Janaya Leroy

**Janaya Madeline Leroy** (née **Lorde**) is a character in a soap opera storyline *The Millennials: Future Generation* portrayed by Jennifer Love Hewitt.

## Janaya and Jerry

Janaya Lorde was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She was also best friends and neighbors with Jerry Leroy. Janaya and Jerry met when they were 5. They went to the same school and grew up together as childhood friends. By her early teen years, Janaya shared her first kiss with Jerry at 13. Later on, Janaya and Jerry started dating at 16. Janaya and Jerry were also strong religious christians. They would only listen to gospel songs and would also be interested in doing bible studies as a hobby. Janaya's parents raised her to be a strong christian and would take her to church every sunday. She also went to a private christian boarding school her whole life. Janaya's parents never felt that she would be safe in a public school or any school that doesn't involve God. Since Janaya grew up as a religious person, she and Jerry would follow a lot of strict rules. When Janaya started getting intimate with Jerry, they would go no further than kissing in their relationship. They both decided to wait until marriage in order to lose their virginities.

## Meeting Michael

Janaya and Jerry were on a trip to Johannesburg, South Africa for a tour around. After Janaya and Jerry graduated from high school, they felt that they should travel around together in many different places. They went to Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, and the UK. While they were in South Africa, they saw a poor lady with a child. The lady was named Renee Crairie and her child is named, Michael Crairie. Renee was living out on the streets after she had just gotten evicted from her own home. She was a single mother with her 7 year old son. Renee was thinking of putting her son up for adoption so he would have a better life. Janaya wanted to help out and said that she would love to adopt Michael. But then Renee asked how old they were to adopt. Janaya responded that she is 19. Renee also asked if they were married, they responded that they were not married. Renee had second thoughts of letting them adopt Michael and said that they were too young to raise a child and that they were only 12 years older than Michael which is a sibling age gap rather than a parental one. Janaya then said that they were from the United States. Renee was in shock which was a good shock. She asked and begged if they could adopt her son, Janaya then said that she would most definitely adopt Michael. She then asked why she changed her mind at the last minute. Renee replied that if she had her son raised in the United States, he would be much safer and would have a stable home. After the agreement between Renee and Janaya, they went to the court to sign a legal adoption papers to adopt Michael. Renee then gave all her rights away to legal custody and gave Janaya and Jerry full rights to Michael.

## Marriage and Grief

Three years after adopting Michael, Janaya and Jerry got married. They were living a happy life raising Michael and doing everything they could to be good parents to him. By the time Michael was 13, Jerry was diagnosed with Leukemia. Janaya tried her best to find people who could donate blood to the bank. Over 50 people tested for the blood type, but none of them matched. That also included Jerry's family.