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Koen Seo has always lived his life in monochrome. Constantly being corrected on the color of this and the shade of that. He finds peace in stark lines, basketball statistics, and the predictability of how the world should behave. He doesn't do chaos, and he most certainly doesn't do favourite colors.
With the only color he trusts--his best friend Kaden--already halfway through the door to university, Koen tries to cling to the familiar rhythms of basketball. But one last unofficial game with his team on a warm summer day shatters the perfect arc of his life.
Aven Aoyama is like blue confetti in a stark white room. Messy, chaotic, and unpredictable. An explosion of spanglish and restless energy, he becomes the blue-haired intruder who ruined the taste of popsicles and Koen's left pinky in a single afternoon. He is a visceral stain on a summer that was supposed to be about goodbyes.
But beneath Aven's vibrating energy lies a pharmacy bag full of secrets and a terrifying fear of the dark. As the lines between rivalry and necessity blur, Koen must decide if he's willing to let his perfect, gray world get stained by the beautiful, messy blue chaos of a boy who's forgotten how to sleep.