Meredith walked into the residents locker room and sat on the bench. The day's events playing over and over in her mind. She had just walked past the nurses station and heard that Derek and Rose were currently on a date. The fact that Derek had found someone so quickly to replace her, still hurt everytime she thought about it. Meredith stood up slowly and went to her cubby retrieving her clothes and quickly changed out of her scrubs. Grabbing her bag and throwing her scrubs in the laundry bin she walked out of the hospital and into the dark night.

When Meredith finally got home, the house was booming with voices. She could easily hear plates in the kitchen and her friends all talking about hospital things. Not feeling up to discussing the very place where all her heartaches lay, she gently walked up the stair not wanting to be heard. After she was comfortably settled in bed with a medical journal of her mother's she opened the book carefully. After settling all her issues with her mothers ashes she had decided a few weeks ago to look through some of her mother's boxes. Although Ellis really didn't have anything personal in the boxes, she did have a lot of awards, medical journals, and articles. So far Meredith had read through three of the medical books and still had many to go. After a few minutes of conentrating something in her mother's box caught her eye, a bright orange paper coming out from under one of her medical journals. Meredith got up from her bed and went to grab the paper. Without having to read more than the title on the paper she knew just what flyer was and quickly folded it up putting it in her bag. Walking to get her cell phone she went through her contacts trying to find just the name she was looking for.

"Hey, it's Meredith" Meredith said quitely in the phone.

"Meredith! It's so good to hear from you!" The voice on the other end said excitingly.

"You too, I miss you guys. I was acually wondering if there is one tomorrow night?" Meredith asked moving to sit on the edge of her bed.

"Of course, same night same time. I know everyone would want to see you and I think it would be good for you too." The person on the other end insisted.

"Okay, well I'll see once I get off work. Have a good night." Meredith said staring at her door suddenly wishing that Derek would just walk through saying he has made a mistake.

"Well, I hope to see you tomorrow night. Night Mer!" The voice said before ending the call.

Meredith sighed and put her phone on silent and back in her bag. Closing the Medical Journal she had begun to read and putting it back in the box, she walked over to her closet. Reaching into the way back on the top shelf she pulled out a black box and brought it to her bed. Meredith sat next to the box, contemplating whether of not to open it and let a huge part of her past come back to her. Finally deciding it was what she needed, she opened the box and put it's contents along with the flyer into her bag. Deciding it was late and she better get to bed she walked into her bathroom to brush her teeth. Upon opening the medicine cabinet to get her toothbrush, she came across Derek's ear plugs. Thinking back to the night she gave them to him and where they were now she ran her thumb over the package and looked into the mirror smirking slightly. Turning from the mirror she threw the ear plugs in the garbage and walked into her room. Shutting off the lights and climbing in bed, Meredith shut her eyes, extremely nervous for tomorrow.