Undercover at the Pool
The chlorine hit me first—that sharp, chemical smell that meant Friday night at the rec center. I slumped onto a plastic bench, phone in hand, watching the lanes through fogged gog...
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The chlorine hit me first—that sharp, chemical smell that meant Friday night at the rec center. I slumped onto a plastic bench, phone in hand, watching the lanes through fogged gog...
Maya's mom slid the orange bottle across the kitchen counter like it was contraband. "Your dad says these vitamins will help you focus. You've been spacing out a lot lately." Maya ...
My first day at the club, and I already felt like a total fraud. The membership fee had drained my mom's savings, but she insisted — "country club connections" for college apps. Wh...
My first day at Putt-Putt Paradise, I locked eyes with the sphinx—a six-foot fiberglass statue with chipped paint and one eyeball that looked suspiciously like a melted marble. Beh...
Maya stared at the blender like it held nuclear waste. "Dude, no way. That looks like actual sludge." "It's not sludge, it's liquid gold," Chloe insisted, flipping her ponytail wi...
I wasn't a spy, exactly. But I'd been watching him since September. Lucas Chen sat three rows ahead in AP English, his baseball cap pulled low like he was hiding something. It was...
Maya's summer job at the carnival wasn't exactly the glow-up she'd imagined. She spent eight hours a day handing out tiny plastic bags with **goldfish** inside to kids whose parent...
The problem with being the friend who always knows everyone's business is that sometimes you know too much. Like right now, watching Tyler—my literal crush since seventh grade—feed...
Maya's first mistake was bringing papaya to lunch on her third day at Northwood High. In a cafeteria where Cheetos reigned supreme, the tropical fruit screamed 'I don't belong here...
The streetlights hummed, that weird electric buzz you only notice when you're supposed to be asleep. Maya crouched behind the convenience store, her palm slick against the alley wa...
My hat kept sliding over my eyes. A nervous reflex, I kept pulling the brim down like I could disappear into shadow and avoid the fact that I was the only sophomore at Sarah Jensen...
The summer before freshman year, I started running because my mom said it would "build character." Whatever that meant. What it actually built was blisters and an irrational fear o...