Meredith awoke her stomach turning, she didn't feel so well, then she remembered the party that she had attended last night. She rolled over and noticed that Derek had put the garbage can beside the bed. He was still asleep. Meredith couldn't hold it down anymore. She rolled over and vomited in the can. She looked up to see Derek wide awake sitting on the edge of her bed. She looked up and noticed that he had moved the bed. His was now on the other side of the room.

"You moved the bed." Meredith stated drinking out of the bottle next to her bed.

"Don't drink that, you were drinking that when you came in last night." Derek stated grabbing the bottle and dumping it down the drain.

"Why do you drink like that?" Derek asked.

"It's the only thing that doesn't change." Meredith stated.

"Why don't you look for something else to depend on? Say a pet or a guy?"Derek questioned.

"I don't know, tequila never changes." Meredith stated numbly, as Derek brought back a glass of water.

"Well at least its Saturday." Derek stated.

Meredith looked up at him, her grey eyes searching his face for permission. Derek let his ice blue eyes meet with her's. He started to lean in closer to her, she didn't pull away. Soon their lips met and they both closed their eyes. Derek gently put his hand up the back of her shirt. He started to play with the band of her underwear.

"Derek, we can't do this." Meredith stated as she pulled away breathlessly.

Derek pulled away, he didn't want to rush her to fast. He sat there and looked her in the eye.

"Nobody has ever made me feel this way." Derek whispered in her ear.

When he said that it sent chills down her spine. All she wanted to do was rip his clothes off. Derek got up off the bed and walked into the bathroom leaving Meredith alone. She rubbed her forehead. Today was going to be a long day. The first thing that they did was went to get breakfast, then they went to get food to put in the dorm so they didn't have to go out to eat. Meredith was just picking up some food when Derek came up behind her and grabbed her waist.

"Derek, what are you thinking?" Meredith asked.

"Being friendly." Derek stated.

"That's not what that little old couple think." Meredith said looking at the older couple.

Derek turned to see the older couple come over to him.

"Young lady are you alright?" The older woman asked.

"Ma'am I'm fine this is my fiance." Meredith stated trying not to laugh.

"Okay then."The lady said as she and her husband walked away.

Once they got to an empty pathway, they both started to laugh hysterically.

"I can't believe that we lied to that old lady, I feel horrible." Meredith stated.

Derek just laughed, Meredith looked up into his icy blue eyes, Derek's laughed was hushed as their lips met. They kissed. Not far away the older woman was looking at some china when she saw the two again.

"You two can get a room you know, not everyone in the world likes to watch people making out in the back of K-mart." The old lady scolded the two.

Meredith who had been turning a deep shade of red now was holding onto the buggy for dear life. She wasn't going to let go until they were done shopping.

When they finally finished their shopping, they went back to campus. They packed all of the bags up to the dorm.

"Gees, its hot in here, can you open the window?" Meredith asked.

"Sure." Derek said as he climbed onto the bed to get to the window.

Derek climbed and pulled the window back. He turned around just to see Meredith pull her top shirt off to reveal her very see through tank top. Derek tried to turn his head, but it was to hard, he wanted so badly to rip the see through tank top off her. She was a beautiful woman, but Derek looked closer at her, what was that on her back? Was that a hand print? Derek couldn't help, but ask what it was.

"Meredith, what's that on your back?" He asked curious.

Meredith whipped around, putting her very small hand over the very large hand print on her back.

"Um.. Its nothing, just a little bruise." Meredith stated trying to stay calm.

"Meredith, that's not just some bruise. That's a hand print, and by the looks of the size it belongs to a guy."Derek stated walking closer.

"Derek its nothing."Meredith lied.

"Okay, but when your ready to tell me the truth, I'll be there." Derek stated.

Meredith walked into the bathroom and turned so that she cold see her back in the mirror. She didn't want to tell Derek where she go the bruise, he wouldn't like the way she got it, she only knew that because she didn't like the way that she got it.

Meredith didn't really talk about anything else the rest of the day, soon it was time to go to bed. They said goodnight and went to bed. Meredith lay in her thinking about his question.

"Derek."Meredith called out into the dark room.

"Yes."

"The bruise."Meredith cut herself off.

"Yeah, what about it."Derek asked hoping that she would open up to him.

"I got the bruise the day before I left to come here, my boyfriend Finn got really drunk, and when I said that it would be good if we saw other people and he got really mad."Meredith said.

"And he hit you." Derek stated sitting up in bed.

Meredith had a lump in her throat, she tried to fight the tears, but it was hard.

"Yeah." Meredith mumbled as she started to cry.

Derek got out of bed and walked over to the other bed where Meredith lay in tears.

"Hey, calm down nobody's going to hurt you anymore."Derek stated.

"Derek, I like you."Meredith whispered, hoping that he could hear her.

"I like you too."Derek stated.

"When I left Seattle I told myself that I would never ever trust another guy as long as I lived, but you, you make me feel something that I've never felt before." Meredith stated.

"I hope that you can trust me." Derek stated.

There was a silence in the room, all they could hear was the beat of each others hearts. Meredith rolled over just as Derek was about to get out of the bed.

"Derek, don't leave me."Meredith said as she held onto his wrist.

"Okay." Derek said as he fell back onto the bed.

"I want to trust you." Meredith stated as she leaned into kiss him.

Derek didn't pull away, he didn't want to. She let Derek pull her shirt over her head. He searched her bare back. He ran his finger down her spine and felt her body as she became tense. Not long after the shirt was removed the pants, the bra, and last the underwear.

Meredith and Derek walked into their first class. They both sat down. Derek didn't notice the familiar red head walking up to him.

"So you don't take that long to find a new girl, do you Derek." Addison spat.

"Addison we never dated, I don't know why you can't get that through your thick scull." Derek stated, when he felt Meredith grab his hand.

Addison pointed her nose in the air and walked away. Meredith just kept holing on, if she was going to let stupid little cupid poke her in the butt, she wasn't going to let it go to waste. Derek turned and looked at Meredith who was drifting off as she waited for the professor to start.

Derek gently ran his finger through her hair as she awoke, he whispered into her ear that it was time to start class. She picked her head up and lifted the screen of her laptop. She started to work on the assignment that was written on the board.

The day was nearing an end, Meredith walked to her dorm. Her and Derek were now offcial and she wasn't afraid to flaunt it in Addison's face. Derek had went to an extra meeting. Meredith just sat down when she heard a knock on the door. She walked over to the door and opened it.

"So this is your room."Addison said as she barged in.

"What do you want now Addison?"Meredith asked getting tired of her games.

"Okay, I'll get right to the point, I want Derek, so don't touch." Addison stated noticing that the beds were pushed together.

"I'm so sorry, but I think he made it clear that he doesn't want you, I swear your so dumb."Meredith stated opening the door.

"You don't get to call me dumb." Addison stated as she swung to hit Meredith and accidently hit Derek who had just walked into the room.

"Get out."Derek demanded.

"Derek, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to hit you..."Addison trailed off.

"I know, you meant to hit Meredith." Derek shouted.

"Derek..." Addison pleaded.

"GET OUT NOW!"Derek yelled.

Addison turned and walked out of the room. Derek turned and looked at Meredith who was walking back to her computer.

"Did she hit you?" Derek asked walking over to sit next to her.

"No." Meredith stated.

"Don't worry about her, whatever she said to you don't take it serious, I promised you that I wouldn't leave you, you have nothing to worry about. I love you." Derek stated as he walked over to sit on the bed.

Meredith leaned in and started to kiss him.

To be continued

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