Pool Party Goldfish
The invitation sat on my phone screen for three days before I finally hit 'maybe.' Emma's pool party. The one everyone would be at. The one where Jake—the Jake I'd been lowkey obse...
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The invitation sat on my phone screen for three days before I finally hit 'maybe.' Emma's pool party. The one everyone would be at. The one where Jake—the Jake I'd been lowkey obse...
Marcus's summer had been a spectacular flop so far. His parents had finally sprung for that inground **pool** everyone else had gotten, like, three summers ago, but the timing coul...
Maya stood at the edge of the pool, clutching her dad's ridiculous sun hat like it might actually save her from social suicide. The neon pink brim practically screamed 'I don't bel...
Maya stared at the mirror, fingers running through her newly dyed orange hair. It wasn't the subtle auburn she'd asked for — this was full-on, traffic-cone orange. Her mom's gonna ...
The apocalypse could wait. Marcus's zombie-green eyes glued to his iPhone screen, thumbs flying across glass as zombies shambled toward his fortified bunker in pixelated waves. Aro...
Maya stared at her reflection in the bathroom mirror, smoothing down the dress she'd thrifted for Winter Formal. Her mom had insisted on buying her something new, but Maya had refu...
Maya stared into the bathroom mirror, her fingers tangled in the frizzy mess that used to be sleek curls. Third day of freshman year, and already her hair had declared war against ...
I won him at the carnival—this tiny orange goldfish swimming in a plastic bag like he knew he'd beenclaimed by the most awkward person at the fair. My mom's gonna kill me. We're no...
The **pool** at the Riverview Heights complex was my kingdom — or at least, that's what I told myself while collecting $8.50 an hour to enforce the "no running" rule and rescue poo...
Maya's reflection in the bathroom mirror told her everything she needed to know: she had spinach in her teeth. Of course. Because life wasn't already humiliating enough. She'd bee...
Maya's hands were literally shaking as she adjusted the stupid neon construction hat her cousin forced on her. "It's a RAGER, cuz, you gotta COMMIT," Genesis had said before disapp...
Maya's palm was sweating—like, actually dripping—inside the limited-edition Jordans she'd saved three months of Chick-fil-A money for. This was it. The house party where Tyler from...