Part 2
Zoe opened up her eyes to find the sun shining brightly into her room. She quickly pulled the covers above her eyes not yet remembering what had happened and what she had been thinking just the night before. She got up and looked at the clock.
"8:30! Aw you got to be kidding me..." She said out loud to herself "Kids!" she shouted.
"Don't worry Aunt Zoe were already leaving for the bus." Taylor yelled back up the stairs Thank god Zoe thought all she wanted to do was crawl back into bed but unfortunately she had to get ready for work.
"Work she scoffed ... Wait work ... Dan oh no what did I do!" She remembered everything about the night before. How she admitted to herself that she loved Dan and how she called him up … thankfully he hadn't picked up his phone though.
"Ok Zoe stay together all you have to say is you thought you found some new information on a case we closed but it turned out to be wrong. Yea he'll believe me I don't have to admit anything to him." Zoe said out loud to herself smiling as she got ready for work.
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Zoe walked into her office not even checking to see if Dan had arrived. A few minutes later there was a familiar knock at the door. Zoe looked up to see Dan standing there.
"Hey Zoe what's new?." Dan asked. Zoe froze, there was that voice that she found so comforting yet at times it could drive her crazy knowing that he was so close to her but still so far away.
"Ah nothing .. so how did your date go?" Zoe answered but she dreaded this question she had to ask. Just because she wasn't going to tell him that she loved him doesn't mean that she didn't have a right to know how his love life was going … right? I mean they are still partners after all.
"Oh it didn't go that well." Dan replied simply.
Zoe was very pleased with herself she couldn't help but smile a little bit at this sentence did she know her partner or what? But Dan must have caught the slight smile that formed on his partner's face, which lead to his question.
"Speaking of my date, while I was on it I got this call from my partner and im just wondering what she could have possibly wanted at that time of the night." Dan said smiling playfully.
"Well your "partner" just called you because she thought that she had a breakthrough in the case but it turned out to be wrong." She said trying to go alone with his game.
"Uh-huh that late at night … right?" Dan replied slyly
"Yes that late at night now do you mind I have A LOT of work to do!" Zoe answered almost harshly but she regretted it as soon as she said it because she saw the hurt look on his face.
"Ok then ill just go." He answered without looking into her eyes. He turned around coldly and walked back into his own office shutting the door.
Why did he let her do this to him? He thought. She always got to him, she always made him hurt and no ones ever done that before to him not like this. When she was hurting so was he, and when she mad at him, which was very rarely well then he was hurting again. But the worst thing was when she was happy because he knew that he couldn't share in that with her. Sure they were close at work even outside of work they were best friends but it stopped there every time it got even a little serious Zoe pulled away. And when he saw her smile he had to admit that he was a little jealous that she wasn't smiling because she was with him. Even though every little thing that she did made him hurt inside, her smile made it all better. He was so sick of letting him get to her, but her smile was like his drug and he just couldn't get enough of it.
Back in Zoe's office she felt terrible about what had happened. She always did this, to everyone in her life she had never let anyone get too close. Except of course her sister, that was the only person she could really open up to she never trusted anyone else. And now that Sue was gone she didn't want to let herself become vulnerable to loosing another best friend. Yes she loved him that was the problem, she was setting herself up for another heartbreak, every other man in her life that she has ever gone out with never worked out. She knew Dan was different but she couldn't put herself through loosing someone who this time she could actually love. She couldn't put the kids through that. It wasn't fair to them loosing someone else in their life. She had to be responsible this time it had to be different.
