WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN… IF TIME HADN'T CHANGED?
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Zane works up the courage to ask Jo to marry him, only to be left hanging when Jo is unable to give him an answer.
"Carter, I need to go get Zane." Jo said looking at the ring he had just given her. She had froze. A million things were running through her mind when he had asked her to marry him, and she didn't know why. She loved him and he loved her, so why did she even have to think about what she was going to have to say to him? She new the answer was yes. Jo jumped into her car and raced to GD.
As she raced to Zane's lab everyone stopped and stared, but she didn't care. She was angry and nervous, but mostly angry because Zane had just left her there, not giving her any time to answer.
"Zane!" she yelled when the doors opened. All of the scientists in the room cleared a pathway for her. They all new what would happen if they didn't. She would probably send them home with a couple of broken bones. As the room cleared, Jo saw Zane working on a project, acting as nothing had happened that morning.
"Zane!" she yelled again. This time he would be the one getting flipped.
"What do you want Jo?" he asked not even looking at her.
"What do you mean what do you want? You know exactly why I'm here!" This was really starting to get on her nerves!
"Jo, keep your voice down. We are all trying to work here." he said calmly. As soon as he said that, Jo snapped. She'd had enough.
"That's it Zane Donovan! I'm tired of this! You're acting like you're five years old!" She grabbed his arm and held it like she was about to flip him.
"Jo, would you quit it? Now you're the one acting like a five year old!" Zane yelled, trying to lean a certain way so his arm wouldn't break off.
"Then we have to talk!" Jo said, looking him strait in the eye.
"Ok, ok. I'll do anything to get out of this position."
"Let's go" Jo told him, taking his hand and pulling him into the elevator. She could feel all of the scientists giving her bizarre looks, but she didn't mind at all. She new that if she wasn't so busy with Zane, she could flip them anyday, anytime.
They rode the elevator in silence, but Jo was still holding his hand tightly. She felt like he might just walk away from her again. She wouldn't let him go. All of the sudden Zane hit the emergency button to make the elevator stop.
"Zane! Don't do that!" Jo yelled trying to get the elevator to start up again. "This isn't where I wanted to talk to you!"
"I don't care!" Zane yelled back, blocking her from touching the elevator buttons to get it started again. He leaned back against the wall and typed in his code so that no one would panic.
"Zane, people have to use the elevator!" she told him, not taking her eyes away from his.
"Well, they'll just have to take the stairs won't they? This is an emergency!" he began to slowly walk towards her, pushing her against the opposite wall. His face was so close to hers. He could feel her hot breath in his face.
"Zane! Stop it! I wanna talk, not make out!" She tried to push him away, but he didn't move. She knew that she could use more of her strength, but she needed to make sure he was going to still be alive so she could talk to him.
"I love you Jo-jo. Do you not love me enough to marry me? Because I know I love you enough!" He tried to resist the urge to kiss her. He loved her so much! He had put himself out there for her. he wanted to spend the rest of his life with the woman he loved, but at the same time, he didn't think she had the same feelings for him.
"No, Zane! I do love you. You just didn't give me any time to answer this morning. I guess I was just over thinking the whole situation. I do that sometimes…" Before she could finish the rest of her thought Zane gave her a big lip-lock. At first she tried to push him away so that she could finish what she was saying. But she felt her limbs go weak and she couldn't resist his kiss any longer. After their lips parted, she looked up at him again.
"Zane, if you love me so much, why did you leave me this morning?" she had gotten closer to the wall with all of the elevator buttons on it. She found the one that would make the elevator go again and pushed it.
"Now Jo-jo. Why did you have to go and do that? I thought we were having a very important conversation." He smiled at her, trying to make a joke, but then he noticed that her face had gone back to looking like stone. She was angry again.
"Zane, you never answered my question!" She was trying not to cry. When she got frustrated she always cried. She hated it.
"What was the question again Jo-jo?" Zane asked. He didn't like these touchy- feely conversations. So he leaned towards her again, trying to sneak in another kiss.
"No!" Jo yelled, this time pushing him away with full force. "You are such a coward Zane! You aren't man enough to even talk about this… us! and you told me you loved me, but how can you really love me if you can't even talk about marriage in the first place?" Great timing, she thought to herself. Because as soon as she had finished yelling at him, the elevator doors opened and she walked out, not even looking back to see the surprised look on Zane's face.