Sweaty Palms and Screens
Maya's palms were literally dripping. She wiped them on her jeans for the third time, clutching her cracked iPhone like it was a lifeline. The group chat was blowing up – everyone ...
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Maya's palms were literally dripping. She wiped them on her jeans for the third time, clutching her cracked iPhone like it was a lifeline. The group chat was blowing up – everyone ...
The new kid sat alone again today. I watched him from my usual table, picking at the mystery meat on my tray like it might bite back. His name was Leo, and he'd been here exactly t...
The chlorine stung my eyes, but I kept them open anyway. Across the pool, Jade laughed at something Tyler said, throwing her head back like she didn't have a care in the world. Mea...
Maya's palms were sweating so bad she could practically wring them out like a sponge. She stood at the edge of the community pool, clutching her phone like it was a lifeline, watch...
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Maya's phone buzzed in her pocket, vibrating against her hip like a trapped insect. She didn't need to check her iPhone to know what it was—another text from Chelsea asking where s...
My hair had never betrayed me before. Not until the morning of baseball tryouts, when I grabbed what I thought was my sister's conditioner and ended up with sticky, glittery glop i...
Maya's hair refused to cooperate that morning. She'd spent twenty minutes trying to tame the frizzy curls into something that wouldn't scream "new girl who's trying way too hard." ...
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Maya stared at her reflection, wondering why her hair had staged a rebellion overnight. The usually sleek waves now resembled a bird's nest that had survived a tornado. Of course t...
Maya's older brother Jake was being a total weirdo about the homecoming dance, which was saying something because Jake was always kind of a drama queen. He'd been wearing that stup...
Jordan's palms were sweating — literally, like, actual dripping — as they stood at the edge of the community pool. The birthday party for basically the most popular girl in tenth g...