Papaya Summer Scheme
Maya's sweaty palms gripped her iPhone as she stared at the group chat blowing up her screen. The Pyramid—that's what they called the eighth grade social hierarchy at Lincoln Middl...
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Maya's sweaty palms gripped her iPhone as she stared at the group chat blowing up her screen. The Pyramid—that's what they called the eighth grade social hierarchy at Lincoln Middl...
Maya found Chase by the pool exactly where she expected — sprawled on a lounge chair, sunglasses pushed up in his hair, phone abandoned on the concrete. The neighborhood cat, a scr...
Maya's palms were sweating so much she could practically water plants with them. Which would've been useful, considering the drought California was in, but definitely not useful fo...
Maya's orange crop top matched the sunset perfectly, which was honestly the only thing going right at Spring Fling. She was supposed to be having the time of her life, junior year ...
My palms were sweating so much I could practically water-ski on them. Which was ridiculous, considering I was just sitting across from Jordan at the school carnival, while she pret...
My phone buzzed with the third text from Emma: *U coming? Everyone's at the lake.* I stared at the ceiling fan, that stupid **cable** from my broken headset still tangled around m...
My hair was doing that thing again — that frizzy halo that made me look like I'd stuck my finger in a light socket. I'd spent forty-five minutes trying to tame it before Maya's poo...
The summer air hung thick and sticky as I stood by the club pool, clutching my racquet like it might somehow save me from social suicide. Padel lessons weren't exactly my idea of f...
Marcus stood at the edge of the cafeteria, scanning the room like it was an ancient map he couldn't quite decode. The social hierarchy at Northwood High operated like a perfect pyr...
Maya stared at her reflection, fingers tangling in the frizzy orange waves that refused to behave. Fifteen years of people calling her "carrot top" and "ginger" had officially gott...
The party hat was stupid. Like, cone-on-your-head kindergarten stupid. But Jake dared me, and apparently declining would make me "sus" which I'm still not entirely sure is bad or j...
Maya's life felt like a zombie apocalypse movie where she was the extra nobody noticed. Summer school physics had drained her brain cells, and her best friend Sofia had been drafte...