-1"Hey just give me a call when you get in." she said into the phone before closing the phone and slipping it back into her pocket as she sat in traffic. She was on her way back to her college after the cruise she'd taken with her friends for spring break. It was her senior year and she was graduating in a few short months. Her phone started ringing a few moments later.

"Hey Princess. How was the cruise?" Derek asked when Meredith answered the phone.

"It was really great! We had so much fun. I'll send you some pictures after I get settled back on campus and we all put them up. Oh Guess what was waiting in my room when I got back home" She said excitedly.

"What!?"

"Acceptance letters…" She said with a smile.

"Where to?" He asked just as excited as she was.

"UVA, VCU, and Duke."

"Wow. That's incredible Mer. I'm so proud of you! So what are you thinking?"

"That I'm stuck in traffic and I have to be at a soccer dinner in an hour."

"Silly girl." He said laughing at her. "Soccer dinner? Does that mean I can't take you out to celebrate tonight?"

"It's Sunday, silly man, you'll be exhausted tonight. How about later in the week or something?" She said knowing that after youth choir, dinner, youth group and the inevitable discussion that somebody would want to have with him he'd want nothing more than to chill out by himself in front of the television.

"Well I need to talk to you about some stuff too. You aren't going to tell me where you're leaving about this decision are you?"

"I'm not sure. I don't know if I wanna move to Charlottesville for UVA or stay close in Richmond and go to VCU."

"No Duke!?" He said pretending to be horrified. It was, after all, where he had gone to seminary at.

"We've talked about this. Duke's for seminary. The rest is for French. Duke'll come later on."

"You could do French and Divinity at the same time."

"I could."

"You don't want to talk now." He observed. She giggled at him. "Okay you. I'm gonna let you go. Drive safely."

She continued to drive back to campus now stressing over her grad school decision, weighing her choices in her mind. She knew UVA was the best. But she wasn't sure if she wanted to be that far away. She knew she wanted to do French before Divinity, but maybe both at the same time wasn't such a bad idea.

Thinking about Duke made her think about Derek, her relationship with him. She met him over ten years before that when he was her a youth leader for the district. Over the next three years while she was in middle school he was there for her. She spend a lot of time around him because of her involvement in the district. The summer before she went to high school he moved two hours away, leaving the district to go to seminary. Then again he moved even further to take a youth position in a huge church. High school was incredibly rough for her. Her mom was never home because she was a surgeon and lived for her job. Her dad had left years before. When it came to adult guidance Derek was it, even though he was only ten years older than she was.

After high school ended she went onto college about ninety minutes from her home. Derek also moved taking another youth position about twenty minutes from her college. She had to admit their relationship was a little odd. A lot of their relationship while she was in high school was purely e-mail. They saw each other once the entire time she was in there. But once college came it slowly changed. She was growing up and becoming an adult. She didn't need him to be there for her as she had before. Instead she was there for him. It became mutual, they became close friends. Being there for each other through break-ups, work and school troubles, all of it.

She adored him and he thought the world rose and set on her. He was absolutely gorgeous, not quite six foot athletic build with the warmest blue eyes and curly black locks. She was a petite tiny little thing, about 5'5" long auburn hair and firey green eyes. But despite their appearances, neither was interested in the other. Their relationship was built on everything platonic. She sighed as she pulled on campus heading towards the soccer house that four of the team seniors shared, where the dinner was being held.

A/N:

Wow confusing huh…well lemme try to explain a little bit. Meredith is about ten years younger than Derek. They met when she was in middle school and he was in college. Now she's graduating college and he's a youth director. Odd choice huh? I LOVE the medicine side of greys, but I don't know it well enough to write about it. I do know youth ministry and I know French junk. Lemme know if I should continue. I'll probably add another chapter tonight…This is my first fanfic, so help me out and review a bit. If you have questions ask them. I'll answer them in A/N's.