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"Most kids can't answer their favorite things, but I can! My favorite color is purple! No, lavender. I want to be a pilot or a fashion designer when I grow up. I love to eat French fries!!" A young Nayvie chirped, during her routine check in with her doctor. Missing a few teeth, she smiled brightly; beaming like the sun over the ocean during a sunset; gleaming and impossible to miss.
Nayvie Kenyi, an awkward, charismatic, intelligent, kind-fifteen-year-old girl. African American, with dark skin, the brownest eyes, signature bohemian braids, coordinated outfits, jokes, intellect, awkwardness, and originality. She comes from a family of designers; denim creators, with a substantial business in the jean industry; fashion is in her blood.
And so is her love for art and creativity; expressing herself however she knows how, despite her being potentially colorblind; instead of letting it define her as the odd one out in a family full of creative innovators, she adapted her own brand and shone through what she knew best: the color purple. The color she'd always answered to, gifts she'd ask for, she even painted her room walls purple; it's who she is. People have signatures, things they're known for, their thing. Lavender; purple, would always be hers, right?
As the beginning of the school year approaches, she realizes the inevitable change that high school brings, a flight of emotions that turns her into an unexpected version of herself; new interests, friends, growth, relationships, ideas, and eventually acceptance. Emotions she didn't anticipate begin to paint her world in colors she never imagined. All due to an eye doctor appointed. Nayvie's challenge isn't just surviving change-it's learning to soar, to propel herself forward, even when the waves of teenage life threaten to pull her under.