Dead Tired and Alive
I looked like a zombie. No, seriously — after pulling an all-nighter to finish my history paper that I'd procrastinated on for three weeks, I was basically the walking dead. My mom...
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I looked like a zombie. No, seriously — after pulling an all-nighter to finish my history paper that I'd procrastinated on for three weeks, I was basically the walking dead. My mom...
Maya's phone buzzed with another text from Jasmine about tonight's party—her third one this week. Maya stared at the papaya spinning lazily in her breakfast smoothie, her stomach d...
Maya's palms were sweating again. She rubbed them against her jeans, staring at Leo where he sat three tables away in the cafeteria, laughing at something his friends said. This wa...
Maya, 16, had basically turned spying into an Olympic sport. From her bedroom window, she'd cataloged everything about the apartment building across the street: which neighbor left...
The pool deck smelled like chlorine and teen spirit, which honestly was just a fancy way of saying sweat and cheap body spray. I stood at the edge, toes curled against the concrete...
The pool party was everything Maya dreaded. **Water** everywhere, people she barely knew, and her wearing an orange t-shirt that felt too bright against everyone's muted aesthetic....
Jax was running—literally and figuratively. Cross-country practice had ended twenty minutes ago, but he kept pushing, lungs burning, sneakers pounding the gravel path behind school...
The social pyramid at Westwood High had严格的 levels, and Marcus was definitely in the basement—right between the kids who smelled like locker room and the ones who communicated solel...
Leo's goldfish, Bubbles, was the only one who knew his darkest secret: he'd never actually hit a baseball. Not once. Not in peewee league, not in gym class, not even in backyard wi...
Monday mornings should be illegal. I stood in front of my bathroom mirror, staring at my reflection in horror. My hair, usually manageable after twenty minutes with a straightener,...
Maya felt like a zombie. Not the cool, gross kind from Netflix shows—the boring, undead-on-the-inside kind that resulted from three hours of pretending to have fun at Jordan's part...
The text came through at 3:47 PM on a Tuesday, right in the middle of Mr. Henderson's endless lecture about supply and demand. My iphone buzzed in my pocket like a guilty conscienc...