Yes, for Zoey, Max is a problem (but not Simon of course), and the way I see it ... the fact that he denied (what he sang to him in the eighth episode but which he admitted to Simon) and how things went, Max was a way to not deal with the pain, and the fact that she can't open up to who she calls her best friend but once again she opened up smoothly with Simon ... she says she actually wants still him !!!! (after all for the whole first season there was only Simon)