Note: Place this deleted scene right before chapter 25. It's a seamless transition, everything in this chapter happens right before Alex slides that ICU door open in chapter 25! Enjoy!

Jo's POV:

The following weeks after Amber's successful transplant passed slowly and they all shifted back to daily routine accordingly. Amber's recovery was painful but very rewarding, seeing her up and cheerful every passing day, rejoicing in the knowledge of having beaten her disease and looking at a long life before her. Alex had begged Bailey to keep his sister in a while longer than usual, fearing that with discharging her too early, things would become unhinged again. The thing he was scared of most was letting her go, watching her go back to Iowa and losing the ability to watch over her.

Even though Amber had frequently told Aaron to leave and go back to his life and job, he had refused. So, he had settled into a guest room at Meredith's house and spent his days, entertaining Amber and keeping her spirits up when she threatened to push over the edge due to being observed in the ICU 24/7. This had been decided by Dr. Bailey herself, since Amber's immunodeficiency was far from under control and they all acted and treated her very carefully. Jo had been trying to spend all her spare time with the Karevs as well, enjoying the revived friendship between all of them, that had been put on ice for a long time before when all their paths had separated a bit due to various career and moving out of state reasons. It was one of those days that Jo had decided to go into the hospital, even though she needed a day far from the hospital desperately, however, she really wanted to spend it with Amber and Aaron. And possibly Alex, having missed him so much since they had grown closer again but knowing that with all their luck, she wouldn't even get a glimpse of him. Her mood changed drastically when the first face she got to see upon entering was Alex.

Jo gave him a small smile before entering the elevator and pushing the button, standing herself right in front of him, maybe a tiny bit closer than she would have with anyone else. She looked over to see some people who she didn't even know ride with them. She closed her eyes, feeling Alex' hot breath on her neck and tried to hide a smile. Oh, please God, when will be our time? We need to fix us really soon, otherwise I'll die…of longing. Jo gulped noisily before trying to steady herself. When the door opened up again, some people left and some people entered, one of which was their chief, greeting them both amicably, turning towards the door. Jo felt how Alex boldly placed a very gentle hand to her waist, running his fingers down slowly before entwining them with hers, hanging there loosely until the doors dinged open for Jo to get out.

"Tell her I'll come by later," Alex breathed and she was sure she could hear a hidden chuckle in his voice. She just nodded and narrowed her eyes when walking out, shooting him a mad glare when she had exited and turned towards where she wanted to be. He just smirked and winked at her. Ugh, it would be such a great thing if those eyes didn't have the ability to melt her. She felt how her face widened and a smile flitted across her face. She kept it up all the way over to the ICU, tracing her steps with her eyes, not really paying attention to anyone around. When she slid the door to Amber's ward open, she and Aaron both looked up at her with raised eyebrows. Jo's face immediately fell and she could feel her guts drop a bit.

"What?" she exclaimed, putting her purse down and moving closer. Amber narrowed her eyes at her and smiled teasingly.

"Nothing," she shook her head slowly, still observing Jo. "I'm just wondering what makes you so happy this morning," she pointed out.

"Why?" Jo frowned, picking up her purse again and taking a seat next to Amber's bed, getting out a bottle of water and her phone to lie on her nightstand.

"You are all smiley and content, what's up with that?" Amber interrogated her.

"It's my day off," Jo just shrugged, taking a sip of her coffee. "This is all I need to be happy and content," she said with wide eyes.

"Uh-huh," Amber just gave her back in disbelief.

"So, how are you doing today?" Jo tried to change the subject.

"Going stir crazy to be honest," Amber responded, sighing dramatically.

"Yeah, no kidding," Aaron interjected, looking right back down at his phone. Jo looked at him for a second in wonder before going over to Amber again.

"Well, it surely won't be long now. They just kept you in because of your immunodeficiency and because the address on your chart says Iowa," Jo pointed out. "Trust me, you didn't wanna go on a plane the last three weeks," she lectured her.

"Well, I wanna go on a plane right about now," Amber snapped back, making Jo roll her eyes. They sat in silence for a bit.

"Alex said he'd swing by later. Maybe you can work on him for making them discharge you rather sooner than later," Jo told her dismissively. When she looked up from her phone because nobody said anything, she found Amber smirking at her. "What?"

"So you were with Alex this morning?" she nodded at Jo knowingly. Jo rolled her eyes again.

"I met him on the elevator," she gave her back, shaking her head.

