Meredith Grey has lived next door to the Shepherd family ever since her mother, Dr. Ellis Grey, moved them to Boston after the divorce. Meredith was five, so you could say she'v lived next door to them her whole life. The Shepherds' were like family. Carolyn Shepherd was a scrub nurse at Boston General, the same hospital her mother works at as the head of the general surgeon department. Nicolas Shepherd owns a collector's shop, and together the two of them shared four daughters, and a son; Nancy, Kathleen, Lizzie, Amelia, and Derek.

Derek was Meredith's age. They went through school together, and if they were lucky, they'd be put in the same class together. People always say guys and girls cannot be just friends, but the thing was, Derek and Meredith were just friends; best friends for a matter of fact. Through elementary and middle school, Derek was like her protective brother, even now in high school he kind of is, but definitely more geeky. When Meredith and her boyfriend broke up, it wasn't her girl friends who were there comforting Meredith, it was Derek. He had spent the night with Meredith in her huge house, and they stayed up all night watching movies in her bedroom. Ellis Grey obviously could care less since she mainly spent her time at the hospital, so Meredith usually had the house all to herself.

Usually teens would love to have the house all to them house, because it would mean they could throw parties, drink, do drugs, and have sex. But for Meredith, it wasn't that simple. Like I said before, the Shepherd family was always watching her; they were like the family she wished she had, so she wouldn't be able to get away with much. Carolyn would tell her mother, and her mother would react in some way or another.

"Okay, so our mission is to find you a date for prom." Derek said.

"Can't we just go together?" Meredith asked, leaning onto her friend's arm. "You're going to prom, right?"

"I mean... It hasn't been decided yet."

"Derek Shepherd, you cannot miss junior prom. And seriously, what did I tell you about putting product in that hair of yours?" She giggled and reached into her backpack, pulling out a bottle of men's hair gel. "Do I have to do everything for you?"

"I was running late." He retorted.

Meredith ran her fingers through Derek's thick, black afro of a head. She then reached into her bag for a comb, and styled it. "There. Now you'll be one hot sax player in band today." She giggled again.

"Be quiet, band is fun, and may I point out it looks great on a college app."

"I didn't say anything about band!" Meredith hooked her arm around her best friend's as they walked down the hallway. "So prom. It's settled. We're going together."

"Mer-"

"No, Derek. We. Are. Going. Together." She enunciated. "Do we need to go buy you a tux? I shouldn't even have to ask that. I know we do, so we're going shopping after school. No buts."

Meredith drove Derek to the mall and went into a fairly nice store. She had Derek get fitted, while she wandered to look at the dresses. Meredith pulled a bunch of dresses off the rack she wanted to try on, and then went to see how Derek was doing. She returned seeing him in a suit.

Meredith placed her finger on her chin and smiled. "Very hot. Find a suit you like while I try these dresses on."

The first dress Meredith tried on was a nude, sweetheart neckline, beaded trumpet dress. Meredith liked the dress, though she wasn't one hundred on the color. She was picking up major wedding vibes from it, so she moved on to the next dress, which was a long black lace dress, with a plunging v-neckline. Meredith thought it was a very sexy dress; made her boobs look great, and definitely at the top of her list at the moment. After trying on three more dresses, Meredith was on her last dress. It was a ruby lace dress, with an open back, and had a side leg slit that went up half her thigh.

Surprisingly Meredith had found her dress and bought it before she returned to see how Derek was doing. She giggled when she saw him struggling to put his bow tie on. She placed her bag on the floor and turned him around. Meredith straightened the bow tie and smiled. "There, it's perfect."

"You went shopping?" Derek asked noticing the bag.

"Oh, yeah, I found my dress, but it's going to be a surprise, so I'll worry about getting the corsage to match. And you are going to get this suit because it's very hot. We'll just have to work some magic with that hair... Maybe we can get our hair done together." She joked.

"Funny."

Two weeks later was prom. Meredith had skipped school since it's on a Friday night and she had to go get pampered like the rest of the girls at the school who are going will be doing. Of course her mother didn't care, and probably wasn't even aware it was prom night.

The dress Meredith chose to wear was the sexy ruby dress. She had the hair salon curl her hair, and had the nail salon do her nails black. Three was when Meredith got into her dress and added accessories to make the look complete. She had added her diamond pendant to her neck and her diamond stud earrings to her ears. Meredith's doorbell rang, meaning it was Derek coming to pick her up. She slipped her black heels on, and went down to the kitchen to get her corsage and Derek's boutonniere out of the fridge where she was keeping it fresh.

Meredith opened the door and checked Derek out head to toe, having a big smile appear on her face to approve his look. She helped him put his boutonniere on his jacket, and then the Shepherds' began taking pictures of the two young kids.

"Does your mother approve of that dress, Meredith?" Carolyn asked, obviously finding the dress to be too sexy from a mother's perspective.

Meredith sweetly smiled and lied bluntly. "Of course. She helped me pick it out! Oh look our car is here, let's go, Derek."

Meredith had rented a fancy town car for her and Derek to ride to prom in, obviously using mommy's credit card. Derek kept telling Meredith she looked great, and it might have been at the moment, Derek began to see Meredith in a different perspective.

They arrived at prom, which was being held on the top floor of some hotel. Meredith and Derek took prom pictures first so what she had worked on all day wasn't going to be for a waste. After pictures were taken, Meredith grabbed Derek's hand and guided him to the dance floor. Meredith knew Derek couldn't dance; like literally couldn't dance to save his life. But she was determined to get some dances out of him no matter what.

Meredith couldn't stop laughing at her best friend, and then a slow song came on. Derek was better at slow songs because all you have to do it rock back and forth with your partner, where faster paced songs requires you to be more energetic.

"My goal by next prom is to get you to be a better dancer." Meredith smiled. "I'll even pay for dance lessons if I have to, which I probably will. You're an awful dancer, you know that?"

"I think I'm aware."

"Like you would think someone who plays a sax would know how to dance." She joked. "You know, be able to feel the beat."

"You just love teasing me about this, don't you?"

"I really do."

The song ended, and they both went to grab a drink of punch. It was getting too hot in the room, so the decided to go out on the rooftop and overlook the view of Boston they had.

"Are you having fun?" Meredith asked.

"I'm glad you forced me to come." Derek said.

"Good, because there was no way in hell I was going to let you be at home."

Hey look who's back with a new story! Okay, well I'm not as busy as I thought I would be with college so I've written a couple of stories; one that's already done but debating about posting, and others like this one that aren't complete. Anyways, I hope you liked this chapter and story idea! So leave a review, follow, and favorite!

** Also, I'll probably not be updating as quick as I did with my two previous stories just because I only have like 3 or 4 chapters written, and I'm planning on going back to change them a bit. So until next time, bye!