The Riddle by the Pool
The pool shimmered like liquid glass under the afternoon sun, but Maya stood frozen at the edge in her bright orange tankini that screamed "look at me" when all she wanted was to d...
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The pool shimmered like liquid glass under the afternoon sun, but Maya stood frozen at the edge in her bright orange tankini that screamed "look at me" when all she wanted was to d...
I felt like a walking zombie after finals week—three days of energy drinks, four hours of sleep total, and my brain was basically mush. Maya found me face-planted on a textbook at ...
My first week at RadioShack should've been straightforward. Arrange the displays, pretend to know about Ethernet extenders, and avoid customers asking technical questions I couldn'...
Jordan adjusted the ridiculous felt hat for the hundredth time. Their mom said working at the museum would look good on college applications, but she didn't mention the polyester u...
Maya stood at the bottom of the cafeteria's social pyramid, watching Brianna and her squad hold court at the apex like literal royalty. Freshman year was basically a tutorial level...
I was supposed to be at baseball practice. Again. Coach Miller had been texting me all morning about the regional semifinals, but instead I was at Maya's pool party, hiding in the ...
The orange hair was what I noticed first — this vibrant, impossible shade that screamed for attention even as she tried to disappear behind the water tower overlooking our baseball...
Leo stood at the edge of the pool, clutching his phone like a lifeline. Jordan's annual pool party. The social event of the summer. The invitation hierarchy at Northwood High was b...
Maya's hands wouldn't stop shaking as she stood in front of the bathroom mirror. Her natural hair, newly freed from two years of chemical straightening, formed a magnificent halo a...
Maya stared at her reflection, fingers tangled in her frizzy hair. It was junior prom night, and somehow her hair had developed a mind of its own—bursting everywhere like she'd stu...
Maya's phone buzzed with another text from Jordan: 'PYRAMID PARTY TONIGHT. 10 PM. Jackson's house. BE THERE.' The pyramid parties were legendary—a literal pyramid of Solo cups fil...
Maya had been invisible for fifteen years. She was the girl in the back row, the one whose name teachers always forgot, the one who existed in the margins of everyone else's spotli...