"Laytonya"

Many of my friends and even family members have called me "Lay-tonya" or "La-tonya" over the years as a nickname, without knowing or remembering the origin of that particular moniker. On the first day of tenth grade, I came into my new homeroom to find that we had all been assigned seats; however, I could not find mine. I looked around for a couple of minutes before coming across a desk with an envelope addressed to "Laytonya Smith." After verifying with the teacher that, yes, my name had been incorrectly recorded as Laytonya (apparently someone in the front office thought my name was a typo), I proceeded to open the envelope to find an invitation to participate in the Miss Teen Georgia pageant, along with all the other girls in the class.