"Hey." Alex smirked as she pulled her scrub top on.

"Hey." She said quietly and looked away as he sat down on the bench.

"Where were you last night?"

"Just… out." She answered lamely.

"Out?" He repeated slightly unsure.

"Yes, out, Alex. People go out sometimes. You don't need to know everywhere I go, do you?" She snapped before storming out.

"Way to go, Evil Spawn." Christina laughed.

"What did you do?" Izzie asked as she cross her arms expectantly.

"I don't know." Alex answered honestly as he opened his locker.

--

Meredith sat at the lunch table not really into the conversation that her friends were having. She just picked through her salad granting or saying 'uh-huh' as if she were listening. But her mind was in another place.

"Hey." He called from the kitchen when he heard the door shut expecting her to come straight in. But instead, she stormed up the stairs to her room slamming the door behind her. Falling back on her bed, she let everything that happened that day replay in her head.

"Mer?" He called her name getting nothing in response. He pushed the door open to her room and looked around.

The shades were closed and the light was off. He could heard soft crying sounds coming in the direction of the bed.

"Meredith?" He called quietly.

"I don't want to talk about it." She sniffled trying to stop crying.

"Mer?" He walked over to the bed. "What's wrong?"

He heard sniffling and a few short sobs. Climbing into the bed, he wrapped his arms around her. She laid her head on his chest.

"Derek…" She said gasping slightly. "Is gone… He left."

He sat silently in shock at first before tightening his grip around her. "Sh…" He tried to soothe her.

"Mer? Earth to Meredith." Izzie said waving her hands in front of Meredith's face. "What's wrong with you today?"

"Nothing." She said rubbing her face. When she looked up, she noticed Alex walking onto the patio. He met her gaze and smirked. "I have to go. I'll see you guys later."

"Meredith…" Alex said as he approached the table.

Meredith didn't say anything as she walked away.

"What did I miss?" George asked.

--

Alex sat on the couch watching TV, but too lost in his thoughts to notice what was playing on the screen. The door opened and Meredith walked in shutting the door behind her.

"Hey." He said looking over at her.

"Hey." She answered taking off her coat.

"Do you want to order some pizza or something?" He asked.

"I'm just going to bed." She sighed. "I'm just… really tired."

"Can I come?" He asked with a cocky smile. But she just ran up the stairs. He got up and chased after. "Meredith, I was just kidding. Meredith."

She slammed the door and locked it.

He sighed. "Meredith." He jiggled to knob.

She walked into her room and fell back into the bed. Tears rolled off her cheeks.

"Meredith please." His voice came. "Meredith. Talk to me. Please talk to me." He put his head down on the door. "I'm sorry for whatever I did." He pleaded. "Just talk to me."

She rolled over burying her head into her pillow.

"We need to talk, Mer. Please, talk to me." He said jiggling the doorknob again.

--

"I don't know what's wrong with her," Alex said. He leaned on the nurses' station his elbows pressed against the counter. "She's been ignoring me, since the day before yesterday." His eyes were fixed on her as she talked to George pointing to a chart. They were standing down the hall and didn't even notice his eyes on her.

"She can't ignore you. You live together." Izzie said reading some labels on charts then sorting them in the correct order on the cart.

"But she has," Alex said. "She comes home and goes to bed. She won't eat with me. Barely talks to me; only when necessary. She can barely look at me. Yesterday, she locked herself in her room and left before I was awake this morning."

"Did you cheat on her?" She said sipping her coffee. "That will do it to a girl."

"One, it's just about the sex. She made that clear. And two, no I didn't cheat on her." He said rolling his eyes. "Can you just see if something is wrong?"

"I'll pass it down the line." She smiled and walked off.

"The line?!" He said loudly following her. "I don't want Yang and O'Malley to be in this."

"Do you want answers?" She said after making an abrupt stop.

"Yes."

"Then, I will pass it down the line." She said and started to walk off but stopped and turned around. "If you want answers, Christina can get them. She's her person."

"But Christina… She's Christina. She made a big enough deal when she found out that we were sleeping together."

"Well, then you're not getting answers. She's Meredith Grey. Queen of all that is secretive. She's not just going to come out and say it. She'll say she's fine and she wants to be left alone. She'll storm off and that will be it. Christina can pry it out of her. This is Christina and Meredith we're talking about." She started walking backwards. "Like bread and butter. Like I said, I'll pass it down the line."

Alex sighed and rubbed his face.