarrassing herself. "Thank you! Oh my gosh, thank you so much for coming." She said smiling. 

"Oh, we been coming! When y'all hosted Switzerland, we was here! These two been obsessed with you and following the team since the season started! We all been watching." He said pointing a index and middle finger at his two daughters. Massy's mouth fell open again, she looked at his two daughters, both smiling at her.

Massy pulled the girls back into another hug. "Awww oh my gosh, really? Thank you for supporting me... Us!" Massy said, her arm still around his daughter's shoulders. 

"Of course! You're an amazing player, and we love watching you. We'll be here for Australia too." He said confirmed. 

Massy face had finally went to its natural color after being bright red. A stadium staff member taped her on the shoulder handing her a sharpie just as she was about to say something. "They wanted their jerseys signed." 

"Of course! Yes! Definitely!" She said enthusiastically both girls turning around so she could autograph them.

His wife posting the photo of her and Massy on her i********:, and Kobe posting the photo of his girls and then of him and Massy on his Twitter. The photo blowing up and going viral. Massy finally changing, Kobe and his family went on to spend the evening with Massy and her family, going out to eat at one of the Bryant families favorite Italian restaurant in San Diego, having tomorrow off, the two families spent the evening well into the night talking about sports, careers, cooking, anything the topic fell on. Both Kobe and Vanessa exchanging numbers with Massy. Kobe would soon turn into a mentor for Massy, the two building a close friendship. 

Team USA and Massy Arias gets support from The Black Mamba himself! Kobe Bryant enjoyed some time off from their next game and took the family to San Diego to cheer on the team. Letting the Twitter world know how proud of Massy he is, also confessing that his daughter think she's cooler than him." 

As Team Australia landed in the states, Team USA took to the field for some light practicing, just to keep their bodies loose and warmed up, Massy's frustration with Odell was only growing more and more, he seemed to be completely unbothered, posting photos of himself, this time in LA, Going on the third day of not speaking to her, Massy's night would take a turn and she'd really learn just how Odell felt, she'd also learn the exact reason why he was in California, and it wasn't to support her.

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Massy sat on the field looking down at her phone, photos of Odell and singer/actress Zendaya arriving arm and arm at the Ace Hotel Theatre in downtown Los Angeles for Universal Music Group's post-Grammy Awards party. Short videos of the two arriving on the red carpet, sitting side by side enjoying the evening and one another's company. Even though her father was present the whole time they were together, a video surfaced of Zendaya's father telling TMZ Sports, their was no relationship, but Odell was just... "auditioning" meaning if her father approved of Odell, this could possibly be more, in the video Odell is seen opening the door for her and closing it, then getting in the backseat with her father. Massy squinted her eyes thinking for a moment, keeping her cool, refraining from drawing any attention to herself. 

There was two possible reasons for this, either Zendaya reached out him to be a possible date or the two have some type of modeling/fashion thing going on, we're they may be sponsored by a brand. Odell was heavy in modeling and fashion and so was she, so it could of been a possible plug for a project. Massy could admit that with Odell and her "claiming" to be friends to the media how was Zendaya supposed to know about their relationship, then Massy grew angry, because if she did reach out to him for a possible date, then that was Odell's job to let her know he wasn't single. 

Massy nodded her head as she looked through multiple photos, blog sites already putting them as a "New Couple Alert" which she already knew not to pay attention to, but Odell had been ignoring her phone calls and text messages for three days now, no congratulations, no proud of you, nothing, yet he managed to tweet and post photos on his i********:. Massy knew what this meant, despite her deep feelings for Odell this was her biggest nightmare, looking her square in the face. Laughing at her. As she sat, listening to her coach speak about the game later on tonight, a cold sensation came over her. In that moment Odell would truly know what it's like to drop off the face of the earth to someone.