The Shallow End
The text invited everyone to Jordan's pool party. Everyone except me, apparently. "You coming?" Maya asked, sliding into the seat next to me at lunch. She'd been my best friend si...
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The text invited everyone to Jordan's pool party. Everyone except me, apparently. "You coming?" Maya asked, sliding into the seat next to me at lunch. She'd been my best friend si...
Maya's hands were sweating. Again. She wiped her palms on her jeans—third time in five minutes—before bracing herself against the bathroom sink. "You got this," she whispered, sta...
The pool party was already at level 1000 when I arrived, late as usual because Mom had to give me the whole "make good choices" speech. I spotted Jordan immediately—the human equiv...
I was running on two hours of sleep and three iced americanos, which basically meant I was operating in full zombie mode. The swim team had regionals tomorrow, and Coach Martinez h...
Maya's thumb hovered over the Instagram story, the spy game she played every night before bed. Swipe left—Jordan at the beach. Swipe right—Jordan at the mall. Jordan everywhere, li...
I looked like a zombie—officially. Three days of finals, two hours of sleep, and one unfortunate incident with blue hair dye that didn't wash out. My mom said I looked like I'd ris...
Maya pressed her back against the cold bathroom stall door, sliding down until she hit the floor. The lunch incident replayed in her mind like a glitchy TikTok on loop—her front te...
Maya stood by the edge of the pool, clutching her orange towel like a lifeline. The graduation party was in full swing—music thumping, seniors showing off their college merch, and ...
Maya stared at the cafeteria ceiling where someone had drawn a crude SPHINX in permanent marker on the acoustic tiles—probably during last year's senior prank. She gripped her tray...
The orange bikini had seemed like a good idea at the store. Bright, confident, a statement-piece for Maya's end-of-summer pool party that everyone—literally everyone on sophomore y...
The bass thumped through Maya's chest like a second heartbeat. She stood by the snack table, clutching a plastic cup like it was a lifeline, feeling like a zombie at this party tha...
The goldfish—I called him Zuko, obviously—stared at me through three feet of glass and water, his mouth opening and closing in what I decided was judgment. Not that I could blame h...