A/N Hey guys this is my first time publishing a story on this site, and also my first multi chapter story. I am writing this story without a beta so excuse the mistakes that I am sure to make. Mark and Lexie are my OTP and I love that because of fan fiction they will forever live on. This is an AU ML story; I would love to get some feedback if you are reading. Here goes, I hope you enjoy…
It was a bad day, no, it was a bad week, a bad year to be exact. This was supposed to be the happiest times of her life, she was about to graduate from medical school at Harvard, she was about to become a real doctor and start her surgical intern year at Mass Gen, this was everything that she hoped for and dreamed about for as long as she could remember. Life was supposed to be good for Lexie Grey, instead lately; life was dealing her a hand that she was sure she could not win with.
Just last year she had the life anyone would be jealous of, she had grown up in a stable home with a wonderful mother and a father who in her eyes never did anything wrong. She had two sisters who she adored, Molly and Meredith. Lexie and Molly were as close as sisters could be and even though she only met Meredith a few years ago, they had a great relationship and spoke on the phone as often as they could. She was at the top of her class in medical school and although she was constantly busy with her studies, she managed to meet a great group of friends and maintain a normal loving relationship with her boyfriend for two years.
There were five of them; her Boston family that is what she called them, there was Jenifer the most beautiful blond haired, green eyed girl. Lexie met her in the first year she moved to Boston, she was a English major but dropped out to pursue modeling, and although her parents were livid, she made them realize however that modeling was what she was supposed to do, it was her calling she said, and after many arguments she finally won them over, that was just how Jen was, she knew what she wanted and made sure she got it. Her parents were very well off and when they bought her a condo Lexie moved in with her along with two of their other close friends Melissa and Thomas. Even though Mel, Tom and Jen had been friends long before Lexie came into the picture, they made her feel part of the group instantly. Then there was Tony, her boyfriend, Tony was a medical student at Harvard too and after many hours of studying together Lexie and Tony started a romantic relationship. It was the longest relationship Lexie had ever been in, two years, and she couldn't wait to start their future together after medical school. These people were her best friends, her family; she spent every free second she had with them. She was the happiest she had ever been. A year ago, she had everything she wanted.
Nothing could go wrong right? NO. Actually everything could.
It all started with a call from her dad one day, her mom apparently was being checked out at the hospital, hiccups, she had hiccups, and although the thought of her dad actually rushing her mom to the ER because she had hiccups was an amusing thought at the time, she wasn't surprised, that was just the type of man her dad was, always the fixer. When she received the next call from her dad however, she didn't hang up the phone giggling. Her mom died, she died from the hiccups. That was the day her life changed forever, her rock was gone her best friend was not just a phone call away anymore. At least she still had her dad, Molly, and her Boston family; well that is what she thought.
When Lexie returned home for her mom's funeral nothing was the same, nothing was as she left it. Her father was a drunk; she couldn't remember seeing him sober one time for the two weeks she was there. Night after night he would go into a drunken rage of how much of a bitch she was and how the sight of her and Molly disgusted him. So after she left to go back to school, she thought that he might settle down a bit and she would call him and things would go back to normal. No. she didn't hear of him again, she called and called but nothing, from what she heard from Meredith he was now a complete drunk and was a regular at the hospital where she worked, standing and hollering towards the doors until the police had to escort him home. Because of the hiccups she lost both of her parents. Molly was grieving in her own way and threw herself into her own little family, her husband Eric and baby Laura, they went from talking every second day to texting happy birthdays and how are you's.
Jen, Mel, Tom and Tony were very supportive though, a bit too supportive for Lexie's liking. She grew tired of assuring them that she was fine every minute of every day, so she avoided them. It was wrong she knew, but she just didn't want to talk about her dead mother and alcoholic father. She threw herself into her studies and would spend endless hours in the library. She joined new studies groups even though she didn't need to with her photographic memory she just wanted to get out of the house, away from the constant looks of pity. In one study group she got really close to two girls, Sarah and Cassie, she knew them from classes they were in together but they never really hung out or even talked much. Sarah lived close to campus so after their study sessions they would hang out at her tiny apartment. Two months had passed and the only time she ever saw her Boston family was in the mornings before she left for class or at night when she returned only to go to bed. She knew her relationship with Tony was on thin ice too, they rarely ever saw each other anymore, all her fault she knew. She always cancelled their plans and made up excuses and he too was rarely seen at the condo where he also practically lived when their relationship saw better days. So it surprising one day when she pulled into her driveway and saw he's car standing there, she sighed heavily and her mind went crazy with ideas of excuses she could give him to leave. Turns out she didn't need any. He wasn't there to see her that day, or if he was, he was looking in the wrong room. It was only when they heard a door slam that they realized that Lexie had walked in on them. There they were, Tony and Jen. An image she was sure she would never erase from her memory, she ran to the bathroom and she physically got sick. She still to this day can't recall the excuses and apologies they blurted out to her. She didn't answer them or fight with them, she got in her car and left. She drove around for what seemed like hours just crying and when her phone rang for the ninth time she answered, but this call wasn't from Jen or Tony it was Sarah, asking if she wanted to come over get pizza and study. That is where she was now, three months after the day she caught her best friend going down on her boyfriend, she went over for pizza, not studying, it was pizza, crying ,drinking too much and making a complete fool of herself. Yet she never returned home or to Jen's Condo or whatever that place was.
She wanted to stay in contact with Mel and Tom though and when they met up for lunch one day they couldn't stop apologizing for not telling her about Jen and knew, they knew and they didn't tell her. That was the last she saw of either of them. One day when she was sure no one would be home she packed her bags and left her key under the mat. She stayed with Sarah in her one bedroom apartment for three months, three months of crying herself to sleep, studying for and taking finals.
She was sure that Sarah would kick her out, yet her and Cassie would just pass her the Kleenex when she started to cry out of the blue or join her in a rant of how Jen was the biggest bitch ever and Tony was just a whore.
They just finished their last final a few days ago, and Sarah and Cassie had been trying to get he out of the apartment, but Lexie just didn't want to celebrate anything. She felt bad after the third night of making excuses though, they were being such good friends to her and the least she could do was go out with them.
Clubbing was the last thing she wanted to do that night, but after talking to Meredith and her threatening to take a plane to Boston to kick her ass if she stayed home one more night, she decided to take a shower and tell the girls that she would join them; they were all she had after all. This was not the way her final year of med school was supposed to go, she was supposed to go home to Seattle just after celebrating the end of her finals with her "Boston fam", her mother would've cooked a feast and Tony would be there with her. But no, the hand she was dealt this time didn't allow for that. Instead she was there with two girls she had just met, and a half sister she barely knew.
This was not the plan, this was never the plan.
A/N so I know, I know there was no ML in this chapter, but this was a reallyimportant chapter for the Lexie's story. Mark and Lexie meet in the next chapter so the story will definitely pick up from that point ;). If I get enough reviews I'll post chapter 2 over the weekend. Thanks for reading
