Chapter 2

"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.

She had been avoiding him for weeks. As soon as she had walked out of the elevator, he had given up on trying to talk to her and went home and laid in his bed, trying to think about what she had said. It kept coming back into his mind, over and over again, every time he closed his eyes. His heart and bed felt cold and empty without her next to him. He had done exactly what she had, he realized. He had frozen as soon as she had asked him a very important question! That's what she wanted to hear? She wanted to know why he loved her, but why he had just left her there looking at the ring. And he new exactly how he would tell her how much he loved her. He jumped out of bed and rode his motorcycle to Café Diem, where he knew she would be at this time in the morning.

And there she was, his beautiful Jo-jo, sitting at the exact same spot at Vincent's bar. He had been thinking of what to say to her on his ride over. He didn't have much to say, but he decided he would just make it up as he talked.

"Jo-jo! We need to talk… right now!" he said grabbing her arm softly, making her jump.

"Zane, I don't really want to talk right now." she told him looking down at her coffee cup.

"Well, too bad. We are either going to figure this out now privately or I make a huge deal out of this in front of everyone." he proclaimed, trying to pull her up so he wouldn't have to actually do as he had threatened.

Jo wasn't in the mood for this. She just pulled away and stared back into her coffee. She didn't want her heart broken… again. This was too much. She didn't even think he would even talk to her. He would just try what he did this morning. Make out with her and that might make it all better, but no. She wouldn't fall for it again!

"Ok Jo-jo. I guess I'm going to really have to do this." Zane said as he jumped onto the bar counter in front of her. "If everyone could be quite for a moment, I have something to say to Jo and I want everyone to be witnesses to this!" he yelled to the room full of customers. Everyone turned to look at him. He had butterflies in his stomach now, but he knew that it would all be worth it soon enough.