This is slightly AU… I couldn't resist.
For the first time ever, this is without beta. And, as you know, I'm Italian, so… I tried.
3. Child
There was a time, I used to look into my father's eyes
In a happy home, I was a king I had a gold throne
Those days are gone, now the memories are on the wall
I hear the sounds from the places where I was born
Meredith had a strange day.
Her days had been all strange, lately, since her and mommy had moved to Boston without daddy. At first Meredith had thought they had moved because daddy moved, too. So they will follow him and Meredith would stay with her daddy again while mommy was at work. But nothing like that had happened. No daddy - no more. Today, Meredith had understood that even mommy's work was different. She went to a different hospital and no one knew Meredith. There was no Dr. Richard no more, and no Nurse Holly to give her snacks at four o'clock. In this hospital they didn't want her to play with her Anatomy Jane in the OR gallery. They had sent her in a place called day-care. There were other kids there, but Meredith knew no one and Meredith didn't like people she didn't know.
Now, she was happy to be at home. Mommy was in her den and had refused to come play when Meredith had asked, so she had come back to her room to spend time with Mr. Teddy, even if this room was brown with white walls and she preferred pink ones like at home. Her daddy had painted them for her. Anyway, this room had a nice window which Meredith liked a lot. There was a house, in front of hers, with big windows from which she could look into the place. She knew it wasn't polite, but she couldn't help: she grabbed Mr. Teddy and went sit on the sill. Lights were on, and the Mommy had the girl in her arms, while she was eating a piece of cake. The little girl had brown crazy hair and blue eyes, and Meredith thought she was her age, but probably she was little because her mommy held her in her arms and Meredith's mommy not. Mommy always said she was too much of a big girl to be held.
The daddy entered the room with the boy - Meredith knew there were three older girls but she couldn't see them. The daddy smiled and tickled the girl on her belly, while the boy sat on the couch reading a book. It was a big book with a red cover and Meredith wished she could look at it: Meredith loved books. The mommy and the daddy went with the girl on the couch to join the boy. After a few minutes, the other three girls arrived. Them all had the crazy hair, very dark, except for one - hers were a light brown. The daddy said something to the boy and ruffled his eyes. The boy smiled and Meredith liked his smile very much. She then looked at the mommy who was braiding one of the girls' hair, and squeezed Mr. Teddy to her chest. She felt something wet against her cheek.
When they tuned on the TV and off the light, Meredith looked some more. Than, like every night, she went to her bed and snuggled under the blankets. She squeezed her eyes really tight hoping to be in the other house, with the other family. She wished she could sit with a book on that couch, with a mommy stroking her hair. Then, she wished to grow up soon. She didn't like being a child no more.