"M-hm, sure," Amber told her, giggling.

"What's your problem, Amber?" Jo immediately blew up on her, taking her by surprise.

"Whoa, whoa, lady, all's good, I'm just teasing," Amber looked at the older girl warily. Jo looked back at her with a glare, taking a calming breath and looked down.

"Sorry, I just… I can't hear it anymore," she apologized.

"Why does it make you so mad? Something happen between you two?" Amber seemed concerned now.

"No, no," Jo waved her away, shaking her head in exhaustion. "I just… I feel like it's the only thing people ever keep asking… about Alex and me," she said.

"Well, because we all want you guys together. You belong together," Alex' sister tried to make her see.

"Amber, you need to stop doing this. And trust me, I'm the least of your worries in this and I'm already pissed," Jo advised her. Aaron had put his phone down and listened to the clash.

"Stop doing what?"

"Stop butting into our relationship," Jo stated.

"So, there is a relationship?" Amber asked cautiously.

"No," Jo shook her head, closing her eyes at it and sighed. "What I mean is… you should stop saying stuff like we belong together. You have no idea, Amber. You really don't. Please, just stop saying stuff that makes us all uncomfortable. Especially Alex. It's difficult enough as it is," she got it all out, instantly regretting having said too much. There was a short break.

"You know," Amber started out timidly. "I was really little when I met you. Remember that?"

"Down at the stream?" Jo asked in confusion about where this was going, making the other girl nod. "Yeah," she nodded finally.

"Well, as said, I was ten years old then. I just came back from another unsuccessful reintegration into our home environment with my brothers. Luckily, it was the last one. I was confused and as said, I was little. I didn't know any better. When I came down to play at the stream and I saw you for that very first time, I actually believed you were Alex' girlfriend!"

"Oh, sweetie," Jo told her sympathetically.

"It wasn't something I conjured up in my mind for what I wanted to happen. I actually, genuinely thought you guys were a couple. It took forever for me to find out it wasn't the case. And Aaron actually had to hint me towards it. First I didn't even believe him," she nodded exaggeratedly, looking over towards her brother who joined in with the nodding. "Remember?"

"Yeah, you were pretty distraught," he chuckled quietly.

"I accused you of being jealous of what they have," Amber whispered, sounding apologetic.

"Yeah, you gave me a pretty hard time, you were actually mad at me for suggesting that they weren't a thing," he pointed out, making her nod again.

"Why did you think he'd be jealous?" Jo asked her tentatively, not knowing if she wanted to get into all of this. It had been such a long time. She didn't feel like warming all that up again. But then, it actually was kind of enlightening to hear a different take to their story.

"Oh, come on," Amber laughed now. "Don't act as if you didn't know about Aaron's crush on you," she blurted out mercilessly, making him blush and look down at his phone again. Jo looked over at him and sighed, trying to find the right words.

"I… I did know about that," she started slowly, trying to match Aaron's eyes which she succeeded in eventually. "I'm sorry, Aaron," she told him.

"No, it's fine," he looked at her sheepishly. There was an awkward pause before she decided to continue.

"But what I meant was… how did you know about Aaron's… crush on me?"

"Oh, because kids just have a wicked sixth sense like that," Amber's eyes lit up. Aaron snorted.

"No, Amber, it's just you. You do have a wicked sixth sense like that and it didn't get lost when you grew up," he motioned towards her, making her smile and then turned her head towards Jo again.

"So, you're admitting to it?" Jo sighed dramatically, looking at her exasperatedly.

"I'm not admitting to anything here that can't be admitted to," she stated.

"Oh, smooth, really. Come on, it's crystal clear something was going on between you guys," Amber urged her further.

"It wasn't, Amber, stop suggesting differently," Jo protested.

"Oh my," Amber propped herself up theatrically. "You are just as difficult to talk to as Alex!" she glared at Jo who succumbed to a smile.

"Why can't you just accept that we've always been friends? Best friends, okay, I'll give you that…but nothing more than that, I swear," Jo tried to defend herself.

