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The sun beat down on the outdoor padel court at Riverside Park. I wiped sweat from my forehead, gripping my racket tighter. Marco's smirk said everything. "Too slow, bro." His new...
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The sun beat down on the outdoor padel court at Riverside Park. I wiped sweat from my forehead, gripping my racket tighter. Marco's smirk said everything. "Too slow, bro." His new...
Maya pressed her back against the cafeteria wall, grateful for the beat-up dad hat she'd stolen from her brother's closet. Its bram shadowed her face as she watched Liam and his fr...
The house thumped. Bass shook through sneakers already sticky from spilled soda. Maya's first real party, and she was currently hyperventilating in the bathroom, studying her refle...
Marcus slouched on the basement couch, skin tingling from that glorious, terrifying limbo state—three AM, brain fried, operating on pure instinct. You know the feeling. He'd been g...
Maya's mom signed her up for summer padel camp without asking. Again. So there she was, wilting in 90-degree heat, clutching her dad's old trucker hat like it was a lifeline. The h...
The **hat** was supposed to be my armor. A beat-up dad cap from that thrift store on Main, pulled low enough to hide the fact that I was sweating through my shirt. Summer before so...
The orange hair dye had been a mistake. Like, a massive mistake. Maya stared at her reflection in the bathroom mirror during third period—frizzy, copper-orange disaster hair that m...
Maya had officially entered zombie mode. Three weeks into junior year, and her entire existence had been reduced to AP Bio flashcards, coffee that tasted like despair, and the soul...
I was basically a zombie by the time I got to Kyle's basement. Finals week had turned my brain into mush, and I'd spent the last 48 hours surviving on orange Gatorade and panic. My...
Maya's parents had her schedule mapped out before she could even spell her own name: swimming at dawn, running club after school, swim meets on weekends. The chlorine practically p...
The uniform hat was hideous — a bright yellow beanie with 'FRESH FRUIT' embroidered across the front that made me look like a walking highlighter. 'You look like a newborn chick ...
The carnival lights blurred against my glasses, but I didn't wipe them. That would look too eager, and Jordan was already three steps ahead, weaving through the crowd like she owne...