Chlorine Dreams and Baseball Schemes
The invitation sat on my phone screen like a dare: pool party at Jessica's house. Saturday. Bring a swimsuit. I hadn't been to a pool party since seventh grade, when I'd forgotten...
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The invitation sat on my phone screen like a dare: pool party at Jessica's house. Saturday. Bring a swimsuit. I hadn't been to a pool party since seventh grade, when I'd forgotten...
Maya's palms were sweating — like, actually dripping — as she clutched her phone under the lunch table. She was basically a professional spy at this point, seventh period in a row ...
Summer camp was supposed to be chill, but Marcus was spiraling. His roommate Kyle had already mastered the art of being effortlessly cool while Marcus was still trying to figure ou...
Marcus stared at the mirror, counting every flaw. Sixteen and still scrawny, while Jake the human bull roamed the hallways like he owned them. Jake had made ninth grade miserable f...
I walked into the party feeling like a total zombie—thanks to pulling an all-nighter watching apocalyptic series—and honestly, that's exactly how I looked. My eyes were basically d...
Maya's eyes burned like she'd stared at the sun too long, which honestly wasn't far from the truth. Three seasons of 'The Last of Us' in one night would do that to you. "Bro, I'm ...
The goldfish — a carnival prize I'd won with zero skill — stared at me through its bowl like it knew my darkest secret. I was literally living a double life, and not in the cool, s...
Summer at the Ridgeview Pool Complex wasn't supposed to change everything, but that was before I noticed him at the padel court. I was stuck working the snack bar, dreaming of th...
Maya dragged herself to the baseball diamond feeling like the walking dead. Three hours of sleep would do that to you — thanks, AP History essay and that random zombie apocalypse m...
My vintage bucket hat was supposed to be my armor. You know, that thing that says, "I'm chill, I'm aesthetic, I've got my life together." Instead, it kept sliding down my forehead ...
Maya's been running on empty since finals week began—literally and figuratively. Between cross-country practice, AP chem cramming, and her mom's insistence she 'network' at this co...
Maya's summer job as a pool attendant was supposed to be chill—just monitoring the neighborhood pool, making sure no kids drowned, occasionally fixing the pool filter. But somethin...