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Valerie's POV

I sat inside a moving van for the next fifteen minutes, squeezed in between a man who called Mac the bear and an older woman named Connie while the rest of the team continued their excited chatter. I tuned them out, my mind trying to come up with ways to get closer to Hailey(Luna). She had sat up front, silently working on her phone until the van stopped on one of the busiest intersections in the city.

She got out quickly, along with Mac and a tall woman named Celine, who—I knew from Hailey's social media even though we hadn't been close in the pack—she was one of her best friends I guess. I looked around the van, uncertain if I was supposed to stay put like the others.

"Let's go, Hotshot!" Bear hollered from where he stood on the sidewalk and I turned my attention on to him, only to find his gaze direc