Build Me up Buttercup

AU this is about Meredith and Derek in high school because I think that they are cute as teenagers. (And this way you can mess with their lives lol) Oh and this is based on my high school Lane Tech!

Chapter 1: Not so Glamorous

Build me up Buttercup was the song currently playing on Meredith's iPod as she walked down the hall toward her locker at the end of the first day of high school junior year. She and Christina had all the same classes including AP Psychology and AP Anatomy and Physiology. They were the smartest people in their entire class consisting of 1,243 students this year, some had dropped out due to ….umm…. well let's say judgment flaws. Meredith never really had a preference in guys and she mostly looked the other way when they hit on her, maybe it's her playing hard to get that makes Mark Sloan want her more.

"Mark what do you want" she huffed trying to get to her locker.

"A date" he smirked.

"No sorry i dont date manwhores" she laughed as she got her gym stuff and shut her locker.

"Fine see who takes you to prom" he said as he walked away.

She was walking down the hallway toward Gym 1 when she caught her foot on one of the crappy slanted stairs and almost fell. Luckily one of the football jocks was on his way down the stairs when she did and caught her. As she looked up she saw the most gorgeous pair of blue eyes and the messiest, sexiest black curly hair that she had ever seen. As he helped her up he put his arm on her hip and that sent electricity all around her.

"Here's your ball… You on Varsity Volleyball?" he asked with that little smirk (you all know the one ladies)

"Yeah I'm Meredith Grey" She smiled as she held out her hand.

"Derek Shepherd wait... You're Meredith Grey! You're a legend I mean ….. Holy crap" he exclaimed snaking a hand through his hair.

"Not really but thanks" she blushed as she ran to the Gym hoping he wouldn't follow.

Volleyball was probably the biggest factor in Meredith's life right now besides school. Her mother was aggravating and her father was never home, working most of the time, and she had to take her aggression out on something. So in freshman year she decided to try out for volleyball. As luck would have it she was good, amazing even for a freshman, and was bumped up to varsity, and right now she held the hardest volleyball spike in Seattle. Teams fear her, coaches wanted her, and players wanted to be her. As she walked onto the court she noticed a redhead stretching out already.

"Hi I'm Meredith" she said holding out her hand.

"Addison Montgomery" the redhead whispered shaking her hand but not looking her in the eye.

"Ok, are you on varsity?" Meredith asked stretching her quads.

"Ummm yeah I am bye" she yelled as she ran to the stands.

Meredith shook her head as she grabbed a ball and began warming up her arm. After about half and hour she decided it would be best if she took a break and waited for the rest of the team, practice didn't start for another hour. She saw that Addison girl look at her then reach in her bag for what looked like a magazine. She sighed and grabbed her water.

"Whats it like?" Addison asked holding out the magazine.

"What's what like?" Meredith questioned taking the magazine "oh" she breathed. She looked at the magazine; it was the one she was featured in, in October for achieving the highest vertical in the state. In the article it also states for Meredith had won various trophies for her spike and jump, and was granted about 10 full ride scholarships to collages.

"It's nothing" she sighed as she handed back the magazine and laid down looking at Addison.

"NOTHING" Addison screeched as she looked at Meredith "how can you say that?"

"Simple…. It's nothing" she said as she wrapped her active ankles tighter around her ankles.

"Are you kidding me … everyone envies you and you are constantly in the spotlight"

Addison said giving Meredith the "are you insane" look.

"It's not all that glamorous" Meredith yelled "not when no one notices who you really are and only notices you for your ability. No one really notices ME, you know why" she asked. Addison shook her head furiously, fearing the girl.

"I'll tell you, because everyone is expecting me to mess it up, for me to screw myself up and then they will be on to the next be star" she said anger making her face red. "No one really cares about me, the real me, the just care about the star athlete, the super jock. I wish someone besides my friends would notice me THE REAL ME" she cried.

"I'm got tired of my ex-boyfriend liking me for being a superstar, he would have never noticed me if I wasn't, and my parents they don't give a shit about it, just as long as I don't kill myself, they would be fine if I sold freakin' drugs." She sat down crying.

"So you know what….. it's not as glamorous as you think" she said grabbing her bag and walking out of the gym, going to wait in the Memorial garden for the next forty minutes before practice.