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The cable guy was supposed to come between 8 and 12. It was 2:47 PM, and Maya had been rotting on the living room floor since breakfast, doomscrolling through her notifications lik...
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The cable guy was supposed to come between 8 and 12. It was 2:47 PM, and Maya had been rotting on the living room floor since breakfast, doomscrolling through her notifications lik...
The invitation sat on my phone screen like a threat: POOL PARTY @ JESSICA'S — SATURDAY. The Jessica. The one whose Instagram stories looked like a movie about someone else's life. ...
The cafeteria smelled like disappointment and overcooked broccoli, but Maya sat there anyway, pushing her lunch around with a plastic fork. Senior year was supposed to be this whol...
Maya's palms were sweating through her grip on the padel racket. This was it—tryouts for the varsity team, and somehow she'd landed in a drills group with Chloe, whose Instagram ba...
I sat on the edge of the bathtub, staring at my reflection. The hair dye box promised midnight blue, but my hair currently looked like a bruised plum. "You look like a zombie," m...
Maya stood before the bathroom mirror, hair dye dripping down her neck like radioactive lava. The box had promised "Sunset Orange" but this was more "Construction Cone Gone Wrong."...
Maya's legs were burning from running — literally. Three miles into her first cross-country practice, she was reconsidering every life choice that led her here. Her new friend Chlo...
Maya smooths her skirt for the fiftieth time, heart pounding like a bass drop at a homecoming dance. This is it—her first real date with Jordan, the cute sophomore from AP Bio who ...
I was basically a zombie. Three hours of sleep, finals week crushing my soul, and here I was at Maya's supposedly "chill" game night, which had somehow morphed into something terri...
The pool party was supposed to be my summer comeback. After spending freshman year known as "Quiet Maya" who sat in the back of algebra picking at her cuticles, I was ready to be s...
My hair is orange. Not like, cute Instagram influencer orange. I'm talking traffic cone, highlighter gone wrong, absolutely cursed by the hair gods orange. Which is exactly why eve...
Marcus's palms were sweating. Again. "You're staring at your hands," Jordan said from the bleacher beside him. "You always do that before you pitch." Marcus wiped his right **pal...