Five Percent and Goldfish Crumbs
Maya's iPhone flashed 5% battery. Of course. The exact moment Jake finally looked her way across Tyler's backyard, and her phone was basically a paperweight. "You good?" Jake aske...
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Maya's iPhone flashed 5% battery. Of course. The exact moment Jake finally looked her way across Tyler's backyard, and her phone was basically a paperweight. "You good?" Jake aske...
Maya's thumb hovered over the post button, her heart doing that stupid flutter thing it always did right before she put herself out there. The photo was perfect—her with the sunset...
Maya's plan was flawless: fake a dog influencer account, become TikTok famous, and finally stop sitting at the loser table during lunch. The social pyramid at Northwood High had be...
The chlorine smell hit me before I even reached the community center gates. My first day on the swim team, and my stomach was doing backflips. Coach Martinez had said I had natural...
Maya dragged herself through the junior hallway feeling like a total zombie. Three hours of sleep because AP History decided to assign a ten-page paper due the same day as Math Que...
The lake house party was everything Maya feared it would be. Hundreds of people she didn't know, music vibrating through the floorboards, and her social battery draining faster tha...
The bathroom mirror didn't lie. My hair, supposed to be subtly highlighted for eighth grade graduation, looked like I'd stuck my head in a blender and hit frappé. Mom called it "an...
The baseball team's end-of-season pool party raged around me, but I couldn't stop checking my iPhone. Twelve notifications. All from the group chat where they were dissecting my dr...
I looked like a zombie after three days of finals week. My eyes were basically swimming in caffeine at this point, and I'm pretty sure I hadn't slept since Tuesday. "Dude, you nee...
The locker room mirror showed everything I didn't want to see: my hair had decided to channel Albert Einstein after gym class, and no amount of water-taming would fix it. I was alr...
Maya's **goldfish**, Bubbles, floated sideways in his bowl again. Third time this week. At 2 AM on a school night, she was scrolling through her **iPhone**, watching her crush Jake...
Maya's first day at Northwood High started with spinach. Specifically, a piece wedged stubbornly between her front teeth, discovered five minutes after arriving. She'd been smiling...