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"Hey Zoe" Lemon smiled walking into the practice
"Hi Lemon, how are you?"
"I'm great." she smiled "How are you?"
"Pretty good. Did you need something?"
"Uh yeah, I was wondering if you could give me a prescription for some birth control."
Zoe smiled "You and Paul getting serious huh?"
"Yes" Lemon smiled "He is so great. We've been together almost 4 months now."
"I saw him in the Rammer Jammer last week. He's quite handsome."
"You stay away from him Zoe Hart." Lemon laughed
Zoe laughed with her "I have enough trouble with men, you don't have to worry about anything."
"I'm not. What's up with you and Wade?"
"Nothing. We're doing the friends thing for now."
"And that's working for you two?"
"It seems to be."
"You know he was with no one over the summer right? I've never seen him turn down so many girls."
Zoe smiled "Yes, he told me, Lavon told me. I'm just working on the whole trust thing. It's still so hard."
"Oh, I know."
Zoe nodded "I want to trust him again, believe me I do. I'm just so afraid it's going to happen again."
"Have you talked to him about that?"
"No, I don't want him to get mad or think that I'm never going to trust him again."
"You need to talk to him. Tell him how you feel. If you don't you will always have those doubts. Even when you get back together."
Zoe smiled "You said "when we get back together."
Lemon smiled and put her hand on Zoe's shoulder "I know the two of you will. He loves you so much and listening to you talk about him right now. I know you do too."
"Thanks Lemon."
"Hey Doc?" Wade called walking into the practice
"Speak of the devil." Lemon smiled
Zoe smiled back and got up from her desk and poking her head out the door "What's up Wade?"
"I got into it with the fence again and think I might need stitches." he told her uncovering the rag from his leg
"Alright, just give me a minute and I'll be right with you." she smiled. She quickly jotted down a prescription on the pad and handed it Lemon. "Here ya go"
"Thanks Zoe. Have a good night." she winked and walked out of the office "Night Wade."
"Night Lemon." he waved
"Come on in Wade." Zoe called as she set up the table to take care of his wound
"Sorry about being so late. I was taking out the trash."
"It's no big deal. Hop up here and let me take a look." He hopped up on the table and uncovered his leg. Zoe tried to examine it through his jeans but it was pretty hard. She looked up at him and smirked. "Can you uh, take em off? I can't get a good look."
"Oh yeah, sure. Sorry." He stood up and carefully shed his pants, then hopped back up on the table in his boxers. Zoe watched as he did this and couldn't help but stare. "Better?" he asked
"Huh? Yeah, thank you." she gently started cleaning the cut and pulled up his boxers a bit
"Where you going Doc?" he joked
"I can let this be and it can get infected and then I can just chop it off." she said with a smile
"Do what you do." he laughed and leaned back on the table using his hands as a head rest.
Zoe shook her head and continued what she was doing "You really need to fix that fence."
"Yeah, it's next on my list. What's up with Lemon?"
Zoe looked up "Doctor patient confidentiality."
"Right, just curious why she would come to you."
"Well there are some things that you just don't want to go to your father for."
"Good point."
"It definitely needs stitches. You enjoying these fights with the fence? It's beaten you twice now." she laughed
"I don't do this on purpose. It just happens. Ow" he said and jerked his leg
"Sorry, not the easiest place to stitch up. Try not to jerk your leg though."
Wade just nodded and continued to watch her. "I can shower right?"
Zoe tried real hard to keep that picture from entering her head. She shook her head and came back to reality. "Yeah, just wrap it up with plastic wrap."
"Easy enough. I'm sure Lavon has that."
"Yeah, he does. Just a couple more stitches and you're good to go." They were silent as she finished up. She bandaged it up quickly and looked up at him. "All set. Just come back in a couple days so I can check them out."
"Thanks Zo" he leaned forward a bit and smiled
"No problem" she whispered looking him right in the eyes
Wade moved a little closer to her and Zoe imitated the movement. As they got closer and were mere inches from each other Wade screamed and shot back.
Zoe quickly moved her hand off his leg. "Oh my gosh, I am so sorry. Are you ok?" she asked looking down at his thigh
"Yeah" he answered still in pain
"I am so sorry" she repeated but now starting to laugh
"I'm so glad you are finding humor in my pain."
"You leaned in first." She giggled
"Are you serious right now?" he laughed "Don't go blaming me for this."
"Put your pants on and get out of my office." she smiled and tossed him his pants as she walked towards her desk.
Wade caught them with a smile. He stood up, put his pants on and then followed her out into the lobby.
"You need a ride home?" she asked
"Yeah I guess, I walked to work."
"Who's closing the Rammer Jammer?"
"Chester"
"Alright, Let's boogey." she smiled grabbing her bag
As they drove home it was silent for a couple minutes and then Wade spoke up.
"About what almost happened in there."
"Don't worry about it." she cut him off quickly. She wanted to ignore what happened. She wanted to kiss him so bad in that moment but knew it would be a horrible idea.
"Ok then, I guess I'll see you tomorrow." he said as she pulled up to his place
"Yeah, good night." she smiled
"Night" he smiled back and climbed out of the car.
As Zoe got ready for bed that night she kept running through her talk with Lemon and her almost kiss with Wade. She knew she wanted to trust him again and he was doing nothing but proving that he can be trusted. Lemon's talk stayed with her all night. She knew she had to talk to him and tell him her fears or as Lemon said, those doubts will never go away.
