Poolside Secrets
I felt like a total creep, but I couldn't stop watching him from behind the bleachers. Okay, maybe "spy" is a strong word, but when your crush is the captain of the swim team and y...
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I felt like a total creep, but I couldn't stop watching him from behind the bleachers. Okay, maybe "spy" is a strong word, but when your crush is the captain of the swim team and y...
My hair looked like a bear had attacked it. No joke — I'd spent twenty minutes with gel and still looked like I'd rolled out of bed at noon and called it a day. But today mattered,...
The padel court smelled like rubber and desperation. I adjusted my grip on the racquet for the tenth time, sweat already making my palms slick. Tryouts. Why did I let Maya talk me ...
Maya's **hat** wasn't just accessory – it was armor. A beat-up black beanie pulled low over her eyebrows, shielding her from the world. From the judgment. From herself. "You know,...
Jordan's baseball cleats collected dust in the corner of his room. Three months ago, he'd been the starting shortstop, living for that perfect crack of the bat and the teammates' c...
Maya's palms were sweating so bad she could practically water plants with them. Opening night of the school musical, and she was playing Zombie #4 — not even a named character, jus...
The chlorine stung Maya's eyes as she stared across Tyler's backyard pool, phone clutched in wet hands. Her Instagram feed was blowing up with #SummerVibes posts from people actual...
The country club pool shimmered like liquid diamonds in the July heat, but I felt more like liquid lead sinking to the bottom. Fifteen and invisible, that was me—until I found myse...
Maya's iPhone face-planted onto her unmade bedsheets, third time this morning. The crack in the screen now branched like lightning across her insta feed—everyone's highlight reels ...
Maya's palms were sweating so hard she could practically water plants with them. Which was ridiculous, because she was just standing outside the community rec center, watching Tyle...
Maya pressed her phone against her chest like it held state secrets, which technically it did. She was supposed to be studying for Spanish but instead she was lurking on Jake's Ins...
My summer job as a cable technician wasn't exactly how I pictured spending before senior year. But there I was, crawling through someone's attic, tangled in ethernet cords like a d...