A/N: Hey guys, good news, I have an update for you. :)
I'm sorry it took a while, but I was busy today and it was my brother's birthday so we went out in the evening and it took a while till I was back home.. Then my internet didn't work so I thought I'll try to post it tomorrow, but because you all left me such great reviews I thought I'd try again and luckily it , here we go, enjoy!
Laura Vallese hurried along the long halls in the Roman parliament.
Her desingner heels clang after her as a door at the end of the hallway opened.
Laura lifted her head exspectantly and waited as a man walked out the door.
As she saw the male figure she turned her head away and again she had a searching look on her face.
As she turned around the corner she bumped into a young woman.
„Oh, mi scusi." Laura said and helped her off the ground.
„It's no problem. If you would excuse me now, I have to run, my secretary awaits me and I'm already at least 10 minutes late, so.."
„Your secretary?" The dark haired woman said in a funny english accent. „Wait, are you Mrs. Grey?"
„Oh, erm. .Yeah." The blonde looked surprised.
„Ah. I'm Laura Vallese, I'm your secretary."
„You are my.. oh. I'm so sorry, you must have waited for ages, but I got a little lost in this building.I only knew it's in the first floor but I couldn't find the stairway and..Oh,how rude of me.." The blonde nervously tuck a falling strand behind her ear,"..I'm Meredith Grey, it's nice to meetyou. And I'm really sorry that you had to wait."
„Oh, it's absolutely no problem. I also couldn't find my way at my first day here, so I thought it probably would be a good thing to go and find you." The petite italian woman said laughing.
„Oh, yeah, that's good, I think."
„My first day was a catastrophe."Laura giggled and the tension slowly relieved from Meredith.
„Oh, I like you already." she said giggling too.
Laura grinned at her. „So, do you mind if I show you your office, Mrs. Grey?"
„That would be great, and please, it's Meredith."
„Wonderful. I'm Laura."
The two women walked along the hallway together as a young man came running through the hall.
„Ah, buongiorno Laura, come stai?"
„Benissimo, ." Laura answered him as she looked at Meredith, who had a questioning look on her face.
„That was Adriano, the 's very friendly, but he can be a real pain in the ass sometimes because he flirts with really everything that has boobs."
Meredith laughed. „You don't now Bobby Miller from my law-class. He even flirted with my teachers."
„Oh, I'm sure the two would come along just wonderfully."
„Very likely. Your English is very good,by the way."
„Oh, you don't have to lie to me, I know I have a horrible accent. My husband always teases me about it."
„Oh, he isn't from here?" Meredith asked.
„Well, actually he is, but he lived in America for quite some time, so he speaks really good. Mark, a guy who works here too, used to spell my name like there were at least five A's and U's in there and he always screamed „Signooooora Laaauuuuurrrrrrra" through the hallways and tried to roll the R on the tongue like we Italians do. He sounded very fake and it was so annoying..Mark can be such a pain in the ass. "
„You don't mean Mark as in Mark Sloan by chance?!" Meredith asked.
„The one and only. He's horrible." Laura shook her head laughing and rolled her eyes.
„Oh, I had the pleasure to meet him. He really thinks he's god's gift to the world."
„Yes, he's way to arrogantAnd now his best friend, Derek Shepherd, is also working here. Oh how funny that'll be!" she said as she suddenly stopped.
Meredith looked surprised at the lively, little woman with the raven hair.
She knows him. O my god, she actually knows him. And Sloan's his best friend. Conceivable, they both are cocky as hell..
„Meredith?"
Laura's voice pulled Meredith out of her reverie.
The little woman looked at her questionably.
„Oh, I was thinking, did you say something?"
Laura laughed.
„We are here. This is your office. I hope you like it."
Meredith tried to hide her embarrassment and entered the room.
The first thing she saw was a really huge white couch.
Then there was a lot of green from some plants and a big antique wooden-desk.
Behind the desk there was a dark black leathern office chair.
The floor was studded of marvellous white marbel and the room was very light because of the huge windows.
