Pyramid Schemes & Pool Parties
Maya stared at the invitation like it was a bomb.pool party at Jake's house. Saturday. 3-6 PM. The social pyramid of sophomore year had officially crowned Jake its king, and Maya w...
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Maya stared at the invitation like it was a bomb.pool party at Jake's house. Saturday. 3-6 PM. The social pyramid of sophomore year had officially crowned Jake its king, and Maya w...
The pool party of the year. Jenna's annual summer blowout. Everyone who's anyone would be there, and for the first time ever, that included me. I stood by the snack table, clutchi...
Varsity baseball tryouts. One spot left. My palms sweat through my batting gloves as I stand at shortstop while Tyrell—aka "the Sphinx" for his unreadable expression and total sile...
Maya practiced her butterfly stroke, counting strokes per breath like it mattered. It didn't. The only thing that mattered was three lanes over, where Chloe was laughing with The P...
By third period AP Chem, I was definitely a zombie. Not the cool, Netflix kind with dramatic makeup and a tragic backstory. The lame kind—dead eyes, shuffling feet, existing on caf...
Maya's hair was supposed to be auburn. Subtle. Natural-looking. Instead, she emerged from her bathroom with hair the color of a traffic cone – aggressively, aggressively orange. "...
Maya pulled her baseball cap lower, trying to disappear into the bleachers. The Vietnamese summer festival was in full swing – papaya sliced into stars, aunties gossiping in rapid-...
Friday night at Taco Bell, Chloe dropped her chalupa and stared at me like I'd grown a second head. That's when I knew our friendship had hit DEFCON 1. "You're not coming to Jorda...
The bathroom mirror reflected exactly what I feared: my hair had staged a full-blown rebellion against humidity and hope. I'd spent forty-five minutes trying to tame the frizz mons...
Maya's summer job at the Meadowbrook Pool was supposed to be easy. Scoop ice cream, ignore the screaming kids, and survive until college. But somewhere between the chlorine headach...
Jake's baseball cap kept sliding over his eyes as he stood at the plate, the metal bat feeling like a dead weight in his sweaty hands. Third time up, third strikeout. The dugout er...
Maya's arms burned as she sliced through the water, lap forty-seven of her midnight swim. The pool was empty except for the rhythmic splash of her strokes and the occasional lifegu...