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Chapter one
College
Lily and Gwen stood in awe watching Seattle University's campus buzz with students. Today they were moving into their dorm rooms and entering the world of adult hood. It was a frightening experience for them both. Senior year was a piece of cake. They left early everyday and hardly had any homework. Now they were back into the academic shuffle. They would have papers, tests, pop quizzes and speeches.
"Where the hell is your dorm room?" Jackson huffed. He was recruited by the girls to help them move boxes into their dorm. When he had refused to give up his Saturday his father had bribed him. When he had still refused Gwen had somehow convinced him to help.
"Come this way," Miranda Bailey told him marching towards the freshman dorm room leaving the two gawking college girls behind.
"It's so imposing," Lily whispered to her mother who then gave her an assured smile.
"Damn it!" Came the angry voice of Mark Sloan. He had dropped a particularly heavy box on his foot. "What the hell do you have in here Bailey?" Gwen shot Sloan a look making her look remarkably like her mother. Mark quickly apologized and picked up the box. For the past year he had been living with his fiancé Lexi Grey and knew that the best way to deal with a woman was to do exactly what they asked of you. Derek Shepherd laughed at his best friend as he carried a box of his daughter's favorite books and headed towards the dorms. "If he wasn't the new chief of surgery I'd kick him." The girls snickered and went to grab a box.
"I'm going to go make sure your father and Mark don't get into a fight," Meredith said walking off to stop the feuding men. Some things would never change.
"How come your boyfriend gets out of helping us move especially after we helped him move into his dorm just last year? In fact, he didn't even help move his own stuff in…and you didn't either. You two made out the whole time and left the heavy lifting to the rest of us." Lily blushed.
"Sorry about that," she muttered. "But he is picking up your brother if I recall correctly."
"Oh yeah," Gwen said with a grimace. Gwen loved her half brother, but he was the reason for the phrase sibling rivalry. For her entire life he broke all the records and left none for her to break. He was the star of the family and Gwen was sloppy seconds. Tucker was four years older. He was delivered by the iconic and dearly departed George O'Malley. He made all A's. He still held the record for track at their old high school. He was pre-med. He was Tucker Bailey.
"Why is he coming back to Seattle anyway?" Lily asked. "Doesn't Stanford start up soon? It's his first year of med school." Gwen smiled.
"He is taking a year off and mom is pissed. I get to be the golden child for once after all."
"I will never get why you try and compete so hard against him. Jackson and I don't even do that," Lily said entering the dorm building. "Besides he's a really cool guy. Nathan really looked up to him when he was in high school."
"Nathan didn't have him as an older brother and neither did you," Gwen replied reaching for the dorm door.
"Hi neighbors!" Came a cheerful voice from behind the girls. They turned around to see a tall blonde smiling at them. "I'm Kate and I'm your across the hallway neighbor!"
"Hi Kate I'm Lily and this is my roommate and best friend Gwen."
"Oh God we live across the hall from Barbie," Gwen muttered low enough so that only Lily heard.
"Well it's very nice to meet you guys," Kate said with a warm smile. "I'm from Colorado so I don't know anyone here."
"Oh well were Seattle natives so if you have any questions or anything just ask," Lily said politely.
"Thanks," Kate sighed in relief. "You guys are really nice. My parents were totally wrong about Seattle. I'll let you guys unpack. I know I still have hours of it left myself," Kate said disappearing into her dorm room.
"What's taking you guys so long?" Jackson asked peeking his head out of the girls own dorm room.
"Were coming," Gwen assured. "We just had a run in with Goldie locks. She held us up." Jackson smirked and held the door open for the girls. The dorm was modest in size. There were two bed frames that could hold a twin bed and two desks next to them. They even had a small bath room so they wouldn't have to worry about sharing a shower with fifty other people.
"Are you sure you want to live here?" Derek asked his daughter. "You can still live with us."
"You'd lose money," Lily pointed out.
"It wouldn't be the worst thing," Derek replied.
"Could you have asked her this before we moved boxes into the room" Mark asked annoyed. Meredith shot him a look that silenced him. She had been hanging out with her sister too much.
"Well not all of us are Nuro gods who make two million dollars a year so Gwen you're staying here," Bailey said giving her daughter a smile.
"I'll be fine daddy," Lily told her father. In truth, moving out of her bedroom that she had occupied for eighteen years had been a big decision, but she was sure it was the right choice. After all she was eighteen now. It was time to get out of her comfort zone and she had Gwen with her. Also, it would be nice to have a place where she and Nathan could be alone and without a curfew.
Mark, Derek, Meredith, Bailey, Jackson, Gwen, and Lily got the rest of the boxes out of the car and unloaded most of their things within an hour. It was amazing what people could accomplish with a little team work.
"I'll see you guys tomorrow for dinner," Lily said to her mother, father, and brother. She hugged each of them tightly and held back her tears.
"Would you look at them?" Bailey said to the group. "I never thought my daughter would be best friends with a Shepherd. And I never thought a Shepherd would be dating a Sloan."
"Hey," Mark interjected. "What do you mean by that?"
"Only that it's a small world," Bailey replied apprising the two women before her. "Tell Tucker not to hang out with Nathan too late tonight. I actually want to see him before I go to work tomorrow."
"I will mom," Gwen assured. Bailey pulled her daughter into a hug. "I love you mom."
"I love you too," Bailey said. "Get in here Lily." Lily laughed and joined in on the hug. "You girls are going to do well here because you are strong, smart, beautiful women. You are Gwen Bailey and Lily Shepherd."
"Come on Bailey," Mark said breaking up the hug. "We need to leave these two alone so they can enjoy their dorm for a while."
"Okay," Bailey agreed whipping away tears. The girls gave everyone one last hug.
"Are you going to miss me little brother?" Lily asked Jackson.
"No," Jackson lied. "I have a room to do anything I want with." Lily gave him a light punch. "Be safe sis."
"I will," she assured. "You need to keep doing well in school so that you can come to Seattle U in a couple of years." Jackson nodded.
"Bye Gwen," Jackson said awkwardly before following his parents out of the dorm.
"That was weird," Lily mused. Gwen gave some non complacent answer.
"Forget it," She insisted. "Turn around and look at this Lil! We have our own place free of adults, and curfews!"
