Rain Check
Maya's thumbs flew across her iPhone screen, double-tapping posts from people she barely liked. Baseball practice had been over for twenty minutes, but she was still in the dugout,...
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Maya's thumbs flew across her iPhone screen, double-tapping posts from people she barely liked. Baseball practice had been over for twenty minutes, but she was still in the dugout,...
The chlorine hit Maya's nose before she even saw the water. Jessica's annual pool party — the social event of the summer before freshman year. Maya clutched her iPhone like a lifel...
Maya's palms were basically waterfalling as she stood outside Java Junction. This was it — finally hanging with the new girl, Skylar, who'd moved from Portland and somehow made sop...
The vitamin C packet crinkled in my pocket like a nervous heartbeat. Mom had shoved it there before first period, her eyes doing that worried thing they always did lately. "For you...
Maya stared at the fluorescent green court, her heart doing that weird fluttery thing — like a trapped moth — that always happened before something huge. This was it. Her first pad...
Marcus stood on the pitcher's mound, his orange cleats glowing against the chalk-dirt like radioactive warning signs. The crowd noise faded to static as he adjusted his cap—same wa...
Maya's thumb moved across her iPhone screen like it had a mind of its own. Scroll, double-tap, scroll. Another party she wasn't invited to. Another perfectly curated life that made...
The Facebook invite said POOL PARTY, BABY!!! in all caps with way too many fire emojis, but Maya's stomach felt less fire and more like a pit of vipers. She'd been at Westwood High...
Maya stood by the deep end, clutching her phone like a lifeline. The invitation had said 'casual hang' but this was definitely Not Casual. Everyone looked like they'd stepped out o...
The social pyramid at Northwood High wasn't built with stone—it was built with varsity jackets, lunch table territory, and the kind of brutal calculus that sixteen-year-olds instin...
The mechanical bull at Luke's birthday party sat like a challenge in the center of the backyard, its vinyl flank gleaming under patio lights. Maya adjusted her beanie—same black **...
Maya's hair was supposed to be beach waves, not whatever this frizzy mess was after three hours at Jordan's pool party. She'd spent forty minutes with the curling iron that morning...