No longer alone
Summary:
High school AU. When Meredith Grey's mother suddenly passes away, she is sent to live with her father, his wife and two daughters all the way in Seattle. There she meets a few people who manage to make Meredith realize what she's been missing all her life. Love.
Chapter One
Making Amends
'This isn't happening…. This cannot be happening!' Meredith Grey kept chanting in her head. She was currently climbing out of the plane and imagining all of the things that went wrong in her life and how they kept getting worse and worse. She was caught up so deep in her thoughts that she didn't realize she was blocking the exit until a woman elbowed past her and gave her death glare.
When she finally got her luggage and made her way to the lobby she didn't know what to do next. She was told by a social worker that her father would be there to pick her up when her plane landed, but it was so big off a crowd that there wasn't a very good chance she would find him. Also it didn't help the fact that her father wasn't the most reliable person in the world. He left Meredith and her mother, Ellis Grey, when she was one because Ellis was busy with work and didn't spend enough time with her father, Thatcher, and also that was about the same time he found himself a new wife and moved with her to Seattle. He still send over money to them and usually they saw each other once a year when he visited. But Meredith never actually met his wife and her two half-sisters, she asked her mother about them once but she only told her their names, Molly and Alexandra. Meredith was about to go find a payphone when she heard her name being called from afar.
"Meredith! Meredith, hey!" She saw her father rushing and pushing past people to get to her.
When he finally reached her he looked out of breath, but he still gave her a big smile and pulled her into a hug, which she returned with her one free arm.
"I can't believe how grown up you look now!" He pulled away and looked her up and now. "You're a junior, right?" Meredith only shyly nodded and then he continued "Ah! You're only a year ahead of my eldest, Lexie. Speaking of Lexie, she really wanted to come with me to pick you up but she's been out of town this past week, she's coming home tomorrow. Oh let me get that, come on the car is this way."
While ridding to her new home, Thatcher hardly stopped talking "When I told Lexie about you coming to live with us she was so excited! She loves her sister Molly, but they aren't exactly very close. They are very different and have almost nothing in common." Meredith said nothing on the whole ride over. When she was little she always loved the idea of a little sister but over the years she gave up on the idea and grew out of it. When the car stopped her father stopped rambling and yelled 'We're here!'. Meredith looked out of the window and saw a salmon colored suburban house.
A middle-aged woman came out of the house and ran towards the car. She drew out her hand almost immediately after Meredith stepped out of the car.
"It's very nice to meet you, Meredith! I'm Susan."
"Hi." Meredith said and gave her a forced smile. The woman seemed nice so Meredith made a mental note not to give her a hard time.
"Come in, come in! You must be tired." She fussed and led her into the house. "We have a room set up upstairs for you, Thatcher can take your suitcases up for you. Come sit at the table, dinner is ready." She started walking and Meredith followed her to the dining room and sat down on a chair.
"Molly! Come downstairs this instant!" Susan yelled for her daughter and not even a minute later a girl around 13 entered the room.
"Hey! I'm Molly."
"Meredith."
"How old are you?" the girl asked as she sat down at the table.
"Seventeen." Meredith answered.
"Molly is starting 8th grade next week." Thatcher said as he sat next to her. "She isn't in high school yet, but don't worry Lexie will love to show you around the school." Meredith nodded and took a bite of her salad.
It was a pleasant dinner, Meredith thought. They hardly asked her anything too personal. They asked her how was school, if it was nice in Boston and Molly even got shushed because she asked Meredith if she had a boyfriend back from Boston, but Meredith didn't mind that much she just gave the younger girl a half-smile and said no.
After diner, Susan gave her a little tour of the house and showed her her new bedroom. It was nice according to Meredith but not exactly her taste. The walls were painted a beige color and the rug was abnormally fluffy. She took her time unpacking, making sure everything was neat and tidy and then around half past eleven she decided she'd try to get some sleep.
Meredith was about to turn off the lights when she heard noises coming from outside the house. Curiously, she pulled the curtains from the windows and saw a boy, around her age running down the street. She didn't get a good look because he was already far down the street, but then she saw another person. It was a girl, probably her age, with long and curly black hair. She was also running but much slower. She was panting and yelling 'Wait'.
Meredith watched the girl disappear, then turned off the lights and got in bed. It took her awhile to fall asleep, but when she did her pillow was stained with a few tear drops.
Author's note:
Hi! I hope you liked the beginning of my story! I recently finished Grey's anatomy and have been kind of obsessed. Although it seems like it at first, this story wont be mainly about Meredith. Almost all of the characters will be in it because i love all of them very much.
Tell me what you thing in the reviews!
love, tacoqueenxx