Water Balloons and Strikeouts
Maya's summer was supposed to be about proving herself at travel baseball tryouts, not about hiding in the bathroom while her phone blew up with texts she couldn't bring herself to...
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Maya's summer was supposed to be about proving herself at travel baseball tryouts, not about hiding in the bathroom while her phone blew up with texts she couldn't bring herself to...
Leo's new school already had its cliques cemented in concrete, and he was floating somewhere in the awkward space between "that new kid" and invisible. Then he saw Maya at the comm...
Maya's phone buzzed with another 'u coming?' text. The house party was already fully vibes, and she was still in her bathroom, re-applying eyeliner for the third time. Her hands wo...
Rio pressed her phone to her forehead, willing the three dots to stop jumping on her screen. The DM from sphinx_queen_99 sat there for twenty minutes now: I know what happened at K...
Maya's bathroom mirror reflected a disaster. Her hair, once cascading in perfect waves, now looked like she'd stuck a fork in an electrical socket. The DIY bleach kit had lied. "Su...
Maya's thumb hovered over the send button, her iPhone screen glowing in the dark of her bedroom. She was about to do something borderline psychotic. For three weeks, she'd been wa...
Maya's hair had seen better days. Like, way better days. The supposed 'subtle auburn highlights' she'd begged her mom for? Yeah, they turned out full-on traffic cone orange. Now sh...
Maya's iPhone buzzed in her pocket again. Another notification from that new 'wellness club' everyone was joining. The fifth one today. She looked around the cafeteria. The senior...
Maya's arms burned. Another lap, another wall to hit. Coach Miller yelled something about "leaving it all in the pool" but honestly, Maya just wanted to leave practice period. "Ni...
The coaxial cable snaked through the open window like a black vine, connecting me to a world I couldn't access. Mom said we'd get internet installed "soon," which in adult language...
I felt like a **zombie** walking into Jordan's house party, caffeine-deprived and socially dead inside. My Converse squeaked on the hardwood while my brain screamed abort mission. ...
The palm trees swayed against a sky that looked like someone had taken a bruised orange and smeared it across the horizon. California sunsets didn't mess around. I leaned against ...