Spinach Teeth & Orange Hair
Maya's phone buzzed with the text she'd been waiting for all week: party at Jake's tonight, finally. The same Jake who'd sat behind her in history since September, the one with the...
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Maya's phone buzzed with the text she'd been waiting for all week: party at Jake's tonight, finally. The same Jake who'd sat behind her in history since September, the one with the...
Marcus pressed himself against the wall, heart doing that stupid fluttery thing it always did when she walked by. Again. His friends called him their personal spy—the way he notic...
Maya stood ankle-deep in the ocean, the Atlantic water lapping at her skin like a whispered secret. Behind her, the beach bonfire roared—her classmates laughing, music thumping, so...
I was literally running for my life. Okay, maybe not my actual life, but definitely my social life. The baseball playoffs were happening RIGHT NOW, and I was supposed to be on that...
Maya stared at the untouched **spinach** on her tray, wondering if eating it would somehow transform her from invisible freshman to Viable Social Candidate. The cafeteria at Northw...
Maya stared at her reflection, fingers combing through the blue disaster that used to be her hair. The DIY dye job had turned her brown waves into a patchy, splotchy mess that look...
Marcus stood at the plate, baseball bat gripped tight, the crowd noise fading to static. Third inning, bases loaded, two outs. The pitch came — fastball, outside corner — and he sw...
The chlorine stung my nose as I hovered at the edge of the pool, clutching my phone like it was a lifeline. My cousin Maya had dragged me to her friend's birthday party at this fan...
The papaya sat on Maya's tray like an alien artifact. She'd grabbed it on a dare from Jake, who'd bet five bucks she wouldn't try something from the weird fruit section. Now it was...
Cassie's phone buzzed for the third time in five minutes. *u coming to jax's party?* Another text from Jordan. Her best friend since seventh grade, now suddenly too cool for their ...
Maya pulled the brim of her dad's old baseball hat lower, grateful for the shadow it cast over her face. The Miller's pool party was already in full swing—literally. People were ca...
Maya smoothed the brim of her dad's vintage fedora, hoping it would make her invisible. Or at least, less weird. Starting sophomore year at a new school was basically social suicid...