Chapter 24 New Me

***Hazel***

The mall doesn’t close until midnight.

Jocelyn says this like it’s a blessing. Like it’s fate. Like the universe itself decided tonight was the night I stop pretending I don’t exist outside of work.

“You should have told me,” she says as we walk in, already scanning storefronts with the focus of someone on a mission. “I have ideas. So many ideas.”

“I didn’t want to make it weird,” I sa