CHAPTER 27
Zoe walked to the staffroom everything was starting to build up, Max, the questions and the lack of sleep. Tess and Rita were in the staffroom chatting over a cup of tea, once the heard the click on the door closing they turned around and smiled as Zoe entered.
Zoe walked over and clasped into the sofa, yawning as she did so.
"Someone's sorry" spoke Tess
"Excuse me?" said Zoe sitting up
Tess smiled and pointed to Zoe's locker door which had a note and a red rose attached to it. Zoe smiled and slowly got up, holding the rose in her hand while reading the note out aloud.
"Sorry"
Zoe's smile got wider as she saw the sad face drawn at the end of the note, in Max's hand writing. This wasn't a grand romantic gesture as Max and Zoe weren't like that but Zoe knew that this was good for max, very good in fact as it was the best she was going to get.
Zoe pressed the peddle at the bottom of the bin with her heel and dropped the note into it as the lit flipped open, she didn't want anyone recognizing Max's hand writing. Zoe examined the red rose before setting it down beside Rita and Tess, then running her hand threw her hair Zoe was off once again but this time she was going to visit Max.
Max lay back in his bed and smiled as he heard the familiar click of Zoe's heels near the cubical, Charlie noticed max's smile and rolled her eyes.
"Unbelievable" commented Charlie
Zoe pulled open the curtain, stepping inside with a smile on her face.
"I have not forgiven you yet" said Zoe
The smile on Zoe's face suddenly disappeared as she looked through Max's notes, noticing his long medical history.
"Wow" commented Zoe "there's quite a lot of pain relief I can't give you"
"I don't want any" said Max "I don't need any"
"Max..." began Zoe
"No" said Max
"Fine" surrendered Zoe "but this is going to hurt, a lot"
"Just do it and get it over with" said Max
The sound of Max's screaming and cursing echoed through the ED and everyone's eyes were attached to Zoe who took her gloves off as she exited the cubical.
Zoe slowly walked to the bin beside the reception desk and dropped her gloves in it, she looked up and noticed the shocked faces of Noel and Caleb who apart from not getting over there earlier conversation, had heard the screams of Max.
"What the hell have you done?" said Noel questioning Zoe as if she had murdered someone
"It's just Max" said Zoe calmly with no sign of sympathy in her voice "he refused pain relief, the idiot"
"What have you done to me" asked Max who appeared behind Zoe
Zoe immediately turned around and rolled her eyes as Max screwed his face up before touching his shoulder.
"grow a pair" said Zoe before walking to the office are now shared with Connie
"God, if she's like that with all her patients..." began Noel pointing in Zoe's way
"She's a dam good doctor and your all know it" shouted Max in return "she's hasn't slept for nearly twenty four hours, how would you feel?"