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The membership packet sat heavy in my lap, fresh from my dad's promotion at the cable company. Suddenly we were those people — country club people. I stared out the car window at t...
Maya's chest felt like it might actually explode. Not like, 'oh my god I'm nervous' explode, but like, full-on physical combustion. Which was ridiculous. It was just homecoming wee...
Maya's summer had been one big flop. No beach trip. No camp. Just her, rusty ankle weights, and a dream of making varsity cross country. That is, until her older brother Tyler's br...
Leo sat on the bench, his baseball uniform feeling like a costume he'd outgrown. The game was slipping away—0-4, three strikeouts, and the echoes of "swing batter" in his head soun...
The carnival goldfish—now depressingly named basic bro Dave by my older sister—stared at me through the glass with what I swear was judgment. Three weeks I'd had him, and already h...
Maya's hands shook as she gripped her iphone, staring at Jordan's contact for the thousandth time. The notification light blinked—his reply to her three-day-old text. 'Cool, yeah,...
The backyard hummed with that Saturday-afternoon energy — chlorine and coconut sunscreen, distant bass from a Bluetooth speaker, the laughter of people who were definitely cooler t...
Jasmine's palms were sweating. Like, actually sweating, leaving damp spots on her favorite ripped jeans. She gripped her soda can harder, pretending to be chill while Maya laughed ...
The invitation came via text at 11:47 PM. "Padel tomorrow? Jake's cousin has a court." My thumbs hovered over the screen. Padel with the popular kids? Me, who still got nervous or...
Maya stared at the jagged social pyramid she'd drawn in her notebook—cheerleaders at the top, band kids somewhere in the middle, and everyone else scattered below like fallen debri...
The summer before sophomore year, I spent every afternoon at the rec center, watching from the fence while the cool kids played padel on the courts behind the pool. Padel was like ...
The pool glowed that weird electric blue from underwater lights, the kind that makes everyone look like they're filming a TikTok about living their best life. Maya stood at the edg...