Chapter 4
Hold your piece
A couple of periods after the incident, Meredith had lunch, she managed to find the cafeteria, bought herself some food and sat on an empty table. First she looked around for Lexie, but she figured they probably had different lunch periods so that's why she chose to sit alone, not that she minded. Back in Boston she used to eat alone all the time.
"Hey Mer!" Someone called her name from behind, she turned and saw Teddy with a guy walking towards her.
"Meredith, this is Henry, my boyfriend." She introduced them as they sat down at the table "Henry, Meredith."
"Oh, hi!" Meredith said surprised. "Umm, Teddy never mentioned you before."
"We just got together last night" he explained. "I'm still not even used to you calling me your boyfriend instead of your husband."
As she heard this Meredith started coughing uncontrollably.
"Husband?!"
"We were married in 3rd grade, we got divorced, long story." Henry said and Teddy shook her head and rolled her eyes.
"Why do you keep addressing it like it was a real wedding?"
"It was!" he said. "We had a ceremony on the playground and everything! Remember? Owen was your maid of honor." He then turned to Meredith. "We got divorced cause I was moving away, but two days ago I came back."
"Hey guys!" Amelia and Owen greeted them as they approached the table. Owen sat down next to Henry and starred at him.
"Have we met before?"
"Dude." Henry smirked. "It's me, Henry! You were the maid of honor at my wedding!" he explained and as soon as he said this Amelia spit out the iced coffee she was drinking and started laughing loudly. Owen glared at her and Meredith and Teddy smiled.
"We were nine and Teddy guilt me into doing it- you know what? I'm not doing this." He glanced at the giggling Amelia and then turned his attention to Henry. "I thought you moved to Texas?"
"Moved back." He answered.
The five of them started a conversation about their classes and which professor they had for the year. When Meredith told them she had Mr. Marlow in biology they all groaned and gave her their condolences.
"I had him last year, hated every minute of his classes. He was such a hardass." Teddy said as she slurped her juice box. "One time he stopped in the middle of a lesson just to tell me Teddy was a boy's name and that my parents probably hated me for naming me that."
Meredith started laughing but stopped all of a sudden when she saw Alex, George, Izzie and Cristina cheering loudly two tables over. It looked as though George Alex and Cristina were having a hotdog eating contest.
"Do you guys happen to know anything about those four over there?" Meredith asked.
Amelia turned around to see who Meredith was talking about.
"Yeah, why?" she asked.
"No reason."
"Okay. Well umm. The guy with the shaggy hair's George O'Malley. He has two older brothers on the wrestling team. He also dated Callie in freshman year." Amelia explained.
"The other guy is Alex Karev." Owen continued. "He pulls all sorts of pranks and jokes but overall he seems cool I guess."
"The blonde one is his girlfriend, Izzie Stevens." Amelia said. "Her last boyfriend, Denny, died a year ago because he had a bad heart. He was a great guy, everyone loved him."
"And the one dancing around on the table with a hotdog in her mouth is Cristina Yang." Teddy smiled. "She's a genius. Top in her class. She and Owen also dated a while back."
"The four of them are a tight group. They're almost always together." Owen commented.
"So.. you haven't noticed anything weird about them?" Meredith asked.
"Other than the fact that they're all a big bunch of goofballs no, why?" Amelia asked curiously but Meredith only shrugged.
"No reason."
After lunch, Amelia walked Meredith to her next lesson, which happened to be Science. Science was always Meredith's favorite class, most people thought it was rather boring but Meredith didn't think so. She always got top marks in the class and always won first place in all the science fairs. As she walked in she looked around for any familiar faces and was surprised to see none. So far off all the classes she had there was at least one person who she was on a first name basis. Jackson was in her AP Biology class, Amelia and April were in her English class, and the short boy, George, who she had just previously met was with her in Calculus. She walked in and sat on the desk by the windows in the first row just as the bell rang.
"Good afternoon class." A professor whose name Meredith forgot to read on her schedule walked in. "My name is Professor Richard Webber. I may not seem familiar with you, that's because I am new this year, you may have heard that Mrs. Decker has retired-"
Before Professor Webber had a chance to finish his thought the door swung open and there stood Izzie Stevens, panting and her hair sticking up in all the wrong places.
"Sorry! Sorry I'm late! I'm –"
"Miss Stevens, yes." Webber interrupted. "I've heard of you, take a seat please. And Miss Stevens?"
"Yes?"
"Don't let Mr. Karev be the reason you are late again."
At his last statement the whole class burst into laughter which resulted in Izzie blushing furiously and sinking down in her seat.
20 minutes into the lesson Professor Webber announced to the class they would be working in pairs and that they should all partner up. Meredith looked around the classroom to see everyone moving seats and chatting away. In Boston, even though she had no friends, everyone wanted to pair up with her because she was the best, but here it looked as if no one wanted to work with her until Izzie Stevens called out to her.
"Meredith? You wanna be my partner?" She asked politely. Meredith smiled at the blond, nodded and walked towards her to sit next to her.
"Thanks. I know absolutely nobody in this classroom."
"Sure, you seem nice and you're probably pretty smart too since you're in this class." Izzie smiled.
The assignment was to write an essay about today's lesson. Izzie and Meredith finished theirs in 10 minutes, handed it in and spent the remains off their class talking.
"And then he just SCREAMS his head off at us, we tried to call out to him to warn him about the slippery steps but just as we were about to he SLIPS and falls TWO flights of stairs down." Izzie was telling Meredith about the time George dislocated his shoulder while Meredith was listening curiously. "So naturally we ran to him, as soon as I kicked Alex for laughing, and when we get there his bone is just sticking out! It was kind of cool actually- wait don't tell George I said that! Anyways, Cristina wanted to mend his shoulder herself but George wouldn't let her, so we run to the ER, I've never ran that fast before, managed to reach it in 40 seconds. We yelled for help-"
"Wait." Meredith interrupted the rambling girl. "How did you reach the hospital in 40 seconds? Were you already there? I thought this happened in the school?"
The smile on Izzie's face suddenly fell and her face drained of color. "Umm, yeah we were already there… we were… visiting George's mom- I mean Cristina's mom there! She's a nurse at umm… Seattle Press."
Meredith was prepared to ask her further questions when the bell rang and Izzie jumped up.
"It was nice talking to you Mer! See you tomorrow." She waved and ran out the classroom, leaving Meredith alone on the desk, confused. Something about Izzie's story seemed off to Meredith and she was dying to find out what. She got up and started gathering her things when she noticed Izzie has left her Science book. She quickly got her things and sprinted off into the hallways to look for her, that's when she spotted her by the bathrooms talking quietly in a huddle along with George, Cristina and Alex.
"YOU WHAT?!" Meredith had heard Cristina yell to the blonde.
"It was an accident!" Izzie yelled back.
"Izzie, if anyone finds out we'll be in serious trouble!" George cut in.
"Speaking off, we better get going. If we're late we'll arouse more attention than we already need." Alex said. The rest nodded and headed out the front door. Meredith really didn't want to meddle but the curiosity was eating her alive. She got out her phone and wrote a quick text to Lexie saying she didn't need a ride home.
'Time to find out what's really going on with those four.' Meredith thought as she followed them out the building.
Okaaaayyy, so I know it's been a while, but I finally updated (yayy).
Sorry for the wait, this was supposed to be posted months ago but I couldn't finish it and today the inspiration just hit me like a wrecking ball so I posted!
Hope all of you have an amazing summer! Byee.
