The Cafeteria Pyramid Scheme
Zara's headphones were her armor against the cafeteria's social pyramid. She'd mapped it out by October: table one, the influencers with their stacks of orange vapes and matching H...
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Zara's headphones were her armor against the cafeteria's social pyramid. She'd mapped it out by October: table one, the influencers with their stacks of orange vapes and matching H...
Jordan's baseball cleats dug into the dirt as she crouched at shortstop, sweat trickling down her spine. It was the bottom of the ninth, two outs, and her crush, Maya, was stepping...
Kyle's mission, should he choose to accept it: determine whether sophomore sensation Maya Sanchez actually liked his best friend Ben or was just being nice at baseball practice. He...
Maya's palms were sweating buckets, which was honestly embarrassing considering she was just standing in line at a carnival fortune teller booth with her bestie. The sign said "Mad...
The papaya sat in the fruit bowl like a judgmental orange planet, glowing under the kitchen's fluorescent lights. Kai stood next to it, sweating through his thrifted Hawaiian shirt...
Maya's hair refused to cooperate. It had been doing this thing lately — frizzing at the temples, like it was staging a tiny rebellion against humidity and her thirteen-year-old exi...
Maya pulled her beanie **hat** down to her eyebrows, hoping it would somehow make her invisible. First day at Northwood High, and she already felt like a fraud. The girls by the lo...
Maya dragged herself through seventh period like a zombie, her brain still fried from last night's four-hour Netflix binge. The coiled ethernet cable behind her desk had been her o...
Maya's bedroom looked like a cable explosion. Ethernet cables snaked across the floor like digital vines, all leading to the streaming setup she'd spent three months perfecting. He...
Maya stood at the edge of the community pool, clutching her towel like a shield. The chlorine smell hit her first, then the sight of everyone she'd been avoiding all summer. "You ...
The cable TV went dead five minutes before the biggest episode of the summer, and honestly? That was the least of Maya's problems. She was hiding in her basement while her swim te...
Maya's iPhone buzzed for the third time in thirty seconds. Aesthetic check: actual bad. Her hair was doing that frizzy thing it always did when she forgot to hydrate, and she was c...