Chlorine Dreams
Maya stared at her reflection, fingers twisting a strand of frizzy **hair** that refused to cooperate. The pool party started in twenty minutes, and she'd already spent two hours t...
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Maya stared at her reflection, fingers twisting a strand of frizzy **hair** that refused to cooperate. The pool party started in twenty minutes, and she'd already spent two hours t...
My palms were sweating so bad I could barely grip my phone. This was it — the first pool party of freshman year, and I was currently hiding in the bathroom like a total coward. Ou...
Maya's life was officially over. Like, cancelled. Deactivated. "You look like a traffic cone," her brother Leo said, leaning against the bathroom doorframe. Maya stared at her re...
Maya's summer job at Pet Paradise was supposed to be easy — feed the fish, clean the tanks, avoid the customers who asked if goldfish had three-second memories. Spoiler: they didn'...
The orange neon sign buzzed above the dive bar's entrance, casting a weird glow on Jake's sweat-slicked face. He wasn't old enough to be here, obviously, but his cousin Marcus was ...
The pool party was supposed to be Maya's social resurrection. Instead, she stood frozen at the edge of the concrete deck, clutching her towel like a lifeline while her classmates l...
I felt like a freaking zombie—running on three hours of sleep and panic. Finals week had turned my brain into mush, but somehow Maya, the girl I'd been crushing on since September,...
Maya pressed her **palm** against the cool brick wall behind the gymnasium, heart hammering like she'd just sprinted a mile. She wasn't running—she was hiding. From Tyler. From the...
The plastic flamingo wobble-chair wasn't exactly built for a fifteen-year-old guy, but here I was, clinging to it like my life depended on it. Maya's pool party raged around me—spl...
Maya stared at her reflection, obsessing over every strand of frizzy hair that refused to cooperate with the expensive curling wand she'd begged her mom to buy. Junior year at a ne...
The day before freshman year started, Maya dyed her hair orange. Not subtle sun-kissed highlights, but full-blown, traffic-cone orange that practically glowed in the dark. Her mom ...
My mom called it my daily dose of sunshine. I called it the horse pill of doom. The vitamin sat on my tongue like chalk, refusing to go down, much like my entire sophomore year had...