Poolside Surveillance
Maya's summer job as a pool monitor was supposed to be easy—just watch people swimming and blow the whistle when someone ran. But everything changed the day her old bucket hat blew...
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Maya's summer job as a pool monitor was supposed to be easy—just watch people swimming and blow the whistle when someone ran. But everything changed the day her old bucket hat blew...
Maya pressed her phone against her chest like a guilty secret, feeling like a total spy in her own life. Behind the bathroom door, she'd been watching Instagram Stories for forty-f...
Maya's phone buzzed on her nightstand at 5:47 AM — three missed calls from her mom and a text that just said "we need to talk." She stared at her cracked iPhone screen, the blue li...
Leo's palms were sweating. Like, actually sweating through his jeans kind of sweating, which was gross but also exactly what happened when you were about to do something that could...
I felt like a total spy at my own birthday party. Seriously. Behind my sunglasses, I was undercover reconnaissance, gathering intel on why everyone was suddenly so cool while I was...
Maya's palms were literally sweating as she stared at her phone screen. Three weeks into summer and she'd become a total low-key spy on Jordan's Instagram. Every pool pic. Every su...
The social pyramid at Northwood High was more real than the actual pyramid scheme my cousin fell for last summer. There I was, Maya Chen, hovering somewhere around the middle—visib...
Maya's heart hammered as she stood at the edge of the senior pyramid — literally. The student section at Friday night's football games was tiered bleachers, and seniors got the top...
The summer I turned sixteen, I spent every afternoon at the rec center pool. Not because I loved swimming — I actually sucked at it — but because the air conditioning at our apartm...
Maya's life had become a pyramid scheme of obligations. AP classes at the base, student council president duties in the middle, and her parents' expectations at the top—everything ...
Maya stared at the group chat on her cracked iPhone screen, heart pounding. The popular girls had invited her to the party. Actually invited her. "Just bring something, like, ext...
Maya's iPhone buzzed with another Insta story from the cool kids—bonfire tonight at the beach. She'd been ghosting their invites since freshman year. Why would this time be differe...