It was the day before Christmas and both Zoe and Max were working. The ED was packed and everyone there was rushing around treating as many patients in as little time as possible; which is what Zoe had been doing all day since 8am in the morning.
Zoe sat down on the sofa in the staff room letting a loud sigh escape her lips, glancing at the clock she noticed that it was already 3pm and this was the first break she'd taken. She hadn't even seen Max since they separated at reception when they first arrived 7 hours ago.
Her thoughts drifted to him and how she planned on spending all day with him and unfortunately Robyn who had insisted on tagging along for Christmas dinner with them. She felt her phone vibrate and looked down to find a text from the man himself.
"Meet me in my office - Max"
"Well, speak of the devil and he shall appear" she murmured to herself before replying to the text "It's not an office it's a cupboard" and then getting up to walk to his "office".
As she was walking she received another text from him "You're just jealous because your office isn't as cool as mine – Max" She chuckled and replied with two simple words "You wish" then carried on walking.
She had just stepped through the door and closed it when Max yelled "Stop" at her causing her to jump.
"Jesus Max, was that really necessary?" she said slightly annoyed at him for shouting.
"Yes, of course it was. Look up there" he said pointing to the ceiling right above her. She followed his gaze and spotted the mistletoe that was hanging from the ceiling that he had quite obviously placed there right before she had arrived.
"Ah mistletoe, what are we meant to do about that now?" Zoe said pretending to act curious "I mean I don't want bad luck but who am I meant to kiss" she cracked a smile looking over at Max.
"Well, I'm sure I could help you out I mean I would hate for you to have any bad luck" Max said while stepping closer to her.
"That's very generous of you, but won't that girlfriend of yours mind?"
"Zoe, no I'm sure she wouldn't mind me helping some gorgeous woman out who just happened to unfortunately get stuck under some mistletoe"
"Good" Zoe replied grabbing his hand and pulling her the rest of the way to him and leaning up to kiss him which he immediately responded to.
"There you go all sorted" Max told Zoe smiling after they'd pulled away then gave her a quick peck on the lips "and there's one for luck" he whispered in her ear.
"Thanks for that" Zoe said with the biggest smile on her face "If I ever meet this Zoe person I'll have to let her know how lucky she is"
"Yeah you will won't you"
"I'll look out for her when I head back down to the ward and do that then" She stood on her tiptoes kissed his lips and then quickly exited through the door before her could even say anything back to her.
As Zoe made her way back to the ward she received another text from Max with the three word that always made her heart race when coming from him.
"I love you"
Merry Christmas everyone. Lots of love Sophie xx.