Papaya Summer
The heat hit me like a wall when I stepped behind the counter at Abuela's grocery store. Another summer working for free instead of hanging with friends. I was such a zombie after ...
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The heat hit me like a wall when I stepped behind the counter at Abuela's grocery store. Another summer working for free instead of hanging with friends. I was such a zombie after ...
I felt like a zombie. Not the cool, brain-eating kind from movies – just a sophomore whose mom had made her take those chewable vitamin supplements every morning since kindergarten...
Marcus tossed another vitamin C tablet into his mouth, chasing it with lukewarm Gatorade. His mom swore they'd keep him from getting sick, but mostly they just made his tongue ting...
I've been running every morning since Marcus dumped me three weeks ago. My dad says it's healthy, whatever that means. Mostly my lungs burn and my brain replays every cringey thing...
Maya stood at the edge of the pool party, clutching her phone like a lifeline. The whole sophomore class was there, including Jason, who she'd been lowkey crushing on since homecom...
Maya's palms were sweating as she stood by the edge of the pool, clutching her iPhone like it was her only lifeline. The screen showed Lucas's last text—*u coming?*—sent three hour...
The gym smelled like floor wax and desperation. Homecoming week, and Tyler was stuck helping paint the senior float – basically social suicide for a sophomore who'd already acciden...
Maya's phone buzzed with another text from Emma: "zombie walk fundraiser tmrw, u going??" Maya stared at the goldfish bowl on her desk. Finn had survived three weeks, which was ba...
Maya stood outside Jake's house, palms sweating so much she thought she might short-circuit her phone. This was it—the party of the year, and she was about to crash it without even...
The party at Maya's house was the kind everyone would be Instagramming for weeks. Sofia stood by the pool, heart hammering like it wanted to escape her chest entirely. She'd taken ...
Leo's hands shook as he stood in front of the bathroom mirror, clutching the emergency **vitamin** C packet he'd swiped from his mom's purse. His first real house party. The one wh...
Maya's iPhone buzzed in her pocket like a nervous heartbeat. House party. Tonight. The text from Jordan made her stomach do backflips. "You got this," Jordan said, meeting her at ...