"Because it's just not true. You're making me mad in trying to tell me so," Amber sighed. Jo joined her and the shared an exhausted look. "Look, Jo, I don't mean to be a nag or make you uncomfortable with things that aren't true. I don't wanna push you into something that's not there. But it is there. Don't you see? I have never in my life met two people that were so right for each other. You guys work so well… you guys complement each other, you are the only one who can actually read my brother… you knew what he was dealing with, you understood him in a way that none of us ever did. And vice versa. We all looked up to you guys, we wanted you to happen. Because we all knew you'd be amazing together. No, let me correct that. You were amazing together. I'd die to meet a person like you have found in Alex. And you guys just seem to want to ignore it… it's just not right, Jo. It hurts that you would give up a bond like that," Amber tried to explain. Jo just looked at her, rendered speechless by what Alex' baby sister had just told her. She sighed, looking down. "You were in love with him, right?" Jo took another deep breath, leaving the room in silence but looking up after a moment, their eyes burning into each other. "It's okay, you don't have to say it. We all know you were. You adored him. And he loved you so much. I seriously…. I just… I have been grasping for reasons all over the years why you guys didn't just get over yourselves and admitted it to yourselves and each other. You were head over heels, everybody knew but you guys it seemed…," she rambled on.

"What do you mean everybody knew? Nobody knew," Jo countered weakly.

"Ha! So there was something to know there, huh?" Amber looked certain of her victory. Jo rolled her eyes and sighed again.

"Aaaamber," she whined, putting her head into her hands and cried mockingly. Aaron chuckled quietly. She looked up at him and saw his genuinely content face. There were no words Jo could shape of how happy it made her to see him like that.

"I'm sorry I never gave you a chance," she told him feebly, not knowing if that sentiment was appreciated at all. Aaron smiled.

"That's okay, Jo, really. I wouldn't have wanted to be the alternative… even though I didn't realize that for a long, long time," he winked at her. Jo smiled back at him sheepishly.

"How did you know? I mean… did Alex talk to you?"

"No…," Aaron tried to shape his words. "I just figured it out somehow along the way," he said. "You were pretty obvious if you just looked close enough, Amber's right," he pointed out. Jo felt agitation set inside her.

"I wish you guys would stop saying that. There wasn't anything to be obvious about. Look, I didn't even know myself!" Jo tried to make them see.

"Well, that's something very different," Aaron winked at her again. "I caught you guys so many times… like that one time after Amber was discharged from the hospital… I was actually surprised you only stood and talked. I expected something very different," he chuckled.

"As if that was going to happen in there," Jo rolled her eyes. "But seriously, you thought that and you still came out? That's pretty weird, you gotta admit," Jo frowned at him slightly but with a smile softening her features. Aaron chuckled.

"Yeah, but I really couldn't help myself, either," he gave her. "Anyways, that was just one of those times. You fell asleep on the couch, like all the time… just you guys, all alone," he checked that off his mental list.

"Oh, oh, oh," Amber interrupted, seeming excited about something. "Remember our group home camping trip that spring?" she asked towards both of them, making them nod.

"What about it?"

"Remember, the four of us shared a tent," she went on.

"Yeah, why would they even let us do that?" Jo scrunched up her face about the likelihood of that.

"I guess that'll be on my head. I cried all the time, remember? I had been sleeping with you for ages, and I was scared all the time," Amber looked at them in embarrassment.

"Yeah, maybe," Jo laughed. "You gave me some headaches with that," she told her amicably.

"Yeah, whatever. So, we were sleeping, Aaron, Alex, me and then you, right?" Amber thought about it hard.

"Um, yeah I guess, can't remember that well," Jo told her.

"No, I think that was it. But then I tossed and turned and halfway kicked you out of the tent," Amber laughed. "So you rearranged ourselves and lay next to Alex," she said, getting to where she wanted to be.

"What the hell are you getting at?"

"When I woke up, you guys were all cuddled up, I remember. That was one of the times I was so sure Aaron was lying about you guys. Seriously, Alex' arms were wrapped around you really tight and his head was resting in the crook of your neck, right beside you, you know…," she narrated dreamily.

"What are you talking about? That never happened," Jo half laughed about it, half frowned.

"You were asleep! Ask Alex," Amber challenged her.

"How would he know if we were asleep?"

"He woke up early next morning, finding me staring at you guys," Amber laughed. "He immediately disappeared from the tent. He was all flustered and you know… embarrassed," she continued.

"Oh my Goood," Jo called out all of a sudden. "Was that why he was all dismissive with me that one last day?" her eyes shimmered in late recognition.

"I thought you couldn't remember that trip that clearly," Amber wriggled her eyebrows at her. Jo rolled her eyes. "Well anyways, yeah, probably, he wouldn't even look at you," she agreed.

