Riley's colour is blue.
It's always been blue, since the day she was born.
She can almost see it on her bedroom wall and her parents tell her that purple is a mixture of blue and red and so yes, she can almost see purple.
Riley will see blue until she falls in love with her soul mate.
It's not any of those brilliant red colours like her mother saw and it's not exactly the supposedly golden colour of her mother's hair such as her father was accustomed to, but she happens to really like blue so that's perfectly okay.
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Maya's colour is brown.
It was brown when she was born and colours don't change so Maya's childhood was full of mud and dirt and other ugly or gray things.
Her eyes were meant for the muggy playground after rain, tens of puddles through Central Park after her mom's work shift, and the gruff trunks of trees along the walking path.
Maya hated brown.
However, Maya met a boy named Farkle when she was three years old and his parents named him Farkle, so she decided that brown wasn't the worst thing that could have ever happened to her.
Her mother always told her that her eyes were blue and her hair was blonde and she looked best in dark colours.
Maya never understood why her mother could see every colour but her dad still left them and Katy never gave her an answer so Maya saw brown and hated it and hated her mother for never telling her why.
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Riley was thirteen when she met a boy named Lucas, who was wearing a blue shirt that almost matched his eyes.
Lucas was fourteen and his colour was green, he had light brown hair, according to Riley's father, and a bright white smile.
Riley and Lucas started dating when they were thirteen and fourteen and from then on they were Riley and Lucas, "The Golden Couple", which was ironic because neither of them could see gold, so it stayed and expression lost on the two of them.
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Maya and Farkle had a friend named Josh.
Josh was older than them by three years and his colour was orange, which in Maya's opinion was just as bad as brown because oranges were sour and the colour was probably terrible too.
Josh and Maya start dating when Maya's fifteen and he has brown hair but Maya doesn't hate him and they look great together in photographs.
Farkle says that it's ridiculous and she agrees with him.
Josh still sees orange and Maya only sees brown, but they really do look good together in photographs so it works.
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Farkle throws the best parties and Maya and Josh go to all of them.
It's been six months and Josh sees orange and Maya sees brown but their friend throws great parties so they go together anyways.
Maya wears an open flannel shirt, that her mother says is red and blue, over a white tank top and it looks nice on her.
Josh wears one that looks exactly the same only opposite and he buttons his up.
They both wear "blue" beanies and jeans so Katy takes about a dozen pictures of them because they're really photogenic standing next to each other.
