Background: Meredith and Derek are in high school, they meet eachother on the bus when Meredith moves to Seattle and starts her freshman year at Seattle Grace Private School, her mother is married to Richard and they are both attendings. Derek lives with his mom and four sisters and he's a junior in high school. What will happen when their paths cross and the jock falls in love with the self-loathing hipster music loving girl who has a closed knit group of friends.
Disclaimer: I do not own Grey's anatomy or its characters only the people and situations you don't recognize from the show.
Derek walked through the hallways on his way to the locker room. He had so much on his mind and he had a lot to get done that day. He couldnt focus on anything during classes today and was sure that whenever coach heard from his teachers that he would be benched for at least a week's worth of games. Upon entering the locker room his friends all started to cheer him on for monday's victory against their biggest competitor. Derek scored two out of the four goals made in the game. He met everyones hands with a high five and hollared with his teammates feeling that nothing could ever be better than this.
Collecting his bags that he came in here for he grabbed his phone to notice his best friend Mark had texted him about meeting in the locker room for reliving the victory that started out the season. As soon as Derek finished checking the consistant congrats texts from possibly everyone he knew he started walking out of the locker room making his way to the bus. He was still taking his driving lessons and he was almost done with them, but for right now he had to resort to the bus, not wanting his family picking him up and embarrassing him.
Mark soon caught up to him and walked with him down to the busses. Mark was bigger than Derek, but since Derek had more technique and skill than Mark, he had been left out of the race for team captain.
"Hey! Did you think you were going to leave without me? " Mark bellowed over the loud noises of teenagers running around school getting ready to go home.
"Nah. I just thought i would have time to avoid hanging out with your materialistic jock friends." Derek replied looking for his normal bus that he got on.
"You can't just avoid it Derek, you are my best materialistic jock friend..." Mark replied. "And plus there is going to be girls there. You need to meet new girls." Mark expressed his feelings to Derek.
"No I dont want that Mark, I got to go the bus is going to leave soon." Derek hurried onto the bus so that Mark wouldnt suggest driving him home. Derek liked time away from the clique they formed for him.
Everyone on the bus seemed to whisper behind his back about him and he just always felt like he's never deserved it. He went to his normal seat to notice a girl with pink dye in her hair sitting watching out the window. He sat next to her which surprised her a little bit but then didn't seem like it bothered her.
"Hey, I'm Derek Shepherd. Do you mind if I sit here? Well it is kind of my seat already but i don't mind that you're sitting here." When he looked into her eyes he didnt know what was happening but he could feel it and felt like it was a good feeling. He held out his hand for her to shake and she just stared at him and ignored him, turning back tto the window. He kept watching her out of the corner of his eyes completely intrigued by everything she was doing.
After ten minutes into the bus ride she talked. "I'm Meredith Grey. It was the only seat left, I'm sorry if it feels like I'm invading your personal space." Her voice melted Derek's ears and he knew he had to know her.
"Meredith Grey." He repeated it out loud and in his head. Her name was a perfect combination of syllables and vowells. He noticed she had a headphone in and when he gestured to the other she nodded. He put the blaring headphone in his ear. At first it was loud and obnoxious and he hated it but then he sort of started to enjoy it. It was very old school and seemed like her.
"What song is this?" he asked her.
"I barely know you and you want me to share my music with you?" He felt something for her immediately. He didn't know if it was a lack of trust in people or a protection for something she was passionate about. Whatever it was he didn't want her to give it up because it made this stranger pull him in and he wanted to protect her.
"Can I take you out today?" He asked bluntly.
"No. I can't I have to get some things done. I'm busy all day." Meredith replied pulling her headphone out of Derek's ear and shoving it into her bag. Derek suddenly noticed she was trying to get ooff the bus and when he noticed where, he let her through and followed her.
"Are you stalking me? Because that's scary. Girl sits in boy's seat, boy follows her kidnaps,rapes, and kills her. Because that wouldn't be too funny for me since i sat in your seat today." She kept on rambling until she noticed he was looking at her with this amused look in his eyes.
"I love your rambling, it's refreshing and adorable. But I live here in the white house at the end of the drive." He was pointing the direction of his house. "And I'm not a bad guy let me take you out or at least spend the day with me and if we don't have fun then you can sit in my seat and i won't bother you anymore." Derek tried everything just so that she wouldn't leave.
"And why should I do that?" Meredith asked in return.
"Because you'll love me if you get to know me." Meredith nodded at him and followed him to his house, it was a cute medium sized house. All white and bright,Derek let himself in and invited her to come inside, once she stepped inside she could smell something cooking that smelt delicious.
Derek noticed her looking around amazed. "Are you hungry? Do you want a tour?" Derek asked.
"Show me your house Derek Shepherd." She said as she smiled back at his cheesy smile.