"And I thought that was because I had thrown his full pack of cigarettes down the outhouse," Jo mused, making them both laugh.

"You did?"

"Yeah, that stuff is nasty," Jo immediately defended her actions.

"Yeah, nobody else would have dared do that to him. Does he still do it?"

"Nah… not really… well, sometimes," Jo answered lazily.

"Well, anyways, I could tell you a thousand times when you guys acted as more than just friends. You guys got so comfortable with each other, which was seriously weird in my eyes since both of you aren't the people to… bond quickly… or be on a touching base. But you both didn't seem to care much about the respective other touching you. Like, remember when he carried you home that one time, because you sprained your ankle and refused to go to the doctor's?"

"Ha, yeah, I do remember that," Jo smiled, reveling in the memories.

"Here, I actually still have a picture of that," Amber tugged out her phone and began to scroll.

"Seriously? How do you have a picture of that? I mean, there even was a picture of that?" Jo asked her in disbelief.

"Yeah, Ms. Mallory gave it to me later," she explained, stretching out her arm and showing the picture that she had clearly photographed off the real piece to Jo and Aaron. Jo's hand's immediately flew up to her face.

"Oh my God! I was so damn young! This is so amazing," Jo laughed in joy, looking at the almost 11 year old picture of her, riding Alex piggy back while Amber was carrying Jo's backpack with a huge smile and Aaron looked… well, pissed. Jo laughed. Good times. They all stayed in silence for a while, indulging in the piece of old memory together. After that, Jo tried to get herself together again and sighed, looking up at Amber in all seriousness. "But seriously, Amber, Alex and I were only ever friends," she tried to convince her.

"Yeah, friends who were secretly in love," Amber winked at her, making her sigh and say nothing. There was a small shift in moods within their room and Amber continued quietly. "Why didn't you keep in touch after Alex left?" she asked Jo, making her shrug. "Did you ever see each other again? I mean later… after that one time with Cory," she corrected her previous question.

"Um, yeah, once," Jo replied dutifully, however, her eyes searched the ground and she sounded dismissive.

"When was that?"

"Back in Harvard," she gave her piece by piece.

"So… what about then? Did you… get along?" Amber sounded careful now, wary of Jo's mood.

"Yeah."

"So… were you… you know… still in love with him?" Jo exhaled deeply before looking up at the younger girl in exasperation.

"Come on, Amber," she shook her head at her.

"Alright, alright," Amber held up her hands. "It's just… I don't know… every time I talked to Alex… he seemed to still be pining for you…," she explained her motives. Jo looked up at her in surprise. "Haha, look at you, you're blushing," Amber immediately called her out.

"I'm not," Jo grumbled quietly.

"You so are," Aaron told her, chuckling. Now she looked up at him, not believing that he'd actually join in with his little sister.

"Just… can we have at least some privacy here?" Jo begged for them to stop. She knew all the things she wanted to tell them. She knew she loved Alex and had loved him for the better part of her life. But she also knew that she wouldn't ever tell them about what had happened between them, about their relationship and what was happening in between them right now. It was just not what she wanted to discuss with them. And surely Alex didn't want her to, either.

"Hm, I don't know, Jo. It's getting interesting here… and you really don't convince me of really not wanting to talk about it," Amber winked at her. Jo rolled her eyes in defeat, leaning back in her chair. "So… what's my brother like…?" Amber smiled at her sweetly.

"What do you mean?" Jo frowned at her.

"You know…," Amber pulled on.

"Oh, no you don't. You don't get to ask that, seriously, Amber," Jo told her sharply.

"Oh come on, just a tiny little bit of what it's like t-," Amber started but Jo was already blowing up.

"Oh my God, shut up, Amber, will you? I'm not gonna tell you what it's like to be with your brother," Jo glared at her.

"What? Come on! Why not? Please? Just a little bit…," Amber whined.

"You tell me you seriously wanna hear what it's like to be in bed with your own BROTHER?! Doesn't that strike you the tiniest bit odd?" Jo was livid now. What the hell was her problem?

"Oh my God," Amber yanked her head back and made a face. "I did not talk about that! Ew, Jo! Seriously? I was asking what it's like to be with my brother… you know…what he's like when you guys are alone… but oh my God, now I have those images in my head," she went on, putting her face into her palms.

"Stop," Jo told her, pained, and embarrassed about even thinking like that. There was an awkward pause that was ended when suddenly Amber's head snapped up and looked at her with the widest eyes Jo had even seen. "What?"

