The Orange Hat Summer
The baseball tryouts were today, and my stomach was doing full-on gymnastics. I stood behind the backstop, wearing my older brother's lucky baseball cap—pulled low, obviously—like ...
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The baseball tryouts were today, and my stomach was doing full-on gymnastics. I stood behind the backstop, wearing my older brother's lucky baseball cap—pulled low, obviously—like ...
Maya stood at the edge of the pool party like a total noob, clutching her phone with sweaty palms. The invite had said "casual hang" but everyone looked like they'd stepped out of ...
Maya's orange bikini stood out like a beacon against the faded deck chairs as she hovered at the edge of Jake's pool party. Her best friend had already jumped in, but Maya? She was...
Leo's palms were sweating before he even stepped through the gate. The pool party at Jake's house was supposed to be the social event of the summer, and he'd spent forty minutes fi...
Maya stared at her reflection, the bathroom mirror revealing a disaster. Her hair—once her crowning glory, dark and waist-length—was now a patchy, alarming shade of neon green. The...
Jamie adjusted their beat-up baseball cap for the tenth time, yanking the brim lower. The padel court at the rec center smelled like old rubber and nerves—or maybe that was just Ja...
Maya stared at her reflection, fingers combing through her newly-dyed emerald hair. The DIY organic dye kit promised "subtle highlights," but apparently "organic" meant "spinach-ba...
I sat in the bleachers, pretending to care about the **baseball** game while my best **friend** Maya nudged my shoulder for the twentieth time. "You're staring at him again," she ...
Maya's new fringe was a disaster. She'd tried to cut it herself after watching seventeen YouTube tutorials, but now she looked like a confused poodle. Her mom had dropped her off a...
Maya stood behind the counter of her aunt's wellness shop, pushing another bottle of neon-orange **vitamin** supplements across the glass surface. The customer, a woman in expensiv...
The stadium lights blazed above as I sat alone in the bleachers, my iPhone burning a hole in my pocket. Every thirty seconds, I'd check it—still no reply to my text from three hour...
The padel court smelled like old rubber and teenage desperation. I stood there gripping my racket like my life depended on it, which honestly felt kinda true when Madison was watch...