Discovered

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Val's POV

"Uh, I'm Val." I said, still a little shocked by the situation.

He smiled and I did my best not to faint. "I like your phone case."

I looked down at my phone as if I didn't already know what my case looked like. It was blue and it had Grayson's autograph in the middle.

"Who signed it?" He asked, pointing to the signature.

"Oh, just Grayson Riggs. My boyfriend." I explained, my blush getting deeper.

Hayes looked around. "Where is he now?"

"Oh, we're kind of fighting right now. I'm walking to clear my head." I replied, moving a strand of hair from my eye.

He smiled but tried to hide it. "Well, I was just on my way to Starbucks. Care to join?"

I thought about it. How would Grayson take it? Oh, who cares! This is Hayes Freaking Grier we're talking about.

"Love to."

Mercy's POV

I pulled Gray into the car with us and told the driver to keep an eye out for Val.

The drive was silent. Everyone was too worried to speak. Well, I was, at least.

I was about to give up when I spotted a girl wearing Val's favorite Snapback.

"VAL!" I shouted, scaring everyone. "Stop the car."

We all got out. I watched as she walked away with some guy that I didn't get a good look at. We followed them into Starbucks.

Val sat down and the boy stood in a long line. Gray was about to walk over when I stopped him. "I'll go."

I walked away just as some girls came up to Chandler. Fangirls. Glad I'm not like them anymore. Oh I'm so kidding. I'm exactly like them.

I sat down in front of Val amd cleared my throat. She looked up and got the biggest smile ever.

"Mercy. You will never believe who I met." She said, acting as if she didn't just scare me to death by wandering off.

I was about to ask her who when the boy she came in with walked up. I looked up, expecting to see some random boy. Nope.

"Oh my God." I said, involuntarily. I facepalmed myself for my stupidity.

Hayes Grier sat down beside Val and smiled at me. He handed Val a drink and held his hand out to me.

"Hi, I'm Hayes." He said as if I didn't already know that.

"Mercy. Mercy Evans."

"Oh yeah." He said with a realization tone. "I've seen you on The Walking Dead. You're Makenzie, right?"

"Heh, yeah. That's me." I was about to add how I'm kinda dead, but if I spoiled my death, Kirkman would kill me.

Chandler walked up just as I was about to wave them over.