© All rights reserved to Idenity 2014-2015 [PART ONE] [SHORT-STORY] 26 year old Kendrick Lamar, is a new rapper from California. He's been in the rapping game, since 2003 but has a pile of skeletons in the closet. He raps, because that takes his mind off of, his trouble past and childhood. Once, he reconnects to his childhood crush, named Moni, pronounced (Mahn-ni), he slowly begins to open up to her, just like he did those years ago. 24 Year old Moni Sanaa-Lewis has changed. She went from being the nerdy girl, from graduating from Northwestern University, in Chicago with a major in Journalism. Out into her first job, in California she runs into her childhood crush, Kendrick Lamar. She has known that he's a popular rapper now a days, and can't wait to connect with him again, like back in the day, but hopefully this time it won't just be Memories back then. (C) All rights reserved, meaning name, thoughts and characters. All to Idenity. Song lyrics, belong to their rightful Musical Artist and this book, is made for the readers enjoyment, simply fiction. 2014-2015 Sequel: Cold California

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and for these two, their lives have been planned down to a science. For Wylan Olson, being yourself can be very stressful. Since she was young, her emotions have always been backwards. The embodiment of 'tears of joy,' that laughs to keep from crying, not many people understand her struggle. Mostly because she barely understands it herself, but she's making it...barely. All she wants to do is make something out of herself, and she's willing to work for it. Kwame Okari has been raised to be perfect. His parents' strict expectations at son leave no room for friendships, which they regard as frivolous. Their only concern is for him to be Ivy League, and he cannot afford to disappoint. He is a boy on a mission, with a clear objective: be first. And there's only one person standing in his way-Wylan. As the two develop a better understanding of each other, competing agendas complicate their relationship forcing them to decide which is more important: attraction or ambition, satisfaction or success, friendship or fruition, and lead them to wonder if one has to be mitigated for the other.