Line in the Sand

Parties, pressure, substances, and deciding where your own line actually is.

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The First CupFree preview

You're at your first real high school party — the kind with older kids, music turned up, and a table in the kitchen covered in plastic cups. Someone you don't…

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Just a Hit

Marisol and her friend Delphine are hanging out on Delphine's back porch after school, the way they do most Fridays. Delphine pulls a small vape pen out of her…

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Green Light

You're hanging out at a friend's older sibling's apartment — no parents, low light, five or six people on a couch that's too small for all of you. Someone's…

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Not My Real Name

Kwame and his cousin Bram have tickets to a concert that turns out to be twenty-one-and-over at the door — a detail they somehow missed until they're standing…

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Whoever's Not Drinking Tonight

You're the one in your friend group who's not drinking tonight — maybe you're driving, maybe you just don't feel like it — and it's become sort of a running…

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Too Far Gone

Odalys finds her friend Sunniva sitting on the bathroom floor at a party, laughing too hard at nothing, words sliding into each other, one shoe missing.…

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Not Waking Up

It's late, and the party has thinned out to just a few people crashing in the living room. Your friend Rafferty had a lot to drink earlier and has been asleep…

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Hazing Week

Teodoro made the varsity team this year as a sophomore, which means he's now in "hazing week" — a tradition the older guys treat as a rite of passage. Tonight…

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Just Take One, It Helps

You're stressed about finals and mention it out loud in the library, not really expecting an answer, and a classmate you're friendly with but don't know that…

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The Vape in My Locker

Anouk opens her locker between classes and finds a vape pen sitting on top of her books that isn't hers — it must have slipped in from the locker next to hers,…

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The Number I'm Allowed to Call, No Questions Asked

Your mom sits you down before parties season starts and makes you a deal: if you're ever anywhere that doesn't feel safe — drinking, drugs, a ride you don't…

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Talked Into It

Rosalind watches her friend Casimir get surrounded by a small group at a bonfire, all of them egging him on to climb onto the roof of a parked car and jump…

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