[[This is my new story, so I hope everyone enjoys it. It takes place right after the episode "My favorite Mistake." Please read and review!

Chapter 1

They say that life is complicated

That it's a hard pill to swallow

People like to go around pretending

Like everything is perfect

But who knows what inner struggles they hide

We seem to forget about the secret lovers

And their secret fights

So we ask ourselves

How do we fix it

Sometimes there is a simple solution to it all

And sometimes there just isn't

We just have to buckle up, hold on tight

And pray we don't lose ourselves along the way

Izzie sat on her bed, tears welling up in her eyes. She stared at the wall, trying to sort out everything that had happened in the past two days. Her and George had been fighting. Well, not exactly fighting, but they weren't on speaking terms. She had been at home one night, when George came to her. Over the course of the evening, they had had one too many drinks and one thing lead to another. The next thing she knew, she was waking up with a pounding headache, and was laying unclothed in bed, next to George. At first she had been confused and angry with herself. But the more she thought about it, the more sense it made. She kept trying to tell herself that it was just drunken sex and that was it. But down deep she knew that it was more. She felt more. She sighed deeply as she wiped a tear from her cheek. She was so conflicted. She loved George. She had always loved George, but lately things had seemed different. She hated herself for realizing this now. Why hadn't she realized it sooner? Now he was married to Callie, and there was nothing she could do. She would have to just sit back and watch George and Callie be a happy couple. She would have to settle for just being George's best friend. 'Is that even possible anymore?' she thought. Now that she admitted her feelings to herself, would she be able to be just friends? She shook her head and stood up. Why did things have to be so damn complicated? She wiped the tears away one last time, before picking up the sheets off of her bed and taking them to the washer. She started the wash and knew she wouldn't be able to sleep right now, so she decided to do some more cleaning. She was nearly done cleaning up the kitchen, when Meredith walked in, looking very groggy. She furrowed her eyebrows as she looked at Izzie on her hands and knees.

"Izz, what the hell are you doing? Its 3 in the morning. . ."

Izzie stood up and set down the cleaner on the counter. "Nothing. I just couldn't sleep is all."

Meredith looked around at the now very clean and good smelling kitchen before looking back at Izzie. "Is everything okay?" she asked.

"Yeah, everything's fine" She said unconvincingly as she gave a weak smile.

Meredith contemplated prying further, but decided it would be better to wait until tomorrow. She sighed and nodded as she grabbed a water out of the fridge. "Alright, well I'll see you in the morning." She said, walking out of the kitchen. "Goodnight."

"Night." Izzie said, as she watched Meredith leave. She sighed as she looked at the rag in her hand. She decided she would finally go to bed, since the kitchen probably couldn't get any cleaner.

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Izzie arrived at work the next day feeling quite exhausted. She had been pretty stressed out the day before, and because of that didn't get much sleep. She was sitting on a bench by her locker with her head in her hands, wishing she could just go home.

"Hey Izz, what's up with you?" Alex asked.

Izzie looked up at him, with baggy eyes. "Nothing. Why does everyone think something's wrong?" she said, looking angry.

Alex looked at her strangely. "I didn't say anything was wrong, I just asked-"

"Well I'm fine okay?" She said, rather loudly.

He looked at her for a second before slamming his locker shut and walking away.

Izzie put her head back in her hands and sighed, telling herself she needed to calm down.

Christina leaned over to Meredith and whispered "What's wrong with her?"

Meredith shrugged. "I don't know. She was acting funny yesterday too. I woke up at 3 this morning and found her turning my kitchen into a freaking advertisement for Mr. Clean." She said eyeing Izzie.

Christina looked over at Izzie like she was trying to see if she could read her mind to figure out what was wrong.

Izzie glanced up and caught Meredith and Christina staring at her. They quickly shut their lockers and walked away.

Izzie rolled her eyes and was about to say something when Dr. Bailey walked in.

"Hey, its time for rounds." She turned around to walk out, but then turned back around. "Where's O'Malley?" she looked around, and when no one answered she looked at Izzie. "Stevens, have you seen O'Malley?"

Izzie looked up and shook her head. "No." she said, feeling strange at being asked. 'Does she know?' she wondered.

"Well that fool can forget about getting in on surgeries today." She looked around. "Why are you all still here? I said its time for rounds!"

With out hesitating, they all jumped up and quickly followed Bailey out of the locker room.