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Maya's thumb hovered over the **water**-damaged **iPhone** screen, the cracked glass catching the cafeteria's fluorescent light. Three days since the accident at Jordan's pool part...
The air felt heavy, like right before you drop from the top of the Tallest roller coaster, except I was just standing in Maya's backyard holding a red plastic cup. Alex had been my...
Maya stood at the edge of the pool party, clutching her red solo cup like a lifeline. The backyard hummed with music and laughter, but her mind was stuck on what could go wrong. "...
The bull in our school wasn't a person — it was the crushing weight of expectations, everyone telling us who we should be before we'd even figured out who we were. My friend Lena ...
The water in the Hendersons' pool sparkled like someone had dumped actual glitter into it, which knowing Mrs. Henderson, she probably had. I stood near the fence, baseball cap pull...
The hat was ridiculous. A neon yellow sun hat with a three-inch brim that made me look like a walking traffic cone. Maya'd shoved it at me with her I'm-doing-this-for-your-own-good...
Maya's brother's oversized bucket hat pulled low over her forehead, she felt like a private investigator in a terrible teen movie. Which, honestly, wasn't far off. The pool party w...
The summer heat wave made everything sticky, including my social life. My best friend since seventh grade had been slowly ghosting me since she started hanging out with the popular...
The summer before sophomore year, my mom dragged me to the country club for padel lessons. Translation: she wanted me to "expand my social circle" aka make friends who weren't just...
The cafeteria humed with Friday energy, but I was vibrating with pure panic. Fresh braces. Newly dyed purple hair that turned out more grape-than-emo. And Lucas Ramirez approaching...
The baseball diamond baked under the August sun like a giant frying pan, and I was the bacon sizzling on it. Third practice in a row, and my mom had shoved this giant vitamin D sup...
Maya's summer job at her aunt's pet shop was officially the most uncool thing to happen to anyone in sophomore year. While her friends were swimming laps at the community pool and ...