Meredith slammed the phone down to bleed off some of her irritation. This is why she did not order books on the internet. She had intended to buy a medical text but instead what got delivered was a book about zodiac symbols, Darkside Zodiac.
That would not have been a terrible problem, if the company refunded purchases. Which of course they did not. And then going beyond that little bit of frustration they would not let her order the book she had wanted over the phone.
Meredith stuffed the offending book into her purse, maybe she could 'accidentally' leave it at Seattle Grace. "Alex! Izzie! We are going to be late for work," she called to her roommates.
"Chill, we're ready," Alex said as he passed her. He slipped out the door as Izzie came into the hall from the kitchen.
Meredith got into her car and set her purse on the passenger seat. Izzie, who always sat shotgun, but Meredith's purse on the floor, it was a habit by now. "Meredith, what is in your purse? It feels all bulky," Izzie asked opening the bag.
"Just a book," Meredith answered.
"The Darkside Zodiac? Oh I love horoscopes and the zodiac! Alex what is your sign?" Izzie asked excitedly flipping through the book.
"Scorpio, why? Its not like that stuff is true," Alex said brushing it off. Meredith felt a surge of kinship to Alex at that moment. There were some things that Meredith and Alex saw eye to eye on.
"The scorpion, interesting," Izzie said turning to find the Scorpio pages of the book.
"Come on Izzie," Meredith said as she parked the car. She grabbed the book from Izzie's hand and her purse from the floor. "You can play with it later if you want to."
"Fine, even if you don't believe it, horoscopes are still fun," Izzie told Meredith with a smile.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I bought the book Darkside Zodiac (yes it is real) the other day. I read it through. Flipping through again, I wondered about the birthdays of our favorite Grey's characters. Now since there are no stated birthdays I am playing birthday and astrological sign by the personality of the character.
I intend to write a chapter about each sign and have Izzie and Meredith (reluctantly on her part) analyze what someone's sign is by there personality. I have very little set in stone, drop me a line if you want one certain character you want to see written about. The only for sure ones that are being written about are: Mark (and I'll give a shout out to all those who guess his sign correctly before I post it), The Chief, Christina, and Lexie. I will probably do Meredith and Izzie because they are the characters who spawn the story.
So tell me if you have anyone specific you want me to write. And maybe if this is popular I'll write more than one character for a few signs.