"Oh my God, you just told me that you have slept with my brother before! Oh my Gooood, this is so huge! Oh my, ooooh my I can't even… oh my," Amber completely freaked while Jo sank lower and lower into her chair. "Oh come on, you already spilled the beans, give me some details. I mean… not like that obviously! But… you know when? During my surgery? Cause before you were all mad with each other and bickering," she rambled on, obviously excited about the news. Jo just stared at the ceiling, not knowing how to take this one back.

"Oh come ooooon," Amber whined some more. When Jo bit her lips, Amber narrowed her eyes. "Wait… did you… no, you didn't! Did you already do it in Boston? Like when you met? Is that why you look all guilty? Because you never once said anything?" Amber interrogated her. Jo sighed deeply before looking up at Amber with an impartial face.

"Oh my freaking- this is… oh I can't believe it," Amber danced around in her bed.

"Please be careful, Amber, you're still sore," Jo warned her.

"And you actually wait to tell me NOW?!" now she looked reproachful.

"I didn't tell you anything, Amber," Jo pointed out weakly, making the younger one roll her eyes. "Why do you care so much, Amber?" she tried to channel all those emotions.

"God, you really don't get it, right? My speech a while ago about having met the right person for someone and how that is so very rare…no? Okay… let me try to make it clear to you some other way… alright, so… you know when you watch a TV show…and get really into it," she tried to explain, Jo following her with a frown. "And you watch it all the time, and you start to ship a couple," she continued.

"What's that supposed to mean?" both Aaron and Jo spoke up, their faces scrunched up.

"Like… when you fall in love with a couple on TV… and really just… you want everything for them… you practically live vicariously through them…," she enlightened them. Aaron chuckled and Jo let her face fall into her hands again.

"Oh my goodness, Amber, you are way more weird than I ever thought," she chucked out, only making her laugh.

"Yeah, whatever, anyways. It's like that… you watch the TV show and all you want for them is to be happy…and show it… and you know… you read every little spoiler you get online or in a magazine or wherever really… and you go on… always hoping for the best, never forgetting about them, and then THREE FREAKING YEARS LATER you find out that there's a deleted scene you never got to see or even hear about?! It's like, the ground is shifted! I… I… I feel like I can't breathe, really… I mean… I have been pining for you guys and now you tell me you actually have made it work at one point? Oh, darling, this is groundbreaking news. Don't you dare downplay it!" Amber looked at her in all seriousness, making Jo actually chuckle for she couldn't help herself, shaking her head. They stared at each other for a while, smiling. "Oh, sweetie, you are so terribly in love, aren't you?" Amber looked at her almost in pain. Jo looked up at her and sighed. Why fight it any longer, right? She shrugged. "Oh my, I can't believe all this is really happening… I never thought I'd get to see you guys together," Amber genuinely seemed touched. Jo bit her lip hard. "So why didn't you keep in touch after Boston? I mean… why were you all mad and at each other's throat when we first came here?" Jo looked down, trying to conceal her emotions. "What happened, Jo?"

"Nothing," she said, matter-of-factly.

"What happened?" Amber looked at her sternly.

"This really is none of your business, Amber, and this time, I do mean it," Jo told her.

"Did he cheat on you?" Amber asked her straightforwardly. Jo scrunched up her face, looking at her in surprise.

"What? No," she shook her head wildly.

"What else, then? Was he a jerk? Do I need to kick his ass?"

"No," Jo kept shaking her head, trying not to break.

"I don't get it… what could it be? Was it…you know… bad?" she asked awkwardly.

"No, Amber, stop it, please," Jo had closed her eyes and tried to calm, tracing her sinuses in a hypnotic motion.

"Okay," Amber finally realized she had gone a bit too far. They sat in silence for a bit, everyone pondering about what had been said. "I really thought it was over between you two when I heard he got married. I was devastated. It hurt, so much. I just… I really only want you guys to be happy, I swear," she quietly explained her motives. Jo tightened her lips in understanding and nodded. After a while she looked over at Aaron and tried to voice one more concern.

"Hey, so, what did you mean by everybody knew?"

"Well, I guess Ms. Morgan was suspecting… they always kept an eye on you guys and they even asked us a couple of times, right?" Aaron frowned and looked over at Amber questioningly.

"Ms. Jolanders did at least," she added quietly.

"Well, and Adam of course," Aaron went further down his list.

"Wait, what?" Jo turned her head back to him in deep shock.

