I was bet. Grey's anatomy version "book". So I will take up the challenge. I don't know how far it will go, but I hope to do a lot of season and of course, all the characters will be there, all the stories will be too. It's crazy, but a challenge is a challenge.

POV Meredith

The game: They say a person either has what it takes to play or they don't. My mother was one of the greats. Me on the other hand... I'm kinf of screwed.

Richard: Each of you comes here today hopeful, waiting in on the game. A month ago, you were in med school being taught by doctors. Today... you are the doctors. The seven years you spend here as a surgical resident will be the best and worst of your life.You will be pushed to the breaking point. Look around you. Say hello to your competition. Eight of you will switch to an easier speciality. Five will crack under the pressure. Two of you will be asked to leave. This your starting line. This your arena. How well you play, that's up to you.

While the man spoke, he attributed the residents, a woman, small black-skinned, waiting for us at the end of the hall. She had the head of the person who had no joy at having to endure young aspiring to become a doctor. A little hesitant, we went to her.

Bailey: l have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number one: Don't bother sucking up. l hate you. That's not gonna change. Trauma protocol, phone list, pagers, nurses will page you. You will answer every page at a run. A run! That's rule number two. Your first shift starts now and lasts 48 hours. You're interns, grunts, nobodies, bottom of the surgical food chain. You run labs, write orders, work every second night until you drop, and don't complain. On-call rooms. Attendings hog them. Sleep when you can where you can, which brings me to rule number three. lf l'm sleeping, don't wake me unless your patient is dying. Rule four: The dying patient better not be dead when l get there. Not only will you have killed someone, you woke me for no reason. We clear ?

Meredith: You said five rules. That was only four. "I say, raising my hand."

Bailey: Rule number five. When l move, you move.

His pager started ringing. I knew what it meant, I knew it was a patient who needed us. Quickly, we rushed down the hall to go to the roof...

Bailey: What do we got ?

"Katie Bryce, 15-year-old, new onset seizures, intermittent for the past week. lV lost en route, started grand mal seizing as we descended."

Bailey : All right, get her on her side lzzie, 10 milligrams Diazepam lM. Cristina, you're on labs. George, patient work-ups. Meredith, get Katie for a CT. She's your responsibility now. Izzie, you get to do rectal exams.

Pushing the bed on which Katie was lying, my patient, I was walking down the halls in search of the scanner room. Bailey had made a quick tour of the place, way too fast for me to remember all the places.

Katie :You're lost.

Meredith : l'm not lost. How are you feeling ?

Katie : l'm missing my pageant.

Meredith : You're missing your pageant ?

Katie : The Spokane Teen Miss. l was in the top ten after the first two rounds. This is my year. l could have won. You're so lost. What are you, like, new ? l twisted my ankle in talent rehearsal. l do rhythmic gymnastics, which is, like, really cool. Nobody else does it. And l tripped over my ribbon. And l didn't get stuck with someone this clueless, and that was, like, a nurse.

Arriving in the room, the examination was done. My morning just started, and I had enough already. The midday break was one of the best things that could happen to me. My friends, if I can call them that, were all sitting at a table, chatting.

Meredith : Katie Bryce is a pain in the ass. lf l hadn't taken the Hippocratic Oath, l'd Kevorkian her with my bare hands.

Burke : Good afternoon, interns. «He said approaching our table.» lt's posted, but l thought l'd share the good news personally. As you know, the honor of performing the first surgery is reserved for the intern that shows the most promise. As l'm running the OR today, l get to make that choice. George O'Malley.

George: Me ?

Burke: You'll scrub in for an appendectomy this afternoon. Congratulations. Enjoy.

Katie's parents arrived, I went to her room. They wanted to understand what was happening, what had happened to him. Of course, in their place I would need explanations and I would seek to have some.

Meredith: l'm not the doctor. l'm a doctor, but l'm not Katie's doctor, so l'll go get him for you.

Walking down the hall, I caught Bailey. I was hoping she could inform me, I did not have any other options anyway. I did not know more than anyone what was going on with Katie.

Meredith: Katie's parents have questions. Do you talk to them, or do l ask Burke ?

Bailey: No, Burke's off the case. Katie belongs to the new attending now, Dr. Shepherd. He's over there.

Derek: Meredith, can l talk to you for a second ?

Turning around, I realized that the man I slept with the day before was not a stranger. A stranger for ever.