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Zoey stood at her bathroom sink staring down at her hand. The birth control pill container she was holding was on the red week. She counted, and recounted the number of red days she'd already taken just in case there was some kind of mistake. Six days late. She stared at it in disbelief. A knock sounded on the door.
"Just a second!" Zoey called out flinging the pill container into her makeup bag. She originally set it back down on the counter but then, thinking twice about it, she quickly grabbed the bag and threw it into the back of a drawer. She wasn't sure why she thought Max would look in her makeup bag or if he would even be able to recognize the predicament they were under by seeing the pills, but she hid them all the same. Zoey flung open the door a little harder than she anticipated and it slammed into the the wall behind it. Max was sitting on the edge of the bed and looked up in surprise.
"Geez Zo, are you the hulk now?" He joked.
"Sorry... I- I was just trying to get out of there... so you could use the bathroom." Zoey stammered.
"Okay? No need to panic, I just wanted to take a shower." Max gave her a funny look and walked over to give her a kiss on the cheek.
"I think I'm going to head into work early today so I probably won't see you for a while. Actually I'm so busy I'll probably be home really late." Zoey rambled.
"But you're still going to dinner tonight, right?" He asked.
"Dinner...?" She rattled her brain trying to remember.
"With Simon and Tatiana?" He reminded her.
"Oh, right, that's today. I guess I can take a break for that." Zoey agreed.
"If you're really that busy did you want me to bring you lunch or-"
"NO," Zoey interrupted. "I mean... I'll just have one of the interns pick something up for me, no need to go out of your way." She picked up her purse and slung it over her shoulder and backed towards the bedroom door.
'Okay, I'll see you at 7 then." He smiled at her.
"Sounds good, love you, gotta go, bye!" Zoey all but ran out of the room to leave her apartment.
"Love," he looked off in the direction she disappeared from, confused. "....you too." He finished lamely.