The bell rang and she pushed herself up from seat gathering her notes and stuffed them into her binder. Mr. Wheeler, the teacher, came up smiling.
"Well, Miss. Grey, you seem to be doing well so far in this class." He said.
"Thank you, sir." She said quietly.
"Glad to have you aboard." Mr. Wheeler said patting her arm causing her to wince light. The gesture didn't go unnoticed causing him to withdrawal his arm. "Well, I'll, ah see you Wednesday."
"Yes, sir." She nodded walking towards the door. She pushed past the people keeping her head low. Opening her locker, she stuffed all her books into her locker. Looking down at her wrist, she pulled her shirt down over her hand more trying to find some comfort but feeling so out of place in the school. Pushing her locker shut, she stood up and turned around. A group of cheerleaders walked by wearing the top to the uniform that had 'GWHS' standing for the school name written in the school colors. A couple wore the shirts over sweatpants; others just wore the matching sweatpants. She watched as two talking girl walked by dragging their boyfriends behind them. She sighed kicking the locker shut of the way before walking down the hall.
She watched as people walked down the hall laughing and talking among themselves. A couple here or there would be holding hands or making out. And there she was walking down the hall with her head lower and her books hugged close to her body. She felt like such an outcast.
"Smile, Mer." Her best friend Laura said shoving a camera in her face. Meredith laughed smiling widely with her arms locked around her boyfriend's neck. "Aw." Laura cooed as she looked at the picture she had just taken. "You guys are such a cute couple. Who knew my twin brother and best friend would be the number one couple in the whole middle school?"
Meredith giggled leaning back popping her leg up as she leaned back. "Thanks, Laura."
Her boyfriend, Tommy, kissed her cheek.
Swaying back and forth, she leaned into his embrace. "Can you believe we're going to high school next year?" She said talking into his chest.
"Pretty hard to believe." He laughed. "At least we'll be in the same school."
She smiled up at him. "Yeah… Middle school went by quick."
'Maybe just a little too quick.' She thought to herself as she looked up at the room number. Letting out a sigh, she walked in. Looking around, she found a short teacher talking to two other students about a Shakespeare project from what she could tell.
"Thank you, Ms. Slater." The girl said smiling widely before skipping away.
"Ah, Ms. Slater?" Meredith said in an uncertain voice.
"Yes." She said in a high, preppy voice. "Oh, you must be Meredith Grey." She clapped her hands together. "We are so glad to have you. Please, please take a seat and I will get what you need."
"Thank you." She muttered putting her things down.
Ms. Slater walked away and came back with a packet of paper and a book. "Alright, Meredith. We're reading Romeo and Juliet and this is that packet that needs to be completed by the end of our Shakespeare unit, but we can adjust the due date if we need to."
"Thank you, Ms. Slater."
"Alright, let me know if you need anything, okay?" Meredith nodded. "Oh, and Christina Yang will be sitting beside you. I hope that it okay with you."
"Sure." She shrugged not knowing who Christina Yang was anyway. She pulled out her binder and stuffed the papers into the side pocket. Looking up, she surveyed the room. People flooded through the door and sitting down in the seat. The late bell rung as an Asian girl sat down in the seat beside her. She had thick, curly black hair.
Giving a sideward glance at the new girl beside her, Christina Yang unloaded her books onto her desk.
"You're the new girl?" Christina said raising an eyebrow as she settled back in the chair.
"You're Christina Yang?" Meredith said back looking at her. Christina raised an eye brow. "Meredith Grey." She sighed.
"Yeah I'm Christina." Meredith looked up at the clock then at the teacher. "She doesn't start right away. We have twenty minutes to 'express ourselves.'"
Meredith made an odd face, but shrugged. "One of those teachers."
Christina shrugged and sighed. She wasn't exactly one of those people to be on the meet and greet committee, but she had nothing better to do. "Where are you from?"
"Seattle, you?"
"Beverly Hills."
"How long have you lived here?"
"Eight years. How long have you been here?"
"Two weeks." She looked around. "School in Seattle was so different."
"It's you're first day. You might like it here."
Meredith sighed. 'Yeah, right.' "Yeah, maybe."
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Lunch rolled around after the third period of the day. She and Christina walked down the hall. Christina had invited her to come sit with her and her friends. With no where else to go, she accepted the offer. Having had period two and three with Christina they had talked enough to get to know each other some.
"Barbie, Bambi, Evil Spawn… Meredith Grey. Meredith… Barbie, Bambi, Evil Spawn." Christina said going around the table as she sat down. Meredith smiled at them sitting down beside Christina.
"Alex Kerev." 'Evil Spawn' said giving her a cocky smile.
"George O'Malley." 'Bambi' said shaking her hand.
"Izzie Stevens." 'Barbie' said glaring at Christina as she shook Meredith's hand. "I think you sit beside me in math now."
Meredith nodded smiling at her. "Yeah."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah. Can we move on from the whole meet and greet crap?"
Meredith giggled shaking her head as she popped the top to her salad.
"Where are you from?" Izzie asked ignoring Christina's groan.
"Seattle." Meredith answered looking up at her.
"The rainy city. Must suck." George commented.
"Nah, you get used to it I guess." Meredith shrugged.
"How are you getting settled in?" George asked.
"Okay, I guess."
