Poolside Lies
The summer before sophomore year, I made two mistakes: agreeing to go to Jessica's pool party and telling everyone I could swim. I couldn't swim. Not really. I could doggy paddle ...
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The summer before sophomore year, I made two mistakes: agreeing to go to Jessica's pool party and telling everyone I could swim. I couldn't swim. Not really. I could doggy paddle ...
Maya dragged herself through fourth period physics, feeling straight-up **zombie** mode. Three hours of sleep thanks to that bio lab disaster would do that to you. Her **dog**, Bus...
Maya's hair was supposed to be sunset copper, not neon orange. The box lied, and now she looked like a traffic cone. Which was exactly why she was hiding in the bathroom at Tyler's...
The fluorescent lights of the community center **pool** hummed against my already-pounding headache. I'd spent half the summer trying to become who I thought Marcus wanted—chill, e...
The orange traffic cone sat on my head like a crown. A terrible, luminous crown. "Dude," Marcus said, barely looking up from his phone. "You've been wearing that construction cone...
Leo's palms were sweating. Like, literally dripping onto his phone screen. He'd been hiding behind the same palm tree for twenty minutes, feeling like a total creeper, but he could...
Maya's palms were sweating so much she could practically water plants with them. She gripped her red solo cup like it was a lifeline, surveying the backyard bonfire party through t...
Maya stood at the edge of Jake's pool clutching her towel like a lifeline. Last Friday of freshman year, the party of the season, and she was seriously considering bailing. The sna...
Maya's hair was her whole personality. Curly, big, took forty-five minutes and three different products to perfect. She was the girl with the good hair, the one everyone copied in ...
I became a spy by accident. It was supposed to be just another summer pool party at Jessica's house, the kind where the popular kids float like they own the water and the rest of u...
Maya stared at her reflection, finger-combing her frizzy hair for the millionth time. Freshman year Homecoming dance—in three hours. Her phone buzzed with texts from the group chat...
Maya stared at her reflection, tilting the beanie at just the right angle. It was her armor—a vintage navy **hat** that said she was chill, artsy, the kind of person who didn't car...