Zoe walked out of her office 20 minutes later as planned Max still hadn't turned up to work yet. Zoe walked over to Louise 'has maxed turned up yet' she asked with a little annoyance in her voice that he was late so no one thought anything was happening between them. 'no he's 15 minutes late and I've not heard from him' Louise replied 'I'm going to kill when he finally arrives' Zoe said sounding angrier by the minute 'I will let you know when he arrives' Louise told Zoe, Louise was slightly scared for Max as Zoe was not in a good mood or that's what she thought. Max walked into the ED 10 minutes later and went up to reception. Louise warned Max about Zoe 'Zoe is going to kill you, you are nearly 30 minutes late and she is not a happy bunny' Max thought before he replied with 'great, that's just what I need a telling off from my boss its not my fault my alarm went off' Louise was about to say something when she seen Zoe approaching the desk, Louise whispered to Max 'good luck, Zoe's coming over' Max just replied with 'thanks by the look on her face I will need it.' this made Louise laugh. 'what you laughing at' Zoe asked Louise 'nothing' he replied before getting on with her work.
'A word now' Zoe demanded, they had to act normal she didn't want her staff suspecting anything. Max thought he would be funny so replied with 'doctor'. Louise heard what Max had said and knew Zoe was going to kill him. 'trying to be funny our we max?, this is the 5th time your let this month your going to set a new record' Zoe replied with anger and sarcastic in her voice. max simply replied with 'will I get a medal for that?' Louise was enjoying this little show with Noel who had come over as he heard what was going on. they both thought Max is gong to be in so much trouble. Zoe looked round at the audience that was gathering around them. 'hilarious, we shall carry on with this in my office so we don't have an audience' Zoe shouted which made all the staff get back to work. all the staff felt sorry for Max as they knew he had pushed all the wrong buttons for Zoe and that he was going to get killed for being late and cheeky. Zoe stormed off to her office and Max followed, when Max entered Zoe slammed her office door shut which made all the staff jump. Luckily Zoe's office was sound proof so she didn't actually need to tell max off. 'I liked are little performance out their' Zoe told max laughing 'same we will have to do it again sometime' max replied leaning in for a kiss. Zoe responded to the kiss and before it got anymore heated Zoe pulled away and told Max he should get back to work before the staff suspected something. just before Max opened the door Zoe called him 'Max lipstick' she said doing the hand actions. max wiped the lipstick off before walking out of her office. Their was a little crowd gathered out side so max did his hand across his throat so the staff thought that Zoe had killed. All the staff were laughing before Zoe came out of her office which made the all go silent. 'haven't you all got work to be doing? she shouted out them. They all quickly scurried of back to work. Zoe and Max's plan had worked.