„OH-MY-GOD!" Meredith said as she threw her clutch on the floor.
„This can't be true!O my god, this is a president's office!You sure this is mine??" she said her eyes full of disbelieve and joy.
„Of course I'm sure. Do you like it?"
„Liking isn't a word for it.I LOVE it. Can I really use this couch?"
„That's what it is here for." Laura smiled at Meredith's childish squeal as she ran towards the couch and jumped onto it.
„This is tooooo good to be true.I love it.I mean, seriously? I have a designer couch and the desk looks like it was stolen from some old english castle.I just can't believe it! I mean.. Seriously?Oh my god, I need to call Cristina and tell her that I have a couch as huge as her kitchen."
Laura laughed and finally closed the door to the office.
„I'm glad you like it. I allowed myself to decorate it a little bit, so it looks more friendly. After all, you'll be in here a great amount of time, so you should be comfortable."
„Oh, I feel like a princess or something."
„Well, then, I think you want some time on your own, refresh yourself or something like that, I will be in the next room, okay?"
„Of course, that's perfect. Thank you so much for decorating, Laura. I'm sure we'll have a great time together."
„The pleasure was all mine. And of course we will have a great time. "She grinned.
„Ok, see you then."
„ If you need anything, I'm just sitting in the next room."
With that, she exited the room and closed the door quietly.
Meredith took a deep breath and looked stunned around the room.
She grinned to herself and jumped around on the couch.
Then she ran to her clutch and took out her cellphone.
She quickly dialled a number and it didn't take long to hear a pissed „Did they already kick you out?".
Meredith rolled her eyes.
„You won't believe where I am?!"
„In the office of the president?"Cristina asked.
„Well, no, but I feel like I'm in the office of the president. I have a couch, a white, leathern designer couch which is apparently as big as your kitchen!"
„Great, something else? Maybe a whirlpool and a kneader who knows all these chinese massage-crap and whose only sorrow is how to get your back to relax?"
„Well, no, but maybe he hides somewhere so I can't see him."
„Oh,come on, besides your billionaire-suite anything interesting? Did you fuck up your speech?"
„No, I totally blew them away. Except the... erm..nothing." She quickly said and sat straight on the couch.
„Except what?"
„Nothing, it's just...nothing."
„Mer, you realize you aren't that convincing, right?!"
„I... okay, I met a guy!?"
„Can you please tell me something I didn't already suspect? So, how was he?Any good?"
„Cristina!! I didn't sleep with him."
„But you wanted to sleep with him?"
„NO!I..no!He was an idiot, well in the beginning he was. Now he's just, we.. erm.. kind of held hands."
„You held hands?"
„Yes. No. We.. we kinda shook hands."
„Yeah, Mer, that's what you do when you meet other people."
„I know, we just.. we shook hands for a long time."
„That's dopey."
„I know,I think we just.. I was thinking and he was thinking,well, at least I think he was thinking."
„You just used the word „think" four times in one sentence, did you realize that? What the hell did he do with you?!" Cristina said sounding peeved.
„Nothing. He just.. Uuugh, I don't like you."
„You love me."
„I used to."
„Oh, I know you do...Wait!"
Meredith heard some strange noises through her cell.
„Cristina?"
„..Mer? I'm sorry, it was Mat or Mike or whatever his damn name is, something about a patient. I gotta go, talk to you later okay?"
„Ok then. "
„I want details about your guy later, there's something going on after that massive rambling you just delivered..Oh, and Mer?"
„There's nothing going on! Absolutely nothing!!"
„Of course not. Anyways, I'm glad your office is so great. And tell your kneader I could use some good back-massage,okay?"
Meredith giggled.
„I'll see what I can do. Don't kill the patient."
„I am Cristina Yang, I don't kill patients."
„Right. Bye then."
„Bye."
Meredith grinned and put her cell back into her clutch.
She let her head sink into the soft material of the couch and closed her eyes when some man's face flashed through her mind..