"Adam… you know…Blittwick. Alex' friend?"

"Um yeah, I know who he is…but he doesn't know, right? He can't know…," Jo felt all her insides freeze. This wasn't happening, right?

"Sure he knows," Aaron nodded that off.

"No! Alex never told him," Jo grasped for facts to hold on to.

"So? As established, you guys were pretty obvious. He was Alex' best friend. He wasn't at all a bad guy. Yes, he fooled around a lot…but he actually did that on purpose. They had known each other forever and they were pretty tight buddies… Adam was a real good guy. He cared for Alex," Aaron tried for her to see.

"So he… just knew? Is that what you are saying?" Jo was confused.

"Well," Aaron blushed, making Jo narrow her eyes. "It all started with me accidentally telling him that you were a foster kid too…," he looked down sheepishly. "I totally heard you guys talk that one time about how you were glad that Alex didn't tell Adam…. He already knew at that point. I'm so sorry, Jo, I know you didn't like to go around telling people," he apologized sincerely.

"Yeah, whatever," Jo said, anticipating an explanation.

"And then he just figured it out. He met you and then watched you a lot…," Aaron said.

"But why did he keep asking me out?" Jo blurted out, trying to make sense of all that information.

"Well, my best guess is: to cover for Alex. He may have never admitted it to him, but they were close. Adam knew Alex wouldn't dare act on his feelings… but he also knew that you were everything to him. Alex didn't usually act like he did with you when he was around other girls," he concluded.

"But he didn't act at all around me at school!" Jo protested, full on agitated now.

"Uh, yeah he did. He looked at you… watched you… never let his eyes off you. He was protecting you, all the time. He got really mad when all those guys started drooling over you. He'd ball his fists…be his usually grumpy self… and Adam realized that…early on even. So, he covered for him," Aaron repeated.

"Does that mean he never really liked me? Adam I mean?"

"Yeah he did, of course, you were hot," Aaron laughed, making her roll her eyes. "He probably wouldn't have said no… but he wouldn't have piled on that freaking much if he had genuinely wanted to be with you. He just wanted to make it as ridiculous as possible for anyone to think about Alex wanting you… because every time you talked, it would be shadowed by Adam's moves… he was a good friend. Even though Alex never said anything to him… he covered his ass. He knew he was scared beyond anything to… I don't really know what he was scared of," Aaron ended his narrations. Jo looked at him with a dry throat.

"Why do you know all this?"

"He told me…back at the football game. I asked him if he really was that blind to you guys… and he enlightened me…," Aaron smiled at her cautiously. Jo felt empty. She slowly let her head fall into her hands and shook her head.

"No, no, no, no," she whispered frantically. "This is not happening."

"Jo, what's wrong? Why is that so bad?" Amber jumped in when Aaron didn't know what to say.

"You don't understand," she shook her head further.

"Did you get it on with Adam?" the patient asked her through narrowed eyes.

"NO!" Jo immediately spat out before looking up and realizing, she had actual tears in her eyes.

"Oh my, Jo, what's going on? Why are you tearing up?"

"It's fine, it's over… I don't wanna talk about it anymore. I just… if I had known that…," she kept shaking her head in disbelief.

"Are you sure everything's okay?" Amber asked one more time. Jo smiled at her, trying to get it together.

"Yeah, thanks, Amber, I really am okay. It was just… I didn't know and… well, that's groundbreaking news for me," she chuckled humorlessly, thinking about all those years of excruciating hurt and desperation and longing.

"So," Amber spoke up again after a long, long while of letting silence settle in the room. "Are you… are you guys together now?" she asked tentatively.

"No," Jo shook her head lightly.

"Why not for God's sake?" Amber seemed mad. Jo just shrugged. "Will you be? I mean… will you make it work?" Jo looked up at her and tried to hide a small smile thinking about what Alex and her had planned to do after Amber and Aaron were gone.

"Maybe," she told her in a whisper, making her squeal and clap. Jo immediately got infected and closed her eyes, laughing silently.

"I'm so happy for you guys, really, whatever happened. You guys do belong together, even if you don't wanna hear it from me," Amber looked at her lovingly. Jo smiled brightly. "Oh," Amber's whole face lit up, looking through the glass. "And here comes the groooom," she murmured cheekily, making Jo's eyes widen.

"Shut up," she turned towards her, giving her a meaningful look, all of them succumbing to smiling to themselves, silence engulfing them again.