Zoe's POV:
We got to the crash site and jumped out of the ambulance and rushed over to assess the injuries. Me and Tamzin took the first car and Lofty and Jeff took the second car. It had been about half an hour and both patients in our car were unconscious so we just had to wait for them to be cut free, we couldn't do much else now.
"So what exactly is going on with you and Max" Tamzin asked and I rolled my eyes at her.
"Nothing is going on with me and Max" I told her.
"Then why kiss him, Zo considering you're not together anymore you really shouldn't go around acting like you are" she said and I sighed.
"Technically, he kissed me but I know. I don't want to act like we're still together. I'm gonna speak to him about it later but I just don't want to hurt him" I told her. I hated having to speak about this, it always makes me feel even worse even if it is my best friend that I'm talking to.
"Zo, no matter what it's better to put him straight now then leave him hanging by a string hoping that he's still got you and can just have you whenever he wants. It will be better for the both of you that way" Tamzin said to me and I smiled slightly.
"I know Tams" I said.
The rest of the shout went by fairly quickly. When we got back to the ED I tried to avoid Max as much as possible. I went over to reception to get one of our patient's notes from Louise and with just my luck Max came up behind me and put his arms around my waist. I instantly shook him off gaining a surprised look from Max, Louise and Noel.
"We need to talk Max" I said. Louise and Noel exchanged knowing looks before looking back towards me and Max.
"What about, I thought we sorted everything out earlier?" he questioned.
"No Max, what you said earlier isn't even working. You said to still be mates even though we've broke up but you're still acting like we're together. I finished things for a reason Max and I don't need reminding of everything we had every day" I said as I felt my eyes beginning to fill with water.
"Wait, you never said we had split up Zoe. You said we were on hold until you had sorted Sharice out?" Max said and I sighed.
"It's the same thing in a way Max so please just leave it, I'm done with all of this for now" I said as I felt a tear roll down my face. I turned around after picking up the file I needed and walking back into resus.
"Zoe, you alright?" Cal asked as I walked in, he was treating one of the other patients with Lofty.
"I'll tell you later" I said and he nodded. He didn't take his eyes off of me as I walked over to Rita to carry on treating our patient.
"Cal stop it, it's freaking me out" I joked. I didn't even turn around to look at him whilst I said this. Rita just smirked at me as I said this to Cal.
"Sorry Zo" Cal said back making me laugh.
We treated the patients until the ward was ready for them and I didn't leave resus once, I knew by now what happened between me and Max would be around the whole hospital. I left resus in the hope that I could go straight to my office without anyone even noticing but I was wrong.
"Dr. Hanna, I'm sorry to hear about you and Max" Ethan said to me as soon as I left resus. All eyes were on me now.
"Yeah well life goes on" I said before making my way to cubicles. I came face to face with Max as soon as I got there.
"Zo" he began but I stopped him.
"If it isn't to do with work then I don't think we should speak Max" I said as I walked around him to get into a cubicle. I went in and recognised the patient instantly.
"What the hell have you done" I said smirking slightly at his leg in a splint.
"Well you're the doctor sis, shouldn't you be telling me that?" Joey said making me laugh.
"I meant how did you do it?" I questioned raising an eyebrow.
"Bad tackle during training" he said shrugging slightly.
"Well by looking at it, you won't be playing football for a while" I told him causing him to sigh. Joey's been playing for Holby United for well over a year now.
"Right, I'll page for a porter to take you up to x-ray to see how long you're going to be out of the game for" I said opening the cubicle curtain.
"You'll come up with me though right?" he asked causing me to roll my eyes.
"You're 26, I'm sure you can cope" I said as I opened the curtain seeing a lot of sympathetic eyes on me.
"On second thought, I'll be happy to get out of this place for a while" I said. Joey just smirked at me as I left the cubicle to go and tell Louise to page a porter.
I waited about 10 minutes with Joey considering the porter was taking their time.
"So you met anyone yet?" Joey asked and I could feel my eyes welling up.
"We finished last night, I need to focus more on Sharice at the moment" I said and he nodded understandingly.
"When do I get to kick his ass?" Joey asked making me laugh.
"And why would you need to do that?" I asked laughing still. At that moment the curtain opened and Max stood there, guessing he was the chosen porter.
"Whoever has sex with my little sister gets their ass kicked, it's simple" Joey said quietly making me roll my eyes.
"For starters, I'm older than you and secondly, meet Max" I said gesturing towards him.
"Please tell me I haven't just said that in front of the guy you were seeing" Joey said as he put his head in his hands making me smirk.
"Um, x-ray?" Max questioned, obviously he was confused.
"Yeah, I'm coming with as well" I said and Max looked even more confused, I knew he was going to comment on it before he had even opened his mouth.
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