Orange Hair, New Start
The bathroom mirror showed me exactly what I didn't want to see: my hair was definitely not the "subtle auburn highlights" the box had promised. It was orange. Like, seriously ORAN...
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The bathroom mirror showed me exactly what I didn't want to see: my hair was definitely not the "subtle auburn highlights" the box had promised. It was orange. Like, seriously ORAN...
Maya's cousin had dragged her to this end-of-summer pool party, and now Maya was stuck in the shallow end, floating in her oversized t-shirt like a awkward buoy. The swimming pool ...
Maya's palms were sweating — like, actually dripping onto her phone. Why had she agreed to this? The popular kids' Instagram DM group chat had blown up at 2 AM with: "@maya wanna p...
The hat was two sizes too big—another thrift store find I thought would make me look mysterious and artsy. Instead, I just looked like I was wearing my dad's fishing gear. But I re...
Maya's first day at Westwood High felt like walking into a movie where everyone else had the script. The hallways stretched forever, filled with groups she couldn't decode — the th...
Maya stood by the edge of the **water**, nursing her lukewarm soda and wondering why she'd let Chloe convince her that Egyptian Night at the community pool was going to be "literal...
The cafeteria seating chart might as well have been carved in stone. At Northwood High, the social pyramid was as real as the actual grades printed on your report card — and just a...
Maya stared at her reflection, fingers tangling in her frizzy hair. Four hours she'd spent trying different hairstyles for Alex's Halloween party, and nothing looked right. "This i...
Maya's eyes burned as the 3 AM glow from her laptop screen painted her room in ghostly blue. For the third night this week, she was mainlining caffeine and watching candlestick cha...
Maya stared at her reflection in the bathroom mirror, her normally sleek curls frizzy from this morning's rain. Her mom was always pushing those hair vitamins on her, claiming they...
Maya's iphone was dead. Again. She'd been scrolling until 3 AM, obsessed with whether Jake had left her on read, and now she was stranded at her cousin's house in the middle of now...
The pool party at Tyler's house was supposed to be chill, but my stomach was doing backflips. I'd been crushing on Maya since seventh period English, and tonight felt like the nigh...