Hey, here is a very quick update setting a bit of the plot so bear with me!!
It had been 6 weeks since the accident and Meredith's arm had recovered with little effort and time which she was very thankful for. She had addressed the press and dealt with the media and for once, she had not been portrayed as the bad guy. The papers were completely fair on her and she was grateful that they were finally giving her some peace and quiet to recover. Well, it was just less hectic than usual, she still constantly got bombarded by fans in every direction.
Meredith was out doing her shopping in the usual style, big sunglasses, hat and dressed down for the occasion. Simple grocery shopping could often end up with some sort of papparrazzi member following her home so she was having none of it today.
Pushing the shopping trolley in front of her, she was picking out some fruit and vegetables in the first isle of the store. She was in auto-pilot and was selecting apples, then kiwis, then mangos, then a cucumber, lettuce, tomatoes. She went to take one of the potatoes from the barrell they were displayed in and pulled back slightly when another hand went for the same one. The other hand retracted too, out of politeness. Meredith looked up to smile politely at the person but was startled to see none other than Dr McDreamy as Christina had nicknamed him, not that Mer had protested.
"I'm sorry, you take it," he said offering the potato to her.
"No no, it's ok. It looks kind of rough anyway," Meredith said in a bid to seem cool and collected.
"Oh, so you want me to have it cos it's rough?" he joked.
"Oh no, I didn't mean it like that I was just saying that after taking a closer look I just re-considered and I think you should do the same. I mean, look at it. It's sort of mingled shape, it's got random black dots on and is trying to pass itself as a potato. If you were going to pick it, it would be out of sympathy. It's what we call a sad potato," she rambled, embarrased to have been thought of as above the manky potato.
"A sad potato?" he laughed at her cuteness, "You know I was kidding right? About you not wanting it but it being worthy for me."
"Right, I know," again, Meredith tried to seem cool and collected, and failed.
"OK," McDreamy looked away with an expression, clearly thinking Meredith was crazy to be personifying a potato.
"I'm sorry Dr Shepherd, I'll let you get back to your shopping," she said shyly.
"Please, call me Derek. And surely that should have happened the other way around. So what are you, the big famous hit, doing shopping here hey?" Derek asked, never seeing her in here before and lightening the tone to small talk rather than sad potatoes.
"Well, usually I come in here at about midnight so that I don't get bothered but since I'm not on any sets at the moment, I wait for all the kids to be in school, all the parents to be at work and shop during daylight hours. How come you're not at the hospital?" She asked, both of them moving into the yoghurt isle, having decided to completely pass on the whole potato issue.
"Got a couple of days off so thought I'd catch up on some errands. Turns out it was worth it, bumping into you," he directed a very sumptuous smile her way. She turned away, blushing as he thought she would. Derek knew the effect he had on woman and normally he would just play up to it but with her he was making the effort and she was worth every second of it.
"How come you're picking out so many yoghurts?" Meredith asked in reponse to the 12 pack of yoghurts he had just picked out.
"Errr, well, I don't live alone. I have quite a large family all of whom eat a fair bit," he said cautiously, leaving Meredith stunned. She stopped in her tracks, shocked at this revelation. She had been fantasising and dreaming about this guy for the last 6 weeks and all things that were dreamt about distinctively did not need a wife or any family member involved.
Of course he was married, a catch like him? How could he not be. Meredith still hadn't moved. Maybe it meant something completely different. He lived with his brothers maybe or his cousins or parents. Oh gosh, surely he didn't live with his parents. By the time she had come out of her paralyzed thought process, Derek had disappeared and was absolutely no where in sight. She tried to hunt him down subtly in the store but had lost him. She let out a disappointed sigh and returned to her usual shopping rounds.
"Christina? CHRISTINA?" Meredith shouted around the huge house that belonged to the pair and hoped that she was in to help with the shopping. Of course, no such luck came and she ended up putting every last item away and even cleared up the mess made by Christina's breakfast and lunch. Just after finishing the cleaning, none other than Christina walked in from her bedroom with an ipod in her ears. Meredith tilted her head at her with a look of despair.
"Christina?" Meredith said in a calm voice as to not let her temper rip her best friends throat out.
"What?" Christina replied, completely oblivious to the mess having been cleaned up.
Meredith just shook her head.
"I saw McDreamy in the store today. Looking as lucious and scrumptious as I remember. Why does he have to be married! Argh!" She exclaimed.
"McDreamy is married?" Christina said in disbelief. She could tell Mer had really taken a liking to him and felt for the girl. She wasn't the luckiest in love to say the least. In fact, she couldn't hold a relationship down if her life depended on it and the relationship was the weakest dead ant that could exist.
Meredith flopped down onto the leather couch.
Like i said, its not really a chapter full of excitement, partially cos most of it was about a sad potato! But hey, i'd like to thank the following for being so lucious and scrumptious- Casey, DORKY GiiiRL, greysanatomyroxmysox (lol ur username is so true!!), Dilly 0702, Endzi, Luella, Emelie, Whatever, Paulis8707, TCF, Melanie, Lou, payalf, IslandGurl90. You guys are fantastic at reviewing!! i love them and it motivates me so keep it up!!
Can anyone guess the story with Derek? hmmmmmmmmm!!
