Jo spent the afternoon thinking about Alex. Through every meeting, every patient, there was one common thread of thought that ran throughout her mind - him. She thought of his lips, his hands, his smile. She thought of the future she could have. Would have.

It wasn't too long ago that she imagined this feeling that followed her throughout the afternoon was something she would never feel again. It wasn't too long ago she thought she was too afraid to love.

Jo finally arrived home after a long, terribly long, unfocused day of internship. It had been Alex's day off, otherwise she would've told him everything already. Jo stepped through her doorstep and let her feet finally slip out of the prison-like shoes she had worn for countless hours. What happened next made her heart skip a beat.

Alex was standing in the middle of her tiny apartment, looking hella hot in a simple black t shirt and jeans that were soaked from the rain. Before Jo had a chance to tell Alex how she felt, she was interrupted when Alex quietly spoke, so quietly that Jo strained to hear it among the downpour on her roof.

"I was wrong." His voiced cracked when he said those three words. Not in a teenage boy going through puberty kind of voice crack, but the kind of way that happens when the words carry so much emotion they break in half from the overwhelming weight of it all.

All was silent except the ever present clang of rain on Jo's roof. Jo opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out. Alex, seeing that Jo wasn't speaking and assuming it meant she wasn't interested, took the opportunity to keep going. He had to change her mind. There was something there that kept telling her they were supposed to be together.

"I shouldn't have let you go." Alex said, a lot louder, despite the fact that Jo was now closer than she was before. "I mean, I understand why you had to go. You had to figure things out. But I don't, Jo. I want to be with you."

Jo felt the familiar urge to stop him, to run. To get out of this before she messed it all up. It was a primal instinct that took hold in her mind, but it was her heart that had the power this time. She had to stay. She wanted to stay. She stepped closer, and now they were standing together, her face not 2 feet from his, looking eachother in the eyes and finally hearing the words both of them had been thinking about all afternoon.

"I know it's not fair. It's not fair of me to be saying this. But I have to, because it's true. I can't send you off. I can't watch you leave when I would give anything to have you stay. And I cant" Alex said "Watch you be with him because you haven't figured out yet that he's not good for you.

"You shouldn't be with Jason, you should be with me. And I know it's not that easy, but it is. Because I know in my heart that we are supposed to be together. That there's something here. And I have to see where it goes because it's killing me to be away from you, even for a day. And I can't bear not being with you any longer."

They say time is relative. That it speeds up and slows down. Those two seconds after Alex finished his monologue and waited for a response from Jo were the longest of his life. Alex had lay his heart on the line, something he had rarely ever done before. Jo's response could break him. It would be so easy.

But she didn't.

She didn't speak either. She didn't tell Alex that she felt all those things too. But that was okay with Alex. He always thought actions spoke louder than words anyways.

Jo leaned in, not having to go very far because in Alex's heated speech they kept unconsciously moving closer to eachother. Eyelids drooped and hearts raced. Their lips connected in a searing kiss and Jo snaked her hands around to the back of Alex's neck, pulling him impossibly closer.